Tuesday, June 24, 2025

6/25/25 Report - Research Resourcesfor Finding Metal Detecting Sites. Gold Huguenot Ring Found by Boys. Bottle Find. First Storm of 25.

 

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Gold Huguenot Ring Found by Boys in 1911

 

Below is a letter written in 1924 giving information about the find of a gold Huguenot ring by some boys digging in a mound.



That letter was published in, the book History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity: 1513 to 1924, by T. Frederick Davis (1925).  That book, which contains a variety of maps and illustrations, is available free online.

Here is the link.  


And here is one of the maps that I liked.


Notice the position of Fort Caroline and the lines indicating the older and contemporary shorelines, which have undoubtedly changed since publication.  

This is the type of book that provides a lot of good clues for the detectorist.

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Here is another interesting research resource.  This one also gives the location and details of other historic locations in North Florida.


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Below is a bottle I once found but recently learned more about.  It is embossed with a spider web and fly, as you can see below.


Brown Bottle With Embossed Wheat and Spider and Web.

It appears to be a whiskey bottle, possibly from the Frankfort (KY) Distillery, although I'm not entirely sure of that.

From what I've learned, it appears to be a Prohibition-era medicinal whiskey bottle. Six distilleries were authorized during the prohibition to make medicinal alcohol.

“Spiritus Frumenti” is Latin for “Spirit of the Grain,” which was a generic name for medicinal whiskey during the Prohibition.  Spiritus Frumenti was produced by the George T. Stagg Distillery and some other distilleries throughout the 1920s.

The diamond on the bottom is the maker's mark probably indicates the Diamond Glass Co. or the Illinois Glass Co.


Diamond Makers Mark on Bottom.


Diamond.pdf (sha.org) provides the following information and much more.


In 1904, the plant made “prescription, liquor and proprietary ware and milk jars” with the same equipment...


I found the picture (below) of a similar bottle with a different top and the label still attached.




Below is a closeup of that label.




I just added this bottle to my tgbottlebarn.blogspot.com site.

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An area of stormy weather in the open Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda and the Azores became Tropical Storm Andrea on Tuesday morning, the first of the Atlantic hurricane season, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Andrea is not a threat to land. The storm is roughly 1,200 miles away from The Azores, or about 1,400 miles east of the US East Coast, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph as of 11:00 a.m. ET Tuesday....

Here is the link for more about that.

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Surf Forecast for the Fort Pierce Inlet Area from Surfguru.com.

So, as you cana see the tropical storm is having no effect on us.

We will be having a nearly one-foot negative low tide in the afternoon.

Good huntng,
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