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<p>[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 1770977, member: 13430"]I apologize for offending. It certainly wasn't my intention. I appreciate the opinions, and the confit pot is a lead I'll follow. I'm not married to a conclusion. I have no problem debunking family myths and I don't care if it is worth 50 cents or a 1000 dollars. </p><p>Over time I've become the family archivist for both my, and my wife's family, because I have an interest in history. I have no desire to sell anything, although I have given things away when I find a better home for them. What I'm trying to do is identify and gather as much information as I can on things I think may be interesting historically, so the next generation knows what they are, and doesn't chuck out things that should be kept. I've spent a crazy amount of time (and a fair amount of money) researching a wide variety of things, and in the case of paper items, learning how to properly conserve them. I seriously try to avoid being a help vampire, and try to work things out myself before reaching out for help/opinions. But I can't become knowledgeable in everything. There is not enough time left in my life. And I can't afford to have everything appraised, because it's expensive, there are many things, value is not an important interest anyway, and that's what appraisers focus on.</p><p>In the case of this pot, I assumed it might be old, as I was told. The relative was a senior executive in one of the leading technology companies for oceanographic exploration in the 1960's and 1970's. He knew Cousteau, and many of the leading people in Oceanography during those years. I have film of him sailing with Ron Church, Cousteau's cinematographer and submersible pilot, interspersed with footage he shot of Cousteau's submersible, which was carrying a lot of equipment from his company. I got to tag along as a kid a few times and meet some of these oceanographers. I later learned that he and his company were also involved in a lot of the Navy stuff described in the book "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage". So I figured there was a reasonable chance that if someone in the Mediterranean he had a business connection to had given him that pot, it might be something interesting. Might.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a photo of the bottom that was requested. Also another side shot. I have found some confit examples that share a lot of features with this. The two departures I see from a lot of confit pots is that the base is not as narrow compared to the mouth, and it never had handles. I assumed that the reason the bottom half had no glaze is because the top half was embedded in sand/silt, and the bottom had most of the destructive effects of sea life and concretions, as opposed to being by design. But that was just my speculation.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]239476[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]239477[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="smallaxe, post: 1770977, member: 13430"]I apologize for offending. It certainly wasn't my intention. I appreciate the opinions, and the confit pot is a lead I'll follow. I'm not married to a conclusion. I have no problem debunking family myths and I don't care if it is worth 50 cents or a 1000 dollars. Over time I've become the family archivist for both my, and my wife's family, because I have an interest in history. I have no desire to sell anything, although I have given things away when I find a better home for them. What I'm trying to do is identify and gather as much information as I can on things I think may be interesting historically, so the next generation knows what they are, and doesn't chuck out things that should be kept. I've spent a crazy amount of time (and a fair amount of money) researching a wide variety of things, and in the case of paper items, learning how to properly conserve them. I seriously try to avoid being a help vampire, and try to work things out myself before reaching out for help/opinions. But I can't become knowledgeable in everything. There is not enough time left in my life. And I can't afford to have everything appraised, because it's expensive, there are many things, value is not an important interest anyway, and that's what appraisers focus on. In the case of this pot, I assumed it might be old, as I was told. The relative was a senior executive in one of the leading technology companies for oceanographic exploration in the 1960's and 1970's. He knew Cousteau, and many of the leading people in Oceanography during those years. I have film of him sailing with Ron Church, Cousteau's cinematographer and submersible pilot, interspersed with footage he shot of Cousteau's submersible, which was carrying a lot of equipment from his company. I got to tag along as a kid a few times and meet some of these oceanographers. I later learned that he and his company were also involved in a lot of the Navy stuff described in the book "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage". So I figured there was a reasonable chance that if someone in the Mediterranean he had a business connection to had given him that pot, it might be something interesting. Might. Here is a photo of the bottom that was requested. Also another side shot. I have found some confit examples that share a lot of features with this. The two departures I see from a lot of confit pots is that the base is not as narrow compared to the mouth, and it never had handles. I assumed that the reason the bottom half had no glaze is because the top half was embedded in sand/silt, and the bottom had most of the destructive effects of sea life and concretions, as opposed to being by design. But that was just my speculation. [ATTACH=full]239476[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]239477[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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