An Important Stoneware Temperance Snake Jug Made for Thomas Nast Owned by the New York Historical Society

I have previously written about the Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) Collection owned by the New York Historical Society in New York City, which the museum acquired in 1937. The collection consists of about 15,000 objects, much of which relate to the field of American folk art.

Nadelman is described as a person who is widely known for his elegant, modernist sculptures created in the first half of the twentieth century. But the museum says, "Less familiar is the pioneering folk art collection he established with his wife, Viola Spiess Flannery (1878-1962). Nadelman was influenced by the 'peasant arts' of his native Poland, and other European countries, and began collecting after he migrated to New York City in 1914."

Nevertheless, this remarkable nineteenth century stoneware temperance snake jug is currently on display on the fourth floor of the museum beside many of the objects from Nadelman's collection. This important object was made at the Cornwall Kirkpatrick (1814-1890) and Wallace Kirkpatrick (1828-1896) Pottery (active 1859-1896) in Anna, Illinois, circa 1871. It was gifted to the museum in 1906 by Sarah (Edwards) Nast, the wife of caricaturist and editorial cartoonist, Thomas Nast (1840-1902).

According to the New York Historical Society, "Political cartoonist Thomas Nast published biting caricatures in Harper's Weekly (1857-1916) that exposed the corruption at Tammany Hall, the political machine that controlled New York City in the mid-nineteenth century.

This has also been a subject of interest for the Museum of the City of New York, "Tammany Hall, the New York Democratic political organization was founded in the eighteenth century, and is now best known for its scandals, corruption, embezzlement, fraud, and rigged elections. At the heart of it all was William Magear "Boss" Tweed (1823-1878), the corrupt man and state senator (served 1868-1873) behind the Tammany Hall political machine from the height of its power in 1868 to its eventual downfall in 1871. It is estimated that he defrauded the city out of $30 million to $200 million dollars (equivalent to $365 million to $2.4 billion dollars today). He eventually died in the Ludlow Street Jail in New York City in 1878."

Also according to the New York Historical Society, "The potter's Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick presented this jug to Nast about 1871 in recognition of his efforts. The jug's swirling snakes represent the corruption at Tammany Hall; the serpents feature the faces of ringleader William M. "Boss" Tweed and his cronies."

The Kirkpatrick Pottery in Anna is known to have manufactured a number of temperance snake jugs in the company's existence, including examples for the Civil War and the Centennial. But I have always viewed the jug that was made for Nast, representing the political corruption in New York City in the 1800s, as one of the best examples known today.

Stoneware Temperance Jug Made in Anna, IL

19th Century Stoneware Temperance Snake Jug

Made at the Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick Pottery in Anna, IL

Made as a Gift for Thomas Nast in 1871

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Photo Courtesy: New York Historical Society 

Description of the Temperance Jug by the New York Historical Society

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William Magear "Boss" Tweed

William Magear "Boss" Tweed

Circa 1869

Photo Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York

Some of Thomas Nast's Caricatures for Harper's Weekly

"Two Great Questions"

Created by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly

Published August 19, 1871

Photo Courtesy: New York Times

Caricature of Boss Tweed

Created by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly

Published October 8, 1871

Photo Courtesy: Museum of the City of New York

"What are You Laughing at? To the Victors Belong the Spoils"

Created by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly

Published November 25, 1871

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Collection of Southern Objects Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

In anticipation of visiting the the William C. and Susan S. Mariner Collection later this month at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I thought I would post some of the southern objects that I have visited in recent years. I have seen some remarkable objects at places like the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and various art museums, but I thought I would post some of the pieces I viewed last summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

All of the following objects are southern in origin, except the circa 1845-1855 red earthenware lion made by John Bell (1800-1880) in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. However, a very similar lion was manufactured by Bell's brother, Solomon Bell (1817-1882) in either Winchester or Strasburg, Virgina during the circa 1840-1850 period, which is owned by MESDA today.

Although, the MET also owns many more southern objects besides what I have posted, such as a pair of remarkable late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century slip decorated dishes with tulips attributed to Alamance County, North Carolina that were recently acquired in 2012.

