Hi folks,
I'm new here so I hope I'm doing this correctly.
I have a question. Many years ago before we were married, my wife was living on the island of Bermuda.
Back then it was still ok to dive the many shipwrecks so she did quite frequently. There's charted shipwrecks anywhere from 100 to 500 years old.
We have a couple dozen bottles that she brought to the surface as well as a stone smoking pipe with the tapper.
There's also some glass tubes (Ampulets??) filled with opium or some other narcotic. (From a civil war ship).
These were used to jab into the wound and be broken off during battlefield amputations.
I can't find anything on the web about 300 year old stone pipes or shipwreck bottles.
Where do I start? I do have pictures and thought maybe a maritime museum would be interested if not then a private collector.
Ralph
I'm new here so I hope I'm doing this correctly.
I have a question. Many years ago before we were married, my wife was living on the island of Bermuda.
Back then it was still ok to dive the many shipwrecks so she did quite frequently. There's charted shipwrecks anywhere from 100 to 500 years old.
We have a couple dozen bottles that she brought to the surface as well as a stone smoking pipe with the tapper.
There's also some glass tubes (Ampulets??) filled with opium or some other narcotic. (From a civil war ship).
These were used to jab into the wound and be broken off during battlefield amputations.
I can't find anything on the web about 300 year old stone pipes or shipwreck bottles.
Where do I start? I do have pictures and thought maybe a maritime museum would be interested if not then a private collector.
Ralph
