Cannon-Potter ID

old man · Sep 18, 2013

A friend of mine just sent me some pictures of the below Artifacts. Any help in ID'ing the type and age of any of the artifacts would be appreciated. Looks like I left the Y off of Pottery. :hello:

GatorBoy · Sep 19, 2013

They look like some examples I have.. my first thoughts would be tin glazed Delftware for the blue on off white piece and lead glazed redware on a few others including the underwater shot.
Without even dating the cannon I would be thinking 17th or 18th century anglo-american.
I'm sure there is some more studied folks than myself that may be able to help more... but those would be my guesses.

Salvor6 · Sep 19, 2013

Old Man, that piece you are holding looks like blue majolica. I have some just like it. It is early 16th century pottery made in Mexico. The blue majolica was very fragile made from red clay. That is why they made it so thick. It breaks easy.

aquanut · Sep 19, 2013

I'm glad you guys had some answers because I sure didn't...

pvet7521 · Sep 20, 2013

Ed, I have pieces that look exactly like the thick plate, off white with black designs. And the glazed bowl piece dark green glaze on the inside. I found them along with many others from the wreck behind the Highschool off key colony,I Think it was initially found by Bobby Jordan in the 60s. Time period was based on some copper coins dated early 1600s. I. Will post pictures of pieces if you would like.

old man · Sep 20, 2013

pvet7521 said:
Ed, I have pieces that look exactly like the thick plate, off white with black designs. And the glazed bowl piece dark green glaze on the inside. I found them along with many others from the wreck behind the Highschool off key colony,I Think it was initially found by Bobby Jordan in the 60s. Time period was based on some copper coins dated early 1600s. I. Will post pictures of pieces if you would like.

Please post any pictures that you have. Like I said in the beginning. I did not find these pieces. They are from a friend diving in the Caribbean and I am sure that he is monitoring Tnet for any information that he can get. Thanks :skullflag:

pvet7521 · Sep 20, 2013

notice the cork and bones? All from that 1600s wreck

old man · Sep 21, 2013

pvet7521 said:
notice the cork and bones? All from that 1600s wreck

pvet, Nice pictures. these pictures from the wreck that Marty Malack told you about? :headbang:

pvet7521 · Sep 23, 2013

No, not at all. Marty's wreck is cherry , never been touched. Those pieces are from a ballest pile in 20 ft off Marathon .when found it had its shot locker full , musket balls, mini balls, lots and lots of pottery. It's been dated early 1600s

GatorBoy · Sep 23, 2013

Minie balls?
Those are very dateable... 1800's
That secondary "rimlet" on the top of that olive jar rim "from what I know"..wasn't present on 1600's rims ...but started to show up in the 1700's and continued into the 1800's.
I recently had a conversation about that with Cory Malcom the director of Archaeology at the Mel Fisher Maritime heritage society in the keys.

pvet7521 · Sep 27, 2013

Flash of gold page325 reference number 131. Marx shipwrecks in the America's page 392 plus2" Spanish Olives jars" center drawing is of middle neck. Tell Cory he can call me to set a date to work on my discovery.

pvet7521 · Sep 27, 2013

Back row are musket balls , made of lead. Front row are bigger about 1-1.5 inches made of iron we call them minnie balls because they look like minnie cannon balls