TREASURE AUCTION #6: Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC

Lot of 3 English brass coin weights, 1600s-1700s. 13.3 grams, 7/8"; 3.6 grams, 11/16"; and 2.3 grams, 5/8". Three corroded disks with...

Blue-on-white majolica shard in custom frame, 1600s. 59.8 grams, 4-3/4" x 3-1/2". A small (2" x 1-1/2") piece of thick, glazed e...

Pewter ship's whistle, 1500s-1600s. 19 grams, 1-3/4" long. Small, cylindrical whistle with hole at one end for wearing on a chain, chip in ...

Lot of 4 small, bronze, Spanish buttons, 1500s-1600s. 9.2 grams total, each about 1/4"-1/2" in diameter. Small, plain spheres with intact ...

Bronze buckle, English, 1600s. 7.9 grams, 2" x 1-3/4". Simple rectangular buckle, very thin and heavily patinated but intact. With certifi...

Lot of 2 pewter buttons, 1600s-1700s. 2.9 grams and 3/4" diameter; 2.0 grams and 5/8" diameter. Plain, flat, round buttons with back-loops...

Garment clasp made from 5 Spanish colonial milled minors. 28.7 grams, 7-1/2" long. Very odd item with clasp that looks like a pair of tongs end...

Lead textile seal, probably Spanish, 1500s-1600s. 2.8 grams, 3/4" in diameter. Bold and elegant castle between two pairs of what look to be Got...

Small clay smoking pipe, 1600s-1700s. 19.7 grams, 6-3/4" long. Beautiful intact pipe (all but the tip of the stem) with very small bowl that is...

Clay smoking pipe in shadow box, 1600s-1700s. 654 grams, 8" x 10" x 2". Intact (and normal-sized) pipe bowl and 2-1/2" of the st...

Bronze slave bracelet ("manilla"), 1700s-early 1800s. 128 grams, 3-1/4". Typically C-shaped torque with flat ends, deep brown color, ...

Black glass "onion" bottle, English, early 1700s, short. 1122 grams, 6" tall and 5-3/4" in diameter. Very short and flat onion w...

Black glass "onion" bottle, English, early 1700s, tall. 864 grams, 7" tall and 5-1/2" in diameter. A crudely lopsided onion with...

Black glass "onion" bottle, Dutch, 1720s-1750s. 621 grams, 8" tall and 5-1/2" in diameter. More common type of onion with long n...

Black glass ale bottle, English, 1820s-1840s, with pearlized surface. 671 grams, 9-1/2" tall and 3-1/2" in diameter. Common brownish-glass...

Black glass ale bottle with very deep pontil, English, early 1820s-1840s. 685 grams, 10" tall and 3-1/2" in diameter. Tall, dark-green bot...

Black glass "case gin" bottle, early 1800s. 583 grams, 9-1/2" tall and 3" to a side. Clean and neat bottle, perfectly translucen...

Brass spigot, Dutch, 1800s, found in South Africa. 333 grams, 6-1/2" long. A large and heavy keg-tap with T-shaped handle showing the stamp FID...

Scrimshawed whalebone disk inscribed with whale and "Ardagah," mid-1800s. 3.1 grams, 1-1/4" in diameter. Cute little artifact in exce...

Lot of dozens of clay smoking-pipe bowls, 1820s-1860s, found in the northeastern US. 772 grams total. As most colonial collectors know, the preferred

Small medallion commemorating Nelson's HMS Victory (retired from service in 1812), struck in 1905 by the British and Foreign Sailors Society fro...

1915 copper plate made from the dome of the Helles Point (Gallipoli) lighthouse, rare and historically important artifact. 824 grams, 9" in dia...

1908 bronze Schrader diving bonnet, very rare. 21 lb, 11" tall and 9" in diameter. Very early helmet that shows its age but is fully intac...

Mark V diving dress (canvas suit) with 1915 Schrader stencil. About 15 lb and 74" tall. Designed to be used with the famous U.S. Navy Mark V di...

