8/26/22 Report - Great Research Resource for Shipwrecks: Spence's List. Treasure Coast Bottle. Mel Fisher Days Coming Soon.

 

Written by the Treasuregudie for the exclusive use of the Treasure Beaches Report.

Shipwreck Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1.

I recently mentioned Treasure Diver magazine, and talked about some of its contents.  ShipWrecks magazine is another good research resource.  The first issue was published in 1990, and the editor/publisher was E. Lee Spence.

Shipwrecks was published four times a year.  It didn't last very long. I think maybe only one year.  I'll have to see how many of them I have. 

Shipwrecks was  a news and reference magazine.  It presented information on many wrecks and very detailed information on some.  It was a more of an academic reference work than the popular treasure magazines.   

If you can read the cover (above), you'll see that the first issue coversed seven shipwrecks at length, and at the end of each issue, was information on about 150 other wrecks.  The 150 wrecks covered in this issue were located off South Carolina and Georgia and wrecked between 1776 to 1783.  That is one section of Spence's, List, which included informaton on over 100,000 wrecks.  Each issue would present a segment of Spence's list in addition to greater detail on several wrecks.

Below is a page of the first issue of ShipWrecks, which shows some finds from the "The Regina," a Great Lakes shipwreck.  Shown are Hinds Honey and Almond Cream bottles from that were found on that wreck. 

Page 11 of Vol. 1, No1 of the ShipWrecks Magazine.

I thought I had a Hinds Honey and Almond Cream bottle, so I went to look for it, and found one.

Below is the bottle and what I learned about the bottle, which, until I just researched it, incorrectly thought was a liquor bottle.

Embossed; HINDS HONEY AND ALMOND CREAM.
A S HINDS CO. PORTLAND MAINE USA.

The bottle was found on the Treasure Coast. It is actually a skin care lotion bottle.  

Here is one of many ads I found for Hinds Honey and Almond Cream lotion.  You can find more ads and information on the company and its products by using the link below.  It was advertised for things like sunburn, younger skin, etc.

The family business was the A. S. Hinds Co. in Portland which was famous for various creams for the face, hands, and Skin. The A.S. Hinds company was started in 1875.  They were bought out in 1907 by Lehn & Fink, maker of Lysol. The honey almond cream product was still available in 1948. 

Hinds Honey and Almond Cream was formulated and marketed by Aurelius Stone Hinds in Portland Maine.  He moved to Portland in 1862 and worked in a drugstore, which he bought in 1870. He worked on the formulation of the cream for a number of years, and began selling it from the drugstore probably sometime in the latter part of the 1870's. It was such a huge success that he soon had to put it into commercial production, first in Portland, and at some point distribution was shifted to a company in New Jersey. A number of different bottles from the very early days of the product are commonly found, but unfortunately they do not carry a date...

You can find out more about the company and view a number of ads by using the following link.

Friends Of Hinds - A.S. Hinds Company

Same Bottle Shown Above.

This bottle isn't as old as the bottles found on The Regina,  They are corked.

The issues of Shipwrecks magazine are good research resources and good reqading.

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It looks like these two systems will stay well south of us.

Good hunting,

Treasureguide@comcast.net