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I am looking at a copy I ran across today and will take to the old soldiers' home. I also read The Age online and there is a story today (16 December 2016 in Australia) about the scientist/adventurer who figured out where the wreck was and recovered it. The book was published early on but his investors have been in court for years, claiming they were cheated of their share of the bonanza. He dropped out of sight but was found and has been in jail for two or more years and fined $1000 a day. He claims he has forgotten where he secreted the treasure, somewhere in Belize.
Looking closely at the photo in the book of the ingots recovered, I noted one from Kellogg and Co. They were very rare among coin collectors (the SF mint did not open until 1854) as most were melted down over the years. Jim Coffee, a comrade of my dad's at Jack Stout's trailer sales organization, took me to see a display a banker in Huntington Park had of gold coins and ingots from his collection (right in a display case in the lobby). In the late 1950s, Huntington Park and environs was prosperous with major manufacturing plants, not a crowded city of people who came after the Immigration Act of 1965 with a crooked government as most of the SE of LA County suffers from since the turn of the century.
Postscript. I had the book on the shelf at the old soldiers' home for eight weeks and no takers.
"Sigh..." Their loss; I know it will be snapped up when I take it to the lobby of the VA Hospital in Sawtelle next week.
Looking closely at the photo in the book of the ingots recovered, I noted one from Kellogg and Co. They were very rare among coin collectors (the SF mint did not open until 1854) as most were melted down over the years. Jim Coffee, a comrade of my dad's at Jack Stout's trailer sales organization, took me to see a display a banker in Huntington Park had of gold coins and ingots from his collection (right in a display case in the lobby). In the late 1950s, Huntington Park and environs was prosperous with major manufacturing plants, not a crowded city of people who came after the Immigration Act of 1965 with a crooked government as most of the SE of LA County suffers from since the turn of the century.
Postscript. I had the book on the shelf at the old soldiers' home for eight weeks and no takers.
"Sigh..." Their loss; I know it will be snapped up when I take it to the lobby of the VA Hospital in Sawtelle next week.
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