TREASURE AUCTION #6: Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC

Half of a lead split-shot, about 3/4" in diameter. 19 grams, 7/8" in diameter. Originally crafted as two hemispheres connected by wire but...

Section of wood from the ship in shadow box. 4-1/2 lb, 16-1/2" x 16-1/2" x 1-3/4". We have sold tens of thousands of coins from this ...

Bronze cannonball, rare. 23 lb, 5-1/5" in diameter. A perfectly round but oddly cracked ball (probably due to casting the bronze around an iron...

Copper pot handle. 179 grams, about 4" to a side. A horseshoe-shaped torque of 1/2"-cylindrical cross-section, the flattened ends for fast...

Handled earthenware pot. 1025 grams, 5" tall and 7" in diameter. Super artifact with short, fat body with one handle intact and the other ...

Bulbous stoneware bottle. 643 grams, 8" tall and 4-1/2" in diameter. Nice teardrop shape with diagonally broken neck (worn on breaks, so a...

Small, handled earthenware bowl. 383 grams, 2-1/2" tall and 6" in diameter. Rustic and simple bowl with vestiges of 2 handles on rolled ri...

Large brass religious medallion. 3.1 grams, 1-1/4" tall. One of 4 designs of religious medallions found on this wreck, according to Bill Selige...

Small brass religious medallion. 2.5 grams, 1" tall. Another one of the 4 designs found on this wreck and pictured in the Seliger book showing ...

Iron mule shoe. 176 grams, about 5" x 3-1/2". Perfectly intact specimen, professionally conserved (black) but thin and slightly rusty from...

Lot of 12 steel rapier blades, some conserved. 8 lb total, 46" long. While we have had several individual specimens of these interesting items ...

Iron rapier handle and part of blade. 397 grams, 12" long. The handle-end of a rapier with hilt and knuckle-guard intact but simple in design, ...

Very large blue-on-white Chinese porcelain bowl with heron motif, late Ming Dynasty. 4-3/4 lb, 15" in diameter and 3" tall. Wonderfully bi...

Ornate pewter spoon with original display sign, rare and important provenance. 43 grams. A very elegant spoon (pied-de-biche type, trifid handle), wit

Conglomerate of money cowries (seashells) and porcelain shards, rare. 216 grams, about 4" x 2" x 2". This item, the first artifact we...

Gold cross studded with 6 high-grade emeralds, intricately engraved on the back. 5.2 grams, roughly 1-1/4" x 1". One of the featured piece...

Gold "olive blossom" chain. 21" long, 29.9 grams. When the famous "dragon whistle" (recently in the news for a change in ow...

Low-grade gold ring of ornate "hearts" design. 1.7 grams, 3/4" in diameter (size 6). The Nieves site of the 1715 Fleet is known as th...

Low-grade gold(?) Columbus statuette/adornment. 20 grams, 2" long. We have seen this type of object before on the top of a religious monstrance...

Natural emerald, 2.55 carats. About 11 mm long and 5 mm in diameter. A long crystal of classic shape (more or less hexagonal cross section), good gree

Natural emerald, 1.15 carats. About 6 mm long and 4 mm in diameter. Classic-shaped crystal (more or less hexagonal cross section) with good green colo

Lot of colored trade beads. 4 grams total, the cylinders 3/4" long and the spheres about 1/8" in diameter. Two light-blue cylinders (look ...

Lot of colored trade beads. 6 grams total, the cylinders about 1" long and the spheres about 1/8" in diameter. Three light-blue cylinders ...

Lot of colored trade beads. 3 grams total, the cylinders about 3/4" long and the spheres about 1/8" in diameter. Two light-blue cylinders ...

Lot of colored trade beads. 4 grams total, the cylinders 3/4" long and the spheres about 1/8" in diameter. Two light-blue cylinders (look ...