Ca. 1930 Snead shallow-water cast-iron diving helmet, rare. 57 lb, 22" tall and 12" in diameter. Almost spooky, yellow hood with square pa...

Miller-Dunn 3 brass dive helmet (ca. 1945) with original hose and handled pump. Helmet 58 lb, 25" tall and 12" in diameter; pump 55 lb, 17...

1956 "Rene" dive tank with original harness and New England Divers decal and inspection sticker plus ca.-1957 U.S. Divers Corp. "Stre...

1961 "Nemrod" dive tank with original decal plus 1956-9 "DACOR" double-hose regulator in mint condition. 38 lb, 32" tall. C...

Ca.-1970 marine underwater camera (Sea & Sea model Motor Marine II EX, 35 mm) and strobe (YS-60 TTL), new in box. 6-1/2 lb, 17" x 8-1/2&quo...

1970s compete Korean hardhat diving dress with bronze helmet and 12-bolt collar and rubber-lined canvas suit. 58 lb, 7' tall. Vintage dive suit ...

1980s bronze Russian diving bonnet (helmet). 24 lb, 13" tall and 12" in diameter. A somewhat modern helmet modeled after early-1900s hardh...

Mid-1900s Schrader U.S. Navy "Mark V" dive knife and case with leather belt, rare. 2-1/2 lb, 13-1/2" long. The Schrader company was f...

Modern replica of a U.S. Navy Schrader "Mark V" bronze diving helmet. 19 lb, 15" tall and 12" in diameter. In highly polished co...

1591 Theodore deBry engraving of warring native Americans in canoes from a German book. 9-1/2" x 13-1/2". The upper half of this page from...

1591 Theodore deBry engraving of native Americans making a canoe from a German book. 9" x 13-3/4". A vignette of two natives making a cano...

1671 Ogilby engraving of native Americans melting gold and silver. 10" x 15-1/2". This is a page from a 1671 book by John Ogilby entitled ...

1671 Ogilby engraving of Europeans meeting native Americans in front of erupting volcanoes. 10" x 15-1/2". This is a page from a 1671 book...

1671 Ogilby engraving of native Americans and Europeans. 9-1/2" x 15-1/2". This is a page from a 1671 book by John Ogilby entitled America...

1671 Ogilby engraving of native Americans and Europeans. 9-3/8" x 15-5/8". This is a page from a 1671 book by John Ogilby entitled America...

1671 Ogilby engraving of a single European among naked native Americans. 9-3/4" x 15-5/8". This is a page from a 1671 book by John Ogilby ...

Ca.-1790 hand-colored English copper-plate engraving of Captain Cook's landing at Tanna, New Hebrides. 10" x 9-1/2". A small but beaut...

Document from 1782 signed by King Charles III. 8-1/8" x 11-3/4". Brief, one-page letter on the king's letterhead EL REY, half printed ...

Chilean mint document from 1788 signed by Ambrosio O'Higgins (military governor of Chile and later Viceroy of Peru). 8-3/8" x 12-1/8"....

Document from 1817 from Colima, Mexico, with many seals and signatures. 8-3/8" x 12-1/4". Four-page document with seals of Charles IV and ...

Document from 1823 from Guadalajara, Mexico, with many seals. 8-3/8" x 12-1/4". Choice-condition original legal document on one sheet with...

Mint document from 1826 from Santiago, Chile. 8-1/8" x 11-3/4". Brief, one-page letter (notated as an amendment to a larger document) in c...

Document from 1849 from Santiago, Chile, signed by General Manuel Búlnes. 8-1/8" x 11-3/4". Brief, one-page letter in choice conditio...

Ship's bill of lading for Peruvian coins being shipped in 1881 on the steamship Pizarro bound for Callao, Peru, from Arica, Chile. 13-3/8" ...

Ship's bill of lading for Peruvian coins being shipped in 1888 on the steamship Colombia bound for Guayaquil, Ecuador, from Callao, Peru. 12-3/8...

