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Silver spoon with fancy handle marked with VRD monogram, intact and solid.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 750.00 USD
Silver spoon with fancy handle marked with VRD monogram, intact and solid.
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Silver spoon with fancy handle marked with VRD monogram, intact and solid. 40.4 grams, 5-3/4" long. Amazing condition for an Atocha artifact, the silver surfaces totally uncorroded and as shiny as the day it was made, with short and curiously side-wise curved handle terminating in an angled flat spot with engraved monogram, the bowl a bit flattened but otherwise in perfect condition, somewhat similar in size and shape to the two spoons sold in the original Christie's (New York) auction of June 1988 (lots 31 and 32), which sold for $3300 and $2640 respectively. With Fisher plastic tag and photo-certificate #00A-57467-01. Recovered from: Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida