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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
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I do not have a copy of O’Keefe’s book anymore, I recycled mine. The Florida speculation/story is included and mentioned in some articles in promotion of the book you can pull online if you want. I doubt I can trace it to the first appearance, and I doubt O’Keefe was the first claimant as I’ve heard this since the late 90’s.
The Long Island claimant was asked for evidence they claimed to posses over and over on this board and refused to ever divulge it. This was a lie, it possibly is from NY (it probably was in 1909!) but it isn’t because of this claim.
I have no clue what the actual truth is, and nobody has ever given anything to prove it. I have no reason to doubt the long standing story especially, nor to argue that it is the truth. I don’t know where it is actually from, we probably never really will at this remove. That’s the point, that we lost a lot of history that we aren’t likely to be able to find anywhere else because this unique item of immense value to research was cut up and ruined for some bucks, and no information preserved. It is quite unfortunate for us all.