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[Rviewer1]

June 8th 1898, a Coat of Arms was approved by the Executive Council as a Royal Warrant granted by Queen Elizabeth II.
The flower on the shield was a B. blakeana as the city's official flower , with a lion holding a pearl in its hand, and the official name of the colonial city at the bottom
as the British called it "Sweet scent of smell at the port of harbour"
forever remembered as,
Hong Kong / Pearl of the Orient

What type of flower is that. The gate in China Town has a couple of lion/dragons with a Pearl under the paw. If I was going to the port/pier areas, the air smells sweet would be Ghirardelli square. Since the LOH is leading to nowhere. Apparently it’s buried under concrete. I don’t subscribe to that point of view. Also the most likely solution is that the casque is right at Stone Walls Door where the air smells sweet up in SHP. There are flower beds 10 feet from Stone Walls Door. Unfortunately the casque is under NPS jurisdiction. After looking at where everyone is right now, I don’t see the SF casque being found at all. But just in case I’m wrong I working on a new solve.

Where does everyone think the next casque will be located at?

[Choice]

What type of flower is that.

He mentioned Blakeana ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhinia_%C3%97_blakeana

SF cask may be @ green arrow:

[Rviewer1]

What type of flower is that.

He mentioned Blakeana ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhinia_%C3%97_blakeana

SF cask may be @ green arrow:

How does your grid match up with the verse.

[Choice]

I've explained all this before.
I'm exclusively following the image clues/guides right now.
Gh = 78 = Opening of Pier 39 by Dianne Feinstein.
From perspective of the pearl, the symbols circle+square and square+triangle = between 41 and 43 (piers)
Also minutes hand of the clock is pointing to 42 NOT 12. (between 41 and 43)
Pier 43 Ferry Arch image shown right below the barred window.
Sea lion @ lower jaw of the dragon, 2 fangs being piers 41 & 43.
But to associate with V7:
Verse 7's E and J riddle could be the intersection of Embarcadero and Jefferson.
Red and White ferry sign could be Twain's attention. Direct line from Angel Isl.
3 posts would be the Balclutha's masts; moored @ pier 41 then.

[BrownCreeper]

This has always made the most sense of a "match" or "map" to me.

[Choice]

Now all is left is to narrow the dig-site.
I proposed that the fishtail is pointing to the area (green arrow).
Alternatively the yin yang could mark or be a clue to the spot.
Yin yang, concept of dualism, describing two opposites can be complementary, interconnected and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
This kinda fits the function of left and right speakers setup.
Yin yang symbol location on the map is where western speaker is.

[four21thrasher]

Yin yang, concept of dualism, describing two opposites can be complementary, interconnected and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. This kinda fits the function of left and right...

+1

[four21thrasher]

This/that
Women/men
Entrance/exit
Time/space
Fairy secrets come in twos.

Women/not women.
Clock/not clock.
Stem/not stemmed.
Faceted/not faceted.
Twelve divided by two.
Surely, there are no pieces to this puzzle.
Scavenge.
Or, share the clues.
Objectivity reigns.

[XeroDM]

OK... based on the idea that the casques were buried in parks that had something to do with the country involved with the immigration reference, I am proposing this:
San Francisco was buried in the Chinese Playground on Sacramento.
Makes sense to me.
I have been very confused by the clues, so... given the size of the playground, I thought I might just get a few people to dig for me. You know, just randomly... but definitely down to a depth of 3 feet, maybe 4, just in case...
Here's the dig photos so far. Not sure they understood what I was saying.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Willi ... !1BCgIgAQ#
No casque yet, but we're still hoping.
XdM
(PS... a more sarcastic post has not been posted... but on a serious note, for anyone entertaining the notion that the casque was buried there, your best bet is to look carefully at the photo, because that is pretty much your last chance to potentially see a caqsue at that location, if the previous renovation didn't destroy it)

[Spiritr]

OK... based on the idea that the casques were buried in parks that had something to do with the country involved with the immigration reference

are you sure?

[XeroDM]

OK... based on the idea that the casques were buried in parks that had something to do with the country involved with the immigration reference

are you sure?