Large (15") pewter platter. 4-1/2 lb, 15" in diameter and 1-3/4" tall. Biggest plate we have ever seen, totally intact and relatively...

Large (14") pewter strainer. 1627 grams, 14-1/2" in diameter and as tall as 1-3/4". Huge plate but without rim and with over 20 small...

Medium (9") pewter plate with rim. 613 grams, 9-1/2" in diameter and 1/2" tall. Wide-rimmed plate with lots of white and orange encru...

Iron cannon pin-ring. 720 grams, about 6-1/2" long and 4" in diameter. Cannons in carriages on board ships were tied to the bulkhead by me...

Large iron barshot, professionally conserved. 11-1/4 lb, 11" long, each end 3" in diameter and 2" thick. A typical barshot with 2 cyl...

Large iron cannonball. 13-1/2 lb, 5" in diameter. Heavy and intact ball with rusty but lacquered surfaces (stable), popular artifact. Recover...

Medium iron cannonball. 8-1/2 lb, 4" in diameter. Very smooth and well-preserved specimen (even shows the casting seam around the middle) with ...

Small iron cannonball. 4-1/4 lb, 3" in diameter. Solid and sturdy, rusty and lightly pitted but lacquered for stability, always a popular shipw...

Lot of 3 small iron cannonballs, conserved. 236 to 281 grams each, 2" in diameter. Three small balls in nice condition, black from professional...

Iron hand grenade with wooden fuse-plug, professionally conserved. 803 grams, 1-3/4" in diameter. Small cannonball with hole on side for insert...

Iron hand grenade with original wooden fuse-plug, professionally conserved. 628 grams, 3" in diameter. Solid cannonball with hollow center for ...

Lot of 40 lead musketballs. 1400 grams total, each about 1/2"-3/4" in diameter. Standard-issue balls in normal condition (dusty gray), che...

Lot of 12 lead musketballs. 306 grams total, 1/2" in diameter. Standard-issue balls in normal condition (dusty gray), cheap but popular items w...

Lot of 2 lead "barbell" shot, rare. 62 and 30 grams, 1" and 1-1/2" long. We had never seen this type of shot before now, each pi...

Lot of 2 complete lead split-shot (both halves). 55 and 53 grams, 3/4" and 1" in diameter. Two heavily encrusted specimens of bullets cast...

Complete lead split shot with connecting wire, heavily encrusted, rare. 106.5 grams total, almost 6" long. Wonderful artifact, the 2 halves of ...

Complete lead split shot with connecting wire, encrusted, rare. 99 grams, 5-1/2" long. Impressive piece with the 2 halves encrusted with orange...

Complete lead split shot with connecting wire, encrusted, rare. 73 grams, 3" long. Beautifully encrusted pair of half-shots and wire, only a sm...

Lot of 30 lead split-shot halves, some encrusted. About 815 grams total. Very interesting lot of hemispherical bullets that were originally cast in pa

Tip of a small bronze gun barrel and two small gun flints. 24 grams and 1-7/8" long (gun barrel), 4 grams total (flints). Interesting lot with ...

Large lead sounding weight. 14-1/4 lb, 10-1/4" tall and 3" in diameter. Very tall, slender weight with 6 sides, big loop at top, large hol...

Small lead sounding weight. 940 grams, 5-1/2" tall and 1-1/2" in diameter. A slender cone in shape, with small hole at top and one near cr...

Small lead sounding weight. 484 grams, about 2-3/8" tall and 1-3/4" in diameter. A perfect cone shape (looks like a space capsule) with ho...

Lot of 8 lead fishing (?) weights. 19-35 grams each, about 1/2"-1-1/8" long and 3/8"-5/8" in diameter. These are basically big, ...

Lot of 4 bronze buckles. 7-9 grams each, 1" to 1-5/8" to a side. Four different types of medium-sized buckles, mostly brown in color but a...

