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Unidentified 12th- to 14th-century wreck in the Philippines
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Lot# 1845 |
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Large stoneware storage jar, encrusted as found.
2326 grams, 12" tall and 6-1/2" in diameter.
A tall vase with flat bottom and wide-rimmed mouth, tiny handles on shoulders, perfectly intact but with light encrustation all over (and small oysters inside), traces of dark glaze and orange clay showing through.
Estimate: $450-$700. |
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"Hoi An hoard," sunk in the late 1400s off Vietnam
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Lot# 1846 |
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Small, Annamese jarlet, blue-on-cream color, bird and plants design.
71 grams, 1-7/8" tall and 2-1/8" in diameter.
Common design with birds and plants on exterior, flower petals around mouth at top, otherwise all creamy white, with curious corkscrew mound in bottom inside, intact except for kiln defect (hole) on shoulder, the wreck found and salvaged in the 1990s, with most of it sold at auction by Butterfields in 2000.
Estimate: $125-$200. |
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Lot# 1847 |
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Small, Annamese jarlet, blue-on-cream color, bird and plants design.
55 grams, 1-3/4" tall and 2" in diameter.
Common design with birds and plants on exterior, flower petals around mouth at top, with curious corkscrew mound in bottom inside, the glaze and design somewhat eroded but with bits of original green overglaze adhering, intact except for small kiln defect (void) on shoulder, the wreck found and salvaged in the 1990s, with most of it sold at auction by Butterfields in 2000.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Unidentified 15th- to 16th-century wreck off Quezon Town, Palawan, Philippines
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Lot# 1848 |
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Chinese porcelain lidded powder-box, multi-colored floral design, Ming Dynasty, rare.
148 grams, 1-1/2" tall and 3-1/2" in diameter.
A common shape but rare with significant amounts of the original red and blue overglaze design remaining in addition to the usual blue (all on the top), the two pieces somewhat mismatched in tone and exact fit, tiny chips under rim, otherwise intact.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Unidentified slave ship sunk in 1553 off Portete, Ecuador
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Lot# 1849 |
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Lot of 2 brass spikes.
183 grams total, 6"-7" long.
Two spikes with square shanks and heads in bright brass, only very lightly corroded, important slave-ship provenance.
With photo-certificates from the salvagers.
Estimate: $80-$120. |
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Lot# 1850 |
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Lot of 2 brass spikes.
350 grams total, 6"-6-1/2" long.
One thick, round spike and the other with square shank and head, the latter cleaned and brassy but the former still lightly encrusted, important slave-ship provenance.
With photo-certificates from the salvagers.
Estimate: $80-$120. |
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Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida
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Lot# 1851 |
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Gold chain, 80 links, 158.6 grams.
19" long.
A wearable length of sturdy links of elegant ribbed design, the links alternating straight reeding with twisted, each one hand-made in a continuous line and then cut and bent into nearly oval shape, which the owner could easily bend back to cull out links and trade them as tax-free money (since jewelry was not taxed), exactly identical to lots 136-138 of the original Christie's Atocha auction in 1988, which sold for over $450 per link on average, the gold probably around 20K and a lovely patinated yellow in color.
With Fisher photo-certificate #51486-2.
Estimate: $25,000-$37,500. |
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Lot# 1852 |
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Large, natural, dark-green emerald, 10.52 carats.
An impressive nugget, almost spherical in shape and very dark green in color, with enough translucence possibly to be cut into usable gems, light encrustation in crevices, truly one of the best raw emeralds from this wreck we have ever seen.
With original Mel Fisher photo-certificate #85A-E139 and plastic tag.
Estimate: $3,000-$4,500. |
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Lot# 1853 |
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Natural emerald, 2.75 carats.
Dark color and classic crystal shape (hexagonal cross-section), much higher grade than most, with some slightly translucent parts and whitish matrix at one end.
With original Fisher certificate #LE8163.
Estimate: $500-$750. |
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Lot# 1854 |
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Natural emerald, 2.5 carats.
Rough crystal but still naturally hexagonal in cross-section, nice medium green color and typically opaque, better than most.
With Fisher certificate #LE1325.
Estimate: $300-$450. |
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Lot# 1855 |
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Natural emerald, 1.75 carats.
A triangular wedge of very light color and thorough opacity, very whitish also from encrustation.
With Fisher certificate #63219.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Lot# 1856 |
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Natural emerald, 1.42 carats.
Light-green pebble with whitish areas, completely opaque, very typical for this wreck.
With Fisher certificate #62402.
Estimate: $150-$225. |
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Lot# 1857 |
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Natural emerald, 1.09 carats.
A small sliver of somewhat translucent and only slightly green crystal, very typical for this wreck.
With Fisher certificate #62376.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1858 |
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Natural emerald, about 1.5 carats, certificate missing.
A shiny, opaque crystal of very light green, very typical for this wreck, with original numbered tag but no certificate.
With TSI plastic tag #1625.
Estimate: $75-$110. |
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Lot# 1859 |
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Large and intact silver candlestick holder and heavy, round base, marked with crown in beaded circle.
467 grams, 10" tall and about 6-1/2" in diameter.
Very impressive artifact, solid and heavy and fully intact, with 7"-long stem of graduated-ring design screwed into a wide, tall, round base that bears a faint but distinctive crown marking on the bottom rim (showing tax paid), with small dents and splits, the surfaces only very lightly corroded and lightly toned, a significant item that originally sold for $5,280 in 1988.
With Fisher photo-certificate #696+2061 (base and neck), water-damaged (from hurricane Wilma), and pedigreed to the Christie's Atocha auction of June 1988.
Estimate: $3,500-$5,000.
NOTE:
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crown tax mark on this piece matches marks seen on 1649-52 cob 8 reales from
Potosí that were recovered from the Capitana (1654), and it is
attributed to Lima, Peru, in the book Marcas de Platería Hispanoamericana,
Siglos XVI-XX, by Cristina Esteras Martín. |
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Lot# 1860 |
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Lot of silver spoon in 2 pieces with 1 lead musketball (no certificate).
