Ship Bell Found

[Blak bart]

just saying brother

 

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[Blak bart]

I dont know if they have any meaning or not....but the acanthus leaf pattern that I posted was the closest match I could find. Perhaps there is great meaning to them....I hope so. I have also seen a similar pattern before and cant place it. I think it was here on t net. I've been searching for it with no luck.

 

[ARC]

In those days there was A:WAYS meaning... or they didn't do it. :P

J/k

But in essence this is a truth... even decorations had hidden meanings or designs that "signified" or "said" something.

Scrollwork was about the only décor of the time that just was an artistic "flow".

Most all else stood for something.
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This is just a generalized truth of the times.

 

[Blak bart]

I agree

 

[BillA]

we might wait for a scan/x-ray whatever before we work ourselves into believing something curling up from the bowl

the palmetto was generally a symbol of victory and shown in many stylized manners
the branches at the feet of that Dutch ceramic tile figure I posted earlier are one of the many forms of portraying a palm - google

and the acanthus leaf pattern could be just as likely

Bill

 

[Blak bart]

heres another similar image. I'm just trying to match that image at this point. This one is designed to hang down

 

[xaos]

the acanthus is always far more stylized that what is shown on the bell.

Like really... I have seen a thousand bells in my life... hands on, online, in museums around the world, plain, ornate, broken, cracked, big, small..

after touching thousands of big and small bells..perhaps an intervention is needed....Annual Picnic?

 

[ARC]

hey... might take a bit to load,,, this might be interesting to you.

Its taken me awhile to go through some of this... I keep getting side tracked and reading on some... perhaps you can help look for what MAY be something on our "palmetto".



https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Frutiger_Adrian_Signs_and_Symbols_Their_Design_and_Meaning.pdf

 

[BillA]

interesting in its own right

Bill

 

[BillA]

the islands are being seeded to promote diving tourism

Bill

 

[BillA]

a brass/bronze mortar ?
its pictured upside down

Bill

edit: apothecary's mortar (large)

 

[Ammoman]

Its the TACO BELL! problem solved...next puzzle please

All joking aside, its a very cool bell. Looking forward to seeing the mystery solved!

 

[ARC]

Another 2 hours of research down. heh

This thing is pissing me off now.

 

[ARC]

Correction... 3 hours.

Time for a break... I am seeing palmetto's :P

 

[ARC]

Well I think I am on the right track with the Latin and Christian / Catholic origin...

That "A"...

 

[sailaway]

The more I look at that bell the more the story that Capt. Bill relayed to me comes to mind. Capt. Bill owns a dive ship in the Turks and Caicos Islands. One evening sitting at the dinner table he relayed a story to me about Jacque Cousteau hiring his ship and chartering a dive off the reef entrance to west Caicos and Sapodilla Bay, Providenciales. On the rocks there are carved names of shipwrecked sailors and dates. On the north side of the cut Jacque found bronze Cannons embedded into the reef. The site has never been properly documented or salvaged. The Molasses Reef wreck is less than 10 miles away and a short distance from where two notorious female pirates kept their ships. Also there is a old Spanish wreck with Cannons just off shore and inside the reef in front of Jimmy Buffett's private Island to the east (on Nautical Charts). The entrance through the reef to Sapodilla Bay can get rough and when conditions are like that I head south and go in on the Big Sand road channel.

 

[Blak bart]

heres one with a similar top band

 

[ARC]

I need a break... I cannot find anything on either symbols.

What is really frustrating is I know I have seen a similar symbol somewhere... I tore up my friggin room lookingin books last night...

gonna have to boot up maps soon... dreading that... keep hoping some new pics or something will be posted first.

Maps will take hours upon hours. heh

 

[ARC]

I have digital map data that some take almost a minute just to load up because they are such huge files.

So detailed I can see dust particles and staining on many in detail :P

My digital collection is better than most EDU's collections... in fact this is where I collected them from over years.

Smithsonian aint got nothing on me :P

And yes... I have fast computers. heh

 

[sailaway]

Was it not Father Kino who had bells made for his missions, he even Cast some because the orders were lost at sea? Still the Bell could be of the ship that almost captured Drake.