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Treasure chest found, but not by me :(

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I knew you would catch him, I just didn't think I would help you at it. 🤔 A **bleep** in the armor.

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''In his Thrill of The Chase book, Forrest Fenn wrote, "An excited antique scholar said the chest was probably a Romanesque Lock Box that dated to about 1150 AD."'

 

I think not.

 

https://fennstreasure.com/about-fenns-treasure/comparing-similar-bronze-chests-to-forrest-fenns-bron... 

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I wish he had consulted with me on the box, I never would have green-lit it. That box does taint the story a bit admittedly.

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You are right. But I'm surprised that such an easily proven inaccurate statement got by them. I think the word style got lost in the hype.

 

"...maybe he did and the writer ignored him." Writers do that to embellish because...they're writers.

 

I used to sell at the Santa Fe shows on occasion and aside from antique NA items, many would bring associated items and I used to do very well buying from them on these out-of-category items. My favorite was a 17th cent Spanish monstrance for $100. It was sprayed with silver spray paint!

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It looks like it's filled with those chocolate dollars wrapped in gold colored foil, that's what I see anyway. Some sort of joke?

 

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@wesk_36 wrote:

It looks like it's filled with those chocolate dollars wrapped in gold colored foil, that's what I see anyway. Some sort of joke?


😀

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Turns out they were not chocolate filled coins after all/

 

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/forrest-fenn-treasure-chest-pictures-trnd/index.html

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@sonomabarn67 wrote:

Turns out they were not chocolate filled coins after all/

 

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/forrest-fenn-treasure-chest-pictures-trnd/index.html


"Removing objects from the chest. It is darker than it was ten years ago when I left it on the ground and walked away," Fenn wrote in the caption.

 

Just as well it wasn't a genuine medieval chest, then! 😀

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Re: Treasure chest found, but not by me :(

 That is sad; I'm so tired of all the death, and right on down the list. I hope we are going to emerge as a better version of a human going forward, but I doubt it, a more attainable goal would be Version -2.9.

 

One thing I just came across was "The curators have also become rather annoyed with Fenn treasure hunters asking about it, the box in their collection, so they haven't provided much other information about it other than what is listed below."

 

A picture of that box might have helped alleviate their annoyance. 🏵

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@sonomabarn67 wrote:

A picture of that box might have helped alleviate their annoyance. 🏵


It's here, I had it bookmarked:

 

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/casket-1556 

 

Sad to hear of his passing, but that's the way of things. He had his time in the sun, and for now we still have ours.

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European, Mortar, 16th/20th Century. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the family of Mr. and Mrs. C... 

 

Check out this late Victorian + mortar. in their collection. Maybe they should hire me! 16th thru 20th cent? That's embarrassing.

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@sonomabarn67 wrote:

European, Mortar, 16th/20th Century. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the family of Mr. and Mrs. C... 

 

Check out this late Victorian + mortar. in their collection. Maybe they should hire me! 16th thru 20th cent? That's embarrassing.


Can't get your link to work. Sounds like the cataloguer wanted to get home early. 😀

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Ha! got it from your link! Try this one https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/mortar-26016 

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Forrest Fenn consistently stated that the treasure was buried in a place that anyone could access safely and finding it required nothing physically strenuous. How can anyone hold him responsible for the deaths of people who did stupid things out of greed?

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