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Geez, I was wondering why all the glum faces on Wall St? 4:08 pm Friday 10/10/08...8 minutes after the closing bell:

I figure I'd try to get a thread started about places relevant to the Golden Age, with some pictures just to get a visual. I don't know if this will work but I hope the idea would be to have a "then" and "now' pictures, though a 'then' picture might not always be readily available. here is the location of Captain Wm. Kidd's residence at 119-121 Pearl St, New York City, the Drawing here is called "Watergate at Pearl and Wall Streets 1691", and here is that location today. Pearl Street used to be where the East River came up to, and where all the ships docked. Now it is filled in and populated: Kidd also had a house on 52-56 Wall St. where the Deutschebank is now. Very nearby is the famous Fraunces Tavern, which this building was built in 1719, could it be possible that maybe some of Kidd's crew were ever in this building?: Fortunately today, there are still a few mastheads lingering nearby:

My advice, having done so first hand, is grab hold of some florida newspapers of you possibly can such as the Sarasota Herald/trubune, or the Tampa tribune, and get your scissors and cut out the coupons from the Key West Express advertisements. You will save around $20-30RT instead of paying the full fare at the counter on the travel day. I see these ads in the papers every time I'm in florida.

Those who want to know what's going on should just go to a spy site like this: POTC4

I'm working on Sophia Eisley's as I write this, and I'll send it shortly to withoutaname.

....more or less. Somewhere up on college hill there. They got a 1673 map of the Caribbean and the east goast.

....more or less. Somewhere up on college hill there.

And I recieved it last night.

Two of my closest friends are in the finance industry, first and second mortgages in particular, and now they are out of work, with mortgages of their own, and a house full of mouths to feed. Things do not bode well, which upsets me. But for me, being in a creative industry, I am grateful that the banking industry is not where my talents lay. Just a bad time overall. The banks themselves got what they deserve. Let's just hope folks like us can weather this out.

The avatar at the moment is from a storefront in Bristol, R.I., about a couple of doors down from where my mom grew up. bristol was a true GAOP pirate port in the day, with tales to tell. The photo is just temporary until I have the time to actually put my own head in. The storefront skeleton seems more like an undead british Rev war soldier, but befitting just the same.

When election day comes, I am writing in my vote for . Period. End of story.Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy...just advance to 3:41, 'cause this is 10 minutes long.

Any possibility we get the juicy backround graphics back?

I just picked up a copy of'The Pirate's Pact: The Secret Alliance Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial America' by Douglas R. Burgess Amazon It tells the interconnection of pirates and their associations with the colonial governors, outside the realm of privateering commissions during the GAOP. All the usual characters : Blackbeard, Kidd, Every. Most of the content came from Brown University library in R.I.

All you have to do is take the amazon.com image and save on flickr or photobucket, paste it here and 'voila!'...image.

Hmm, aye.

kenneth wrote All is true....I can speak for myself. However I was able to get some ample break-in when I recently went barhopping in full costume with a number of people during Talk Like A Pirate day. I've worn dress shoes worse than this. the upside with Loyalist shoes is you get a pretty authentic leather sole attached with copper rivets. The upper is a softer leather, which aided in break-in. However, I question true authenticness of them as period shoes when the edges are "stitch & turn' which can be efficiently done by a stitching machine but murder to actually do 'stitch & turn" by hand, especially if the leaher is not supple enough to fold at the seams. That said, it would seem more practical to leave a raw edge at the leather's edge, thus maybe a thicker hide is necessary. The cowboy boot heel I'm sure is accurate, however the John King shoe found aboard the Whydah wreck is more indicative of Dingo boots., and actually flares out, instead of inwards. I'm sure Loyalist would be glad to take considerations for any re-design, however I'm slightly leery of the timing of delivery form the factory. I think it would actually be worth it to DIY in this case.

I'm scratching my head trying to remember when wa the last time I saw black sails on an old sailing ship. Modern sailboats notwithstanding. I can say that I've seen a lifetime of red sails, such as the schooner Aurora (below) slipping by it's home port of Goat Island, Newport.

