| rawleigh | Hi ,
For most of my childhood, I lived in a house only a few miles from where the Steamship Hungarian was wrecked. My father lived there all of his life, my grandfather lived there all of his life(1900 -1989), etc. The place is called The Hawk, I belive from another wreck. The Hawk is the most southerly land point in Nova Scotia, attached by causeway to an island called Cape Sable Island .(Not to be confused with "Sable Island,100 miles out to sea from Halifax ) . From The Hawk, a couple miles out is "The Cape", a 2-3 mile sand bar which has a Lighthouse and a couple of delapated old houses. The shoal waters east of The Cape are known as The Cape Ledges and amongst these shoals there is a spot known as Hungarian Rock. My father and grandfather were fishermen and lived by the sea and its shoals and ledges as a means of livelyhood.
As a boy I went to The Cape a few times a year with my father usually for "sheep shearing" , (people used to raise sheep there) and I remember having much fun playing in the dunes. My father used to go more often, hunting ducks and other things I guess.
Twenty-five years ago this past Christmas, my father and one fo his friends were on The Cape after a big storm and were walking back to their boat and my father spotted something reflecting the sunlight in the rocks. He went to investigate and retrived a (aprox.) 2 foot by 3 foot mirror with a handcarved wooden frame. He brought it home , my grandfather cleaned it up and I remember to this day seeing it hung in the entryway of our house.
We sold the house on The Hawk years later an moved. The mirror was put in a closet of the friends house and stayed there until this year when my father got it back from the friend. While the mirror was being stored the friend and someone from a local historic society were discussing the mirror and it was taken out to be looked at. The person form the historical society said that from the carvings, the place it was found etc. that it most likely from the wreck of the Hungarian. the most amazing thing is that the glass mirror was still intact along with the frame.
The frame and mirrors' authenticity would have to be verified by a professional , but my father wants to find out its worth$ for insurance or sale.
I have pictures and access to the mirror if anyone could help me to find out the infomation in its worth.
Thank-you
rawleigh |