SHIPWRECK ARTIFACTS, all with certificates

ARTIFACTS WANTED!  Just as I figured, most of the artifact supply has gone to my auctions, and there is not much out there anyway.

If you have any shipwreck artifacts for sale, please come to me for a fast, high offer or very favorable auction terms.

From an unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo:

Little is known about this wreck, which over the past few years has produced identical material to the Padre Island (TX) finds of the 1554 Fleet,

which is why some sellers refer to this as a 1554-Fleet shipwreck.

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December, 2007

Small pewter plate with encrustation, about 8¼" in diameter, with a 1¼"-wide brim around a slightly sunken center, intact except for a small piece of the rim missing, dark in color but with a large patch of white coral impregnated with fine green weed, very impressive.

$1,250

From the Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida:

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Small silver plate with two Philip IV tax stamps, a wonderful artifact both for its provenance (with original Fisher photo-certificate) and its markings, which are the same as the one pictured on page 33 of the catalog for the famous Christie's (New York) auction of June, 1988, consisting of lions and castles and pomegranate in a shield surrounded by the legend PHILIPPVS III HISPANI. Unlike the Christie's specimen, ours shows a clear king's name (but less of the center design) and it appears twice on the underside of the rim (which is completely intact), in one instance with a large X scratched over it in colonial times. The bowl itself has two large voids where the silver corroded away, plus a couple smaller holes, but the overall integrity of the piece is intact (doesn't "flop around"). Diameter is about 9" and the bowl  is about 1" deep.

From the Consolación (“Isla de Muerto shipwreck”), sunk in 1681 off Santa Clara Island, Ecuador:

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Iron mule shoes (basically horseshoes, but smaller), intact and professionally conserved, each with 8 square cavities for nailing (these apparently unused), all black and grainy, 1 left.

$175 each

From the 1715 Fleet, east coast of Florida:

040801101036		Large natural emerald, 73.6 carats. One of the largest shipwreck emeralds I have ever seen, a squarish lump (about 1" x 3/4" x ½") with lots of green color, but also very opaque and with brown, black and while colors as well, some light encrustation from the ocean, with photo-certificate.
040801101037		Large natural emerald, 30.7 carats, as above but smaller (about 3/4" x 3/4" x 1/4"), whiter and less encrusted, also with photo-certificate.
040801101038		Large natural emerald, 11.4 carats, smaller still (about 3/4" x 1/4" x 1/4"), but darker green, with some tan encrustation, also with photo-certificate.

From the San Gerónimo, sunk in 1751 off the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico:

010802131001	February, 2008	Huge pewter plate, totally encrusted with white and orange shell bits (quite neat), also fully intact except for a tiny pinhole, almost 14" in diameter and ¼"  tall, reportedly made by Burford & Greene (London, 1740s), according to research done by the salvager, but no markings visible.	$975
010802131002	February, 2008	Small pewter plate, totally encrusted with white and orange shell bits like the above (a perfect match), fully intact, same maker (no visible markings), about 8¾" in diameter and ¾" tall, no holes or flaws of any kind, a beautiful artifact to be sure.	$750
010802131003	February, 2008	Small pewter plate with only very light encrustation (whitish gray in color), same size and maker as above, 100% intact and impressive.	$750

From the Tounant, sunk in 1779 off Hispaniola:

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Small, two-handled earthenware bowl, completely encrusted and intact, roughly 7" in diameter and 3" tall, the wormy encrustation very attractive in texture but not too colorful (grayish tan), a very presentable and complete artifact from an important Revolutionary War-era French wreck.

$295

Not from shipwrecks, but related:

040801101071		Small Royal tax seal (lead), dated 1656, found at Portobello, Panama. Known in Spanish as plomos, small seals like this had coin-like designs and were used in great number in the old Spanish colonial port of Portobello in Panama, where the galleons anchored for massive fairs that took place upon their arrival in the late 1500s through early 1700s. This particular seal shows a castle in a small shield under a crown (all very bold) flanked by the date 16-56, the other side just four flattened holders, with piece of connector ribbon on the edge, all lightly dusted with white and tan encrustation.
050816011057		Tiny, round gold locket, probably late 1700s, found in the waters off Portobello, Panama. This cute piece consists of a hollow cup with a raised zig-zag rim, a tiny loop at the top and two hinge-loops on the bottom, two tiny holes in the back. One wonders just what was originally contained in the hollow cup:  a precious gem? a cameo?	$225