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Lot of four lead sounding weights (different designs).

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
Lot of four lead sounding weights (different designs).
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Lot of four lead sounding weights (different designs). Weights of 1.46, 3.69, 6.21 and 7.44 kg each, sizes from 5" to 16" long and 1-1/2" to 2-1/4" in diameter. The smallest of these weights has a flat bottom and square cross-section but all the larger ones have a pit in the bottom for holding wax for testing the sand, two of them with typically octagonal cross-section but one circular, all with holes at top and well preserved with tiny bits of encrustation here and there. From an unidentified 1500s-1600s wreck off Santo Domingo, with Global Marine Exploration photo-certificates #SW00495, 609, 724 and 821. Recovered from: Unidentified 1500s-1600s wrecks off Santo Domingo