North Carolina Red Earthenware

 (Left) 18th/19th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Creamer

Attributed to Alamance County, NC

(Right) 18th/19th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Teapot

Attributed to Alamance County, NC

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

18th/19th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Lidded Jar 

Attributed to Alamance County, NC

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

19th Century Red Earthenware Squirrel Bottle

Attributed to Rudolph Christ - Salem, NC

Circa 1804-1829

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Waynesboro, PA Lion

19th Century Red Earthenware Lion Made by John Bell in Waynesboro, PA

Circa 1845-1855

Stands 7 1/2" Tall

Similar Lion was Made by Solomon Bell in Virginia

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Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

 View of the Lion's Face

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Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Virginia Red Earthenware

Late-19th Century Red Earthenware Washbowl

Made by J. Eberly and Co. in Strasburg, VA

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Late-19th Century Red Earthenware Pitcher

Made by J. Eberly and Co. in Strasburg, VA

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art

 19th Century Red Earthenware Vase
Decorated with Applied, Bird, Flowers and Leaves

Attributed to Anthony Baecher  - Winchester, VA
Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

 19th Century Red Earthenware Sugar Bowl
Decorated with Applied, Bird, Flowers and Leaves

Attributed to Anthony Baecher  - Winchester, VA
Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

South Carolina Stoneware

19th Century South Carolina Stoneware Face Jugs

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

19th Century Stoneware Face Jug Attributed to Edgefield District in South Carolina

Circa 1860s

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

19th Century Stoneware Face Jug Attributed to Edgefield District in South Carolina

Circa 1860s

Photo Courtesy: Metropolitan Museum of Art 

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18th/19th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Pan and Mug Recovered on the Property of the Paine House in Ipswich, Massachusetts

It has been almost one month since I wrote about the archaeology of the circa 1694 Paine House at Greenwood Farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which is owned today by the Trustees of the Reservations. The property was acquired by the museum in 1975 and the house in 1979. My interest began with this site as a result of an eighteenth or early-nineteenth century slip-decorated red earthenware pan that had been recovered within a context connected to a dairy on the property.

Yesterday, I visited the collections department at the Trustees of the Reservations in Sharon, Massachusetts in order to study the 25 boxes that made up the archaeology collection. I looked at every single piece of red earthenware recovered on the property, and the forms include black-glazed jugs and mugs (straight-sided and barrel-formed), a number of examples of milk pans decorated with a variety of glazes, and some of which were even adorned in slip-decoration.

However, aside from the slip-decorated objects, every other piece of red earthenware resembled eighteenth and early-nineteenth century production in Essex County, Massachusetts. But more specifically, they resembled the wares produced at the industry in South Danvers (today known as Peabody), Massachusetts.

It has been previously published that slip was not a style of production routinely manufactured at this industry, but I have always felt this was a subject that deserves more attention. For instance, there were dozens of businesses that consisted of this industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the general knowledge about the output from each business and family is fairly limited today.

But the swirled decoration found in the center of this pan is very similar to sherds that I recovered a few years ago in Danversport, Massachusetts, which I believe were made in South Danvers. Interestingly, the style of the slip found on these sherds seem to match the type of slip found on two known pans today; one pan is owned by Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts and the other is owned privately in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Nevertheless, all of this information was described and illustrated in a feature story I wrote for the November 2017 issue of the New England Antiques Journal titled, 'Digging into the Peabody Potteries: Archaeology and Red Earthenware.'

It should also be noted that other examples of domestic eighteenth or early-nineteenth century slip-decorated wares were recovered from privies on the property of the Narbonne House in Salem, Massachusetts. These artifacts were found surrounded by a variety of other red earthenware objects, which almost all appear to have originated in Essex County, with the exception of a teapot possibly from Whately, Massachusetts, suggesting that these examples of slipware were also potentially locally-made.

Slip was also produced elsewhere along coastal Massachusetts in the eighteenth century; however, the style found on this pan does not appear to match what was produced in Rowley/Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1723-1799, the industry in Charlestown, Massachusetts before 1775, or the slipware produced south of Boston in the 1700s.

