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https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=KyMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3474,5984890&hl=en
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792401,00.html
Research and a little luck..... no doubt there is plenty more to be dug up around the world!
QUOTED - The reason this story is worth investigating is that $1900 of the reported $500,000 has already been found. The first mention of treasure and Calf Island was in 1882.
In 1846, a man took a job as keeper of Bug Light in Boston Harbor. Although he lived quietly, the story leaked out that he was an ex-pirate in hiding. After several years, the lighthouse keeper retired and moved to one of the outer harbor islands. He lived here, and was called the King of Calf Island, until his death in 1882.
Just after the turn of the last century, a Canadian conducted a search for treasure on Greater Brewster Island, just off Boston. One Pegleg Nuskey passed this information on in 1937, to Edward Snow, a reporter in the Boston area. Before Snow could act on the information, he was suddenly actively involved in World War II.
Snow completed his hitch in 1944, and began to think again about the King of Calf Island. Here is one version of what transpired thereafter:
“Somehow Snow got the idea that the King must have left a chart showing the exact location of his treasure, which was supposed to be worth about $500,000. He didn’t find the chart, but he did get hold of an old book in Italian which local tradition said had belonged to the King. Snow took the book to the Boston Public Library for appraisal.
“Now comes the part of the story that reads like fiction, but the facts were reported by the Boston papers and retold in Time Magazine, on October 15, 1945. According to Time’s account, the old Italian book was turned over to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves and noticed a pattern of pin-holes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, forming a simple coded message. Its exciting message: The King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape Cod.
“When this coded message was explained to him, Edward Snow and his brother Donald set out for Strong Island at once. The pin pricks evidently did not tell exactly where the stuff was buried, but Snow took along an electronic gadget similar to a mine detector, which is used in locating metals. The Snow brothers dug five holes in the sand, and each time they found metal; but it proved to be only iron from some old wreck. But in the sixth excavation they hit the jackpot, according to Time, when the mean unearthed a small, encrusted copper box. It was full of tarnished old coins, minted in Peru, Mexico, Portugal, France, and Spain. Time carried a picture of Edward Snow sitting in the sand, with the box open in front of him, and both hands full of coins. The treasure amounted to only about $1900.
While this was quite a treasure in 1945, the big question to a modern-day treasure hunter is, where is the remaining supposed $498,000 that the King of Calf Island is believed to have hidden? As far as can be learned, nothing else has been found. - END QUOTE
