Treasure Shop

See The Treasure Shop Catalog To View Items From The 1866 Baltic Shipwreck

Hello and welcome to the Treasure Shop. Here in the Treasure Shop you will be able to view civil war era shipwreck antiques and collectibles in the treasure shop catalog, various pieces of porcelain, china, glassware, smoking pipes and other pottery recovered from the 1866 shipwreck “Baltic”. This Brig was on her way from New York to Galveston Texas after returning from Europe and clearing customs in New York when she was caught and sunk in the great Bahamian hurricane of October 1st 1866.

A number of the recovered items were auctioned at Sloan Galleries in Miami, Florida but there are still pieces available for purchase that had not been identified and dated at that time. The Baltic was also carrying medical supplies, inks, smoking pipes, writing materials and food stuffs for the many Civil war soldiers waiting at the port of Galveston Texas to be mustered out of the Confederate army at the end of the Civil war. Civil war era shipwreck antiques and collectibles for sale.

Below please find an article from the NewsJournal Fall of 2013

Published by Early American Pattern Glass Society

Explaining the identification and history of our Cape Cod Glass “Hamilton With Leaf”Butter Dish recovered from the 1866 Shipwreck “Baltic”

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William Adams IV Worm Bowl

William Adams IV English Ironstone Mixing Bowl with Banded worm decoration 6 1/4″ wide x 3 1/2″ tall 1850 – CRACK

1865 Baltic Shipwreck Glassware

William Adams IV Platter Columbia Series, Staffordshire

William Adams IV Columbia Series

1865 CATHEDRAL Pickle Bottles

Stout Dyer & Wicks Pickle Bottles

German Thuringia Religious Statue 1864 SOLD

Porcelain and China recovered from 1865 shipwreck

Thuringia Germany Inkwell

Shepherd and lamb. The Inkwells consist of ornate lids with bases. Inside the bases are spaces for small containers that held ink and sand.

1865 Cape Cod Glass Company Rose Leaf Nappy

Cape Cod Glass(Deming Jarves) commonly referred to as a Nappy.Pattern called Hamilton The Leaf but probably marketed as Rose Leaf.

Cape Cod Glass Company Poison Storage Jars

Cape Cod Glass Company Poison Storage jars 8 inches high X 5 inch mouth Sharp points on lid Iron Pontil. These round storage jars with the dome shaped lids were known in the 19th century as ring jars. These jars were intended primarly for apothecary shops and adapted to many uses.

William Adams IV Staffordshire Mochaware Seaweed Mug

This seaweed mug is called Mocha Ware and was manufactured at the Staffordshire Potteries at his Greenfield factory in Tunstall, England 1845

Staffordshire Cuspidor 1864

English brown and white cuspidors

8 Sided Umbrella Ink Bottles

Manufactured in New York

French Caper Bottles

Hardpaste German Exportware Thuringia

Thuringia Germany

Snuff Jar

Manufactured by J.J. Mapes #61 Front St. New York

Medicine Bottles

USA Medical Supply Bottles New York 1865, various sizes, some bases are embossed “RLW New York”

William Adams IV Spatterware

It’s believed the Adams factory in Greenfield also produced Scottish Spongeware and Spatterware. Much of it was done by means of cut sponges, and was first made in Staffordshire by William Adams at his Greenfield pottery in 1845 to 1850. In order to introduce it he procured persons from Scotland who understood the process.

Stone Ware Jug William Young & Co NJ

Thuringia Germany Ink Well

Ginger Jar Chyloon China

Bleeder pumps

Davidsons Patent March 31, 1857, re-issued April 25, 1865. These bleeder pumps were recovered along with the numerous other medical instruments and medicines that were enroute to Galveston, Texas

Cape Cod Glass Company Lamp chimney’s

Oil lamp Chimneys

Enema Pumps and Vaginal Syringes

Patented by GoodYear May 6th, 1851. These items were being sent to the doctors who were treating people in Galveston, Texas at the end of the civil war.

