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| kingcharles wrote:
| Amazing that all that time under the ocean and the surface of
| these plates has survived almost undamaged. These are very early
| photographs too, pre-U.S. Civil War.
| etrevino wrote:
| If they were daguerreotypes they were printed on silver plates.
| I think they're supposed to be fairly resistant to water.
| 1-more wrote:
| This ship is the subject of the book "Ship of Gold in the Deep
| Blue Sea" by Gary Kinder. The recovery crew was subjected to a
| legal battle where the original insurers claimed ownership of the
| gold since they paid out for its loss. The head of the recovery
| team reportedly welched on his investors and went into hiding.
| It's got twists and turns! Summary here:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Central_America
| edm0nd wrote:
| Investors paid that guy 12M to recover 2-4M worth of gold.
| Seems like a bad investment and then he "forgot" where he put
| it and has been in jail ever since. Sucks for all investors
| involved for sure.
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