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Authentic artifacts provided by the Tortugas Trading Company were used on a Pirates of the Caribbean movie after the Tortugas Trading Company said they could provide authentic artifacts so could save the cost of manufacturing fakes. The pistol shown above along with a sword used by Keith Richards as Captain Teague and other artifacts used in the movie will be auctioned in a Heritage auction beginning July 13.
... Throughout production, Rich regularly arrived at the Disney lot with vehicles full of carefully curated selections from his collection. Spread across tables, the weapons captivated directors, actors, producers, set dressers, and stunt performers alike, who gathered in awe as they examined these artifacts that had survived centuries before finding a new life on screen. Verbinski became deeply involved in the selection process, personally helping determine which weapons would be assigned to specific characters and scenes. What began as a consultation evolved into a partnership that continued across the next four films in the blockbuster franchise.Now, during its July 13-17 Hollywood and Entertainment Signature Auction, Heritage is offering more than 200 antique firearms, edged weapons, accessories, set dressing pieces, and production materials used throughout the second through fifth Pirates of the Caribbean films, all from the collection of Sean Rich.
Here is the link to read more about that.
The Real Weapons of the Caribbean
Authentic artifacts with Pirates prevenance will undoubtedly bring high prices.
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Every detectorist who has been detecting very long has probably found one or more miraculous medals.
The Miraculous Medal, inspired by the 1830 apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Saint Catherine Labouré, depicts Mary standing on a globe with rays of light from her hands, symbolizing graces for the world (Wikipedia).
A recent earthquake survivor described how he was miraculously saved.
“I remember thinking of the merciful Christ and praying, ‘Lord, have mercy,’” he said, on the verge of tears. “The next thing was feeling the building collapse because with that violent shaking, I kept saying, ‘It’s going to fall,’ and of course, it did.”
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Galíndez never lost consciousness. He said he felt every blow but that “amid the shock and fear, physical sensations become secondary.” Once the confusion of the collapse subsided, he realized he was alive, though his body was completely buried in the rubble and pinned by a massive beam crushing his chest...
“I was wearing a small chain with a crucifix and a tiny medal of the Miraculous Virgin. Among the things I lost track of, the chain broke, though, of course, I hadnʼt noticed it at the time,” he recalled.
On his way to his home, which was also completely destroyed, a couple of young people helped Galíndez with first aid. While they were tending to him, he became aware of one of those small miracles that holds profound meaning for someone with sincere faith.
He asked the young people to help him put his watch into one of the pockets of his shorts, as he needed to remove it to hold his fractured arm still. And then, the inexplicable happened.
“I was wearing shorts with a small zippered pocket, and when I looked — don’t ask me where from, don’t ask me how — a piece of the chain and the Miraculous Medal were caught inside.”
Here is a link for the rest of that amazing story.
Earthquake survivor in Venezuela: ‘The Miraculous Medal saved me’
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Following up on my recent posts mentioning token finds, here is a flashback to an old post about jetons.
Jetons were token or coin-like medals produced across Europe from the 13th through the 17th centuries. They were produced as counters for use in calculation on a lined board similar to an abacus. They also found use as a money substitute in games, similar to modern casino chips or poker chips. Thousands of different jetons exist, mostly of religious and educational designs, as well as portraits, these most resembling coinage. (Excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeton)
Jetons have been found on Spanish colonial sites including St. Augustine. Most were made in cities we now associate with Germany. Nuremberg being one.
Here is a site showing how jetons were used as reckoning counters.
http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/juh.html
The jeton shown above is from a Ph.D. dissertation by Kroum Nickolaev Batchvarov.
Here is the description of that jeton.
Token KT101 has an irregular shape and was struck slightly off center of the brass blank (fig. 80). On the reverse of the token is depicted a ship, viewed from the port quarter. The depiction is highly stylized and appears to illustrate a two-decked warship. It is surrounded by the motto Plus Ultra (Further Beyond) of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Subsequently, this also became the motto of Habsburg Spain. According to mythology, the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar) bore the warning Nec Plus Ultra or “nothing further beyond” to prevent sailors from falling off the earth. The adoption of the modified motto by Charles V was meant to state a commitment to going further than 252 any before him. The association with the Pillars of Hercules is probably the connection between the motto and the ship depicted on the token. The obverse contains a sun face, moon and stars. Around the periphery is inscribed “E. L. S. Lauer RECHEN PF.” The first stands for Ernst Ludwig Siegmund Lauer, the manufacturer of the jeton. Lauer evidently was born in 1762, started work in or about 1783 and retired in 1833. It appears that he died as late as 1845. The second part of the inscription is to be read as rechen Pfennig, or “accounting token” in German. It appears that Lauer struck large quantities of this type as they frequently appear on internet auction sites. A Lauer jeton was also found at Corinth in Greece, but as the article did not include an illustration of it, I cannot be certain that it is identical to KT 101.255 Fig. 80. KT101 An accounting token struck by Ernst Lauer.
Below is the source link. The title of the dissertation is The Kitten Shipwreck: Aarchaeology And Reconstruction Of A Black Sea Merchantman.
It is a lengthy dissertation. A number of nice artifacts are shown near the end of the dissertation. Take a look.
Here is the link.
http://nautarch.tamu.edu/Theses/pdf-files/Batchvarov-PhD2009.pdf
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