who made the first treasure magazines ?

[scrounger d detector collector]

ran across a box of old argosy and true mags at an auction.

they have a lot of treasure related covers and articles.

after reading them,i got interested in who was the 1st to publish
an all treasure hunting magazine.

surfing the net didnt produce as much info as i thought it might.

western and eastern started as WESTERN TREASURES IN 1966.
AND THEY dont give much more info about it.

but were they first.? i actually did start hunting with a home built kit detector in 1966.

i seem to remember a very small whites electronics newsletter from that era. what about treasure world ? fisher started way back in 1931. did they have any kind of hunting publication?

here are the pics of some pre 66 covers about treasure.
from jan and aug of 65. and a cool bob marx one from 67. hope u enjoy!

obviously there have got to be a ton of tresure related covers and stories from before all treasure magazines were started.

soooo...natl geo,time,post,arizona highways,true west.
POST EM IF YA GOT EM. OR ANY OTHER .PRE TREASURE MAG ,TREASURE RELATED ADS.LITERATURE .ETC. AND WHAT THE HEY/EARLY TREASURE MAG COVERS TOO.

 

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[Saturna]

Interesting. Hopefully their treasure articles are more accurate than their predictions about what kind of car is in our future.



Jay

 

[Montana Fireball]

Here's some to check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Ship_of_the_Desert
The lost ship of the desert was one of the first treasure stories often repeated.

 

[Cappy Z.]

I once read this book..Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that was first published in Spanish in 1985, with an English translation released in 1988 by Alfred A. Knopf.

In one of the chapters a Spanish Galleon is found in the middle of the jungle....I suspect there must be truth to stories about men attempting to move large boats across perilous land.

Maybe they all had fever...gold fever.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Interesting question. Our club used to have a "library" where people would bring all their old magazine or md'ing related books. Somehow, some from as far back as the 1960s got in there. So I too wondered how far back they could/would go. From what I gather, it's no earlier than the mid 1960s, as far as true dedicated magazines, specifically md'ing related. Yes, there were magazines that might have had inter-spersed articles on something detecting related, but the rest would be other stuff like general desert lore, or camping, or whatever.

And to the extent that md'ing specific magazines like "Long John Latham's" and such started to appear in the mid 1960s, the earlier ones were VERY corny. Mostly treasure legend stuff, and not much on coin/relic hunting.

No, Fisher didn't start their monthly periodical till much later. Mid 1970s if I'm not mistaken.

But go figure: detecting didn't really take off, as a hobby, till the mid 1960s. Yes there were detectors prior to that, but they were very primitive, lacked depth, hard to keep tuned and balanced, etc... It wasn't till transistors came out and into common place on newer, better, and smaller units (TRs instead of BFO's, etc..) in the mid to late 1960s, that the hobby really took off.

Can you post your pix, and this post, on the Vintage metal detecting forum for us? thanx! http://members6.boardhost.com/classicdetector/index.html?1172512320 And on there, if you scroll back long enough, you'll see some other examples of books, pamphlets, etc... that go back as far as the 1950s I've posted.