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Ornate pewter spoon with original display sign, rare and important provenance.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Periods & Styles Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Ornate pewter spoon with original display sign, rare and important provenance.
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Ornate pewter spoon with original display sign, rare and important provenance. 43 grams. A very elegant spoon (pied-de-biche type, trifid handle), with crowned head of William III at end, circular maker's mark with S-B and asterisk for Stephen Bridges of London on bottom near bowl, the underside of which is ornately designed, even gray color with spots of white. While some 131 spoons were recovered from this wreck, this is the first we have ever seen for sale (in fact the first artifact of any kind from it), and we are happy to see it because the Henrietta Marie was heavily touted by the Fisher organization as the first and only slave ship found and salvaged and therefore of utmost archeological importance. See lot #2013 for a book and National Geographic magazine about the wreck and its salvage. With plastic display sign and Treasure Salvors certificate #548-2. Recovered from: Henrietta Marie, sunk in 1700 off Marquesas Key, southwest of Key West, Florida