The spoon 18.3 grams and about 3" x 1-1/2", the musketball 47.6 grams and 3/4" in diameter.
Broken and corroded but recognizable spoon in shiny silver, no markings visible, along with a plain (lightly encrusted) musketball.
With TSI plastic tag #1168.
Estimate: $75-$110. |
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Lot# 1861 |
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Small, encrusted iron cannonball.
633 grams, 3" in diameter.
Intact ball surrounded by whitish encrustation and the outlines of two other balls, rusty but solid and stable.
With non-Fisher photo-certificate.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Lot# 1862 |
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Lot of 2 replica items: a small, gold, sword-shaped toothpick made to look like ones found on the wreck; and a small, rectangular silver bar with markings made from silver taken from an original (large) ingot.
8.9 grams total, each about 1-1/4" long.
These two souvenirs were purchased at a traveling show in Washington State (which demonstrates how far and wide the Atocha popularity has reached across the country), both fairly often-seen items, the toothpick ornate and attractive but the little silver ingot (with markings like on the real bars on one side and "ATOCHA 1622" on the other) rather crude and starting to tone.
Estimate: $40-$60. |
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Unidentified Spanish wreck of the 1600s in the lower Florida Keys
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Lot# 1863 |
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Small majolica bowl, intact but slightly encrusted.
118 grams, 4" in diameter and 1-1/2" tall.
Small, ashtray-sized bowl in red earthenware coated with blue and white glaze, thickly encrusted inside with whitish coral, chips and wear here and there but fundamentally intact.
Estimate: $70-$100. |
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Mid-1600s wreck off South America
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Lot# 1864 |
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Bronze astrolabe in exceptional condition, dated 1656, maker Agostinho de Goes Raposo (Lisbon), alidade intact.
2425 grams, 6-1/2" in diameter and 3/4" thick.
Consisting of a graduated circle with a rotating alidade in the center, all in thick, sturdy bronze, this astrolabe was used to determine latitude by measuring the sun's altitude using vertical angles. Holding the instrument by its top ring (missing on this piece) so that the astrolabe would suspend vertically, the navigator could turn the alidade to point to the sun at noontime and read off the angle and therefore the latitude from the scale around the ring. Such instruments are quite rare today and are meticulously cataloged by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, whose records in the 1988 reference book by Alan Stimson The Mariner's Astrolabe reported that only 65 were known to exist at the time. We estimate that probably no more than a dozen or so have come to light since then, and the present specimen is making its first appearance. What is most significant about this piece is that on the semi-circular structure at the bottom one can make out both a date (16-56 flanking an undeciphered central marking) and the maker's name GOYS in the outer ring at the very bottom. For now the details emanate weakly from underneath a lovely tan and green patina all over, as it is still uncleaned; but careful conservation at this point could reveal one of the best preserved salvaged specimens of all time, especially since the often-missing alidade is intact (its sights just bent inward slightly). For comparison (albeit with much more significant provenance), the four astrolabes from the Atocha (1622) sold in 1988 (Christie's) for an average of $87,450 each!
Estimate: $35,000-$50,000. |
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Unidentified 17th-century wreck off Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines
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Lot# 1865 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain plate (large), late Ming Dynasty, koi fish motif, 6 Chinese characters on base.
1758 grams, 13-1/2" in diameter.
Large and lovely shallow bowl, with vivid blue design featuring 3 carp and several tadpoles in the center, floral design all around and on the 1" rim, no exterior design except for Chinese characters on base, perfectly intact, the glaze somewhat matte in texture.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0094403.
Estimate: $600-$900. |
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Lot# 1866 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain jar (large), late Ming Dynasty, flowers motif (dark blue).
2880 grams, 10-1/2" tall.
A large, bulbous, wide-mouthed and flat-bottomed vase with dark blue floral design coating the entire exterior, brown on the bottom, perfectly intact and with lustrous glaze.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0090832.
Estimate: $500-$750. |
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Lot# 1867 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain jar (medium), late Ming Dynasty, birds and flowers motif.
1881 grams, 8-1/4" tall.
Lovely large vase with wide mouth and flat base, floral design on exterior with one tall bird (pheasant?) and two small birds (hummingbirds?) around a plant, perfectly intact and with lustrous glaze.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0090831.
Estimate: $450-$650. |
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Lot# 1868 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain jar (small), late Ming Dynasty, flowers motif (dark blue), with maker's mark rabbit on base.
1063 grams, 7-1/2" tall.
Gorgeous light-blue design all over (blue fields, white flowers), perfectly intact and with lustrous glaze, the interior showing how it was made from two joined parts.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0090828.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1869 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain jar (small), late Ming Dynasty, 4 people motif, with maker's mark rabbit on base.
1179 grams, 7-1/2" tall.
Basket-weave pattern with four flowers on shoulders above scene with four very differently dressed humans, deep base, perfectly intact and with lustrous glaze, the interior showing how it was made from two joined parts.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0090087.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1870 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain jar (small), late Ming Dynasty, dragons motif, with maker's mark rabbit on base.
962 grams, 6-1/2" tall.
Basket-weave pattern with four flowers on shoulders above scene with two dragons in flight, perfectly intact and with lustrous glaze.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0090827.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1871 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain jar (small), late Ming Dynasty, plants motif, with maker's mark rabbit on base.
1007 grams, 6-1/4" tall.
Basket-weave pattern with four flowers on shoulders above scene with three different plants, perfectly intact and with lustrous glaze, with silvery overglaze remaining here and there.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0090957.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1872 |
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Blue-and-white Chinese porcelain jar (small), late Ming Dynasty, horse and birds motif, with maker's mark rabbit on base.
1263 grams, 6-1/4" tall.
Basket-weave pattern with four flowers on shoulders above scene with horse and two large birds in flight among plants, perfectly intact and with lustrous glaze.
With Philippines National Museum sticker #0090953.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Sacramento, sunk in 1668 off the Bay of All Saints, Brazil
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Lot# 1873 |
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Small, bulbous, earthenware pitcher.
434 grams, 7" tall.
