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My (now) wife and her first husband dove the wrecks from their 54' boat during the late eighties.
They both worked at the NASA tracking station. They were there 12 years. She tells me she did the dump scene too.
Ralph
Been busy last two days.
Thanks to all who replied for their input. Seems like a bunch of decent, honest folks here.
We'll probably just put the entire collection away until we get some decent offers on the whole collection.
I might just put a price on the entire set and advertise it or...
Last photo of pipe.
But..........back to my original question, where do I start to price these items so we can sell them? We're getting old and poor.
Due to a number of reasons we have decided to sell since the past 20 years these items have laid up un storage anyway.
Ralph
The thing that goes in it is a tapper to tap down tobacco.
The wooden stem has rotted away over the centuries but you can see where it was wrapped around the pipe and where it went into the pipe to draw smoke.
OK I'll try to answer some questions.
By ancient I mean the carbon dating result was 500 years old.
Makes sense, as the pipe came from the same wreck and it's charted as a vessell that sank over 500 years ago.
The ampules are in wax, so they can be easily removed if needed.
They...
Here's another view, the small glass ampules are in the large shells.
The stone pipe with the tapper intact is in front.
The black bottle was carbon dated at the university in Bermuda around early 90's.
It's ancient.
Ralph