Treasure Auction #8: Daniel F. Sedwick, LLC

Iron barshot with spherical ends, professionally conserved. 7-3/4 lb, 11" long, each ball 3" in diameter. Two typical cannonballs with sq...

Iron barshot with cylindrical ends. 9-3/4 lb, 13-1/2" long, each shot 3-1/2" in diameter. Complete (but repaired) pair of thick, iron puc...

Large, iron cannonball, "24-pounder," professionally conserved. 23.5 lb, 5-1/2" in diameter. Rather large and intact, its rough surf...

Medium iron cannonball. 1790 grams, 3" in diameter. Very solid and fundamentally intact, rusty surfaces with some pitting but no flaking, assu...

Wooden-handled pewter "clyster" (enema) pump in 6 parts, rare. 781 grams, about 9" long and 2" in diameter. The cylindrical bod...

Huge wooden deadeye. 10-3/4 lb, 10-1/2" x 12-1/2" x 3-1/2". without a doubt this is the largest deadeye we have ever seen, the three...

Large ship's spike with section of wooden hull and encrustation. 1395 grams, 13" x 1-1/2" x 4". Nice display of thickly encruste...

Bronze ship's hull repair staple. 395 grams, 11" long. Very solid item, rusty brown with spots of green, that is exactly like a common pap...

Lot of 3 items: earthenware olive jar neck, pewter cap and pewter lid. 879 grams total, up to 5". Nice grouping of an olive jar top with a typ...

Lot of 2 shards: earthenware olive jar neck and ceramic vanilla bean jar handle. 193 and 39 grams, up to 3-1/2". The thick top-collar of a typ...

Lot of 5 miscellaneous earthenware shards. 1327 grams total, up to 7". A couple of large and thickly encrusted shards (nice display) with thre...

Large lot of miscellaneous artifacts, consisting of: 1 encrusted lead tampion (cannon-muzzle cover), 3 bronze spikes, 11 small copper nails and washer

Lot of 15 lead musketballs and wire/spring-shots. 392 grams total. More or less typical bullets but including two encrusted pairs of wire/spring-shot

Lot of 24 lead musketballs. 639 grams total. The usual, plain balls that litter colonial-era wrecks but are great for resale or small gifts. From the

Small, iron musketball pliers (mold). 37.5 grams, 4-1/2" long. Fully intact but frozen shut (rusted), used to make balls one at a time by pour...

Lead textile seal (complete). 14 grams, 1-5/8" x 1". Full seal with arms on each side (one a big, sword-wielding lion), connector strips ...

Thickly encrusted silver buckle. 47.1 grams, 1-1/2" x 2". Simple, rectangular buckle (for shoe or belt) with black, "puffy" oxi...

Blue-on-white Chinese porcelain lidded powder-box, perfectly preserved. 62.3 grams, 2-1/4" in diameter and 1" tall. As shipwreck porcelai...

Tiny brass crowbar (navigational tool?). 7.7 grams, 2-7/8" long. The original importing dealer in 2005 believed this toy-like little stick wit...

Flintlock pistol with reproduction wooden parts. 919 grams, 21" long. The trouble with shipwreck flintlocks is that they contain two materials...

Iron blunderbuss barrel encased in Lucite. 2425 grams, 20" x 1-3/4" x 2". Surviving shipwreck iron is a rarity, so this 17-1/2"...

Iron flintlock mechanism. 264 grams, 4" x 7". Iron does not typically fare well under the sea, but somehow this piece must have been prot...

Silver officer's sword handle with reproduction blade with two Mexican 8R cobs in display box, pictured in Diving to a Flash of Gold. 8-1/2 lb,...

Complete sword in coral encrustation, handle intact but steel blade removed, mounted on a wooden plaque. 8 lb, 39-1/2" long. Super-long sword ...

Bronze cage-hilt sword handle. 491 grams, 5-1/5" x 5" x 3-1/2". Full handle, including cage hilt and knuckle guard, grip and pommel,...

