6/26/23 Report - Titanic Salvage Diver Dies. Fossils: Jaw Boning. Treasure Coast History in Bottles.

 

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

The French diver who died in the Titan submersible had spent two decades working with a controversial company with the sole right to retrieve and display items from the Titanic wreck site.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of the most prolific Titanic divers in history, led five expeditions for the private salvage firm RMS Titanic Inc. to collect more than 5,000 artifacts from the ship. The artifacts included items as small as shaving kits and pipes and as large as chandeliers...

Here is the link for more about that.

French diver who died in the submersible helped a private company excavate 5,000 artifacts from the Titanic (msn.com)

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Three Partial Fossil Jaw Bones.
Horse, Gator, Peccary.

Most detectorist like finding old things. Among the oldest things you can find on the Treasure Coast are fossils, some dating back millions of years.  Here are three fossil partial jaw bones from the Treasure Coast some with teeth.

Three Partial Jaw Bones - Two With Teeth.

Of course, fossils aren't found with a metal detector, but can be found on our beaches and elsewhere around the Treasure Coast.  They are, however, a good sign for a detectorist.  If you are finding items that are thousands of years old, you are in an area where there might well be other old items.  If old fossils are being found, especially those that are dense and just being uncovered by erosion, you'd definitely want to check the area with a metal detector.

I think the small bottom one might be a peccary, but am not completely sure.  I'd have to do some more research or get an expert opinion.

Recently I've been showing old bottles.  Of course, they are not that old.  But that is another kind of item you can find along the Treasure Coast.  While neither fossils nor bottles will normally be classified or gathered with coins, there are times when such diverse things will be found together.  For example, when a dune face is being eroded, multiple layers can be dropped to the foot of the dunes where items of various densities and types can remain intermingled for a while.  In time nature will usually separate those items by density and shape, but there is that short time when they are intermingled.

I've been sorting and storing some bottles lately, which is one reason I've been posting so many of them.

As you would expect, there are some that are found in greater quantities than others.   Below is shown seven McCormick & Co, Baltimore embossed bottles.  I only posted one example before, but there are seven varieties shown below.  Evidently a common product used in the local area.

McCormick & Co. Bottles.

The one in the middle is an odd shape.  It is more like a pharmacy bottle.  I looks like a bottle maker embossed a type of bottle for McCormick that was also used for medicines.  I should check out the maker's marks.  I suspect there was some kind of shortage or event that affected McCormick's usual supplier.  That will take some research.

Below are six Castoria bottles.  I posted one of each of these.  The Pitcher's name was taken over by the Hatcher's name.

Six Catoria Bottles.
Three Dr. S. Pitcher's (left) and Three Chas. H. Fletcher's (right)

The Hatcher's bottles are not quite as old as the Pitcher's bottles.  The one on the far right is a screw top.

I'm trying to organize finds for storage.  Bottles take a good bit of space.  I like to have good photos so I won't have to get them out of storage as often.

The same thing goes for coins.  It is a good idea to have good photographs and then store them in a safe organized way.

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Windy.com is showing nothing more than a one foot surf for the Treasure Coast for the next few days.

Source: Windy.com.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net