Greetings all
Im a new member here and would like to hear from anyone who knew the original members of the Real Eight group that dived and salvaged the site of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet .
Also would like to hear from members who have an interest in the history and collect coins and other artifacts from this very important historical site .
Would like to hear the stories and see the Artifacts the members here , have bought , traded and sold over the last 40 years !!!
I never knew the members but did meet Lou Ullians wife early this year , what an interesting story she had about Lou , one of the founding members of the Real Eight Co. Inc.
Thanks
SIncerely
George
PS You can also contact me at MrGoldfinger2100@aol.com

George, welcome aboard TreasureWorks! Its good to have you join us here. I had the pleasure of meeting Lou and John Jones several years back at an event in Cape Canaveral.







You guessed it, we were all talking TREASURE!

I think that John is now the only surviving member of the Real Eight.

George welcome to TW.
It's been so long ago that the treasure bug bit me I can't remember when.

I wasn't born until 1966 so I guess I literally grew up reading those stories.

I often feel I was born a few decades to late even though the cannons don’t thunder I believe there’s plenty to “salvage” - lol I wouldn’t want to get quoted out of context that I plunder so I had to change the lyrics to protect my innocence.

I’m an armchair adventurer and researcher as well as an actual adventurer and researcher.
I sub-contracted on the 1715 Fleet in the late 90’s and am currently getting my ducks in a row to get back to it. Big or small operation I just want to get out and hunt.

We have another member here 1715man that is with 1715 Fleet Society and is doing a nice job on a web site with some vintage 1715 materials.

Our very own Treasure Works owner is a 1715 aficionado as well and we have several others here that have sub-contracted, worked and research the fleet.

Looking forward to talking treasure!!

B)Welcome Aboard 1715 Treasure Fleets. Tis a pleasure to see every new member.

It's amazing the way this site is going Tommy, Build it And They Will Come! You built the best site on the web and it is turning to Gold. This sort of information and adventure exchange is the stuff dreams are made of. Other sites discourage interaction and free willed exchange of ideas, information and interaction of members that can lead them to other sites. You encourage those exchanges and interactions and have become the catalist that will bind us all together rather than censor us into going someplace else. You are the someplace else we have all needed and been looking for. Thank You for keeping us in mind when you set this site up. I will do everything in my small realm of daily travels to spread your concept and freedom of your site. Awesome my friend.

would love to buy some artifacts. What are reasonable prices to pay for some.

Blackbeard
It all depends on what you are seeking !! What are you interested in
We have authentic musket balls , small cannon balls , Coins from many different shipwrecks
Authentic Coins from the sunken Pirate city of Port Royal also with C O As
What would you like to know about ???

What kind of artifacts are you looking for, small, large, rare? Dell

Dell
Just got your note , looking for real authentic artifacts that are not too large
Cant buy any cannons , if thats what you have
So what do you have ??
What are you looking for ??
Send a note to my email address
Thanks
George


MrGoldfinger2100@aol.com

I am interested in Coins do you guys have a catalog to look in or website.

1715 Treasure Fleets wrote:
Dell
Just got your note , looking for real authentic artifacts that are not too large
Cant buy any cannons , if thats what you have
So what do you have ??
What are you looking for ??
Send a note to my email address
Thanks
George


MrGoldfinger2100@aol.com


Hi George,

I just placed a photo of a shipwreck artifact in the classifieds section. Thank you for your interest. Dell

ARTIFACT

Hey Dell
Got your note and saw the artifact . will have to pass on it
Its too large for me .
Im interested in authetic Shipwreck recovered Coins and smaller artifacts
both silver or gold !!
Thanks
George

Not a problem. I can still use it for an anchor. Thanks for looking. Dell

Welcome to the best forums on the net! Stay Blessed....

Well, actually my uncle, John Jones is one of the last origanals! I am going to try to get him involved.

My Dad, Bill McAdoo-Bottle Bill because he was quite an expert in black glass, and really did know his stuff about all of it, and general shipwrecks and ports in the New World , worked a lot with Real Eight in the early 60s, through 70s, and still kept up with several guys, as he was the cob broker, so to speak. He would trade shipwreck artifacts and old bottles for cobs. Cob cleaning was a big day at our house. We would often go over to Sebastian to "the Old Man" dad called him who lived in a house surrounded by trees just South of Sebastian Inlet right on the beach. Real nice guy. He wanted my dad to work full time with him, but my dad did not want to live over there. I was pretty young then, I think it was prior to the museum. I used to drive his van over to the Museum in Cape Canaveral and drop off stuff and bring back boxes of cobs. The museum building is still there, its on the West side of A1A, is a big round building. I think its a chamber of commerce building or something like that. It was all black and called the Museum of Sunken Treasure- I think. Deo, Mel Fishers wife would call us when they needed some bottles or something. I can remember well bringing a load of bottles and being met by Bob Marx at the back door, and told that the museum was robbed of all the gold the night before. Inside job. That was a big deal back then. Oh speaking of that Bob Marx is still alive and he was a part of Real Eight and the museum. He still lives near there too. My dad died a few years ago. He used to supply cobs to quite a few treasure salvors, mainly to Mel Fishers business, because he was not allowed to buy from Real Eight. Usually Carl Fismer (Capt Fiz) bought them for Mel and for his own business later on. Prior to Carl there were a couple other guys who I can remember their names. Dad did that up until the late 80s I think.

The original building in Cape Canaveral is still standing but it looks much different today than it did back in the day. The last time I was in Cape Canaveral the building was occupied by a company called Fairvilla, and was some type of sex shop.



Prior to setting up the musume in Cape Canaveral, they had a little musume set up inside a bank in Satellite Beach. That building was demolished several years back to make way for an eckerd drug store.

Treasure Hunters Renew Their Quest - 24 June 1966

LP

Hey
Thanks for the info, I know Bob Marx, have known and bought from him for a few yrs.
He invited me over about 3-4 yrs ago. He is the man !!
He is a living legend !!
He is the treasure hunter who worked the site of
Port Royal, the famed Pirate city. It sank into the sea
back in the 1690's. Any questions , contact me

Hi
Does your uncle ever sell any stuff that he found ??Coins or anything
From the 1715 shipwrecks? Send your reply to me at
Mrgoldfinger2100@aol.com

Hey
Would like to buy some authentic 1715 artifacts from a collector here
Too many fakes on EBay , right ?

Blackbeard
We have several authentic Silver cobs from the Consolation
Which was chased by English Pirates and was set on fire and sank in 1681.
It was salvaged a few years ago by an American team with an Equdor team but the US guys were
kicked out of the area by the President of Euqador a few years ago.
We have 1,2,4 and 8 reales with COA's
Any interest ?