Divers recover 'unique' alcohol bottles from the 1700s near Florida

Florida officials precocious announced the find of 2 18th-century "onion glasses" recovered successful waters extracurricular of the Sunshine State.

The Florida Division of Historical Resources announced the find connected Oct. 8 successful a societal media connection astir the bottles' caller restoration. In a Facebook post, the section shared aged pictures of the barnacle-covered bottles, and newer pictures of the restored artifacts. The station credits "meticulously dilatory cleaning and drying," for the palmy restoration.

"Peeling backmost the layers to these onions was surely a challenge!" the station read. "With meticulously dilatory cleaning and drying, the bottles remained intact and were past consolidated with Paraloid B-72, an acrylic resin based consolidant typically utilized successful solid and ceramic conservation."

Mark Ard, the Director of External Affairs of the Florida Department of State, told Fox News Digital that the bottles were recovered from a shipwreck disconnected the seashore of Indian River County successful 2021 and 2022.

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Florida officials announced the caller restoration of 2 unsocial bottles from the 1700s. (Florida Division of Historical Resources via Facebook)

"While the nonstop vessel has not been identified, the vas was portion of the Spanish Plate Fleet that was sailing from Cuba bound for Spain successful 1715," Ard explained. "The 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet was mislaid astatine oversea on Florida’s eastbound seashore aft encountering a hurricane."

Ard called the bottles a "rare" intact discovery, and noted that the drinking vessels were bare erstwhile they were found.

"It is presumed they contained immoderate benignant of alcoholic spirit," the authoritative explained.

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"These bottles are precise fragile, and for them to archetypal past the demolition of the ship, and past being submerged underwater for implicit 300 years wherever they were taxable to tidal forces, is incredible."

The Florida authoritative said that the bottles were apt produced successful England. Each bulb vessel is unique, Ard said.

Conservators worked diligently to cautiously reconstruct the bottles and region the barnacles connected them. (Florida Division of Historical Resources via Facebook)

"Onion bottles are free-blown utilizing a pontile. Each 1 is unique, truthful determination is saltation successful size, signifier and weight," helium described.

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"These were made by manus by skilled craftspeople," Ard added. "Onion bottles would person been carried arsenic cargo and would person besides been utilized by unit and passengers onboard."

The authoritative besides stressed however important the Spanish treasure fleet was to planetary maritime commercialized successful the 18th century. 

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"The travel of goods and earthy materials from Central and Southern America, and to a lesser grade Asia, was captious to the economies of not conscionable the Kingdom of Spain but galore different nations successful Europe," helium said. "Goods, specified arsenic cocoa that was onboard these ships, besides fundamentally changed societal habits that we inactive spot today."

"The Spanish mixed sweetener with cacao to make drinking cocoa that was often served utilizing circumstantial porcelain vessels made successful China that were besides transported by the Plate Fleets."

Ard told Fox News Digital that the bottles are present disposable for indebtedness arsenic portion of the Artifact Loan Program. 

The "onion bottles" were expertly crafted, and each 1 has a unsocial shape. (Florida Division of Historical Resources via Facebook)

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"In Florida, examples of bulb bottles connected indebtedness from the Division are connected grounds astatine History Miami, the Pensacola Museum of History, and the McLarty Treasure Museum successful Sebastian, Indian River County," helium explained.