Yes. I have found all the casques. My only problem is I haven't managed to dig them up and actually, you know, FIND them. (I am joking!!!)
Some of what I said was tongue in cheek...
But, so far:
Cleveland- Greek Immigration Ref- Greek Cultural Gardens
Chicago- Scottish and Irish- Grant Park (Ulysses S Grant, who has links back to Scotland and Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_lif ... s_S._Grant)
Boston- Italian Immigration reference- Puopolo Park (Italian)

It definitely seems to be worth pursuing considering the trend. Also Scotland and Ireland are grouped for Chicago, Grant Park. BP could have easily just picked one or the other, but instead picked them both. Why do that when they aren't actually physically linked like England and Scotland, if not because the park & person have links to those countries?
This theory becomes problematic in San Fran, considering the large amount of Chinese immigration, but the small amount of monumentation and parks due to the less-than-favourable view of that immigrant group. It gets almost impossible in Charleston considering due to pretty much no parks being named after African Americans. That one may need to be somewhere like Hampton Park where something immigrant-group-related occurred. However, I am getting a bit

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[Kang]

OK... based on the idea that the casques were buried in parks that had something to do with the country involved with the immigration reference…

Cleveland- Greek Immigration Ref- Greek Cultural Gardens
Chicago- Scottish and Irish- Grant Park...
Boston- Italian Immigration reference- Puopolo Park (Italian)

Hi XeroDM - while I agree with the spirit of your statement that the 3 spots so far are connected to the immigration link - your statement above is not strictly speaking true - as you have phrased it.

In Cleveland, CCG is not the park. The actual park's name is Rockerfeller Park - and the park at large has no ties to Greek immigration. What it does have is an area/object/feature within the park that definitely fits. The Greek Cultural Gardens.

…It definitely seems to be worth pursuing considering the trend…It gets almost impossible in Charleston considering due to pretty much no parks being named after African Americans….

So I'm just saying that looking for a park that is named after - or where the park proper in its entirety somehow ties to the immigration link would be focusing too narrowly and thus self-defeating. It does not fit the pattern of even the 3 puzzles that are largely agreed to be solved.

Using the reasoning above of an area/object/feature within the park that ties to the immigration link would not for example rule out the Chinese Pavilion at Golden Gate Park. (just as a theoretical example).
Nor would it mean that it must (as in can only be) in a park that is entirely immigration related, as for example with the Chinese Playground.

While considering whether clues fit the playground sounds like an excellent and prudent thing to consider, I do not believe the facts would rule out a place like the pavilion area. Happy hunting.

[XeroDM]

Agreed Kang.
I could probably phrase it a bit better... something near burial spots has a reference back to immigration links. And yes, Chinese Pavillion and Chinese playground both in because it would have a link back to immigration theme of puzzle and book.
I have also been looking at Charleston for a while, and there are zero parks that are named after African Americans. In fact, much of the monumentation to that side of Charleston history has only recently been placed in the city, meaning that for that location, the naming theory falls flat on it's face. Same goes for Montreal. Not a lot of Dutch stuff there, and mainly French naming. A better city would be Ottawa for it's stories of links to Holland. I could get away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids and their legeater dog. It's a work in progress. But has become part of my checklist that ranks up locations as possibilities.
Proof is in the pudding, and my pudding has no casques in it, so what would I know?
Happy hunting!
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[Kang]

I could get away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids and their legeater dog.

HA! Lol...

[Spiritr]

now, that's better, its buried in public grounds, not necessarily a "park", so it's wise to expand the area including lawn, meadows, planter plots, front yard, sand beds, are all possible burial spots.
to further explain the problem with the Cleveland flower planter being a public flower-bed so everybody can understand things better
it was NOT a flower-bed when they buried the casque there, that planter was intended to grow euonymus vegetus, and it was all dry soil when they buried the casque there in 1980. It's NOT a flowerbed.
Also, those immigrant correlations you used toward the Parks were....*chuckle*,

Chicago- Scottish and Irish- Grant Park

, I mean...come on...