Just got back from another two week bottle/artifact diving trip in Downeast Maine. The bottle finds were pretty pathetic. Most everything I found was a slick and not worth bringing up from the depths so I left them for others. I did find one nice looking, but common, Florida water but that was it for bottles.
I also pulled out an intact china creamer that was used on one of the old steamships and an intact soup bowl.
The finds of the trip were the clay pipes though. Actually awesome pipes!
Here is the first. All I saw of this one was the tip of the stem sticking out of the mud. I pulled it out an immediatley was a bit confused at the narrow mouth of the bowl. How the hell do you get the tobacco in this thing? Then it sturck me. The acorn nut has to unscrew from the acorn cap. I carefully tried to unscrew it and it did so quite easily.
I Googled the pipe and found it on the National Trust web site in the UK. They did not have a date of manufacture but did indicate that it was French made.
A few more pipes to follow.
Alan
I also pulled out an intact china creamer that was used on one of the old steamships and an intact soup bowl.
The finds of the trip were the clay pipes though. Actually awesome pipes!
Here is the first. All I saw of this one was the tip of the stem sticking out of the mud. I pulled it out an immediatley was a bit confused at the narrow mouth of the bowl. How the hell do you get the tobacco in this thing? Then it sturck me. The acorn nut has to unscrew from the acorn cap. I carefully tried to unscrew it and it did so quite easily.
I Googled the pipe and found it on the National Trust web site in the UK. They did not have a date of manufacture but did indicate that it was French made.
A few more pipes to follow.
Alan
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