Maritime History, Nathaniel Bowditch, His Ditty Box and Collecting

[@christopherrichards-loubie135]

Thank you, Peter!

[@wolfgangfalcore]

I grew up on an 1890’s gaff rigged schooner that my dad dug out of the mudflats in Richardsons bay Ca and rebuilt using period hand tools and materials he scrounged from the remnants of Marinship, the yards where the liberty ships were built during WW2. I had my own little ditty box, an antique rosewood version I bought at the flea market for 25 cents!

[@buickinvicta288]

Great story. Happy New Year. 🎉

[@timothysullivan6790]

Ooo, Mr Combs- thanks for this. “I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.”

[@avardmacgregor746]

Charming video. Wonderful story. I'm beginning to regard you as an old smoothie, as we say in Canada. That's a compliment.

[@harrypeters8306]

Very enjoyable story, I often wonder what will become of all those miscellaneous things, that have been loved and cared for these many years! It is a duty and a great honor to love an antique, as we see it, as far along as we can , and pray the next person feels the obligation as deeply as they should. No matter how old an object gets to be, if cared for it will have a future!

[@williamanderson238]

Great story attached to the object and great cast of characters. The first "antique collectors" in America were very focused on the story/provenance of objects. It then kind of moved to an emphasis on the art / quality of the craft. I look at some things that came down in my family that are of little economic value, but have incredible stories attached (something like a copper luster pitcher that was bought by a family member in the 1848s when they first immigrated after the failed revolutions in Europe. Best fothe New Year.

[@mfranssens]

That’s great Peter. Thank you

[@michellemaynard2047]

It's all bout the history. Thank you Peter for another great video. You rock! Have a happy, healthy, and fun new year. Take care!

[@roberthendren]

Along with my other collections, I collect stone tools. As it happens, I live in one of the oldest Sykes and highest what is celebrated sites in Flint, and in my backyard I found a number of nearly 6 stone tools, which have clearly been work. I’ve been studying these tools And I am amazed by the craftsmanship involved as well as the utility. The markings on them are quite clear and how they were held. It’s very obvious. Show would’ve been after Donna stick and probably my most interesting find has been a 1 inch long bone, your head, a bird tip Made of bone broken in half and then sharpened to a point so that the point with it around a slim stick. My brother was an archaeologist from Harvard and I had the chance to visit with him when he was working on Molokai and we would sit around and smoke a joint, when I was on leave from Vietnam, and contemplate what it must’ve been like for the first People there to have seen these sailing ships come up and land on the beach. He and his colleagues from Harvard were carbon dating a fireplace and had done the perfectly geometrical, stepping down to reach the fireplace and head at that point discovered the first known charcoal, usage, and remnants in the western world I think. But anyway, it was really cool because I got the tramp around with him and of course I’ve been an error 9:06 🎉headhunter since I was a kid on the farm in Indiana.

[@susprime7018]

Similar to a Shaker box, very nice video, thanks for the help to the little lady and thanks to "they that go down to the sea in ships."

[@FranssensM]

I like objects directly connected to a famous or identifiable person. I enjoy that link it gives us to history. Makes the object so much more important. Make sure you type all the information you can find on that person and their object. Then keep the notes and object together.

[@WondrousThingswithBrianFrench]

Thanks for sharing... the Satsuma Carp we talked about is on my KZbin page. Happy New Year!

[@tombesson7293]

A man of the sea, when ships were made of wood, and men were made if steel.

[@sigmundberntsen362]

Hello The box its is a "spon-eske" or "laup". Very common in Scandinavia. Was made in the winter and used to keep small things in. Made of chipboard. Greetings from Norway

[@bradbailey5807]

The box couldn't have gone to a better home. Did you establish an official provenance on the box for future reference? Just curious.

[@johnbowditch3706]

Hello! Nice article. I must correct you however. I am one of many direct descendants of Nathanial Bowditch. As you know, he had large family and his children married and had large families. I fact, I just met a distant cousin who is also a direct descendant. I am descended from his son Henry Ingersoll Bowditch. He was also an important person who was an ardent abolitionist and also an important physician.

[@PeterCombs]

Someon should have tiold Ms. Broadhead in Salem before she died..she was always saying "I'm the last leaf on the tree" I got to know her fairly well.

[@williamhalsall537]

After reading some of the comments here, I think you need to go more in depth on this subject😁. According to Bowditch, the scientific community had established established 1 knot = 1852 meters per hour a long time ago.