Note: A similar style of slip-decorated red earthenware pan was recovered by archaeologists at the site of the nineteenth century African-American Meeting House in Boston. It also appears that Essex County red earthenware was intermittently shipped to the Boston-area in the 1800s based on archaeological evidence recovered in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Boston Common, the Paul Revere House in Boston and Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Red Earthenware Pan and Mug Recovered in Ipswich, Mass.

18th/19th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Pan

Recovered Beneath a Dairy at the Site of the Paine House on Greenwood Farm in Ipswich, Mass.

Likely Made in Essex County, Mass.
See 'Featured Redware Photo' in Right Column on this Website

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Photo Courtesy: Trustees of the Reservations

18th/19th Century Black-Glazed Red Earthenware Mug

Recovered Beneath a Dairy at the Site of the Paine House on Greenwood Farm in Ipswich, Mass.

Likely Made in South Danvers (today known as Peabody), Mass.

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Photo Courtesy: Trustees of the Reservations

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Excellent Examples of 19th Century Midwestern Red Earthenware and Stoneware Sell in Dousman, Wisconosin

Online bidding may have started at a dollar for every object at Bailey's Honor Auction and Estate Services, LLC. in Dousman Wisconson, but that's certainly not how it ended last night. The following nineteenth century red earthenware spaniels attributed to the industry in Galena, Illinois sold for $3,900 and $2,100 before the buyer's premium. They were sold as part of a two day estates auction; the last time I saw a Galena red earthenware spaniel sell, was last fall at Garth's Auctions in Delaware, Ohio, which brought $4,200 before the buyer's premium.

This sale also included some nice examples of stoneware, such as a 19th century five-gallon cobalt-decorated butter churn marked for a merchant, "L.S. Merrill and Company / Dealers in Stoneware / De Pere, Wis.," which sold for $3,000 before the buyer's premium. A rare three-gallon cobalt-decorated stoneware jug also sold for $3,200 before the buyer's premium, which had been made for a druggist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; it was marked "Wm Cunningham / Druggist / 151 East Water Street / Milwaukee, WI."

There were also plenty more examples of Midwestern stoneware and red earthenware, like objects attributed to Colgate, Wisconsin, Belmont, Wisconsin, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, Watertown, Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin, Portage, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Peoria, Illinois, Galena, Illinois and Evansville, Indiana,

Note: Here is a link to the online auction catalog.

RED EARTHENWARE
Lot No. 5

19th Century Red Earthenware Spaniel Attributed to Galena, IL

Circa 1860s-1870s

Stands 9" Tall

Sold: $3,900 Before the Buyer's Premium

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Another View of the Spaniel

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View of the Base

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RED EARTHENWARE
Lot No. 7

 19th Century Red Earthenware Spaniel Attributed to Galena, IL

Circa 1860s-1870s

Stands 9" Tall

Sold: $2,100 Before the Buyer's Premium

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 View of the Spaniel's Face

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 View of the Spaniel's Back

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View of the Base

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STONEWARE
Lot No. 4

  19th Century Five-Gallon Stoneware Jug for a Druggist in Milwaukee, WI

Marked "L.S. Merrill and Company / Dealers in Stoneware / Depere, Wis."
Stands 17 7/8" Tall

Sold: $3,000 Before the Buyer's Premium

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View of the Mark

Marked "L.S. Merrill and Company / Dealers in Stoneware / Depere, Wis."

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STONEWARE
Lot No. 14

 19th Century Three-Gallon Stoneware Jug for a Druggist in Milwaukee, WI

Marked "Wm Cunningham / Druggist / 151 East Water Street / Milwaukee, WI."
Stands 15 1/2" Tall

Sold: $3,200 Before the Buyer's Premium

Photo Courtesy: Bailey's Honor Auction and Estate Services, LLC

View of the Mark

Marked "Wm Cunningham / Druggist / 151 East Water Street / Milwaukee, WI."

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The Archaeology of an 18th Century Pottery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

According to the Red Rose Transit Authority in Lancaster City and County, Pennsylvania, "In September 2009, RRTA broke ground on Queen Street Station Phase III located on the corner of Queen and Chestnut Streets in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Phase III included a 395 space (seven levels) parking garage and three bus bays that gave RRTA access to Chestnut Street. 

As part of the construction of Queen Street Station Phase III, an archaeological excavation was completed at the site. The remains of an eighteenth century red earthenware potter's kiln and waste pile were discovered.

