10/16/22 Report - More On Old Ring Finds. More on Florida Lore and 20th Century Archaeology. Another Peronality.

 

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

Old Silver Ring Find by Michael T.

I received these ring photos and the following email message from Micahel T.

Mike T Stuart here. I enjoyed your article on the silver rings it made me dig back through my ring box of finds over the years as I knew I had a couple in there that were quite interesting. The heavier ring with the dark red stone Is the oldest I believe. I found it on Jensen Beach not too long after the hurricanes of 2004. It was way in the back of the dune in the hard packed gray sand and was very encrusted definitely an old one the other two were also found on Martin county beaches in the last few years and definitely showed their age when they came out of the sand after some serious Northeast blows. None of them have any markings on them at least none that are visible.

    Such a treasure it is to find old things,  if only they could talk what stories they would tell :)

Ring Finds by Michael T.

Ring Find by Michaeol T.

Thanks for sharing, Michael.  Congrats on the great finds.

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Maybe I told this before, but a New York Yankees Championship ring was found at Jensen Beach.  Since the name was on it, the finder attempted to contact the owner.  When the finder tracked down the number, he called, and the wife answered.   She said something to the effect, "So he did go to Jensen."  That is where the baseball player had a girlfriend, and the ring spilled the beans.

There are many stories like that.  

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Yesterday I wrote about Vernon Lamme and some of his work in archaeology as presented in his book, Florida Lore.  As I explained, he believed that Mayan culture was once in Florida.  In the same book, Lamme mentions a couple people you might know.  One is Alan Craig, and the other is James Warnke, who I knew.

I knew Mr. Warnke (if it is indeed the same one Lamme mentions, as I suspect it is) when he served as an officer of the Lake Worth (or was it Boynton) metal detecting club.  I don't remember the precise name of the club now.  

Warnke was also a member of the Boynton Beach Historical Society and the Palm Beach Country Archaeological Society.  He searched for archaeological evidence of a tribe of Indians in the Everglades other than Seminoles - possibly the last of the Caloosa. 

Mr. Warnke (deceased in 2004), was a friend of Vernon Lamme, and agreed with Mr. Lamme that ancient Mayan Indians (Lamme's term) lived in Florida before migrating to the Yucatan and Guatemala.

One more note on Warnke from Lamme's book: "Among several complete wrecks spotted off Boynton Inlet is one thought by James Warnke to have been one of the lost Armada swept ashore by the great killer hurricane of 1715." 

Warnke also wrote a book on Florida ghost towns.

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The tides have been fairly high but near flat.  We haven't been getting much of a low tide. 

Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

Not much surf and no tropical activity on the National Hurricane Center map.

Good hunting,

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