6/25/26 Report - Nice Lady's Leg Bottle Find. Medieval Game Board. Dust Cloud Supressing Tropical Development.

 

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

Beauty doesn't scream.  It doesn't have to.  You can't help but be absorbed into it, like the subtle hint of a totally confident smile dominates an entire room.  You want a name, but the smile makes it unnecessary.

Wait a minute.  You aren't on the wrong site.  I'm just playing around.

Above is an attractive dark green applied-lip blown bottle find.  The "ladys-leg" neck shows several long stretch bubbles.  The nicely proportioned barrel seems to taper ever so slightly.  There is no embossed name, but there are some hidden hints begging to be interpreted.

Here is the bottom of the bottle.

You can see a rather clear symbol that looks like maybe a plus or X and opposite that a very faint O or something.  

If the signs and symbols are correctly interpreted, I'd say this is a 1850–1870 American whiskey bottle from a small regional glasshouse

The dark olive-green base is a classic whisky color. The lady's leg is typical 1840 - 1870 era. The 13-inch height and four-inch base is also standard for a whiskey. On the bottom you can see a post-mold tooling scar. The plus sign, or whatever it is, is probably a hand-engraved mold cutter's mark, and the O, a mold identifier.

As I've learned more about bottles, I've begun to pay more attention to the bottoms. The bottom tells you more about the glass bottle maker rather than the product or company that sells the product.

The more you learn about things, the more you pay attention to subtlties that you never noticed or focused on before. It could be bottles, coins or whatever.

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Above is a "game board" was found in a medieval Morrocan Bathhouse. I'm always skeptical when a vague find is described as a game piece or anything like that. It just seems to easy to call something a game when you don't know what its utilitarian purpose might be.

Here is the link to the article.

News - Medieval Game Board Identified in Moroccan Bathhouse - Archaeology Magazine

Speaking of game boards, I've had this one (if that is what it is) for a long time and don't have any idea about it.  

Game Board (?) with Quarter for Comparison.

This is heavy 2-inch-thick wood.  It weighs ten pounds and wouldn't be easily knocked over.  It seems to be made for pegs maybe.

I don't have any idea what game would be played on it or what it is.

Any ideas?

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A huge cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is set to engulf southeastern regions of the US in the coming days after travelling across the Atlantic, forecasters have said.

The Saharan air layer has carried sand and dust thousands of miles across the ocean, moving through the Caribbean and into parts of Florida.

Meteorologists say the Atlantic drift will create an environment hostile to the development of hurricanes, injecting dry air into the atmosphere and leading to high temperatures.

Miami-Dade county issued a warning over harmful particles potentially affecting air quality across the region to remain in effect until 3pm Eastern Time on Tuesday. It covers inland areas of Miami-Dade county, including Miami, Florida City and Hialeah...

Here is the link for more about that.

Massive Saharan dust cloud to sweep across US in days

Nothing has changed with the surf or beach conditions.  No tropical developments.  Just the same old flat surf.

Good hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net

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