Although, the potter who operated this kiln has not been identified, it may have belonged to one of a few potters employed in Lancaster during this period, such as Jacob Marx (1750-1828), a German potter from Charlestown, Maryland. Marx operated his pottery in the borough of Lancaster between 1781-1792. 'Jacob Marks' appeared on the 1790 census for Lancaster City with a household of one male under 16 and four females. He does not appear to have lived in Lancaster City in 1800. Marx is listed on the Lancaster Borough tax list as a potter in 1782."

The potter responsible for these wares was apparently a remarkably skilled red earthenware potter in terms of the slip-decorations that were applied, which included tulips. This type of decoration could likely be interpreted as production from various locations today. An object of note that archaeologists recovered is a small bowl, which was intentionally manufactured with a glazed inverted base.

The remains of a cobalt-decorated stoneware jar were also recovered at this site. But no further evidence was discovered that would suggest Marx or any other Lancaster potter was manufacturing stoneware during this period, even though dual production of both red earthenware and stoneware occurred with a number of Pennsylvania's potters. It is possible that stoneware may have been manufactured locally in the eighteenth century, although, no stoneware kiln remains or kiln evidence was found.

Note: Here is a link to the archaeology report, which contains a lot more information about the archaeology/construction site.

An 18th Century Rendering of Lancaster, PA

An Artist's 1798 Rendering of Lancaster, PA

The Arrow Point to the Archaeology Site

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Red Earthenware Kiln Remains in Downtown, Lancaster, PA

Remains of an 18th Century Red Earthenware Kiln in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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 Remains of an 18th Century Red Earthenware Kiln in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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Remains of an 18th Century Red Earthenware Kiln in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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Examples of Red Earthenware Production

 18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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  18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherd

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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  18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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  18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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  18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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  18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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  18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Bowl Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA
Notice the Inverted Base

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  18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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 18th Century Slip-Decorated Red Earthenware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

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Stoneware Sherds Recovered at the Kiln Site

18th Century Cobalt Decorated Stoneware Sherds

Recovered at the Kiln Site in Downtown Lancaster, PA

Unknown if this was Made Locally

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Photo Courtesy: AECOM Archaeology

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A Group of 19th/20th Century Red Earthenware Flowerpots Recovered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

A few years ago, I was told about a large group of urns made at the Portland Stoneware Company in the 1800s that had been recently removed from a cemetery in Portland, Maine, and thrown into a forest-area on the cemetery's property. Some of the urns sustained damage, but overall they were in great condition. It also appeared that the urns were originally purchased for the cemetery, likely when they were still made at the pottery.

Yesterday, a friend from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Charles Cormier stopped by my house in Newburyport, Massachusetts, who helped contribute some of the information that was published in the feature story I wrote, 'The Dodges and Their Potteries' for the February 2018 edition of Maine Antique Digest. He's also responsible for identifying the whereabouts of the circa 1796-1864 Dodge family pottery in Portsmouth - this site was later excavated by archaeologists from Strawbery Banke Museum in the 1980s.

Nevertheless, he brought with him a small collection of red earthenware flowerpot sherds that had been recovered from an old dump site near the current City Hall in Portsmouth, which was formerly the site of the Cottage Hospital that opened in 1895. In theory, these sherds may have been flowerpots thrown out by the hospital in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.

A variety of styles of pots are represented; four of the flowerpots were produced with attached saucers, two were molded and another was likely made as a hanging pot. I have inserted a number next to each fragment in the picture, and the description about each sherd is found with the matching number below.

Red Earthenware Flowerpots Recovered in Portsmouth, NH

1) A similar style of flowerpot was made in Essex County, Massachusetts in the 19th/20th century, such as the Chase Pottery in Merrimacport, Mass. in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as the Moses Paige Pottery in Peabody, Mass., circa 1876-1940.

2) This style of molded flowerpot was manufactured in West Sterling, Massachusetts in the 19th/20th century. But this type of production may have been made elsewhere, as well.

3) 19th/20th century red earthenware flowerpot with an attached saucer and an exterior glaze likely made in Essex County, Mass., New Hampshire or southern Maine.

