Treasure & World Coin Floor Auction #18

Gold "money" chain, 118 twisted links, 226.5 grams. 28" long, each link about 3/8" in diameter. An imposing necklace of thick, ...

Thick gold cross with engraved pattern on front, one smooth link at top. 45.46 grams, 2-1/2" x 1-1/2". Very solid and bright, cast in 1/8...

Bottom half of a small, ornate, gold reliquary locket or snuffbox. 22.62 grams, 1-3/4" x 1-1/4" x 1/2". Oval in shape, with smooth, ...

Gold manicure set (toothpick and ear-spoon). 8.77 grams, 2-1/4" long. Plain flat strips of gold, one terminating in a point and the other in a...

Ornate gold ring in high-grade gold, size 4-1/4. 4.18 grams. Thick and sturdy finger-ring with seven-sided design of diamond-shaped panels engraved w

Gold ring, low grade, size 4-1/2. 1.86 grams. Thin, pale gold with same seven-sided design as lot #1186 above but with no engraving. With Fisher phot

Lot of 2 natural emeralds (18.8 carats and 1.8 carats), with certificates. 1" and 3/8". Pale-green rocks, fully opaque and far from gem q...

Chinese blue-on-white porcelain teacup, Kangxi, intact, pedigreed to the estate of Kip Wagner. 47.63 grams, 2-3/4" in diameter. Simple design ...

Iron "four-pounder" barshot. 3167 grams, 11-3/4" long, with 3"-diameter ends. Basically two four-pound cannonballs with cross-s...

Lot of 5 iron cannonballs of various sizes, professionally conserved. 2896 grams total, from 1-1/2" to 3" in diameter. Mostly intact (som...

Pre-Columbian clay head, perfectly intact, ex-McKee Museum. 25.7 grams, 2" x 1-1/2" x 1". A complete (albeit small) native head, wit...

Lot of 2 small "tonalaware" clay figurines encased in Lucite. 41.77 grams, 2-3/4" x 1-1/2"; 60.25 grams, 2-1/2" x 1-3/4&qu...

English pewter plate (intact) with maker's mark on bottom. 415 grams, 9-1/4" in diameter. Dark gray all over and with somewhat pitted surf...

Iron barshot, conserved. 3950 grams, 12" long, the ends 2" thick and 3" in diameter. Stable and sturdy but with parts of the bar (cr...

Small bronze cannonball (rare). 1160 grams, 2-3/4" in diameter. Four-pounder size but atypically bronze instead of iron (first we have seen fr...

Large lot of iron (axe head, nail, ring-pin), brass (hull-pin and buckle), pewter and lead (musketballs) artifacts, unconserved (some encrusted). 323

Bronze ship's bell. 8440 grams, 10" tall and 10" in diameter. Nice size (not too big or too small), with attractive green-and-white e...

Huge natural emerald, 108.3 carats, ex-Bobby Allison's Sunken Treasure museum. Massive rock of light green color in typical crystal shape wit...

Lot of 10 natural emeralds, 66.6 carats total, ex-Bobby Allison's Sunken Treasure museum. 1/2" to 3/4" each. Light green chips, trans...

Large pewter plate, intact but encrusted. 1435 grams, 13-1/2" in diameter. Complete and undamaged but thoroughly coated with whitish debris an...

Small pewter plate, intact but encrusted. 565 grams, 8-3/4" in diameter. Complete and undamaged but thoroughly coated with whitish debris and ...

Brass cross with Jesus figure (complete) encrusted into piece of impacted debris. 137 grams, 2-1/2" x 2" x 2". Intact cross with app...

Lot of 4 Chinese blue-on-white porcelains (2 saucers and 2 teacups), "Imari pavilion" pattern, intact. 192 grams total, the cups 3" ...

Small but intact cuprous cross. 5.93 grams, 2" x 1-1/8". Complete and well detailed, with Jesus on one side below INRI and above skull-an...

