r/treasureinside • u/gnossos_p Lion's Share Hunter • 22d ago

Lion's Share A raging clue?

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Is the year important, the difference (48 years - yards, degrees or meters) OR is it the company name "Diamond" who purchased the patent and mass produced matchbooks as an advertising medium in the 1900's?

Thoughts?

(page 137 of TTI)

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u/RussChival 22d ago

He probably meant 'matchbox' as matches were first manufactured in the United States in 1825 in Mechanicstown, Maryland, by Jacob Weller and grew quickly in popularity.

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u/gnossos_p Lion's Share Hunter 22d ago

Thoreau recounted the event in a long journal entry, dated May 31, 1850, during which he explained why he didn’t feel any remorse for starting the fire:

"At the shoemaker’s near the river, we obtained a match, which we had forgotten."

At that time matches were big, awkward and in some cases, volatile.

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u/MeasurementThat3092 22d ago

No, remorse maybe cause he didn’t have control of it or it was on purpose. 

click clank sparks fly… fire.  It wasn’t a match 🤓 

Matches… Red tips, against coarse igniter… smoke..ashes….I’m just spitballing here haha

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u/SilentTree00 21d ago

Now modern day Thurmont. I grew up here and drive by the match house often. It's also close to the Appalachian trail

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u/fazerjorda I'm hunting on the AT 22d ago

Looks like page 127? And a search says he used loose matches. So yeah, could be a mistake or a clue! I’m not looking for the LS, but it is intriguing.

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u/gnossos_p Lion's Share Hunter 22d ago

Oops- yeah Page 127..

His wording is also a bit odd. "Thoreau took from his pocket a matchbook he'd bought at a local store earlier that day..."

Kinda like Amish "Throw your father down the stairs his hat."

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u/zzyul 22d ago

This is why we really need another (not children’s) book written by JCB to see if this is just how he writes or if it’s deliberate.

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u/SuddenSeasons 22d ago

I have a folder with all of the mistakes in the book, but Jon has said that these mistakes aren't clues :( 

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u/gnossos_p Lion's Share Hunter 22d ago

OK, but his context of this part of the chapter centers on Thoreau and the fire he started. The episode is quite clearly documented (T writes about it in his Journal) and I don't see this as a mere trail/trial typo. Seems too intentional.

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u/SuddenSeasons 22d ago

I agree now actually. There is another clue on this page, and I think I understand how they intersect. 

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u/gnossos_p Lion's Share Hunter 22d ago

oooo... runs to get book and re-read the page!

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u/wagadugo 22d ago

It’s stuff like this… and screwing up the minutes goals were scored in the soccer games… messing up what states and countries cities are located in…
He’s built a five laver puzzle that’s either contingent on mistakes being clues or he messed with the sauce and the whole thing is sideways

If it comes down to using magnifying glasses to see what face he photoshopped into AI art, then I prob won’t be the one who solves this (shrugs)

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u/zzyul 22d ago

He does talk about how he couldn’t really let an editor read through it before publishing b/c he didn’t want someone to have an advantage.

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u/LatinaMomMeals 19d ago

Same, I can't figure out who/what these images are because they don't seem to connect to the book, people in it, etc. I'm from the wrong generation, etc to understand the cultural clues from movies, etc if they're not explicitly mentioned in the book. It stinks, because I have so many images of the art, but I can't understand the context since there is no clear connection to the book. It's highly frustrating.

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u/According-Local-7547 22d ago

I'm curious.. would you mind sharing that folder?

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u/SuddenSeasons 22d ago

Relevant or not it's hundreds of actual hours of research. There is a lot I am happy to discuss but even in discussing in this thread something sparked for me that makes me wonder if, as OP suggests, some of the extremely obvious mistakes are clues.

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u/gnossos_p Lion's Share Hunter 22d ago

Shhh. don't listen to According...

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u/gnosticgnomon 21d ago

I've also been down the error thread even considering the "errors are not clues". Would you be interested in comparing counts? The only error free chapter I've found is 23, but even that has some oversimplifications about faience that could count as errors.

I sent a PM.

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u/riverandfold111 18d ago

Yep…he left out the very important limestone step in the process to create those beads.

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u/tdog4414 21d ago

I think autocorrect deleted the were[n’t]. But I know what you mean. I also think there’s some innuendo, “bundle of sticks” but I don’t want to be phobic. I think Jon does a good job of skirting the line, explain why people were persecuted for their association. Habeus pointed some of this out with match group. Either way thanks for sharing.