Bronze breech block, with explanatory letter from Mendel Peterson of the Smithsonian. 33 lb, 8" tall and 4-1/2" in diameter. Very heavy a...

Iron barshot with spherical ends. 11 lb, 12-1/2" long, each ball 3-1/2" in diameter. Two typical cannonballs with square-shank bar betwee...

Earthenware urn, flat-bottomed and two-handled. 1985 grams, 8-3/4" tall and 5-3/4" in diameter. Beautifully intact, with two small handle...

Large pewter plate. 976 grams, 12" in diameter. Fully intact except for two cracks in the bowl section, with 1-1/2" rim, no visible marki...

Large pewter tankard, pictured in Diving to a Flash of Gold. 420 grams, 4" tall and 4" in diameter. Thin-walled cylindrical drinking vess...

Pewter inkwell with lid, pictured in Diving to a Flash of Gold. 624 grams, 2-3/4" x 2-3/4" x 2-1/4". Perfectly preserved inkwell of ...

Ivory lice comb. 12 grams, 2" x 3". Remarkably close to intact, with less than a tenth of its teeth missing, typical 2-sided design. From...

Lot of 8 small glass beads. 5.3 grams total, up to 3/8" in diameter. Mostly spherical and with some design, one translucent and the others dee...

Small wooden fid. 18.6 grams, 7-3/4" long. Slender, double-pointed of round cross-section used to untie knots, intact and rare as wood is usua...

Small pewter plate with touchmarks, pictured in Diving to a Flash of Gold. 460 grams, 9" in diameter. Fully intact, with 1" rim, light en...

Miniature clay figurine (tonalaware): "whistling lady," pictured in Diving to a Flash of Gold. 18.7 grams, 2-3/4" tall. A complete w...

Miniature clay figurine (tonalaware): "whistling lady" (top only). 8.7 grams, 2" tall. A match to the complete whistle from the same...

Miniature clay figurine (tonalaware): two-handled bowl with flower painting on side. 51.8 grams, 2" tall and 2-3/4" in diameter. About th...

Miniature clay figurine (tonalaware): bowl with rippled pattern inside. 6.9 grams, 1/2" tall and 1-5/8" in diameter. A miniaturized pouri...

Miniature clay figurine (tonalaware): lidded chest (complete). 44 grams, 1-3/4" x 2-1/8" x 1-1/8". A plain, rectangular box with fee...

Miniature clay figurine (tonalaware): two-handled urn. 41.9 grams, 3-1/2" tall. Perfectly intact and unencrusted, with long neck flanked by ha...

Miniature clay figurines (tonalaware): 4 small bowls in Lucite. 143.5 grams, 5" x 1-3/4" x 3/4". Three shallow bowls ranging in size...

Clay bowl (repaired). 199 grams, 5" tall and 3" in diameter. with one small handle at top (another one on the opposite side broken off an...

"Pincushion" powder-box encrusted onto iron, with separate lid. 375 grams, 7" x 3-1/2" x 2". Curious display consisting of...

Gold ring embedded in a large conglomerate. 224 grams, 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" x 2". Very small but intricate gold wedding band consisting o...

Ornate gold ring (wedding band). 5 grams, size 9. Typically thin, 7-sided design with diamond-shaped panels, mostly lustrous but partially encrusted.

Tiny gold cross with two links. 0.7 gram, 7/8" long. Too small to be anything but an earring, high-grade gold and perfectly intact. From the S...

Base-metal cross in natural matrix with chain encrusted therein. 37.3 grams, cross 3/4", matrix 2-3/4". Fascinating small display featuri...

Octagonal brass religious medallion, pictured in Diving to a Flash of Gold. 10.7 grams, 1-1/2" x 7/8". Very well preserved St. Felix meda...

Decorative melange of shipwreck coins and artifacts (three 8R of Mexico, Lima and Potosi plus a Mexican 1/2R, two small lead musketballs, shards of gl