Sundry bronze lot consisting of a spoon (bowl broken) with fist at end of handle, a second spoon (bowl only) and a nesting cup-weight. Spoon 31 grams

Lot of 2 whole bronze spikes and 1 broken piece of a spike. Whole spikes: 217 and 79 grams, 7-1/2" and 5-1/4" long; broken piece: 39 grams...

Lot of earthenware olive-jar neck and shards. 2-1/2 lb total. One intact neck with barnacles attached and two goodly portions of the sides of large ve

Earthenware olive jar, perfectly intact. 6 lb 13.8 oz, 10" tall and 8" in diameter. Small, spherical and perfectly intact jar, whitish in ...

Earthenware olive jar, perfectly intact. 7 lb 15.8 oz, 12" tall and 8" in diameter. Small, spherical and perfectly intact jar, with mostly...

Earthenware olive jar, perfectly intact. 7 lb 2.8 oz, 11" tall and 8" in diameter. Small, spherical and perfectly intact jar, very white i...

Lot of 8 pieces (4 one-handled teacups and 4 small saucers) of Chinese blue-on-white porcelain, Kangxi period. Cups 60-64 grams each, 2-1/4" ta...

Large pewter spoon. 354 grams, 16" long. Effectively a big ladle with long, thin handle terminating in a flattish end, the bowl typically oval-...

Most of small pewter bowl and a porcelain shard. Bowl 104 grams and 3-3/4" in diameter, shard 17 grams and 2" long. The bowl almost comple...

Intact, wire-wrapped cutlass handle/grip. 65 grams, 4" long. Perfectly intact and ornate (very well preserved), about 4" long and 1" ...

Clay smoking pipe with maker's mark. 14.5 grams, 5" long, with 3/4"-diameter bowl. Perfectly preserved pipe with most of stem intact, ...

Wooden knife handle. 15 grams, 3-3/4" long. Very light (somewhat porous) and ornately engraved, with thin metal ring at blade end, about 31/2&q...

Curved leather liner for a cartridge box. 6.4 grams, 8-5/8" long and 1" wide. A thin strip of leather embossed on one side with a small di...

Large bronze religious medallion depicting Santa Teresa, 1600s-1700s. 28.1 grams, roughly 2" x 1-3/4". Much larger than the usual medallio...

Large bronze mortar. 6-1/2 lb, 4-1/2" tall and 6" wide at top. A substantial artifact from a well-known wreck with original pedigree, this...

Ornate wooden knife handle. 30.4 grams, 3-1/2" long. Perfectly preserved (just one small crack) cylindrical handle with hole and slot at small ...

Bottom (pontil) of a black-glass "onion" bottle and 3 loose clumps, at least one of which contains Dutch East India Co. copper duits (coin...

Lot of 7 pieces of English brass musket furniture (trigger guards and side plates). 258 grams total, each about 1" to 6" long. Various pie...

Small glass seal with two-headed eagle design. 3.0 grams, 5/8" in diameter. A round, button-like object with glass seal of the double-headed ea...

Bronze replica cannon made from gunmetal recovered from the wreck ca. 1840. 3 lb 2.1 oz, 10" long. The original bronze cannons from this famous...

Lead seal with English (United) East India Co. monogram. 12 grams, 1-1/2" tall. Large seal with bold design consisting of the usual heart-shape...

Lot of buttons, buckles and a clay pipe bowl. About 88 grams total. Inexpensive mixed lot of small wreck items, the buttons and buckles with some desi

Small, brass-plated iron (?) signal cannon. 7 lb, 14" long. Long, low-caliber signaling cannon (more like a pistol without a grip), corroded an...

Huge, uncleaned, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain bowl with dragon motif. 7-1/4 lb, 15" in diameter and 2-1/2" tall. An absolutely immense ...

Tall, uncleaned, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain jar and lid with floral motif. 972 grams, 11" tall and 4" in diameter. Basically a tall v...

