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Russ P. sent these photos of Turtle Trail and Seagrape Trail Sunday.
He mentioned that the beaches didn't look good but he did have one find that he described below.
According to my research, the Bacardi family and the company left Cuba in exile in the 1960s after the Cuban government confiscated the company’s assets on October 14, 1960.
Also, bottle manufacturers would date their bottles using a two digit code for the year of manufacture on the bottom. This bottle is marked “55” and Santiago de Cuba on the bottom as well.
I would then conclude that this is a Barcadi bottle from Cuba dated 1955.
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In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia.
Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay.
He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century.
To break open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill, even dousing the thing in acid. However, not even a sledgehammer could make a crack. That's because what he was trying so hard to open was no gold nugget.
As he found out years later, it was a rare meteorite...
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Here is a resource for learning more about costume jewelry and how to identify better pieces.
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Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net