Cute little decanter with pinched-lip rim and simple handle, flat bottom, all tan now but with traces of original green glaze and some minor encrustation, intact except for chips in rim and base.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Lot# 1874 |
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Lot of miscellaneous brass and lead items, including large bottle caps (6), large knobs (4) and small, cap-like ornaments (12).
862 grams total.
Sundry lot of encrusted (uncleaned) items, all intact for what they are, nice for individual resale.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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1681 Fleet off Panama (Boticaria site)
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Lot# 1875 |
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Gold locket pendant case.
10.1 grams, 1-7/8" in diameter.
Bright and lustrous, high-grade gold, thin and round, believed to be the back of a locket (probably a reliquary), with loop at top for suspension, with floral design in center and scalloped edge, very impressive.
Estimate: $1,000-$1,500. |
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Lot# 1876 |
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Gold ring with green gemstone (possibly an emerald).
2.1 grams, size 7-1/4.
Thin and crude, high-karat, gold-wire ring with approximately 2-carat, translucent, dark-green stone that looks like an emerald but seems too high grade for the setting, also with scratches in the stone's surface, but passable in any case, especially in the 17th century.
Estimate: $600-$900. |
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Lot# 1877 |
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Gold ring with 3 small green gemstones (possibly emeralds).
2.8 grams, size 6.
Medium-gauge, high-karat, gold-wire ring with rectangular top embedded with three small (approx. 1 carat each), translucent, green stones (one with small chip), one of them slightly darker than the others.
Estimate: $600-$900. |
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Lot# 1878 |
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Lot of 2 gold rings (one broken) with crystal stones (one colored red, the other clear).
4.5 grams and size 6-1/2 (clear); 3.1 grams and size 5-1/2 (red).
The first of these rings bears a square, faceted, clear stone of about 3 carats held by a ribbed-side bezel on a flat-ribbon band that is somewhat disfigured and separated, the gold clearly high grade; the second and smaller ring has a more ornate, leafy design (also high-grade gold) with small (approx. 1 carat), square, faceted, purplish-red stone at top.
Estimate: $800-$1,200. |
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Lot# 1879 |
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Gold ring with red-orange stone.
6.7 grams, size 7-1/4.
Simple but heavy-gauge gold-wire ring with large, round stone in top that is opaque and dark orange in color but somewhat shattered.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1880 |
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Gold ring with gray stone.
2.7 grams, size 5-1/4.
Flat, ribbon-like band of high-grade gold with flower-like bezel at top containing a flat, round grayish stone or porcelain with faint blue cross-like design.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1881 |
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Ornate gold filigree earring (large).
4.6 grams, 1-3/4" x 1-1/8".
Intricate, spade-shaped design with 4 wire hangers (one missing) below and shepherd's crook on back, with tiny posts protruding, the posts and hangers probably once holding tiny pearls (now missing), rather attractive for its ornateness and in high-grade gold.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1882 |
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Ornate gold filigree earring (smaller).
2.4 grams, 1-1/8" x 1-1/8".
Somewhat circular design (the top loop of it open for piercing through the earlobe), with 5 wire hangers below (plain back) and tiny posts protruding, the hangers and posts probably once holding tiny pearls (now missing), attractively ornate in high-grade gold.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1883 |
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Gold earring (snake design).
1.0 gram, 3/4" in diameter.
Circular wire with one end terminating in a sharp point and the other shaped and etched to look like a snake or fish with large lips, simple hole added at top to use as a pendant instead, all in high-grade gold.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Lot# 1884 |
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Silver reliquary pendant with clay Madonna figure inside.
33.3 grams, 2-3/8" x 1-3/4" x 3/8".
Oval, thin-walled locket with separate lid that shows the letter S and some design, the double-walled inside containing a clay figurine that is shattered but nearly all there, loop at top, dark silver with no surface corrosion.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Lot# 1885 |
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Silver reliquary half with clay figure inside.
12.0 grams, about 1-3/4" x 1-1/4".
Thin-walled oval locket half with crowned-MR monogram design on the outside, the inside with Madonna figure in clay, the silver part broken.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1886 |
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Lot of 2 small silver reliquary halves.
8.5 grams total, each about 1-3/8" in diameter.
Matching halves of a round, thin-walled locket, the exteriors showing a design of a large S on one side and a pomegranate on the other, cracked and split but fundamentally intact, bright silver color.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1887 |
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Large silver plate with hallmark.
820 grams, 11-1/2" in diameter.
Big plate with wide (1-3/4" rim), on the underside of which is a large M and an unidentified oval mark, intact except for small holes all over, toned silver color.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1888 |
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Smaller silver plate with hallmark.
570 grams, 9-1/4" in diameter.
Impressively intact plate with wide (1-1/2") rim, on the bottom of which is a large M and an oval mark that looks like a crown above the initials G G A, silvery in color and texture (professionally conserved), one small crack in rim.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1889 |
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Set of 3 silver cups.
209 grams total, each about 2-5/8" in diameter and 2" tall.
Very plain but well-preserved cups with thin walls, flat bottoms with Jerusalem crosses thinly engraved in centers, bright silver with light toning, no corrosion at all.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1890 |
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Top of a silver sand or salt cellar.
17.8 grams, 1-7/8" long.
Minaret-like round finial with screw base and holes in sides, intact except for a few minor corrosion holes, very cute, identical to ones found on the Atocha (1622).
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Lot# 1891 |
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Large, English pewter spoon with 1652 Tudor rose hallmark.
85.5 grams, 8" long.
A flattened spoon with full hallmark at end of handle showing the Tudor rose below date in crown, very solid and intact.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Lot# 1892 |
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Brass spoon with ornate design.
30.9 grams, 6-1/4" long.
Unmarked but fully intact spoon with ornate floral design engraved on bottom of bowl, bright brass color with luster, thin handle with some design as well.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Lot# 1893 |
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Pewter inkwell.
671 grams, 2-5/8" x 2-1/4" x 2-3/4".
Wonderfully intact artifact, a neat cube with central cup surrounded by holes at corners, no markings but nice lustrous surfaces with a modicum of encrustation in crevices.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Lot# 1894 |
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Pewter candlestick holder.
