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| 1933 Chicago World's Fair Hall of Science Spoon. |
Here is a find I finally got pretty well cleaned up.
There are a variety of spoons and other collectibles from the 1933 World's Fair. A few were sterling. Others, like the one shown above, were plated.
Here is a good link for Chicago World's Fair collectible spoons.
You might know that White City had something to do with a Chicago World's Fair, but it wasn't the 1933 fair.
Below is an excerpt from an essay on the history of White City published in the Florida Historical Quarterly.
The community of White City on the southern border of Fort Pierce is named for the utopian Great White City built by architect Daniel Burnham for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The community’s main road is Midway Road after the fair’s Midway Plaisance, a wide boulevard which formed the mile-long entertainment center. Be sure to check out White City Park a relaxing outdoor experience with “Old Florida” scenery...
Here is a little more from that essay.
It was settled by Danish settlers in 1893. Goods were shipped from Titusville on the steamboat "Lillian" to be sold at a store that was built on the St. Lucie River.
A dance was held to celebrate the first birthday of White City on Dec. 16, 1894. The dance was held at a large pavilion at the picnic grounds. Every fall the picnic grounds were flooded by the rising river.
There were two ferries across the river - one for passengers and one for horses and wagons...
Now there are some good metal detecting leads in that essay. You can find the rest of the essay in the Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jul. 1954), pp 48-50. Here is the link. Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 33, Issue 1 (ucf.edu)
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Colombia plans to recover up to $20B in sunken treasure from the 'Holy Grail of shipwrecks'.
Colombia is working to speed up the recovery of as much as $20 billion of sunken treasure from a centuries-old shipwreck as a U.S. company sues for half of the findings.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro told officials to exhume the Spanish galleon San José from the Caribbean Sea before his term ends in 2026, Minister of Culture Juan David Correa told Bloomberg in a phone interview last week
"This is one of the priorities for the Petro administration," Correa. "The president has told us to pick up the pace."
The 62-gun Spanish galleon San José, now known as the "Holy Grail of shipwrecks," was trying to outrun a fleet of British warships off Colombia on June 8, 1708, when the ship was sunk to the bottom of the sea with a trove of gold, silver and emeralds owned by private Peruvian and European merchants.
The sunken treasure now lies about 700 feet below the water’s surface, a few miles from the historic Caribbean port of Cartagena, on the edge of the Continental Shelf.
The exact worth of the treasure is unknown, with decades of lawsuits estimating its value at anywhere from $4 billion to $20 billion. The question of who owns the sunken treasure is also in contention.
Here is that link, thanks to William K.
Colombia plans to recover up to $20B in sunken treasure from ‘Holy Grail of shipwrecks’ | Fox News
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| Surf Chart for the Fort Pierce Inlet Area from Surfguru.com. |
So right now the surf is small, and so are the tides. The high tides are not real high, and the low tides are not real low. It does look like the surf will be higher several days out.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net