7/8/22 Report - Active Hurricane Season Predicted. Florida Rhinocerous. Treasure Coast Bottle Find.

 

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

Source: See msn.com link below.

RYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Scientists at Colorado State University have released an update to their original forecast from April, and are persistent that the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season will have an above average number of named storms.

In the monthly update, forecasters saw no reason to lower the number of storms in their forecast, despite a somewhat quiet beginning to the season...

Another note: The group has begun issuing probabilities for major hurricane landfall, stating a 75% chance that a major hurricane will make landfall somewhere along the Lower 48 coastline. The average for the last century is about 52%...

Here is the link for the rest of the story.  

Despite quiet start to hurricane season, experts maintain above average forecast (msn.com)

Moving sand with their blowers, the salvage crews are taking advantage of the calm surf and making a lot of great finds along the Treasure Coast while many beach detectorists are hoping for a storm to move sand off the beaches.

As you know, a lot of the beach treasure finds are made after storms, and so far in 2022, we've had none, but it still looks like it could happen this year.  Personally, I don't want to see a major storm hit the Treasure Coast but wouldn't mind something sitting offshore stirring for a good period of time.  

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I've been doing some posts on memorable finds of the past, but some finds are not memorable at first, but later the object stands out in memory. I was looking back through my old posts at what was happening ten years ago and was reminded of one of those.  

I found an object in 2012, and I didn't know what it was.  That is undoubtedly the reason I don't remember the find well.  It didn't become memorable until after I found out what it was.  I posted a picture, and it was identified by Fred Dengler (sadly now deceased), who really knew his Florida fossils and was always ready to help me identify any fossil finds.

Fred said the find was a teleoceras skull cap from the Mocene period (5 - 25 million years ago).

Image From the Florida Museum of Natural History web site.

Did you ever imagine rhinocerous-like creatures living on the Treasure Coast?  I learned something that was, to me, amazing.

Back around that time period, one of the beaches was eroding heavily, like happened again in 2020 when we had a combination of unusually high tides and surf.

Teleocerus Skull Cap.

You never know what you might see if you are out on the beaches and keep your eyes open.

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Here is another item I saw while taking a walk.  Unfortunately, it has a big crack.

The front is embossed as follows.

CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.

CALIFIG

STERLING PRODUCTS (INC.)

SUCCESSOR

Fig syrup is a laxative.

The California Fig Co. opened at Reno, Nevada, in 1878, selling its only product, Syrup of Figs. The firm had a rocky beginning, reorganizing twice before it achieved success with the final 1897 corporation. The Sterling Remedy Co. purchased the California Fig Co. in 1912, and it remains in business to the present. California Fig packaged its products in a total of six different embossed bottles as well as at least one variation used in England. In addition, the different incarnations of the firm used generic bottles with paper labels both before and after the adoption of the embossed containers – an apparently common phenomenon in remedies successful enough to remain popular from the 1870s to the 20th century...

See CaliforniaFigSyrup.pdf (sha.org) for more information on the company.

There is an O in a square on the bottom of the bottle.  That mark was used by Owens Bottle Co., 1919 - 1929.  

That information was found on the SHA maker's marks web page, which is a great site.

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Nothing much on the National Hurricane Center map of interest, and the surf remains small.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net