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| WWII Boat Surfaces After Drought. |
As intense drought pummels the American West, Lake Mead has dropped to historically low levels.
And some previously hidden items from the bottom of the lake have now come to the surface — for example, in the spring, a body resurfaces in a barrel, believed to be the victim of decades-old crime.
Now, a boat from World War II has resurfaced, having sunk years ago...
World War II-era boat revealed as Lake Mead dries out from intense drought (yahoo.com)
I was recently talking about extreme events. It doesn't matter whether it is a hurricane that rips the beach or a flood or a drought. Be alert to extreme events which can provide new hunting opportunities.
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| Two Found Round Bottom Bottles. |
Here are two Treasure Coast finds. Notice the bottoms. I wouldn't call them torpedo bottles - just Chianti wine bottles.
Both of these have nice big bubbles in the glass, indicating they were blown rather than machine made. The smaller one has a seam that runs all the way to the applied top, while the larger one has no seam at all.
I'm now thinking that the one with no seams as well as the "olive oil" bottle I recently showed without seams were made with the use of a turn-mold, which SHA says is not so much a mold as a process. That process would not leave any seams.
On the smaller one you can see marks from when the lip was applied.
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| Applied Lip. |
This one has a thick seam and what appears to be an accidental gauge or maybe a slightly damaged mold. On a coin, it would be a mint error. You can often find interesting little marks on bottles, especially blown bottles.
I don't know how old they are.
His is a little history on torpedo bottles.
Jacob Schweppe and his partner Nicholas Paul were the first to use the egg-shaped bottle. The rounded end made it impossible to set the bottle down in an upright position, this kept the cork wet, preventing it from shrinking and allowing the carbonation to escape. The design benefited the merchant in a devious sort of manner. The consumer had to finish the drink before he could lay the bottle down. They’d drink faster-and likely more-as a result.
By 1838, several entrepreneurs added artificial flavors and the drinks popularity took off. Soon there were dozens of bottling plants throughout the United States. The shape of the bottles changed to a flat bottom with improvements made to the stoppers. In 1857, Henry Putnam of Cleveland, Ohio invented a wire retainer for holding the cork in the bottle...
Here is that link.
Rio History: The Torpedo Bottle – Port Isabel-South Padre Press (portisabelsouthpadre.com)
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The show-hearings remind me very much of the Salem witch trials. We are indeed building backwards. How low will the country go?
The abuses of the Salem witch trials would contribute to changes in U.S. court procedures, playing a role in the advent of the guarantee of the right to legal representation, the right to cross-examine one’s accuser, and the presumption of innocence rather than of guilt... |
| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |