Treasure Auction #8: Daniel F. Sedwick, LLC

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

Decorative presentation of one Mexican cob 8R cemented onto a brass spike. 107 grams, 5" long. Decent coin with 173(?) date and oMF attached a...

Silver Columbus statue. 226 grams, 4" tall. This woman-like figurine with flowing cape was actually the top of a religious vessel known as a m...

Coral-encrusted flintlock pistol, with x-rays showing lead bullet still inside, professionally conserved (coral shell reconstructed, with original par

Large iron cannonball ("20 pounder"), professionally conserved. 17 lb, 5" in diameter. A big ball of iron with rough surfaces thickl...

Thickly encrusted iron cannonball ("8 pounder"). 11 lb, 5" in diameter. A stable "cocoon" of thick, tan encrustation conta...

Iron cannonball ("8 pounder"), professionally conserved. Almost 6 lb and 4" in diameter. Medium-sized ball with mostly smooth surfac...

Iron cannonball ("6 pounder"), professionally conserved. 6 lb, 3-1/2" in diameter. Medium-sized ball with mostly smooth surfaces, ma...

Partially encrusted small iron cannonball ("4 pounder"). 3 lb 13 oz, 3-1/2" in diameter. Thickly cocooned ball with about 1/3 of its...

One end of a cylindrical iron barshot, professionally conserved. 7 lb, 4" in diameter and 2" thick. A rather thick and heavy puck that wa...

One end of a cylindrical iron barshot, professionally conserved. 2 lb 3 oz, 3-1/4" in diameter and 2" thick. Corroded and with wedge miss...

Bar and one end of a cylindrical iron barshot, professionally conserved. 1 lb 14 oz, 9-3/4" long. Corroded but solid puck with square-shank ba...

Encrusted silver plate. 867 grams, 9" in diameter. Black from oxidation but very heavily encrusted with brown and tan coral on both sides, sec...

Corroded silver plate. 224 grams, 9" in diameter. Small plate with about 30% of it missing from corrosion yet with outer ring of 1-1/2" r...

Clay pipe with encrustation and most of stem intact. 32.2 grams, 6" long. Fully intact (rare for such a fragile object), with wonderful white ...