Mid- to late 1500s map of South America entitled "Tierra Nova," with Latin text on back starting with "Americae Sive Perv". 12&q...

1749 French map of Mexico entitled "Partie du Mexique ou de la Nouvelle Espagne ou se trouve l'Audience du Mexique" (from the Atlas Po...

Circa-1770 colored French map of Florida and the southeastern corner of what is now the United States by Rigobert Bonne entitled "Carte de la L...

Circa-1780 British map of the West Indies entitled "West Indies from the latest Authorities". 14-1/2" x 8-1/4". Detailed map of ...

Circa-1845 French map of North and Central America entitled "Amérique Septentrionale" by Raimond Bonheur. 24" x 20". Large ...

Large vintage (1940) treasure map entitled A Treasure Hunter's Map of the West Indies and the Spanish Main by George Annand (LeBaron-Bonney Co.,...

Lot of 3 vintage (1952) treasure maps by F.L. Coffman showing wrecks around Florida, wrecks in the Caribbean, and wrecks in the Great Lakes, rare and

Lot of 3 large vintage (1950s) sunken/buried treasure maps by Rand-McNally, Drake & Sons and Fred C. Keiser (all United States). 45" x 29&q...

Lot of 5 Foul Anchor Archives (Robert Nesmith) catalogs (and associated material) of the 1950s and 1960s offering treasure books and maps. Most about

Bermuda commemorative First Day Cover (stamps) of September 29, 1969, signed by Teddy Tucker and fellow diver Robert Canton. 6-1/2" x 4-1/2&quo...

Lot of various brochures (4) and postcards (4) about Mel Fisher and his treasure museums, plus a flyer for Parke-Bernet's 1967 Treasure of the S...

Lot of 6 Real Eight Co. stock certificates in three different colors. 12" x 8". Printed by the Columbian Banknote Company with backgrounds...

1974 Silver Shoals Expedition Ltd. $500,000 Private Placement Prospectus by Seaborne Ventures, Inc., with brochure and photo (Concepcion wreck of 1641

1975 large poster for the W.H. Lane & Son auction Sale of Sunken Treasure of September 26, 1975, featuring treasure from 9 historic wrecks, rare...

1980 Dutch Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) poster for an exhibit from February 6 to August 3 of that year entitled "PRIJS DER ZEE, Vondsten uit wrakken...

1988 Dutch Rijksmuseum (Leiden) poster for an exhibit from June 10, 1988, to June 5, 1989, entitled "SCHEPEN MET GELD De handel van de VOC op A...

1995 large Christie's (Amsterdam) poster for their auction "The Diana Cargo" of March 6-7 of that year. 21" x 27". Large and...

1980s and 1990s lot of 11 letters/brochures/newsletters from Treasure Salvors and the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. Up to 8-1/2" x 11&q...

Framed oil-on-canvas painting of pirates in a cave by Augustus Lenox (1960s painter of Western scenes and comics). 7 lb, 44-1/2" x 34-1/2"...

Atocha painting: "Atocha Meets Her Fate," by Ralph Curnow (2009). 24" x 20". A dark and dramatic rendering of the Atocha's f...

1715 Fleet painting: "The Day Before," by Ralph Curnow (2009). 24" x 20". A bright and almost cheerful portrait of one of the 17...

Lot of 13 color photos from the 1960s of Art McKee's Museum of Sunken Treasure on Plantation Key, Florida. Each 7" x 5". These are the...

Lot of 20 color photos from the 1960s of the Real Eight Co. museum in Satellite Beach, Florida. Each 7" x 5". These are the photographic s...

Framed 1981 Duke Long serigraph of the Concepcion printed with indigo dye salvaged from the wreck, limited edition #60/200. 21" x 23". A l...

Framed Concepcion print #1 (reprint of Duke Long 1983 original), very rare. 16" x 13". From a very rare set of black-and-white prints depi...

Framed Concepcion print #2 (reprint of Duke Long 1983 original), very rare. 16" x 13". From a very rare set of black-and-white prints depi...