Intact porcelain toilet set: chamber pot and pitcher, partially encrusted. 1674 grams, 6" tall and 8-3/4" in diameter; and 946 grams, 9&q...

Small, two-handled earthenware bowl, encrusted and intact. 590 grams, 7" to 9" in diameter and 2-3/4" tall. A type of bowl known as ...

Very long (intact) clay "church warden" smoking pipe in custom wood-and-glass case. 26 grams, 15" long, the case 20" x 5" ...

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...

Fossil fish from Brazil, probably Santana formation (approx. 100 million years old). 808 grams, 7" x 5" x 1-1/2". Near-complete foss...

Lot of 10 pieces of pre-Columbian (Tairona or Sinu) "tumbaga" gold, including 9 nose rings and 1 frog figurine, rare and important, with c...

Pre-Columbian (Inca?) gold disk. 50.80 grams, 3" in diameter. Slightly cupped disk with hole in center, no markings except for the blows of a ...

English steel breastplate, late 1600s. 2680 grams, 14" tall and 14-1/2" wide. Scarce original armor piece with no attachments or rivets e...

Dutch bronze one-pounder cannon, dated 1784, made by brothers Christiaan and Jan Seest, sons of Pieter Seest, master founders of the Amsterdam foundry

Collection of 11 cannonballs and other small shot, made of iron (some lead-coated), bronze and stone, some rare, Spanish colonial, 1500s. 5728 grams,

Early American wooden powder keg dated "1816" found in eastern Pennsylvania. 956 grams, 9-3/4" tall and 6-1/2" in diameter. Sma...

British naval artillery ammunition passbox, leather, 1800s. 2300 grams, 13" tall and 11-1/2" in diameter. Brown leather construction with...

French naval "smoking lamp" or cannon igniter, circa 1800. 707 grams, 18" long. Scarce early iron oil lamp used on wooden warships a...

Spanish colonial machete, 1700s. 692 grams, 30" long. Classic-form Spanish cutlass used by naval and military personnel and settlers, serving ...

Spanish colonial side knife with "D" guard, late 1700s. 324 grams, 15" long. Hand-forged knife (with forge marks clearly visible) ty...

Early American naval officer's fighting dirk, ca. 1800-1820. 257 grams, 15-1/2" overall, with 11" blade. Small, slightly curved, blun...

British Naval surgeon's sword, ca. 1820. 436 grams, 38" long. All original, with shagreen (sharkskin) grip and wire wrap with fouled ancho...

Spanish colonial halberd, mid-1600s, rare early form. 750 grams, 18" long, 6-1/2" wide. Shaped like a fleur-de-lis with one side C-shaped...

Lot of 2 matched British Naval boarding pikes, mid-1800s. 1424 and 1582 grams, each 91" long. Very long and finely crafted wooden poles with s...

Danish Naval boarding axe, ca. 1805. 1221 grams, 33" long, with 10" head. Small, narrow axe-blade with pick at other end, indecipherable ...

English naval boarding axe / fire axe, 1800s, signed by maker Merryweather (London). 693 grams, 15" long, with 5-1/2" blade. Government-i...

Spanish miquelet-lock pistol, 1700s. 1120 grams, 17" long. Ornately decorated pistol with carved stock, silver wire inlay, cast brass mounts w...

European flintlock officer's pistol, 1700s. 1108 grams, 19" long. Attractively reddish walnut stock with ornately engraved heavy silver mo...

European flintlock officer's pistol, 1700s. 1193 grams, 20" long. Dark, glossy, heavily carved stock with silver inlay, ornate cast mounts...

European flintlock officer's pistol, 1700s. 895 grams, 15" long. Attractively reddish walnut stock with ornate, inlaid brass trigger, butt...

French flintlock gentleman's traveling pistol, 1700s. 311 grams, 8" long. Fine, small-size pocket pistol with engraved lockplate and barr...