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Large copper cooking pot, encrusted inside, with display sign. Atocha, sunk in 1622

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:1,250.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Large copper cooking pot, encrusted inside, with display sign. Atocha, sunk in 1622
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Large copper cooking pot, encrusted inside, with display sign. 6 lb 10 oz, 8-1/2" tall and 8-1/2" in diameter. Very impressive artifact, the spherical body all intact (brown in color) but thin and cracked, held together by a thick, white crust of shells and sand on the interior, visible through a 6"-wide opening at top, three small posts on sides (one missing) where handles used to be, accompanied by a small, printed foam-board sign from when the pot was on display in a museum or traveling exhibit. With original Fisher photo-certificate #A-601, and pedigreed to our Auction #6, with original lot-tag #1689. Recovered from: Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida