Treasure and World Coin Auction # 16

Encrusted clump of about ten copper-alloy spoons. 280 grams, 7-1/2" long. A fairly neat stack of simple soup spoons, nicely patinated and inta...

Encrusted stoneware bottle, early 1800s. 890 grams, 8-1/2" tall and 3-1/2" diameter. Typical stoneware bottle of its time but with thick ...

Lot of 4 brass items from 3 different wrecks: 1 barrel-tap from the Association (1707); 2 musket trigger-guards from the Tilbury (1757); and 1 barrel-

Collection of 8 pre-Columbian copper-arsenic tajaderas (several different types) from native American cultures in Mexico and South America. 276 grams

Dutch bronze "one-pounder" cannon, ca. 1690-1700, attributed to maker Jasper Van Epecom (Middelburg, Zeeland). 42" long, 9" acr...

Large stone cannonball for mortar/bombard, Spanish Armada (1588). 17540grams, 9" diameter. A huge ball (largest we've seen) of soft and po...

Stone cannonball for mortar/bombard, Spanish Armada (1588). 3001 grams, 5" diameter. Soft and porous stone, somewhat smooth from rolling on th...

Iron cannonball grenade, Spanish colonial, 1600s. 1233 grams, 3" diameter. Typical ball but hollow and with hole in side for packing in powder...

Revolutionary War-period iron cannonball-grenade for mortar, ca. 1780. 8500 grams, 6" diameter. Large, hollow ball with hole in side, designed...

British naval wooden rammer for 6-lb cannon, dated 1749. 850 grams, 31" long. Basically a long wooden rod with wider tamping end marked with d...

French brass sector (for gunnery calculations), 1700s. 141 grams, 13" long. A rare instrument used primarily for calculating artillery angles ...

Brass-bound oak gunpowder barrel, English, 1700s (Georgian). 2647 grams, 10" tall and 7-1/2" diameter. An intact, small barrel with four ...

British naval artillery powder-bag passbox, 1800s. 1657 grams, 16" tall, 8" diameter. This wide canvas tube is so thickly coated on the o...

French infantry hanger sword with scabbard, 1800s (model 1808). 1195 grams, 30" long. Bright clean steel blade with no nicks or pitting, top p...

French naval boarding sword, dated 1846, with anchor and maker marks (model 1833). 1000 grams, 32" long. With characteristic slightly curved b...

French naval dirk (three-sided dagger) with anchor mark, 1840s, replacement scabbard. 170 grams, 12' long. Very clean and undamaged blade (stil...

Pair of British naval rigging knives, mid-1800s, manufactured in Sheffield, England (marked). 150 grams total, 7-1/2" to 8-1/4" long. Ver...

Civil War-era U.S. naval brass-hilt boarding cutlass (model 1860), manufacturer Ames (Massachusetts), dated 1862. 883 grams, 32" long. Clean s...

Civil War-era U.S. cavalry sword, manufacturer Ames (Massachusetts), dated 1863, with original scabbard. 1580 grams, 42" long. Intact blade wi...

Spanish-American War brass-hilt sword dated 1898, made in Toledo, Spain. 1094 grams, 33" long. Bright steel blade with deeply stamped marking ...