Bulbous, partially cleaned, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain vase with floral motif, rare form. 642 grams, 9" tall and 5" in diameter. Real...

Blue-on-white Chinese porcelain jar and lid with human and floral motif and rare symbol on base. 590 grams, 8-1/2" tall and 3-1/2" in diam...

Uncleaned, blue-on-white Chinese porcelain dish with water-bird motif. 1235 grams, 11" in diameter and 1-1/2" tall. A shallow (1" dee...

Uncleaned blue-on-white Chinese porcelain dish with water-bird motif. 1003 grams, 10" in diameter and 1-1/2" tall. Shallow bowl (1" d...

Uncleaned blue-on-white Chinese porcelain dish with floral motif. 939 grams, 10" in diameter and 2" tall. Basically a bowl (1-1/2" de...

Lot of 3 lead musketballs. 79.9 grams total, each 5/8" in diameter. Three standard-issue balls, very common but always popular and perfectly in...

Lot of 2 English black glass bottles, one not from the wreck. Encrusted one 555 grams, 10" tall and 1-3/4" in diameter; other one 389 gram...

Ebony octant with brass fixtures and maker's name. 643 grams, about 13" x 11-1/4". One of the most significant objects recovered from ...

Green-glass bottle marked LONDON. 120.4 grams, 5-3/4" tall and 1-1/2" to a side. A significant artifact for attributing the nationality of...

Wooden flintlock pistol grip. 132 grams, 13" long. There was much excitement (as seen on the DVD) when this pistol was found, but by the time i...

Wooden pulley wheel. 221.9 grams, 4-1/2" in diameter and 3/4" thick. Simple wooden disk with hole in center, once the central roller of a ...

Wooden saw handle. 216.9 grams, roughly 7-1/4" x 4-1/2" x 3/4". Easily identifiable as the curvy handle of an iron saw, the blade of ...

Silver and wood snuff/tobacco box dated 1805 (Battle of Trafalgar). 99 grams, 4" x 2-1/2" x 1". The silver plaque on top of this box ...

Nail and wood from the ship in a shadow box accompanied by a miniature print of Nelson. 1027 grams overall, the box 13-1/2" x 11-1/2" x 2&...

Large Chinese blue-on-white porcelain plate. 864 grams, 11" in diameter and 1-3/4" tall. Beautiful big plate, 100% intact, with vivid geom...

Large Chinese blue-on-white porcelain plate. 906 grams, 11" in diameter and 2" tall. Big plate that is loaded with design, hard to describ...

Large Chinese blue-on-white porcelain plate. 831 grams, 11" in diameter and 2" tall. Vivid geometric design in center and 4 rows of simple...

Small glass dish, oval shape, patterned edge. 154 grams, 3" x 2-1/4" x 1". A very shallow dish in very thick crystal glass with trans...

Small glass dish, oval shape, plain edge. 116 grams, 3-1/4" x 2-1/4" x 1-1/2". Tall, straight-sided dish with thin and slightly scall...

English black glass wine bottle with original wine still inside. 1115 grams, 10" tall and 4" in diameter. A straight-sided bottle with 1&q...

Large iron carronade (British, 1780s-1820s). 700 lb (+/-), 48" end to end, 13" widest diameter, 18" wide at trunnions, 3-1/2" bo...

Large iron anchor with piece of chain. 200 lb (+/-), 92" end to end, flukes 50" end to end and 12" wide, shank 77" long and 2-1/...

Lot of 3 bronze spikes. 881 grams and 12" long; 359 grams and 8-1/2" long; 277 grams and 7" long. Three hefty, solid, round-shank spi...

Lot of 2 bronze "manillas" (slave bracelets) with promotional box. 78.1 and 73.4 grams. Two small and typically c-shaped torques with flat...

Lidded copper cooking pot. 3 lb 13 oz, 10" in diameter and 4" tall. A complete pot with flat bottom, 2 handles on sides and one in center ...