272 grams, about 4-1/2" x 4" x 3-1/2".
Square base with integrated upright portion, intact except for small missing pieces of base and splits, minimal design, matte gray color.
Estimate: $40-$60. |
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Lot# 1895 |
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Pewter ingot cut in half.
15 lb 6 oz, 9-1/4" x 4-3/8" x 2-1/2".
A heavy half-ingot, cast like a silver "torta" and very silver in color (especially where the perfect half-cut was made), but unfortunately just pewter, uncorroded and unencrusted and devoid of any markings, now useful as a bookend or weight.
Estimate: $80-$120. |
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Lot# 1896 |
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Small pewter pitcher, encrusted.
259 grams, 4-1/2" tall and 3" in diameter.
Fundamentally intact (and very cute!) but with holes and encrusted, with thin handle attached to lid at top (fused shut).
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Lot# 1897 |
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Lot of 2 large bronze bowls.
1094 grams total, each about 11-1/2" wide and 3" tall.
Two large, thin-walled bowls (one circular and one oval) in dark brass with 1" rims, concentric-circle pattern inside and out, a bit chipped and wrinkled and holed but fundamentally intact, very hat-like in appearance.
Estimate: $70-$100. |
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Lot# 1898 |
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Bronze ship's bell.
About 23 lb, 10" tall and 9" in diameter.
Bells from shipwrecks are in same category of price and importance (more or less) as bronze cannons, as they are large and heavy but recognizable and rare, as typically each ship only had one bell. This bell is relatively small, so perhaps the ship was also small or the bell had another purpose, but in any case it is intact (just missing part of the hanger at top and of course the clapper inside) and solid, with surface corrosion (no visible markings) inside and out, natural bronze color with some patina and nearly black spots where not so corroded, impressive for display.
Estimate: $2,500-$3,750. |
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Lot# 1899 |
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Bronze mortar and pestle.
14 lb total, the mortar 6-1/2" in diameter and 4-3/4" tall, the pestle 9-1/4" long.
A large, flat-bottomed mug and round-tipped bar used for grinding medicines, no design or markings but perfectly intact (just the surfaces a little corroded and some encrustation on the bottom), heavy and significant artifact, and somewhat rare as a matching set.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1900 |
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Brass pestle.
564 grams, 8-1/4" long.
Solid brass bar with rounded end for mashing medicines or spices (for example) in a mortar, the other end a handle (unlike most, which have both ends rounded), light corrosion only.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Lot# 1901 |
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Lot of 3 brass candlestick parts.
402 grams total, diameters around 4-1/2".
Two large bases (one round and tall, darkly toned and encrusted inside, the other octagonal and fairly clean) and one screw-type stem (darkly patinated).
Estimate: $150-$225. |
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Lot# 1902 |
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Set of 4 brass nested weights.
363 grams, 2" in diameter and 1-1/4" tall overall.
A plain and incomplete set of cup-weights that nest one inside the other, one encrusted but the others clean, with light surface corrosion.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Lot# 1903 |
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Brass navigational dividers.
35.3 grams, 4-3/8" long.
Impressively intact, even with one point still sharp (the tip of the other broken), with design at top of laterally intersecting ovals, still openable, lustrous brass color all over.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1904 |
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Lot of 4 clumps of brass pins and thimbles.
93 grams total.
Four attractive lumps of whitish, shelly encrustation with pins sticking out and several intact thimbles protruding, nice display.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1905 |
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Pair of small brass cannonballs (rare).
1612 grams total, each about 2-1/3" in diameter.
First examples we have seen of SMALL cannonballs in brass, which is scarce even in larger sizes, both in solid condition with only minor pitting and some green encrustation.
Estimate: $400-$600. |
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Lot# 1906 |
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Bronze musketball mold (rare) with 7 lead musketballs.
950 grams total, the mold 3-3/8" x 2-5/8" x 1".
This small mold is the first of its kind we have seen, basically one of a series of blocks with matching circular depressions on both sides for several sizes of balls, with perpendicular channels along rim on one side, accompanied by a sampling of musketballs.
Estimate: $150-$225. |
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Lot# 1907 |
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Earthenware olive jar (spherical).
7 lb 2 oz, 10-1/2" tall and 8-1/2" in diameter.
Fully intact, with somewhat greenish (and lustrous) surfaces with minor encrustation, great for display.
Estimate: $250-$375. |
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Lot# 1908 |
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Cinnabar mineral.
230 grams, roughly 2-1/4" x 2" x 1".
A sizable chunk of scarlet-color mineral of striated texture, known as the primary ore of mercury, which of course was critical for separating gold from rock, rare to see from a shipwreck.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Lot# 1909 |
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Small section of sturdy cloth with design (rare).
5.1 grams, 4-1/2" long.
Thick, brownish burlap with some dark design, just a small section but rare to see ANY cloth survive the immersion.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Joanna, sunk in 1682 off South Africa
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Lot# 1910 |
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Rack of 6 lead "half" musketballs from mold.
157.4 grams, 5-1/2" x 1-1/8".
Six large musketball halves in their original mold, rare to see like this and especially scarce from this wreck, lightly encrusted.
With original certificate from the salvagers.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Lot# 1911 |
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Lot of lead musketballs and "half" musketballs in racks (from mold) plus lead bottle cap.
162 grams total.
Fascinating items showing how (at least some) musketballs were molded and how bottles were sealed, somewhat scarce from this wreck.
With original certificates from the salvagers.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Princess Maria, sunk in 1686 off the Scilly Isles, southwest of England
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Lot# 1912 |
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Clay smoking pipe.
13.2 grams, 4-1/4" long.
Dainty little pipe with small bowl and long stem (all intact but typically broken off at mouth end), all white in color, with flower-like mark on base and reeding around rim, first we have offered from this wreck, a Dutch East Indiaman that sank in a storm and triggered a fascinating episode between King James II (whose interest in shipwreck salvaging is well known, for example in the 1687 venture of William Phipps and the Concepcion wreck of 1641) and the Dutch government over the wreck and its contents.
