5/12/23 Report - Hallmark Identification Wizard. Fernandina Casino. Stone of Destiny. Horseshoes. War is Hell.

 

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

Submitted by Scott B.

Yesterday I posted photos of some old Florida East Coast casinos.  I asked if anyone had pictures of others.  Scott B. sent me the picture of the Fernandina Beach casino sown above as well as another good research resource.  Below is Scott's email. 

Good afternoon,

   As always, I'm enjoying your recent posts on Casinos in Florida. Somewhere near Main Beach in Fernandina Beach there was a casino back in the day. I've read about it before, but can't find any good information on it right now, but I think it may have been destroyed in a hurricane long ago.

   I also have a link below that helped me date a gold ring I found on the Treasure Coast last fall (the ring was made in1981). I'm not sure if you or your readers have ever used this link before, but by checking the markings inside, it was a good bit of information for more recent finds.

   Thanks for all you do.

Respectfully,

      Scott

The site will help you identify the assay office, purity and year of manufacture of the item, if it is properly marked.  Here is the description of the tool as described on the web site.

Gold-Traders has compiled a gold hallmark identification wizard to help decipher the markings that are stamped on your item.

Have a look at your piece of jewellery. If it was made in a country that adheres to the Convention on the Control and Marking of Articles of Precious Metals (otherwise known as the Common Control Mark), you should find a set of hallmarks / stamps.

And here si the link.

Gold Hallmark Identification Wizard (gold-traders.co.uk)

Thanks Scott.

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I posted a link to some of the artifacts on display at the coronation of Charles III, but I don't think I mentioned the Stone of Destiny.  Maybe I did, but here is a good article.

The Stone of Destiny has a mysterious past beyond British coronations.

When Britain’s King Charles III is crowned in London on May 6, he’ll sit on an ancient chair housing a 335-pound boulder cloaked in mystery. Used for British coronations since the late 14th century, the Stone of Scone is of unknown origins and age.

Legend traces this rectangular slab to Palestine 3,000 years ago, but scientists believe it is likely from Scotland The stone is among the most prized treasures of this nation, where it was long used to crown Scottish kings. Then in 1296, it was stolen by England.

Until 1996, when it was finally given back to Scotland, the stone resided at Westminster Abbey where it is now reappearing for Charles’ grand coronation. Soon after, the boulder will return to its current home, Scotland’s Edinburg Castle.

Here is the link for more about the Stone of Destiny.

The Stone of Destiny has a mysterious past beyond Charles’ coronation (nationalgeographic.com)

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If you've done much metal detecting you probably have found horseshoes before.  I've found horseshoes in various states of the union and on local Treasure Coast beaches.  They can be old or recent.  I found one that was obviously not a real horseshoe but was for the game of horseshoes.

As early as the second century, before the Christian Era, iron plates or rings for shoes were nailed on horses’ feet in Western Asia and Eastern Europe. In Greece and Rome athletic contests, games of different kinds generally formed some part of religious observances and festivals. One of the four Grecian national festivals was the Olympian Games. These Grecian Games consisted of boxing, putting the weight, chariot races, archery, and discus throwing. The discus was similar in form to the modern quoit but not in size and weight. Originally, it was a circular plate of metal or stone 10- or 12-inches in diameter. It was pitched or thrown with a strap or thong passed through a circular hole in the center, the strap being released by the player as he swung it so the discus would go the greatest possible distance. There is a tradition that the camp followers of the Grecian armies, who could not afford the discus, took discarded horseshoes, set up a stake and began throwing horseshoes at it. Horseshoe historians have not been able to discover when the game of quoits or horseshoes was changed so that it was pitched at two stakes, but it is pretty well established that horseshoe pitching had its origin in the game of quoits and that quoits is a modification of the old Grecian game of discus throwing.

Following the Revolutionary War, it was said by England’s Duke of Wellington that “the War was won by pitchers of horse hardware.” In 1869, England set up rules to govern the game...

Here is the link for more about that.

Historical Horseshoes - NHPA (horseshoepitching.com)

I'm still amazed by the variety of things I've found in the ocean over the years.  Besides horseshoes, I found other game pieces including bowling balls and pool balls.  I had one of the bowling balls I found in my yard for a long time until it eventually fell apart.

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The CNN Trump Town Hall immoderate moderator missed the excellent point that there will be no "winner" in the Ukraine war.  The people who died, lost homes and family members (on both side) are certainly not he winners.  And neither country will be better off.  A few leaders or profiteers might think they will win, but their immorality will catch up with them.  The CNN propagandists missed that very important point.  That fact was evidently not on the list of permissible facts they received and chant continually.

If war is Hell, the winner of war is....

Funny thing to me is that if you believe in personal or lived truths, as opposed to an objective reality, how can there be such absolute unquestionable facts.

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Nothing special in the weather.  Just two- or three-foot seas.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net