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| He Man Action Figure in Heritage Auction. |
This is way off what I planned to talk about today, but I just noticed the incredible price on this He-Man action figure. It was going for over $3000.00 in a Heritage Auction.
The reason I noticed it and the reason I'm talking about it, is that I once found one of these on a beach. That was years ago. I remember taking it to a comic book store and was offered a few bucks for it. Of course, the one I found wasn't mint in the package like the one up for auction, but it was still worth a few bucks, and I picked it up while metal detecting one day.
I always recommend being aware of the many different kinds of things of value that you might see while metal detecting. I learned about fossils that way. One day I saw something that looked interesting but didn't know much of anything about it. That was the beginning.
If you are in doubt, pick up that curious object and do a little research. If it isn't worth anything and you don't find it interesting at all, just throw it away.
I didn't know about collectible bottles when I picked up my first old embossed White House vinegar bottle. That was after hurricane Andrew. Since then I learned a bit about bottles and really enjoy finding good old examples.
It was ten years ago that I did a post that mentioned finding action figures and hot wheels toys on the beach.
Here is that link.
Masters of the Universe He-Man 8 Back AFA 85 (Mattel, 1982).... | Lot #88001 | Heritage Auctions
I probably mentioned other toys in other posts, but don't remember for sure.
After thinking about it, I do remember a Donald Duck and a few others that I sold several years ago.
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A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus’ first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from lead ore, originally brought from Spain for other uses, just before abandoning the failed mining operation in 1498. It is the first known European extraction of silver in the New World...Here is the link for more about that.
Early Columbus settlement was desperate to find metals – Research News
I don't know about that. I'm skeptical about that interpretation. Maybe?
Sorta reminds me of what I said about alchemy not too long ago.
See what you think.
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Here is an excerpt from Spanish Colonization of the New World, an interesting study by Carl Butzer.
Two studies are available to estimate the flow of Spanish immigrants to the New World. A list of 55,000 migrants 1493-1600 has been tabulated by Boyd-Bowman (1976 a), who suspects that this represents only 20% of the real number, because of incomplete lists and many missing years. A different approach was taken by Morner (1976), who used the data of Chaunu a. Chaunu (1955) to calculate the total number of westward voyages from Spain, the tonnage per ship, and the estimated numbers of passengers per ship, to arrive at 162,000 overseas migrants for 1506-1600. Taking into account the ships that did not return to Spain, one must still add their crews to this total, i. e., as many as 81,000 short term sailors who may have remained in the New World (Morner 1976). The estimate of emigrants accordingly lies between 162,000 and 243,000. If we take a median value, and allow for the fact that one out of seven 19th century transatlantic migrants even tually returned to Europe, a net emigration figure of 175,000 can be proposed...
Here is the link for more about that.
Butzer-1991-Spanish-Colonization-of-the-New-World.pdf
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A few days I showed an Accuweather report suggesting that the current system down by the Yucatan would become a cat 3 hurricane and strike the Florida West Coast. At the time I said I had a hunch it would fizzle. Below is what the NHC is showing for that now.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
And here is the surf report.
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| Source: SurfGuru.com. |
We are having some real high tides. The Friday morning high tide is supposed to be nearly four feet. You don't see that vey often.
The surf remains rough and will become bigger Sunday.
Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net