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• Made from 7 year high quality vinyl.
• Measures 7 x 40 inches
• Lots of colors to choose from. Please email color choice or black will be shipped.
• Application instructions are included.

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Vinyl graphics are a wonderfully easy, no mess, affordable way to add personality to your home or business!

We use high-quality vinyl in a matte finish, to give a ‘hand-painted” look. Our vinyl graphics are easy to apply to any smooth surface. Put them on walls, wood, glass, tile, windows – Use your imagination! Glossy is available upon request.

Your graphic will last indefinitely if you wish, or you can simply remove it when you are ready. Vinyl designs are easily removed although they can not be repositioned or reused. We always include simple application and removal instructions with each order.

Note – Colors may vary slightly due to individual monitor settings. If getting the precise color is critical, let me know, and I will send out a sample swatch to you for the cost of shipping.

Custom:
Most of our designs can be custom sized to fit your space requirements. Please contact us for an estimate.
If you would like something special or a little different, let us design a custom graphic or word wall art for you.

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We cut each design to order, so please allow 1 to 2 days for production.

Guarantee:
We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase for any reason, you can return any unused vinyl graphics to us, within 10 days of purchase, for a full refund (minus shipping). Note: personalized orders may not qualify for the guarantee.

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But if all you think of is “Pirates” when you hear “buried treasure”, you all missing out on more than half of the story.

Forget the Pirates — They Were Pikers Compare to This Guy

Czar Peter the Great of Russia misplaced an entire room worth — hold on to your seat — more than $142 million in today’s dollars.

Actually it was the Nazis — but we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

Prussia (which must have been a bit better financed in the day) gave Pete an entire 11-square-foot room made of intricately carved amber. Yes, that beautiful caramel-colored stuff from Jurassic Park and hanging from chains around the necks of trust-fund hippie girls at DMB concerts.

Unfortunately, it was discovered by the Nazis during World War 2, despite the Russians clever attempts to disguise it with — wait for it — wallpaper.

What happened next — well, no one knows. Or if they do, they ain’t talkin’. Rumors have it sunk to the bottom of the ocean, burned up in an Allied air raid or sitting intact in a private collection somewhere in Eastern Europe.

Only one piece of the room has ever turned up. In 1997 a man was arrested by German police trying to sell a mosaic. But it was unfortunately a dead-end toward finding the room. Seems his father, a German soldier, had swiped the piece as a souvenir when he was part of the escort of the room 60 years before. The soldier/escort/thief was long dead and the solitary piece was returned alone to Russia.

If you go digging for buried treasure, you are going to get dirty. Make sure your Maytag Washer Parts.;)

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• Pirate Treasure Chest. Size: 12″ x 7″ x 5″.
• Great party favors!

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Your little pirate will love his or her very own Pirate’s Treasure Chest! Pirate Treasure Chest measures Size: 12″ x 7″ x 5″.

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Beaumont, Texas is certainly not what one would think of when talking about buried pirate treasure but a book by Frank J. Dobie ties it to some of the booty of the infamous pirate Jean Lafitte. As Jason Whitney the President of First Fidelity Reserve discovered when reading the book “Legends of Texas: Pirates’ Gold and Other Tales,” a famous meeting took place between two treasure hunters just a few miles from his First Fidelity Reserve office. These two individuals were named Meredith and Clawson. Clawson lived in Beaumont, Texas and was believed to have had encountered some terrible apparition when he was searching for Lafitte’s gold. Meridith begged Clawson to accompany him on one more adventure but Clawson refused.

The thought of hidden treasures make the heart beat faster.  Images of chests of gold and jewels buried somewhere, just waiting to be found. Like Jean Lafitte’s treasure…..was what drove Clawson initially to search for that ill gotten fortune.

Jean Lafitte was a famous pirate who in the early 1800’s sailed from Grand Terre Island, south of New Orleans, Louisiana.  Grand Terre was part of an area called Barataria and included all the lakes, bayous, swamps and bays south of New Orleans.  An area perfect for piracy and smuggling….

A handsome man by all accounts, Lafitte reportedly exhibited great personal charm and became a legend in his own time, even more so with his patriotic actions in the Battle of New Orleans.  Because he supplied American with cannons, munitions and trained gunners, he was pardoned for his nefarious deeds.

Unable to reclaim goods seized before he joined the American effort, Lafitte soured toward the United States. He established a new base in Galveston, which grew to around 1000, including outlaws from America, drawn to the profitable business of capturing Spanish ships.

However, the United States was determined to rout Lafitte from Galveston.  Sensing an ending to his Gulf of Mexico operations, Lafitte began hiding his loot.

In 1821, when the schooner USS Enterprise approached Galveston and demanded that the privateering camp be destroyed, Lafitte left the island without a fight on his flagship, the Pride, burning his fortress and settlements and reportedly taking immense amounts of treasure with him. Stories abound that he died soon after, but what’s known is Lafitte faded from recorded history. All that remains of his lavishly furnished mansion, Maison Rouge, is the foundation, located at 1417 Avenue A near the Galveston wharf.

After Lafitte’s death, tales of his buried treasure abounded on the Louisiana and Texas coast. He was said to have made caches of loot in Galveston. Other stories told by a Lafitte slave had Lafitte’s hiding treasure along the Calcasieu and Mermenteau Rivers. Another very large cache is said to be at the Sabine River near a grove of gum tress, about 3 miles east of the Old Spanish Trail.

Coins from that era are found from time to time on Grand Terre, which is accessible only by boat.  In 1915 a New Orleans worker uncovered a chest filled with more than 1,500 doubloons. In Gretna in 1960, across the river from New Orleans, many gold coins were uncovered in an area frequented by Lafitte and his men .In still another story, an unnamed island in Lake Borgne, east of New Orleans, is also said to hold buried treasure.  People are still enamored by the thought of discovering a treasured coin and that is why Whitney feels his company First Fidelity Reserve deals with so many coin and bullion collectors

Kimberlyis a Texas resident, an occasional writer,and publicist for Subterfuge publishing

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• Brass Handles
• Locking Skull Latch
• All stores neatly inside
• Recommended Age Range 6 Years and up

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Ahoy, Matey! Store your treasures in the realistic wooden Pirate Chest from Melissa and Doug! Included in the set are a pirate bandana, an eye patch, a velvety loot bag, golden doubloon coins and a secret compartment to stash away your most valuable loot!

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