With certificate from the salvagers.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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From the sunken city of Port Royal, Jamaica (submerged by earthquake in 1694).
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Lot# 1913 |
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Small, brass shoe buckle.
8.4 grams, 1-1/2" x 1-1/8".
Rectangular buckle of a simple design, with inner hasp parts intact, very coppery in color with green patina, popular provenance.
With Robert Marx certificate.
Estimate: $40-$60. |
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Merestein, sunk in 1702 off South Africa
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Lot# 1914 |
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Gold filigree button and bead.
3.1 grams total.
Ornate button, about 1/2" in diameter, sort of a flattened sphere of curlicues, with back-loop intact but bent, along with a matching-design fine bead (much smaller), both evidently in high-grade gold.
With original certificate from the salvagers.
Estimate: $125-$200. |
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Association, sunk in 1707 off the Scilly Isles, southwest of England
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Lot# 1915 |
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Set of 4 brass disk-type weights.
2022 grams total, largest diameter about 4".
Brightly cleaned brass disks of various sizes, all with shallow rim around the top (to keep them from sliding around) but otherwise rather flat and plain (no markings), probably used in pan scales, desirable pedigree.
Pedigreed to the Roland Morris Museum (David Lay auction of May 22, 2002), with World Treasure Books photo-certificate.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1916 |
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Two fragments of a bronze compass ring.
50.4 grams, 5-1/2" long in total.
One long piece and one short one, both with numeric scale visible, once the outer ring of a large compass of a design known as an overhead or "tell-tale" compass that hung above the captain's bunk, which in this case means it was probably the one being used when the ship struck the rocks, desirable pedigree.
Pedigreed to the Roland Morris Museum (David Lay auction of May 22, 2002), with World Treasure Books photo-certificate.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Bennebroek, sunk in 1713 off South Africa
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Lot# 1917 |
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Chinese Kangxi blue-on-white porcelain teapot lid, top missing, rare provenance.
31.7 grams, 2" in diameter.
Cute little lid, round and intact except for the top knob, decorated with blue flowers in a style familiar to those who collect porcelains from the Spanish 1715 and 1733 Fleets, rare from this Dutch wreck, a homebound East Indiaman sunk with a cargo of pepper and porcelains, rare provenance.
With original certificate from the salvagers.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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1715 Fleet, east coast of Florida
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Lot# 1918 |
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Gold ring with amethyst.
4.2 grams, size 1-3/4.
This simple but impressive ring bears a large (3-4 carats), rectangular (emerald cut), deep-purple amethyst set in a diagonal orientation (popular in the 1700s) on a simple, high-grade gold-wire ring of medium gauge, ready to wear, but only if you have tiny fingers!
From the area of the "Corrigans wreck" site, with Sedwick photo-certificate from 2007 and featured on the back cover of our Treasure Auction #2 (October, 2007) catalog.
Estimate: $3,500 -$5,000 . |
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Lot# 1919 |
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Extra large natural emerald, 73.6 carats.
Roughly 1-3/16" x 15/16" x 1/2".
Boxy green rock with lots of tan, black and white inclusions, also some glinting mica, very raw and natural.
With Frank Noga certificate.
Estimate: $600-$900. |
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Lot# 1920 |
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Very large natural emerald, 30.7 carats.
Roughly 3/4" x 3/4" x 3/8".
Squarish rock of opaque light green with veneer of white sediment all over, very raw and natural.
With Frank Noga certificate.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1921 |
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Large natural emerald, 11.4 carats.
Roughly 3/4" x 3/8" x 3/8".
Small section of a wide, somewhat triangular crystal, with two smooth faces and one rough, lots of dark green color but completely opaque, with brown sediment in crevices, very raw and natural.
With Frank Noga certificate.
Estimate: $200-$350. |
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Lot# 1922 |
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Silver candlestick holder piece.
46.8 grams, 1-1/2" tall and 1" in diameter.
Short but complete upright portion of a candlestick holder (missing the base, which screwed into a hole in the bottom of this part), perfectly intact and solid, attractive for its size.
With Fisher photo-certificate #68172 and yellow plastic tag.
Estimate: $250-$375. |
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Lot# 1923 |
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Iron hand grenade without fuse.
767 grams, 1-1/2" in diameter.
This is basically a small cannonball, smooth and matte black from professional conservation, cast with a hole in the side and void inside into which gunpowder was inserted and topped with a wooden fuse, completely intact.
With photo-certificate.
Estimate: $300-$450. |
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Lot# 1924 |
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Small iron cannonball, professionally conserved.
1 lb 3.2 oz, 2" in diameter.
Intact and matte black from conservation, with golfball-like pits in surface, desirable size in between a grapeshot and the typical cannonball size.
With Sedwick certificate from 2004.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Lot# 1925 |
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Large section of crumpled copper sheeting.
2 lb 4 oz, 18" x 5" x 3".
Crushed into the shape and size of a large sub sandwich, this artifact once coated the hull of a ship, with square nail-holes still in evidence, now encrusted with small shell bits and green patina.
With original Fisher photo-certificate #17334.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1926 |
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Bronze keyhole strike-plate.
11.5 grams, 1-3/4" x 1-1/2".
Flat, oval escutcheon with square hole in center and 3 small, round holes near the edge, plain but intact.
Estimate: $25-$40. |
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Lot# 1927 |
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Small, brass spike.
92 grams, 5-1/8" long.
A straight spike with square head and shank, the pointed tip of which is brightly brassy, the rest lightly encrusted and darker.
From the Corrigans site, with Sinclair photo-certificate #99A-022.
Estimate: $25-$40. |
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Lot# 1928 |
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Lot of 2 small, bronze buckles.
6.4 grams, 7/8" x 3/4" each.
Two plain, simple buckles, one squarish and the other more rounded, dark and uncleaned.
Beach finds near Cabin wreck.
Estimate: $25-$40. |
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"Ca Mau wreck," sunk ca. 1723-35 off Vietnam
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Lot# 1929 |
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Blue-on-white Chinese porcelain teapot with lid, fluted melon shape.
335 grams, 4-1/2" tall and 5-1/2" wide.
A perfect little teapot with lid, handle and spout, the floral motif with birds very typical of Kangxi that is seen from the Spanish 1715 and 1733 Fleets, with just a tiny bit of encrustation in the spout, 100% intact.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1930 |
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Blue-on-white Chinese porcelain teapot with lid, 8-paneled design and shape.
332 grams, 5" tall and about 5" wide.
Small but attractive little teapot with 8 long panels depicting different floral scenes, matching design on lid (which is not a perfect match, as it is more vivid in color), smaller designs on handle and spout, intact except for a small chip in rim and on spout.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Conde de Tolosa, sunk in 1724 off the Dominican Republic
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Lot# 1931 |
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Small, ivory telescope, intact and rare.
76.9 grams, 5" long and 1" in diameter.
Very interesting short tube of ivory with original lenses (now opaque and no longer functional), assembled and reassembled by threads in the ivory reinforced by (corroded) brass rings, intact except for cracks on one piece, first such artifact we have ever seen and one of very few artifacts available from this wreck.
With Pieces of Eight (Captiva, FL) certificate.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1932 |
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Small, bronze prayer pendant depicting St. Bartholomew.
3.0 grams, 1-3/4" long.
Highly detailed charm showing the saint in a triangular robe terminating at bottom in a sword handle, halo at top, cast with a loop on back, dark but perfectly intact.
With Pieces of Eight (Captiva, FL) certificate.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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La Genovesa, sunk in 1730 on the Pedro Shoals near Jamaica
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Lot# 1933 |
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Small, ornate, bronze cross recovered by Art McKee.
3.2 grams, 1-3/4" x 1".
As described in the late Bob "Frogfoot" Weller's excellent book Galleon Hunt, the famous treasure diver Art McKee searched for many years for this Caribbean wreck before he located it in 1979 and salvaged items from it, including this small, double-armed cross with Jesus and SALVATOR MVNDI on one side and Mary with MATER DEI on the other side, loop at top for use as a pendant, coppery in color, fully intact with only very light surface pits.
With Kevin McKee (son of Art) photo-certificate from 1993.
Estimate: $75-$110. |
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1733 Fleet, Florida Keys
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Lot# 1934 |
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Highly ornate gold ribbon-pin reliquary with Madonna inside oval.
12.1 grams, about 1-3/4" x 1-1/2".
One of the most significant gold artifacts found on the 1733 Fleet, this beautiful jewel shows the praying Madonna in radiate design inside a perfectly oval bezel surrounded by a floral wreath, the bezel probably once holding glass and containing (behind the Madonna on the back) a holy relic of some sort, all suspended from an ornate bowtie ribbon in lighter gold with horizontal pin on back, fully intact except missing a hanging piece on the bottom, lightly dusted all over with white encrustation, an important museum piece whose religious significance deserves to be further researched.
With Sinclair photo-certificate #1733-103 and Sedwick certificate from May 8, 2006 and pedigreed to our Treasure Auction #1 (May, 2007).
Estimate: $3,500-$5,000. |
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Lot# 1935 |
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Heart-shaped pewter locket/reliquary.
21.2 grams, about 1-3/4" x 1".
Very solid and heavy, but plain and unadorned, this fused-shut locket is believed to contain a relic of some sort, the remains of which you can still hear moving inside if you shake it, made in the form of a heart with tall stem with hole for suspension, its dark gray surfaces still somewhat glossy.
From the Capitana El Rubi and pedigreed to the Art McKee treasure museum, with McKee photo-certificate.
Estimate: $350-$500. |
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Lot# 1936 |
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Ornate silver officer's button with Bourbon coat-of-arms and initials G and C.
1.8 grams, 1" in diameter.
The top part of a hemispherical button, perfectly intact, with oval arms below crown flanked by G and C in script letters, with traces of purplish enamel, missing the back (with loop), lightly encrusted there instead.
With Kevin McKee (son of Art) photo-certificate from 1993.
Estimate: $40-$60. |
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Lot# 1937 |
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Three shards of a large, bronze, ship's bell, recovered by Art McKee.
2751 grams, various sizes up to about 4" x 4".
Large, thick, sharp fragments of a cracked bell, all more or less encrusted and patinated, significant as unique to each ship, but lacking the ship's name anywhere.
With Kevin McKee (son of Art) photo-certificate from 1993.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1938 |
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Small, bronze cross, perfectly intact.
2.4 grams, 1-1/4" x 3/4".
Thin, flat cross with crucified Christ on front (robed saint on other side), ring and loop at top for wearing as a pendant, uncleaned and lightly encrusted.
From the Capitana El Rubi.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Lot# 1939 |
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Small, porcelain figurine.
12.5 grams, 1-1/2" x 1".
Whitish, glazed porcelain miniature of a cross-legged seated person with one hand on chest, broken at top and bottom but still recognizable, with hollow bottom, light veneer of encrustation.
From the Capitana El Rubi.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Lot# 1940 |
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Small, lead sounding weight.
273 grams, 2-7/8" tall.
A typically tall, cone-shaped weight with hole in top for suspending from a cord and dropping overboard till slack in order to check depth, with small depression in bottom for holding a piece of wax to simultaneously check the sand composition, intact and lightly encrusted.
From the Capitana El Rubi.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Lot# 1941 |
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Lot of 5 small, lead musket-balls.
1333 grams total, each about 1/2"-3/4" in diameter.
Simple spherical bullets in a variety of sizes and colors of encrustation, always popular.
From the Capitana El Rubi.
Estimate: $25-$40. |
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Lot# 1942 |
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Lead scupper drain encrusted with 5 lead musketballs.
695 grams, 5" in diameter.
Neat little display of musketballs in sandy encrustation (mostly tan with some pink), somewhat cupped in place by a round lead drain with ring on top, very sturdy and solid.
With Kevin McKee (son of Art) photo-certificate from 1993.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Lot# 1943 |
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Boar tusk.
7.6 grams, 3" long.
A long, curved tooth, crudely broken at mouth end (point end intact) and with light encrustation to prove its centuries under the water, the host animal probably there as food for the long journey.