William Adams IV 1845

Mochaware Seaweed Mugs William Adams is also said to have originated Mochaware in the late eighteen century in his factury at Colbridge (named after Mocha stone said to have been originally from Mocha in Arabia. The dark markings simulating miniature trees and shrubs are caused by the infiltration of iron or manganese oxide solutions into the cracks of the stone and was used by Adams on cream colored earthenware)

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Staffordshire Vegtable Dish

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William Adams IV Spongeware

William Adams IV Mochaware

Staffordshire Mochaware Cidar mug

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George Wooliscroft

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William Adams IV Spongeware

Staffordshire Mochaware Cidar mug

Thuringia Germany hard paste porcelain

William Cookworthy & Champion

Imperial Parisian Granite Old Hall E’Ware 1865 Saucers Hanley, Staffordshire

Old Hall E’Ware Co. (Eagle Crest) 1861-1866 Old Hall Pottery, Hanley. Staffordshire Potteries. 1861-July 1866. Formerly Charles Meigh & Son. Subsequently Old Hall Porcelain Works. This company was the first limited Liability company in the Staffordshire Potteries and was incorporated in March 1861. Job Meigh established a pottery in 1790 at the Old Hall, Hanley and was succeeded by his son and grandson, both named Charles, until 1861, when the business was converted in a company, The Old Hall Earthernware Co.

William Adams IV Spongeware

William Adams IV Mochaware mugs

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Cookworthy & Champion

Hard Paste Porcelain 1770-1881. Transferred from Plymouth. Cookworthy symbol on cups.

William Adams IV Mochaware mug

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Cape Cod Glass Company Carriage light globes (Greek Style)

Carriage light globes (Greek Style)

William Adams IV Toy Tea Set

George Wooliscroft, Staffordshire England

Well Street (c.1851), High Street (c. 1853), Sandyford Potteries (c. 1860-1864), Tunstall. Staffordshire Potteries 1851-1853 and 1860-1864

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Thuringia Germany Hard Paste Porcelain Statue with Holy water dish

William Adams IV Toy Tea Set & Mochaware mugs

(Cape Cod glass company Large Shot Glass)

Mochaware Cidar Mug William Adams IV

Small glass goblets (Cape Cod glass company)

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Cape Cod Glass Company (Wedding Ring)

William Adams IV Columbia Series

Cape Cod Glass Company

Salter

Cape Cod Glass Company

Drinking Glasses

Pair of Cohansey Glass Company”s Pharmacy Glass Storage jars 12 inches high X 2 1/2 inch mouth Glass Stopper Iron Pontil

William Young & Co. (1853-1879) Stoneware Jug

Thuringia Germany Inkwell Boy Teaching Dog

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Cape Cod Glass Company

Drinking Glasses

8 Sided Umbrella Inkwell

Cathedral Pickle Bottles 1865

These bottles were manufactured by the Cohansey Glass Works and filled with pickles by Stout Dyer and Wicks in NJ

Cape Cod Glass Company

Drinking Glasses

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William Young & Co. (1853-1879) Trenton New Jersey

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Snuff Jars J.J. Mapes 61 Front St. New York

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Cape Cod Glass Company

Drinking Glasses

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Beautiful set of beer mugs

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William Adams IV Blue Serving Bowl

William Adams IV Imperial French Porcelain Porridge Bowl

Eagle Crest 1858

William Adams IV Blue and White Spatterware

William Adams Beige salt glazed raised corn stalk motif

William Adams Beige salt glazed raised corn stalk motif Pitchers Greenfield Potteries, England September 3rd 1858

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Cape Cod Glass Company Hamilton With Leaf Butter Dish

Staffordshire Teapot

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Thuringia Germany Inkwell

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William Young & Co (1853-1879) of Trenton, New Jersey

After extensive research, our Appraiser feels that these Stone Ware Jugs were manufactured by William Young & Co (1853-1879) of Trenton, New Jersey due to their closer proximity to Bridgeton, New Jersey, via the Delaware River. It seems he got his start making utilitarian stone ware and most of the other companies in the area made other types of wares. What the original jug contained is not known, but could have contained any liquid, from whiskey to vinegar. Stone ware vessels were shaped by hand on the potter’s wheel, or in a wooden mould. After the freshly shaped vessel had air dried, somtimes Albany slip clay, which was dark brown in color, was used to coat the interior. The pieces were then placed in a bee-hive shaped kiln and fired at about 2100 degrees Fahrenheit. When the heat was at its maximum, a bucket of course salt was thrown into the kiln. The salt vaporized, covering all exposed surfaces with a shiny and somewhat pitted, or pebbled finish referred to as “salt glaze” These jugs are marked with an impressed number of 1,2 or 3 for the amount of gallons the jug would hold. We presume the jugs were then transported over to Stout, Dyer & Wicks in Bridgeton N.J. and filled with whatever liquids were required.