When the foliage rolls around in full swing, I want to get some good snaps in Sleepy Hollow , NY and Little Compton RI which is a quaint 18th century historical town right on the coast, and Salem, Ma.

I decided to kill myself slowly by dowing an entire bag of Wise salt & vinegar potato chips.

Nice pic, Doc. I don't want to take away from your nice pics but I'd like to add to it. Here's some shots of the Royaliste on it's way down the hudson I took last year by upper Manhattan. They just made their way through the Erie canal and re-rigged the masts in Haverstraw for their journey towards the Carolinas. What's with the California flag, I know not.

Callenish Gunner, I'm curious what the posteage was.

bbcdutchman wrote: B, I have no idea how the explanation of how the ribbon was wrapped around the pistol handle, or where. The explanation at the exhibit says one thing, but the actual ribbon itself didn't make sense. Since I had two security guards breathing down my neck, and I was not allowed to take a picture, I drew a quick sketch to show you what i saw:

My apologies for not providing live photos in Philadelphia, the security in the museum was tighter than a drum. So instead, I purchased the National Geographic book in the museum store. The Sun King pistol on display, I thought, was one of the most impressive parts of the exhibit. The gun itself has no barrel or trigger, but everything else is there. The portion where the barrel meets the wood is actually slightly shriveled and warped. The impressive part is the silk bandolier, which I can't understand why it is joined in the middle in the shape of an X. The book photos below are not how the gun and ribbons were displayed.

I'm going to move the thread over to 'Captain Twill', see some photos there.

Who here has seen the exhibit? Raise ye tankard if you have. Today, the 23rd of August, there are 10 days left before it leaves Philadelphia...don't know where it's going to go next. I'll spoil it for you. Needless of me to say, today I went and was quite blown away by the artifacts which were the real deal. I would have spent an entire day taking pictures but not allowed, especially with the amout of security and cameras. Shame though...there was that much stuff for a day's worth of photos. Though I do recommend buying the national geographic book (which I'll show later) But here's a Link with some photos. Everything in the exhibit is in the national geographic book, with the exception of one particular item which I thought was the most fascinating: A sawed-off musket. The stock and brass hardware were all there, plus a brass barrel with leaf ornamentation, which the end of the barrel was somewhat jaggedly sawn, which the gun was the same legnth of a sawd off shotgun. I wanna know the story behind the original owner real badly. Besides the ships bell which read THE WHYDAH GALLY and the TEYE ring, The showcase of the exhibit was the Sun King Pistol, complete with the aforementioned silk ribbon that Lady B mentioned, in great shape for being on the ocean floor for almost 300 years. Captain Barbossa would have been sickly jealous of the thing. By my eyes, the silk bandolier was about 2 inches wide embroidered ribbon that seemed to radiate in 4 directions from a center point like the letter X. I don't know why, perhaps the ribbon was laminated toghether, then separated later on. The knots on the end are still there. Plenty of small arms, powder (black), boarding axes, balls, plenty of sword hilts and handles but no sword...they must have rusted away. Plenty of buckles, buttons, cufflinks, pins, syringes, hammers, chisels, slide rules, brass navigational instuments, weights, gold jewelry & bric-a-brac from african countries, gold & silver chunks, some actual rope, blocks, pewter plates, forks, spoons, knife handles but no blades ((see a pattern here?), a dozen grenadoes, several cannon & great guns from different ships. Danish 6-pounder with a crown insignia on top, British 3 & 4 pounders, ball shot, bar shot, double ball shot, double half-ball shot, small shot, reamers, etc....all looking in better shape than most of the civil war cannon in front of your local town hall. (9 year old John king...a leg bone is all that's left of him on display, his shoe, and a sock...which was a pretty decent condition of a silk stocking with a few small holes. ...and a very LARGE quantity of 'pieces-of-eight', all lovingly restored. A few of these POE's were sandwiched under a ½" thick piece of plexiglass with a dozen ¾" diameter holes drilled so you can stick your finger and touch the pieces and move them around with your finger. There were a number of chunks of "concretions" which still have a lot of the artifacts un removed, like pistols.