7/16/22 Report - Authoritative Research on An Amazing 1715 Fleet Find. Pepto-Mangan and Tropical Canners Bottles.

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

Back in 2010 one of the most remarkable of all 1715 Fleet finds was made by the Schuberts.  The above photo shows the gold bird find that was reported and shown on the TCPalm web site.  The object was often referred to as a monstrance, but Laura Strolia, author and researcher, told us why it could not be a monstrance.  Laura is the author of the book, Marigalera of the 1715 Fleet, and is completing an extensive book on Spanish Colonial religious artifacts.  

Amazingly, in 2021 the missing wing of what is now often referred to as the Pelican of Piety was found.  See Treasure Beaches Report: Pt. 2. (2020 and Beyond): 9/1/21 Report - Big 1715 Fleet Finds: Gold Coin and Wing to Pelican of Piety. Getting The Lead Out. (tbr2020.blogspot.com).  

I recently received a picture of the missing wing from DJ.  I guess it is now being discussed again on the internet.  

I posted some photos of that wing before, but I dson't think I posted the photo that DJ just sent.   Here it is.  

Gold Wing.
Photo submitted to TBR by DJ.

The wing is to be officially reunited with the pelican on July 31, 2022.

Since the subject came up, for your convenience I decided to post links to the TBR posts containing all four of Laura's articles on the Pelican of Piety.  Hopefully having those all in one place will be useful to anyone who might be interested.  Here they are.

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 10/7/12 Report - The Gold Pelican in Piety of the 1715 Fleet & Ceramic Olive Jar Stopper

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 11/4/12 More Revealed on the Pelican in Piety Story from Laura Strolia

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 11/26/12 Report - Eroding Dunes, Coin News and More Info on the Gold Pelican of Piety

The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 2/22/15 Report - New Authoritative Research On The Gold Pelican-in-Piety Of The 1715 Fleet.

I'm very eager to see Laura's upcoming book on Spanish Colonial religious artifacts.

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I'm compiling descriptions and photos of a sample of bottles found along the Treasure Coast.  I want to get as many as I can posted on the TGBottleBarn blog site, so that is why you are seeing so many bottles in my posts lately.

An informal survey of those bottles suggests some interesting theories about life along the Treasure Coast in the past.  The survey of bottles, most of which I have not yet posted, includes quite a variety.  There are many beer and liquor bottles, soda bottles, food bottles and canning jars, candy bottles and jars, household cleaning materials such as Clorox and ammonia, cosmetics, ink, and many medical/pharmacy bottles.  There appear to be some interesting trends in age, type and geographical sources,  I'll comment more on that some other day.

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Here is one quack medicine bottle that was found on the Treasure Coast.  

Hexagonal Aqua PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE) Bottle.

It is embossed "PEPTO-MANGAN (GUDE), CONTENTS 11 FLUID OUNCES."

This is an attractive hexagonal aqua bottle.  It is a blown bottle.

Pepto-Mangan was manufactured in Liebzig by Dr. A Gude & Company and as early as 1892, Max J Breitenbach, a pharmacist by trade, served as Gude’s sole agent in both the United States and Canada.

It appears that most of the bottle was covered by a paper label providing a ton of text.

The company also did a huge amount of advertising.  Below are just a couple of the ads from the internet.

It was advertised for enriching the blood as well as providing a number of other benefits that were not supported by the medical community, It is therefore often referred to as a quack medicine bottle.

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And here is a recent bottle find that from the glass appears to be of a later date.

Tropical Canners Bottle.

\Concerning a similar Tropical Canners bottle, I found the following information provided by jarsnstuff on the internet.

Made ca. 1930's-1947 by Florida Glass Co., Jacksonville and 1950-1954 by Tropical Glass & Box Co. also of Jacksonville. Some jars have a ghosted FG on the base, apparently for Florida Glass. 

Here is the link.

Tropical Canners embossed jar... | Antique Bottles, Glass, Jars Online Community (antique-bottles.net)

You can tell a lot about the age of a bottle from the glass.  Besides seams and bubbles, the thickness and uniformity of thickness of the glass provides some good clues.

There is also a TF in a triangle.  I don't yet know what that means.

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Nothing interesting on the National Hurricane Center map.

We are still having some pretty good tides.  The surf will be just a touch higher on Monday.

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net