Treasure Auction #8: Daniel F. Sedwick, LLC

Petrified ghost crab fossil in choice condition, 150,000(+/-) years old, found off Melbourne (east coast of Florida). 77.2 grams, 3-1/4" x 1-1...

Huge mastodon tooth, 30,000(+/-) years old, found in the Aucilla River (north Florida). 1346 grams, 6-1/2" x 3-1/2" x 5" This massiv...

Lot of 3 large natural, Colombian emeralds, high quality, 20.5 carats total weight. Approx. 1/2" each. Three good-sized rocks of deep green, 2...

Pair of Pleistocene (12,000 to 2.588 million years old) hippopotamus teeth holed in their time for wearing (rare), found in England. 27.9 grams, 2-1/

Ancient Bactrian (northern Afghanistan, ca. 2500-2000 BC) green stone inkpot in the form of a stylized frog, very rare. 162 grams, 4" x 1-1/2&...

Lot of 6 items: 4 animal teeth and one bone fragment, all with letters engraved on them; and 1 crab claw. 20.5 grams total. A very curious lot with a

Ivory whale tooth dated 1841 with "To My Beloved Mary Harker" scrimshaw depicting a well-dressed lady with muff and high-top boots on one ...

Walrus ivory tusk, mid- to late 1800s, with Indian warrior and sailing ship scrimshaw. 435 grams, 15" long. Engraved on just one side with 4 f...

Ivory whale tooth, late 1800s, scrimshaw depicting a whaling ship with a compass rose. 209 grams, 5-1/2" tall. Only half of this piece was smo...

Ivory whale tooth with mid-1900s scrimshaw depicting a whaling scene on one side and a captain holding a telescope on the other. 266 grams, 2-1/1&...

Ivory whale tooth scrimshaw by Don Waring of New Bedford, Mass. (signed), mid-1900s, depicting a battle at sea. 584 grams, 7" x 3" x 2&qu...

Lot of 2 de Bry woodcut engravings from German publication of the 1650s (Gottfriedt), one showing a conquistador surrounded by natives and the other s

Large, Italian, woodcut engraving by Vincenzo Coronelli (1691-2) showing native canoe and kayak manufacture and use. 19-1/4" x 13". Two-p...

Large, Dutch, woodcut engraving by Pierre Vander Aa (Leiden, 1729) entitled "St. Francisco de Campeche," showing ships in battle off that ...

Lot of 3 French woodcut engravings (1751 and 1761) of wide-angle coastal views in Central and South America, hand-colored. 9-1/4" x 15-1/2&quo...

English woodcut engraving (1764) by Thomas Stackhouse entitled "Jonah Cast by the Fish on Dry Land" from his New History of the Bible (mat...

Dutch woodcut engraving (1766) by Isaac Tirion entitled "Gezigt van de Stad Valparayso in Chili" showing the port of Valparaiso, Chile, ha...

Large Dutch map of Peru by Jan Jansson (1640), lightly hand-colored. 18-1/2" X 21-1/2". A detailed stretch from the equator down to the T...

Large French/Dutch map (ca. 1685, maker unknown) of the shipping routes on the Spanish Main (southern Caribbean Sea), hand colored and framed. 30&q...

Large German map of Brazil by Matthaus Seutter (ca. 1730) entitled "Recens elaborata Mappa Geographica Regni Brasiliae," hand colored, rar...