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Complete ivory elephant tusk mounted on a large wooden board with plaque, very rare and impressive.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:2,750.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Complete ivory elephant tusk mounted on a large wooden board with plaque, very rare and impressive.
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Complete ivory elephant tusk mounted on a large wooden board with plaque, very rare and impressive. 35 lb, 49" x 18". Discovered at the same time and in the same area as the now-famous ca.-1528 "Tumbaga" wreck were the remains of a slightly later wreck that yielded a very rare bronze cannon and this massive tusk (among other things), fully intact but with a few natural splits and cracks, its surfaces nicely preserved and banded securely and mounted onto a rustic wooden wall-hanging with black plaque above the tusk that says THIS ELEPHANT TUSK RECOVERED FROM CIRCA 1543 SHIPWRECK ON THE GREAT BAHAMA BANK BY CAPT. HERBERT HUMPHREYS, JR., THE OFFICERS AND CREW OF THE RESEARCH VESSEL BEACON IN 1992. / FRAMED AND PRESERVED BY RENE CHARETTE CHIEF PRESERVATIONIST. (Extra packing charges apply.) From the Unidentified ca.-1543 wreck off Grand Bahama Island.

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