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Shipwreck Artifacts
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The heart of every treasure wreck is its cargo of coins and bullion, but there
is treasure to be found in everything else the wreck yields, as this page will
clearly show! In addition to mundane items like nails and spikes, there is also
gold jewelry, pearls and emeralds, and even weapons and personal effects that
are all much, much rarer than coins. The key to these items is provenance, and
we do our best to make sure the origin of each item is preserved and certified.
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"Hoi An Hoard" shipwreck, sunk in the late 1400s off Vietnam
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"Hoi An Hoard" shipwreck, sunk in the late 1400s off
Vietnam Large, Chinese blue-on-white porcelain bowl with floral motif in
center, ex-"Hoi An Hoard" (late 1400s). 764 grams, 2" tall, 10" diameter.
Intact decorative bowl of flowers-and-leaf design with original lightly
glazed surface, the blue mostly washed out, as made, the wreck found and
salvaged in the 1990s with most of the porcelain sold at auction by
Butterfields in 2000. From the "Hoi An Hoard," with original VIPSAL
inventory sticker 12683. |
k062204191014 |
$795 |
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Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West,
Florida
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Tiny natural emerald, 0.11-0.15 carat each, class 2B,
ex-Atocha (1622). Roughly 1/4" x 1/8". Very small emeralds with
differing opacity and color, roundish to oblong in shape. From the Atocha
(1622), with original Fisher photo-certificates 63619 and 63652. |
-k062204191018-19 |
SOLD
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from the Tek Sing, sunk in 1822 in the South
China Sea
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Earthenware "boy-on-buffalo" figurine,
probably a gamepiece, some legs missing. With original lot tag from
Nagel auction (Stuttgart, Germany) of 2000. One available (right one in
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k121105041005 |
$100 |
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Small, intact, Chinese porcelain spoons from the Tek
Sing (1822). Plain and unadorned (olive to brown in color) but fully
intact and about 4'' long each. These simple spoons were among thousands of
porcelains from this wreck originally sold by a German auction house (Nagel) in
2000, some of them still with the lot-stickers, very inexpensive for shipwreck
artifacts! 5 available. (see below) |
k111304191025-30 |
$50 each
($45 each for all five) |
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Santa Leocadia, sunk in 1800 off Punta Santa
Elena, Ecuador
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Brass rapier handle. 172 grams, 5" long and
1" in diameter. Very brassy in color, with white and green encrustation,
this object was the grip of a Spanish rapier, with iron pommel at one end,
the inside of it caked with encrustation around loose wooden shims, the
grip-design very flat and simple and not wire-wrapped like most. Recovered
from: Leocadia, sunk in 1800 off Punta Santa Elena, Ecuador. With
certificate. |
k082101151001 |
$695
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Non-Wreck Artifacts
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Iron grapeshot
with iron nail inside, 1600s-1700s. 31.1 grams, 2" long. Simple
musketballs were not enough to do significant damage, so they were
eventually molded with all kinds of shrapnel embedded inside (in this case a
small, square-shanked nail, the lead ball lightly encrusted), despite the
obvious limitations to aerodynamics. With photo-certificate. |
l082101151009 |
$95 |
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