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Monday, January 17, 2022

1/17/22 Report - Treasure Hunter Resources. Your Beach Might Offer More Types of Treasure Than You Think.

 

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.


Illustration From Antique Book Offered in
Sotheby's Fine Booka and Manuscript Auction.
See link below.

You'll find some great and rare resources in the current Sotheby's Fine Book and Manuscript auction.  There are maps, historic documents and many illustrations.  Just to give an example, below is the title page of one of the many books.




In that book you'll find illustrations like the one below showing an early view of West Point.



Antiquarian books are treasures that provide many clues for the detectorist.  Below is another illustration from one of the books in the auction - an early view of Boston.  

You will several very early maps offered too.



Antiquarian books like the ones in this auction can bring high prices, but you can often find later editions or reprints of the same books in your library or online.

Here is the link to the auction.  It is worth browsing.

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana | 2022 | Sotheby's (sothebys.com)


One more example.




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As I recently mentioned, the Treasure Coast offers a wide variety of treasures.  We tend to focus on the 1715 Fleet and shipwreck treasures, but there is a lot more.  There are all kinds of artifacts; railroad and various war artifacts as well as nautical; fossils; indigenous artifacts, as well as more modern coins and jewelry.  But there is even more than that.

Gemstones are found, not only in jewelry, but also raw uncut stones have been found on the beaches.  Of course they probably came from ship wecks, but they have been found in good numbers.  The same is true of gold nuggets.

Occasionally arrow heads or other indigenous artifacts, such as port shards are found on Treasure Coast beaches too.

Then there are the thousand or million-year-old fossils.

And I didn't even mention yet, the sea glass and sea shells, which can actually be pretty interesting and worth a bit too.

I've shown some good examples of all of those types of finds made on the Treasure Coast in my blogs, and the keen-eyed hunter that puts in the time and will eventually find examples of each.

Below is a list that provides of types of beach finds. Each beach will vary in the types of finds that are likely or possible.  


1. Artifacts  (local, war, railroad, nautical, etc.)                         

2. Coins 

3. Fossils

4. Gemstones

5; Gold Nuggets

6. Indigenous

7. Jewelry

8. Meteorites

9; Old bottles

10. Seaglass

11.  Sea shells

I'll use one beach that I've worked over the years and rate the frequency of each type of find on a scale of zero to ten, with ten being very common, and one being very rare, and zero being never.  It is a beach that offers more variety than most, so I'll use it for illustration purposes.

1. (5), 2. (5), 3. (3) 4. (1), 5. (0), 6. (2), 7. (4), 8. (0) 9. (1), 10. (6), 11. (8)

Noticed that for this beach there are only two types of listed treasures that in my experience have not been found there - gold nuggets and meteorites.  Meteorites would be almost never found on any Treasure Coast beach, although it is theoretically possible.

With a little work on the rating method, the find profile could be useful in rating beaches.  Categories of interest could be made more specific.  For example, coins could be divided into modern, older US, and shipwreck coins.  Just an example.

The main point is that Treasure Coast beaches offer a lot of different kinds of treasure, and individual beaches will differ in what is commonly found there.

I think this is something that could be useful in a variety of ways.  The most basic is as a simple laundry list of treasures to be aware of.

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Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

As you can see next weekend might have some higher surf.   There is a some chance that it might not be as big as predicted at this time.  Just something to watch for.

Happy hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net









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