From the Capitana El Rubi.
Estimate: $25-$40. |
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Vliegenthart, sunk in 1735 off Zeeland, the Netherlands
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Lot# 1944 |
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Onion bottle with original wine inside.
1300 grams, 7" tall and 5-1/4" in diameter.
This wreck is one of very few that have yielded original wine, preserved in intact onion bottles packed tightly in a pattern with half of them right-side-up and half upside-down. They say that the wine in the bottles that came to rest upside-down, so that their corks remained imbued with wine, is still drinkable, whereas the others are basically vinegar... but you would have to open each one to know which is which! This bottle shows lots of beautiful flaking of the glass (a consequence of the wine inside), through which you can see the wine sloshing around, with the cork at top sealed tight with modern glue, a rare and fascinating artifact and perfect for the crossover enthusiast in wines and treasure!
With generic certificate from the salvagers.
Estimate: $700-$1,000 . |
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Reijgersdaal, sunk in 1747 off South Africa
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Lot# 1945 |
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Lot of 5 lead musketballs from springshots, with wire intact.
124 grams total.
Two complete springshot pairs (a little bent but intact) and one half with most of the wire and with some thick encrustation, scarce items and rare provenance.
With original certificates from the salvagers.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Unidentified wrecks of the 1700s(?)
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Lot# 1946 |
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English "black glass" onion bottle, early 1700s.
629 grams, 6" diameter and 7" tall.
Dark green bottle with somewhat pearlized interior but no cracks that we can see, mostly smooth exterior, intact and great for display.
Estimate: $150-$225. |
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Lot# 1947 |
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Large, encrusted, iron cuphilt rapier handle.
1076 grams, roughly 7" x 5" x 4-1/2".
This interesting item dramatically demonstrates how items can "grow" from oxidation, as it is still in its original shape but all puffed up from oxidation, very solid and stable, with sandy orange surfaces.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Lot# 1948 |
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Cylindrical lead weight with bold stamps on top.
1910 grams, 2" tall and 2-7/8" in diameter.
A plain cylinder of lead but with 3 bold stamps on top that appear to be side-by-side coats-of-arms (unidentified) above something in a circle, dark surfaces with white encrustation, significance unknown.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Lot# 1949 |
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Large, lignum vitae deadeye with iron cuff and bolt (lightly encrusted).
9 lb 4 oz, about 9" x 7" x 4".
Impressively well preserved, with some original wood surfaces surrounded by white-encrusted iron parts, small rock lodged inside one of the "eyes," a neat display with unfortunately nebulous provenance.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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Dodington, sunk in 1755 off South Africa
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Lot# 1950 |
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Lot of 3 pairs of brass knife handles (ornate).
35 grams total, each about 3" long.
Six thin, flat side-plates for knife handles, dark and slightly encrusted as uncleaned, but completely intact and somewhat ornate, rare provenance.
With original certificates from the salvagers.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Leimuiden, sunk in 1770 off the Cape Verde Islands, west of Africa
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Lot# 1951 |
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Lot of 7 small glass beads.
7 grams total, each about 3/8" in diameter.
Colored beads faceted to look like gems in a variety of colors (blue, green and yellow), very rare provenance, first we have had from this wreck, which ran aground off Boa Vista on January 1, 1770.
With original certificate from the salvagers, stating the date of the wreck (erroneously) as 1747.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Scipion, sunk in 1782 off the Dominican Republic
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Lot# 1952 |
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Small, brass, officer's uniform button with "14" on front.
6.1 grams, 1" in diameter.
Flat, round button with clear numeral on front, the back plain with 4-holed post, dark but intact.
With original Caribe Salvage certificate (1977).
Estimate: $35-$50. |
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Lot# 1953 |
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Large, brass uniform button with encrustation on back.
14.2 grams, 1-1/8" in diameter.
Thick, somewhat hemispherical button with rope-like pattern in concentric circles on front, the back thickly encrusted with dark crud, the loop bent over.
With original Caribe Salvage certificate (1977).
Estimate: $35-$50. |
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Lot# 1954 |
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Small, brass uniform button with anchor on front.
2.6 grams, 3/4" in diameter.
Dark and lightly corroded but fundamentally intact, with anchor faintly visible on front, loop in back.
With original Caribe Salvage certificate (1977).
Estimate: $35-$50. |
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Lot# 1955 |
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Small, encrusted, brass shoe buckle.
13.0 grams, 1-5/8" x 1-1/4".
Simple, somewhat rectangular buckle with thick encrustation around central hasp, mostly dark.
With original Caribe Salvage certificate (1977).
Estimate: $35-$50. |
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Hartwell, sunk in 1787 off the Cape Verde Islands, west of Africa
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Lot# 1956 |
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Gold-plated pocket-watch, intact but encrusted.
153 grams, about 2" in diameter.
Very crusty but easily recognizable and with lots of shiny gold peeking through the sandy white, green and tan encrustation, also with original parts still rattling around inside.
With original certificate from the salvagers.
Estimate: $75-$110. |
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HMS Colossus, sunk in 1798 off the Scilly Isles, southwest of England
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Lot# 1957 |
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Iron grapeshot.
94 grams, 1-3/8" in diameter.
Nice little sphere of iron, basically a small cannonball, well preserved (its rusty surfaces stabilized inside a clear coating), one of many recovered from this wreck, which was homebound from the Mediterranean, loaded with Greek vases and wounded soldiers, when she stopped at the Isles of Scilly in a storm but parted an anchor cable and sank, famously salvaged by Roland Morris in the 1960s and 1970s but also by more modern efforts starting in 2000.
With certificate from the salvagers.
Estimate: $25-$40. |
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Unidentified late 18th- to early 19th-century wreck off Paticul, Sulu, Philippines
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Lot# 1958 |
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Small, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain vase, dragon motif.
261 grams, 5-1/2" tall and 3" in diameter.
Lovely little vase with very narrow neck flaring to a 1-5/8" wide rim, the bulbous body featuring a very long, 4-legged dragon with mouth agape, 100% intact but with light encrustation here and there.
