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 ...