Welcome to the Museum Page. Here you will be able to view various artifacts recovered fully intact from the 1866 shipwreck "Baltic" which sunk in the great Bahamian hurricane of October 1st 1866 while enroute from New York to Galveston Texas at the end of the Civil war.
To navigate through our hundreds of artifacts simply use the manifest after you enter the museum to filter through the items. Exclusive to members only.
A total of over 15 different English Staffordshire manufacturers have been identified dating from early 1845 through late 1865 which include William Adams IV, Jacob Furnival, John Maddock, Meakin, Edward Clarke, Bridgewood & Clarke, Hughes & Bennett, T&R Boote, Old Hall Earthenware, Wooliscroft, William Cookworthy, William Ridgway and Pinder,Bourne & Co to name a few.
Also included in the recovered cargo were porcelain inkwell figurines which had the numbers relating to the Ducal Real Porcelain Factory owned by Duke Carl Eugen Von Wurttemberg established in 1758. In 1816 his successor sold the molds to Edward Kick in Amberg, Bavaria where they were called Kronenburg porcelain.
We have also identified several American manufacturers including Morrison & Carr New York, several glass manufacturers including the Cohansey Glass works ( F&J,N. Bodine ), and The Cape Cod Glass Co. of Sandwich, Massachusetts.
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Inkwell Shepherd With Goat is marked 982.
The original moulds were owned by The Ducal Real Porcelain Factory founded in 1758 by the Duke Carl Eugen Von Wurttemberg. On his death in 1816 the molds were sold to Eduard Kick of Amberg, Bavaria and later called Kronenburg Porcelain.
