Saturday, October 29, 2022

Artifact Number 3: A Selection of Wares Recovered Off the Coast of New Castle, New Hampshire

In July of 2018 - I posted an article showing a variety of artifacts recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire. According to a feature story written for Fosters in September 2014, "Ray Demers has spent the past 50 years on a personal odyssey of exploration and documentation of a shipwreck he discovered off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire (next to Portsmouth, New Hampshire) in the 1960s. Demers has scoured countless books, letters and documents as well as the murky world beneath the surface of New Hampshire's waters in his quest to understand and identify the wreck. He considers the story to be a unique piece of state history."

Nonetheless, I revisited this collection this week at the New Castle Historical Society, some of which will be published in my forthcoming 535-page book, A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware of the Hartford, Connecticut Area, and I have posted four articles this morning showing some of these objects.

Artifact Number 3 -- This is an outstanding (probably) eighteenth century slip decorated red earthenware dish that is possibly Dutch in origin.

Remains of Probably an 18th Century Slip Decorated Dish
Possibly Dutch in Origin
Recovered Off the Coast of New Castle, New Hampshire
See Article for More Information
Photo Courtesy: New Castle Historical Society
A View of the Back of the Dish
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Photo Courtesy: New Castle Historical Society
Another View of the Dish
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Photo Courtesy: New Castle Historical Society

Please Stay Tuned...Much More to Come...

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