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I am selling this beautiful item from my collection. It was recovered sometime in the 1970's from a Boston Harbor dredging operation. It is a fantastic 7 inch long and 3 1/2 inches tall apothecary ladle or crucible. UI believe it is 1840's based on other artifacts compared to the paddle steamer Clonmel that sank in 1841. I will provide more info on that wreck below. Handle is brass and attached this three copper rivets. Decorative markings on handle. Used aboard ship to cook off or mix medicines. Conic shape was to prevent splatter. Some slight neutral corrosion inside so you can tell it was a shipwreck item. Excellent condition with tight handle. Museum cleaned.
The Clonmel Foundered! Early on the morning of 2 January 1841 the paddle steamer Clonmel, bound from Sydney to Melbourne with passengers and a mixed cargo shuddered to a halt on a sand bar at the entrance of what is now known as Port Albert. It became so badly stuck that it was impossible to free. However, when dawn broke on January 2 , Clonmel's passenger were faced with the exposed and inhospitable shores of a low sandy spit now known as Snake Island and the realisation that their precious cargo that had been either damaged or totally destroyed. Three days later news of the disaster reached Melbourne and a rescue operation began. The Clonmel is just one of about 600 ships wrecked around the coast of Victoria . They include slave traders, an opium runner, famous clippers, humble colliers, mere coastal tramps, ships of war and more. All have their own fascinating story to reveal. Clonmel and its Cargo Clonmel was no common steamer but the pride of the fledgling colony. It was a luxury ship with the latest technology from England , enabling it to connect Sydney and Melbourne in just 24 hours. It was carrying a number of influential society people from Sydney and valuable cargo on only its second run on the all important east coast route. Among those taking advantage of the high class service when the Clonmel wrecked were a Mr Robinson and a Mr and Mrs Cashmore. Mr Robinson, a representative of the Union Bank, was escorting a 3000 British Pound shipment of bank notes for the bank's Melbourne branch. Mr and Mrs Cashmore, newlyweds, were taking a large amount of stock to Melbourne for a drapery store they were opening on the corner of Collins and Elizabeth Streets. After surviving the wreck of the Clonmel, Mr Michael Cashmore rose to become a prominent member of Melbourne 's Jewish community raising funds and support to build Melbourne 's first synagogue, and for land to be allocated for the first Jewish cemetery in Melbourne Imported to Australia by entrepreneur Edye Manning just a few months before it ran aground on the sand bar, Clonmel was amongst the first steamers to work in Australian waters and had the dubious distinction of being among the first to be wrecked All is lost? With Clonmel sailed hopes for a new fast and luxurious passenger service to replace the unreliable and uncomfortable sailing vessels already servicing the Sydney to Melbourne run. The loss of Clonmel was, at the time, a great blow to Victoria 's vital transport system, but it did have one positive side. The Gippsland region was considered to be quite inaccessible until the natural entrance at Port Albert was inadvertently discovered by Clonmel. Clonmel now comprises a priceless heritage resource. It is Heritage Victoria 's task to both protect and manage them, to record their history and help to interpret their significance. Saved in the sand In 1984 Heritage Victoria inspected the wreck. Its boiler and the base of its funnel were still visible at low water and its location common knowledge among Port Albert residents. It was not until 11 years later that sand movements revealed an unsuspected wealth of information. Heritage Victoria 's maritime archaeologists discovered that severe storms had removed great drifts of the sand which had been covering Clonmel. Much of the struc... 
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