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Atocha Large silver basin (plate) marked with tax stamp and LDo.IVo. / RAMYREZ

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD
Atocha Large silver basin (plate) marked with tax stamp and LDo.IVo. / RAMYREZ
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Large silver basin (plate) marked with tax stamp and LDo.IVo. / RAMYREZ under rim. 760 grams, 12-1/4" diameter. This is a large, circular, 1-1/2"-deep bowl with flat 1-7/8"-wide rim with rolled outer lip, fully intact except for a few small, interior holes and minor erosion around the outside of the lip, beautifully conserved to a nice light tone, with slight concavity in center. More important, the underside of the rim bears most of a castles-and-lions circular tax stamp and a stamping in tiny letters that exactly matches lots 41-43 of the Christie's 1988 Atocha auction, in which that mark was described as an "owner's stamp." Clearly part of a set with this bigger basin, those three lots were only 8-7/8" in diameter and described as "dinner plates." They fetched some of the highest prices realized among the silver plates in that sale, upwards of $6000 hammer, but not even close to the price realized for the only large basin (like what we are offering here but slightly bigger), lot 47, which hammered at $22,000! With original Fisher photo-certificate #1151A. Recovered from Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida