6/12/23 Report - Spanish Silver Coinage Sources and Tracing. A Couple Embossed Liquor Bottles: Campari and Tipo.

 

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Embossed TIPO and CAMPARI Bottles.

It's that time of year. For some it might seem that conditions are poor. And they are for some types of hunting. But for other types of hunting conditions are near ideal. For example, it is the time of year for treasure diving. The sea is smooth, and if you are in the water, it keeps you cooler than if you were walking along the beach.

I can tolerate the heat, and I hunted the beaches in the mid-day heat for many years, but I now prefer to get out early before the sun gets high. It isn't necessary, but the water is smoother before the wind picks up, and after having a serious bout with melanoma, I take the sun more seriously now.  I'd advise using sun protection, especially if you are fair skinned.  The years of exposure can catch up with you.  I don't like using lotion, but you can use sun protective clothing.  There is always a way to adapt and keep going.  

As I always say, there is always somewhere to hunt and something to find.  Summer conditions might not seem ideal for walking the beach, but if you make some adaptations, the hunting is still good.  You just have to do some things differently.  

 The bottles shown above don't look real old to me.  You can get a good idea of a bottle's age just by looking at the glass.

TIPO Bottle Find.

TIPO, one of California’s most Iconic and Historic Wine Brands has come back to life. TIPO was originally established in 1906 and was considered “America’s Greatest Wine” both before and after Prohibition. TIPO was a popular brand for over seven decades.

Now it is being reintroduced by Stama Windry in Lodi, California...

It has an Owens Illinois makers mark on the bottom that shows it can't be older than 1929.

Here is a good history on that company and its marks.  OwensIllinois2018Part2.pdf (sha.org)

Embossed Campari Bottle.

Campari is a red aperitif that was invented by Gaspare Campari, a liqueurist and bartender who was born in 1828 in Lombardy, Italy. He experimented with different herbs, spices, and ingredients to create bitter drinks. In 1860, he settled on the recipe that became Campari in Novara, Italy, a town in Piemonte, west of Milan. His son Davide expanded the business by opening the first plant in Sesto San Giovanni and a symbolic bar in Galleria, Milan. Campari was founded before Italy was unified as a nation.

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Here is a great study that traces the distribution of coinage through isotopic analysis. Analysis was able to distinguish European coin metals from those coming from the New World.  Below is the abstract of the study.

Estimating global fluxes of precious metals is key to understanding early monetary systems. This work adds silver (Ag) to the metals (Pb and Cu) used so far to trace the provenance of coinage through variations in isotopic abundances. Silver, copper, and lead isotopes were measured in 91 coins from the East Mediterranean Antiquity and Roman world, medieval western Europe, 16th–18th century Spain, Mexico, and the Andes and show a great potential for provenance studies. Pre-1492 European silver can be distinguished from Mexican and Andean metal. European silver dominated Spanish coinage until Philip III, but had, 80 y later after the reign of Philip V, been flushed from the monetary mass and replaced by Mexican silver.

And here is the link.

Isotopic Ag–Cu–Pb record of silver circulation through 16th–18th century Spain | PNAS

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I once posted photos of the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago in my treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com blog site. I tried to find those photos yesterday but couldn't. If you can find them, please let e know which post they are in.

I was there for a university alumni event, and it was amazing. There were no boxes. It was immaculate and the idea that it was used to store cardboard boxes is absurd to me. They have events there all the time.

At the time I remember laughing at my wife for taking a photo of a chandelier in the women's restroom.  Her mother liked chandeliers, and my wife wanted to send the photo to her mother.  There weren't any boxes there then, and I bet there weren't' until the raid.  It just doesn't make sense.  If you wanted to hide some boxes, you'd naturally pile them on a stage where events were held so they would be very prominently displayed even if they had to be moved for the events.  Give me a break.  What does make sense, is that they needed something to rival the much distributed boxes in the garage photo.

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There is nothing on the NHC map of interest.  And nothing of interest shown for the next few days on windy.com.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net