Mr J.L. Mott, a retired Danish sea captain, provided the world with some amusement, before World War II, when he established the Empire of Atlantis and Lemuria on Thore (Atlantis), a small island in the Bahamas, together with a few islands in the Pacific (Lemuria). He produced his own banknotes and distinctive triangular stamps as well as an Atlantean flag. I wonder what Plato would have said! It seems that Mott also claimed to be a descendant of Leif Erikson.
Coincidentally, there was a J. L.Mott Ironworks in New York which designed and constructed an ornamental fountain in Shelbyville, Kentucky and entitled it ‘Atlantis’!
Recently I came across another site(a) which recounts the Mott story but adds an image and text where it refers to C. L. Matt!
(a) http://www.cinderellas.info/columns/Atlantis/index.html
See Principality of Atlantis, Micropatrology
