Hello everyone,

 

Since my companion, Marybeth, had such a great response to her request
for faience references from everyone, I thought I'd make a small request
to the group as well.

 

I'm researching glass from the La Belle shipwreck, which was one of the
La Salle's, the French explorer's vessels that wrecked on the Texas
coast in 1686. The majority of glass recovered includes three sizes of
case bottles and associated pewter screw caps, similar to the ones found
on several VOC (Dutch East Indiamen) merchant vessels. In addition,
there were a few onion bottles and hour glasses/sand clocks found as
well. I'm interested in references, information, and/or comparative
underwater and terrestrial sites that have found 17th - 18th century
case bottles and/or pewter screw caps/tops. 

 

Thanks a bunch and hope everyone is cooler than us in Austin!

Mo

 

Maureen Brown

Collections Manager/Archeologist III

Archeology Division

Texas Historical Commission

P.O. Box 12276

Austin, TX 78701-2276

(512) 927-7876 office

(512) 927-9797 fax

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