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Pair of ornate, gold-plated brass buckles, ex-"Pickett Rocks wreck" ca. 1820), ex-Meylach (Flash of

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Pair of ornate, gold-plated brass buckles, ex- Pickett Rocks wreck  ca. 1820), ex-Meylach (Flash of
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Pair of ornate, gold-plated brass buckles, ex-"Pickett Rocks wreck" ca. 1820), ex-Meylach (Flash of Gold Plate). 20 grams total, each 1-1/2" x 1-1/4". Very attractive buckles, judiciously cleaned and polished to show gold-colored surfaces (XRF tested as gold-plated) and ornate designs, central iron hasp missing from one and thickly encrusted on the other, desirable pedigree. From the "Pickett Rocks wreck" (ca. 1820), pedigreed to the Marty Meylach collection (Sedwick Auction 9, with original lot-tag 2054) and plated on second photo page after page 134 of Meylach's 1971 book Diving to a Flash of Gold, with Sedwick photo-certificate.