French Pottery from Shipwreck, ca. 1740 | Web Appraisal | Anaheim

Jacques Cousteau, diving, and antique pottery: all of these maritime elements come together when Nicholas Dawes appraises this group of French pottery from a shipwreck in Anaheim, CA!

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36 thoughts on “French Pottery from Shipwreck, ca. 1740 | Web Appraisal | Anaheim”

    1. Chatty Kathie

      Hurt the coral etc and all that work for a few hundred dollars now if it was gold worth millions

    1. Summer G

      smu72 right!? A whole 2 minutes and that’s all that matters!

  1. Walter Palmer

    If Cousteau blew up the coral, more than dishes were to be found.
    Silver, gold, jewelry, coin would more be the answer.

    1. kathy smith

      probably lots of easily convertible to cash items

  2. Jon Can

    On the topic of hurting the ocean, look up how Fukushima is destroying the Pacific Ocean. šŸ˜¢

  3. DuramaxLove

    “They had to blow up coral with TNT”

    *Greta enters the chat*
    “HOW DARE YOU!”

    1. R. McBride

      Haha, yeah. I wasn’t very happy about that either, but… that was quite a ways back in our history where we hadn’t yet experienced the kind of coral decline we see today. If only they had known then what we know now, they wouldn’t have been quite so cavalier, I’m sure.

    2. bob733333

      If it was the government or someone you voted for you would be ok with it probably.

    3. jackbenimble

      @bob733333 no i would vote them out the first chance i got, never make exuses for people doing the wrong thing even if its your family, it doesnt help anyone

    4. Stephanie Yee

      I am horrified at the thought of these blokes blowing up coral to pilfer boots from sunken ships. Blowing up coral for any reason is bad enough.
      Yes, I know it was a long time ago but it’s still not a good look.

  4. homerth1555

    Blowing up coral and looting a shipwreck. What a disgusting story.

  5. I just researched online and the story of Jacques Cousteau using dynamite is true. It was portrayed in one of Jacques early films. Apparently he was an ocean explorer before he was a naturalist and sea conservator.

    1. Rage.ModelsInc

      More like Ocean Plunderer!!! He was driven by greed !!!!

  6. Randy Trader

    Well that sucked !!! $150 for all the work it took to get them off the ocean floor.. geeezzzz

    1. Randy Trader

      @Stephanie Yee no doubt.. so many life forms live in coral.. all for a worthless treasure..

  7. D Lighted

    Anyone who blows up coral for money should see serious jail time.

    1. joe rodriguez

      you should start a petition to arrest Jacques Cousteau … oh crap, he’s been dead for over 20 years

    2. jackbenimble

      If anyone did it today they would face jail time, and alot of death threats people dont take kindly to destroying the environment anymore

  8. Quan Nguyen

    I have a 2 small cups, paper thin. my sister’s friend gave them to her over 20 years ago and said it’s from a shipwreck in Vietnam. I’m still keeping them

  9. jackbenimble

    Blew up heaps of coral reef for that! he was braindead, im actually happy with the amount of people on here that care about this, šŸ¤™

  10. jl smith

    A part of my childhood was Jacques Cousteau on National Geographic filming the amazing life of the oceans of this world. But now that memory is tarnished.

  11. Michelle Boldan

    Blow up Coral reef šŸ šŸ˜­no no no . Iā€™m glad that it was only worth 150.00

  12. English Rose

    My heart stopped when she said they blew up tons of coral.

  13. Dil Reyes

    HA! I love that they never went back to her face after he told her itā€™s only worth $150ā€¦ she probably thought she had a million dollar itemā€¦ anyone who keeps items like these knowing how it acquired deserves this kind of karma.

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