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Eureka Press, [No date: circa 1973]. Paperback, 192 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and period advertisements for metal detectors and prospecting equipment; color advertisements on rear cover and inside rear cover.
In Acceptable condition. Turquoise pictorial covers with color photograph of the "Tom's Baby" gold nugget; long vertical crease through front cover with color loss along it, horizontal crease across cover photograph, flecks of color loss along spine edge, corners bumped and creased. Rear cover with stain at fore-edge, edge soiling and wear. Perfect bound; glued binding very brittle and somewhat fragile, cracked along the gutter between pp. 126-127 with the text block separating into two sections, all leaves still attached. Handle with care. Pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. Annual for the 1970s metal-detecting and prospecting hobby, edited by A. T. Evans of Odessa, Texas. The cover story is Rev. Mark Fiester's own account, written for the Yearbook, of tracking down "Tom's Baby," the 136-ounce nugget found at Breckenridge in 1887 and still the largest ever found in Colorado, which had been missing for 85 years before he located it in 1972. Other articles cover the Battle of Pilot Knob (Fort Davidson, Missouri, 1864), a Hawaiian dive club's search for a sunken World War II Navy Corsair off Oahu, the first Tombstone National Treasure Hunt and Mining Fair, gold in the Swauk district of Washington, and amateur archaeology in Florida, along with treasure news, club and dealer directories, and a state-by-state list of Compass detector dealers. Advertisers include Garrett Electronics, Compass Electronics, Gold Master, Treasure Ray and RAM Publishing. Contents: A Note of Introduction; Treasure Hunter's Yearbook Salutes; Treasure Hotline: The Year's Top Treasure News at a Glance; A River of Diamonds, a Mountain of Emeralds (Jay Nelson); The Bryant Affair (Fillman Bledsoe); Tom's Baby: Colorado's Famous Lost Gold Nugget Rediscovered (Mark Fiester); Professional Treasure Income (Karl von Mueller); Law and the Treasure Hunter (A. T. Evans); Ghost Towns, Anyone? (H. Glenn Carson); The Lancers: Adventurers Supreme (Lynn Blumenstein); Some Facts About Suction Dredging (Karl von Mueller); History's Forgotten Battle (Dave Radcliffe); Profiles and Personalities; Happiness Is Th'ing (Ike Osteen); Celestial Treasures (W. W. Grapes); There's Gold in the Swauk (Al Leichner); Prospector's and Treasure Hunter's Camp (Deek Gladson); Archeology in Florida (Herb Goldberger); Treasure of the Seaports (Jim White); Halloween Check Station; Random Thoughts (Stan Shultz); California City Revisited: Pictorial Remembrances of Treasure Convention '72 (Robert Barr); Treasure Hunter's Research Aids; Organized Treasure Meets Increase by Leaps and Bounds; An Indispensable Treasure Tool: A Friend in Real Estate (Pam Wendel); Dealers and Service Groups; Danger! Collecting May Be Hazardous to Your Health (Dave Radcliffe); Photos from the Past; Delany's Treasure (John L. Wilkerson); Metal Detectors and Health (Okie Jake Miller); Treasure Clubs; Manufacturers of Metal Detectors and Accessories