4) 19th/20th century red earthenware flowerpot with an attached saucer likely made in Essex County, Mass., New Hampshire or southern Maine.

5) This style of molded flowerpot was manufactured in West Sterling, Massachusetts in the 19th/20th century. But this type of production may have been made elsewhere, as well.

6) 19th/20th century red earthenware flowerpot with an attached saucer likely made in Essex County, Mass., New Hampshire or southern Maine.

7) 19th/20th century red earthenware hanging flowerpot sherd likely made in Essex County, Mass., New Hampshire or southern Maine.

8) 19th/20th century red earthenware flowerpot with an attached saucer likely made in Essex County, Mass., New Hampshire or southern Maine.

9) 19th/20th century red earthenware flowerpot sherd with an exterior glaze likely made in Essex County, Mass., New Hampshire or southern Maine.

19th/20th Century Red Earthenware Flowerpot Remains Recovered in Portsmouth, NH

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A Collection of Mid-19th Century Pipes Recovered from the Wreck of the Arabia in Kansas City, Missouri

According to the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, "The steamboat Arabia was built in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania at the boat-yard of John S. Pringle in 1853. At 171 feet long and capable of carrying 222 tons of cargo, she was considered an average-sized packet boat. The 28-foot-tall paddle wheels could push the steamboat upstream at a speed of over five-miles per hour. Being a side-wheeler (having one paddle on each side, rather than just one in the back) made it easier to maneuver around hazards like sandbars and snags, although this would not save her in the end. In her heyday, though, the Arabia was considered a dependable vessel and soon gained a reputation for speed, safety and comfort. 

The Arabia traveled to Ohio and Mississippi Rivers for about two-years until she was purchased for $20,000 by Captain John Shaw of St. Charles, Missouri in February 1855. Her first trip on the Missouri River took her to Fort Pierre, South Dakota with 109 soldiers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The muddy Missouri was notoriously difficult to navigate, hiding many hazards like sandbars and tree snags. 

In the spring of 1856, the Arabia was sold to Captain William Terrill and George Boyd, both of St. Louis. During the 1856 season, the Arabia made at least 14 trips on the Missouri River, including a journey of over 700 miles to the Yellowstone River in western North Dakota, which took nearly three-months to complete. 

The mighty steamboat Arabia made her last trip in 1856 sinking on September 5 in Kansas City. She carried 200 tons of mystery cargo intended for general stores along the frontier down to the bottom of the Missouri River.

For the next century and a half, the ship remained a popular piece of local lure, especially for the Sotor family who owned the property on which the wreck was sunk. In 1987, Bob Hawley and his two sons used old maps and a metal detector to find the ship, which they eventually located beneath a layer of mud and silt. The Hawleys and a handful of family friends, a massive crane and 20 irrigation pumps began pumping water out of the ditch. Excavation took roughly one year, but as soon as they reached the sunken hull they began uncovering treasure. 

They found remarkably preserved pioneer clothing, guns, knives, tinware, buttons, glass scroll flasks, oil lamps, glassware, Rockingham doorknobs, hinges, bed keys, wooden clothes pins, wooden buckets, mirrors, tools and so much more. Entire crates of imported China were perfectly preserved, the straw they were packed in yellow and dry. There was food which, though probably not appetizing, was still edible, including 29 jars of pickles."

A collection of mid-nineteenth century pipes and pipe stems were also recovered in the midst of all the cargo on the wreck of the Arabia. While much of the pottery on board the Arabia had been imported from England, these pipes appear to have been manufactured in America.

For instance, I wrote about a number of mid-nineteenth century pipes attributed to the Swank Pottery in Johnstown, Pennsylvania that I had acquired in 2015 directly from a nineteenth century estate near Edensburg, Pennsylvania. The production appears similar even though the style of the pipe is different. But I suspect these pipes could have been manufactured in western Pennsylvania, Ohio Kentucky, Tennessee or even a Midwestern state that borders the Missouri River, like Missouri which is known to have employed a successful pottery industry in the 1800s.

Pipes Recovered from the Wreck of the Arabia

Mid-19th Century Pipes Recovered from the Wreck of the Arabia

Likely Manufactured in America

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Photo Courtesy: Arabia Steamboat Museum

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