PS...
My avatar picture is from when I was twelve... I liked visiting Mel... and LOVED playing with his gold... which is where "the bug" of interest first "bit me".
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Oh hell, these pictures are so small on here. No kidding i thought that was like an album cover, noshit. Always leaned towards something like Beasti Boys, not them, know darn well but that sort.
Is there actually a way to see these bigger on here.
Think I liked it more when I was trying to figure out what album it was from.
No worries, had more than one on here ask me if that was me in my picture. Sometimes in PMs but a couple times on a thread in passing conversation. Folks been calling me OddJob since the early 90s back in my Army days; got about 40 people on here I have worked with for many years, so when they saw that they where really giving me crap then.
One more thing mate; you do not have to find monetary value to find treasure. Finding a point of interest in relation to history is just as significant to some but often more significant to historians. I mean really, what is treasure, some gold that a private fella or company finds that they should be able to keep 1000% of; no its not, but I am far from a poor man. That is just verification of very hard rewarding work, but the start, middle and completion of a great deal more answers and questions. You found an area of interest, thats the treasure.
I have only ever been interested in two treasures, ever in my life. Neither I did not even come across until about 23 years after I completed my studies; hell I joined the Army, you have any idea how many people are interested in Ottoman history or more so military economics and battlefield trade. 7 people counting my self, I know because we all meet up once a year for a few days and discuss our finding, what we may pursue next in research and who needs help with what. Yeah in another 100 years no one will care. So it was the Army for me. Got very lucky one day and found a book. I have an amazing collection and knew what this book was, and could read every language in it. Sat on that for five years and had it verified by a few places, got some killer offers on it, presented it to my group and told them my intentions.
My intentions where not to find any treasure, hell I knew no such existed. It was to find each place they stopped. To provide modern mapping on a multi national march and trade route. It was lost to the world, now it is an area or path of interest as you put it. All 7 of us are happy about it too. LOL
Just saying mate, it is used very loose on here, not speaking ill towards you so I hope you did not take it that way.
But I am itching to know if you have any plans for your area of interest.