Estimate: $250-$375. |
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Unidentified English wreck of the late 1700s/early 1800s in the lower Florida Keys
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Lot# 1959 |
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Ornate, intact clay smoking pipe.
55.7 grams, 5-3/4" long.
Complete pipe with entire bowl and stem intact, even with the raised rim at the end, the bowl showing an ornate basket-weave design above smoke curls, stained orange from immersion, with tiny bits of encrustation.
Estimate: $75-$110. |
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Lot# 1960 |
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Bronze cannon carriage plate.
1351 grams, 5-1/2" square.
Basically a heavy bronze tile, with corded border with 4 holes for fastening in corners, embossed with the picture of a cannon with lion head at cascabel end in center, uncleaned and encrusted (lots of green and white).
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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Leocadia, sunk in 1800 off Ecuador
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Lot# 1961 |
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Small, bulbous silver cup with tilted base.
151 grams, 4" tall and about 2" in diameter.
A very curious object (possibly a sand or salt cellar) that looks somewhat like a parmesan-cheese shaker from a pizza restaurant or, so say the Argentineans, like a "mate" (pronounced MAH-tay) used for a tea-like herb drink, on an inverted-cup base, the top broken off but showing a continuation of a angled-rib design, the bottom above the base with seam as cast in two parts, with hole in side and lots of green and white encrustation at bottom but otherwise mostly gray in color.
With Robert Marx certificate.
Estimate: $200-$300. |
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"Coconut wreck," sunk ca. 1810 in deep water off Bermuda
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Lot# 1962 |
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Ornate French gold boîte-en-baignoire (oblong snuff box, literally a "bathtub box"), Louis XVI, made by either French master goldsmith Jacques-François Varin (1758-1790) or his student Nicolas Huguet (1787-1806), who made such items for the king and later Napoleon and Josephine, along with most of one page of a contemporary newspaper found inside it talking about an auction of slaves, in which were wrapped 13 gold coins that formed an arras or Spanish dowry.
89.8 grams, approx. 3-3/4" long, 1-1/8" wide and 7/8" tall.
Very ornate and beautiful, and completely intact and original except for the wire hinge (replaced with new wire), a one-of-a-kind museum piece of art that is considered the top artifact from this limited and significant wreck, bearing three marks inside, on both top and bottom, as follows: crowned-P charge mark (showing tax liability) for 1788-89; scroll-like discharge mark (showing tax paid) of Henri Clavel (tax inspector for 1780-1789); and maker's mark J-F-V for Jacques-François Varin. While the inside is plain, the outside of the top, base and sides are all highly embellished in many different textures and several different colors of gold, with just a couple very minor stains and marks from the wreck, which was salvaged by robot 3 miles below the surface (the deepest treasure salvage ever undertaken), a recording of which on DVD (which shows this very box being recovered) accompanies the piece. It must be emphasized that this little box carried the only gold coins on the whole wreck, and with those coins was an original newspaper (now fragmented but readable) that pegs the approximate date of the wreck (otherwise unidentified) and possible purpose (slave trade).
Estimate: $35,000-$50,000. |
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Cabalva, sunk in 1818 on the Shoals of St. Brandon in the Indian Ocean
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Lot# 1963 |
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Lot of 2 large, brass handles.
189 grams total, each about 5" long.
Two sturdy and intact posts with curved tips, one ending in an acorn and the other a crystal shape, with hole at other end for fastening onto wood, rare provenance.
With original certificates from the salvagers.
Estimate: $50-$75. |
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S.S. Republic, sunk in 1865 in deep water off Georgia
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Lot# 1964 |
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Brown, ink-pouring bottle in presentation box.
313 grams, 8" tall.
Similar to a plain cylinder bottle for beer (same brown color, too), but smaller and with the rim tilted and pinched to make a spout, intact except for a long spider crack in the side, desirable for its provenance and presentation.
With stand, certificate, artifact number tag, DVD and letter in special shipping container.
Estimate: $125-$200. |
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Lot# 1965 |
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Brass skeleton key in shadow box.
895 grams, 11-5/8" x 9-1/2" overall.
Elegant shadow-box with hinged glass door-front enclosing an uncleaned brass key (nicely patinated) mounted between a canvas painting of the ship at top and plaque at bottom, rustic but tastefully done, desirable provenance.
With official artifact number tag taped to back.
Estimate: $100-$150. |
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Unidentified Civil War-era wreck (1860s) off South Carolina
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Lot# 1966 |
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Encrusted clump of 2 complete .56 cal spencer bullets cartridges in Riker display box.
67.7 grams, 1-3/4" x 1-1/4" (not including box).
Situated side-by-side and head-to-foot, these two bullets are entirely intact, with lots of encrustation, not rare but rarely seen intact from a shipwreck.
Estimate: $40-$60. |
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Unidentified 1800s British wreck off the south of Brazil
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Lot# 1967 |
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Lot of 6 encrusted pieces of brass flatware.
125 grams total, up to 6" long each.
The corroded and heavily encrusted remains of 6 forks and spoons, good for display.
Estimate: $60-$90. |
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Unidentified 1800s wreck off the Caribbean coast of Central America
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Lot# 1968 |
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Silver-plated spoon with Elkington & Co. touchmarks.
14.8 grams, 5-1/8" long.
Small spoon with deep, elongated bowl (sugar spoon?), loaded with tiny hallmarks on back of handle, on top of which is the only partially readable stamp of the shipping line (ends in DEL PACIFICO) whose ship this is from, intact but with light surface corrosion.
Estimate: $40-$60. |
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Unidentified ca.-1890 Dutch wreck off Jakarta, Indonesia |
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Lot# 1969 |
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Dutch stoneware schnapps bottle, stamped with HULSTKAMP / + ZOON + MOLYN / ROTTERDAM.
1117 grams, 11-1/2" tall and 3-1/4" in diameter.
Perfectly intact and preserved, with only a few barnacle footprints on the bottom to prove its salvage origin, the writing at top very clear, lovely glazed orange color all over.
With Sedwick certificate from 2005.
Estimate: $40-$60. |
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Shipwreck artifacts #1845-1969