Framed Concepcion print #3 (reprint of Duke Long 1983 original), very rare. 16" x 13". From a very rare set of black-and-white prints depi...

Framed Concepcion print #4 (reprint of Duke Long 1983 original), very rare. 16" x 13". From a very rare set of black-and-white prints depi...

Framed poster for "Lost Treasures of the Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion" exhibition by Burt D. Webber, Jr., December 12-14, 1986, at Ball...

Framed caricature in black ink of Mel Fisher by Michael Scott of the South Florida Science Museum (West Palm Beach, 1987), signed by Mel Fisher, rare.

Framed, hand-signed print of poem "Marine Salvage Museum, Florida" by Rhina P. Espaillat, one of 50 printed by Wells College in honor of a...

Signed lithograph print #83 of the Rooswijk shipwreck of 1739, limited edition (400 copies made), by artist Ralph Curnow (2006). 15-1/2" x 12-1...

"Sunken Treasure" board game by Parker Brothers (USA). 572 grams, about 16" x 8" x 2". 1948 board game in used but intact c...

"Fleet 1715" card game by Clicker Spiele (Germany). 89.9 grams, 3-1/2" x 2-1/4" x 3/4". Basically a deck of cards in a smal...

(Atocha) Research Coin Collection (photocopy) signed by Marisha Wagner Moran (1987), with copy of Key West Life article by Wagner Moran (1984). Spiral

Baxter, Ford and Hans W. Hanau, eds. Treasure Diving with Teddy Tucker (1964), very rare. SC, VF. Small (32 pages) but well-illustrated (color) old pa

Berman, Bruce. Encyclopedia of American Shipwrecks (1971). SC, VG. A tabular listing of 13,000 wrecks off the various coasts of the United States, lim

Blair, Clay, Jr. Diving for Pleasure and Treasure (1st ed., 1960). HC, DJ, like new. A classic narrative in rare condition, most importantly covering

Campbell, Captain Malcolm. Searching for Pirate Treasure in Cocos Island (1932). HC (DJ missing), VG, ex-libris plate inside cover. Just as the title

Coffman, F.E. Atlas of Treasure Maps (1957 reprint), with inscription and rubber-stamp signature by author. HB, DJ, VF. This rare book is the benchmar

Cowan, Rex. Castaway & Wrecked (1978), autographed by the author. HC, DJ, Mint. A beautiful photo-book (black-and-white) of the wrecks of 19 shi...

Cowan, Zélide. Early Divers (1985), autographed by the author. SC, Mint. An illustrated history of underwater diving, from the diving bells of ...

Deagan, Kathleen. Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800, Volume I: Ceramics, Glassware, and Beads (1987). HC (DJ m

Gardner, Arthur. Wrecks around Nantucket (1915). SC, VG. Early guide to the shipwrecks off the island of Nantucket (Massachusetts), presented in chron

Gawronski, Jerzy. Hollandia Compendium (1992). HC, new in shrink wrap. The ultimate guide to everything about the Hollandia (sunk in 1743 off the Scil

Gilman Hawes, Hildreth. The Bellamy Treasure (1940), rare. SC, Fine. An essential item for the Whydah (1717) researcher, as it covers the exploits of

Goodwin, William. The Lure of Gold (1940). HC, DJ, VG. A classic book about the 5 lost ships of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean.

Green, Jeremy. Treasures from the Vergulde Draeck (1973). SC, VG. A scarce archeological pamphlet with many diagrams of the wrecksite and artifacts fo

Greene, Vaughn M. Underwater Prospecting Techniques (1960). SC, Fine. Tourist-oriented pamphlet about gold prospecting and diving, interesting as show

Holzworth, Shirley Jean. One Day of Hunting Treasure (1965), scarce, autographed by author and her husband, Walt. SC, VF. A breathless account of find

Marx, Robert. Shipwrecks in Mexican Waters (1981), autographed by the author. SC, Mint. An important classic covering the author's work with Cla...