Just my thoughts:
That certainly looked like a gutted gold Zippo, I notice they only showed us certain angles of it, without showing us the bottom. See if we saw the bottom we'd see the word..ZIPPO.
Paper matchbooks didn't come into being until the turn of the century. In the 1800's, loose wooden matches were common and it was very normal for such matches to be carried around in a small pocket sized zippo-like box. Matchboxes were used not just by smokers but by anyone who would need to light a lantern, candle, stove, fireplace, etc., which is basically everyone. To me the matchbox on the show looked like a real antique. Whether or not it actually belonged to Jacob Waltz is a separate question. But what they filmed in the show didn't look like a lighter to me. Just my opinion.
We've seen a map a kindergartner could have made.
The map is a paper copy of the stone maps that are a real artifact housed in the Arizona Museum of Natural History, as was also shown in this show. Whether or not the stones are actually a true map to the Lost Dutchman Mine or just an elaborate hoax someone made in the 20th century is debated among Lost Dutchman treasure hunters.
We've seen a magnified bottle that makes the contents appear much larger than they are so those could be Goldschlager flakes.
What they showed on the tv show wasn't Goldschlager. Real gold looks like what was shown, and prospectors that look for gold as a hobby on small scales like the men in this show do, most often find small bits and flakes of gold in little tiny pieces like we saw in the bottle. To find big stereotypical chunky-looking gold nuggets is not nearly as common as finding what they had in their bottle.
With that aside, I will add to your thread by saying that as of the end of Episode 3, there is still no significant discovery made.
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