Treasure and World Coin Auction # 16

Atocha painting: "Atocha Meets Her Fate," by Ralph Curnow (2009). 24" x 20". A dark and dramatic rendering of the Atocha's ...

Large earthenware "olive" jar. 8690 grams, 20" tall, 11" in diameter, 4" lip. Akin to the amphorae of ancient times, "...

Small stone cannonball. 321 grams, 2-1/4" diameter. Whitish in color due to rolling on the seabed, rather small for its type, typically much l...

Iron cannonball. 2050 grams, 3-1/2" diameter. Typical ball with mostly intact surfaces, part glossy and part matte but all deep black as profe...

Large iron adze/pick. 1760 grams, 16" long and 5-1/2" wide. Impressively large and heavy and still somewhat solid despite heavy oxidation...

Copper hull-pin. 1890 grams, 18" long, 1" thick. A long, straight rod of copper with flat washer fused at one end, the other end broken o...

Clay smoking pipe. 22.08 grams, 6-1/2" long. Unusually dark brown in color, with small bits of white coral adhering to the outside and coating...

Lot of 3 brass crotal bells. 31 grams total, 1" to 1-1/2" in diameter. All three intact (rare thus) with loops at top and neat slits in b...

Lot of 25 colored glass trading beads. 66 grams total, 1/2" to 1-1/4" long. Typical tubes of blue, green and red (plus some striped red-a...

Intact silver plate with tax stamps and owner's mark. 299 grams, 9-1/4" in diameter. Fully intact and solid (very light surface corrosion ...

Encrusted silver plate, intact. 529 grams, 9" in diameter. Complete plate with only a small portion of oxidized silver exposed, the rest neatl...

Intact earthenware "olive" jar, very rare. 3775 grams, 11" tall and 9" widest diameter. A phenomenal artifact, reported to be o...

Long steel rapier blade. 366 grams, 45" long. This piece was among a large shipment on this wreck, all the blades without hilts and rather wel...

Steel smallsword with hilt. 274 grams, 32-1/2" long. Apparently not part of the shipment of rapier blades on this ship but similar, with inter...

Short steel sword blade. 178 grams, 20" long. Among the shipment of rapier blades on this wreck were some short, single-sided sword blades lik...

Gold and red-coral rosary, complete and intact. The chain about 27" long, the cross about 2" x 1-1/2". Few shipwreck artifacts conve...

Gold-and-amethyst ring (~22K), about 3-4 carats. 4.21 grams, size 1-3/4. A curious jewel with large, rectangular, high-quality "emerald-cut&qu...

Gold-and-ruby buckle, ornate and intact. 19.61 grams, about 1-1/2" x 1". At first this looks modern because of polishing and the addition...

Gold "olive blossom" chain, intact. 43.91 grams, 32-1/2" long. A common type of gold chain from the 1715 Fleet, consisting of small,...

Lot of 26 small pieces of gold "olive blossom" chain. 31.87 grams total, about 21" total length. The usual type of chain from the 17...

Dutch bronze "six-pounder" cannon with Amsterdam proofmark, encrusted inside. About 90 lb, 28" long, 10" across trunnions, 5&qu...

Large gold reliquary pendant with engraved I-H-S (first three letters of "Jesus" in Latinized Greek), ex-Art McKee, plated in Weller's...

Small gold ring in encrustation with x-ray slides. 57.03 grams, approx. 2" x 1-1/2" x 1-1/2". About 3/4 of the outside of this tiny ...

Ivory fan/comb fragments in Riker box, ex-Meylach collection. 13.7 grams total; up to 4-1/4" long. A lot of six broken pieces of thin ivory wo...

Brass navigational dividers, complete and intact. 18.41 grams, 4-1/4" long. Very delicate and exceptionally well preserved, with sharp points ...

Large bronze navigational dividers, intact except for iron legs. 49.00 grams, 3-1/2" long. Thick-gauge bronze (darkly patinated) with operatio...

Stone grinding wheel. 40 lb, 15" in diameter and 2-1/2" thick. A big disk of greenish-gray stone (somewhat light for its size) with white...

Pair of spoons (one brass, one pewter). 61.30 grams total, 5-1/2" to 6" long. Simple spoons in mostly intact condition, just a few pieces...

Crystal panel with cross design as from a rosary. 1.34 grams, 1-1/4" long. A triangular pane of frosted, bevel-edged glass with cross design i...

Encrusted silver candlewick-trimmer. 202 grams, 6-1/2" long. This looks just like a pair of scissors with a small box on the blades, but the b...

Small scissors, totally cocooned in coral. 61.49 grams, 3-3/4" long. Fun little piece with the entire outline of its small form (probably for ...

Ivory violin-string tuner, rare. 5.63 grams, 2-5/8" long. Basically a small paddle with hole in center for holding and turning a string to get...

Brass tobacco box lid in heavy encrustation. 245 grams, 6-1/4" long and 2" wide. Very cool shipwreck artifact that is intact and clean, w...

Long, gold "money" chain, complete with end rings. 116 grams, 53" long. An elegant chain with round, fluted links, each one slightly...

Small silver-wire cage, possibly for housing crickets, fully intact and functional. 69.66 grams, 6-3/4" tall. A dainty little piece consisting...

Lot of 4 silver game finials, ex-Castells. 40.04 grams total, each about 1" tall. Little amulets showing human features, three of them with pr...

Brass navigational dividers. 26.70 grams, 3" long. Clean and brassy (matte) but lightly surface-corroded, the round hinge at top still operati...

Green-glass bottle and silver coin (Mexico bust 8R 1805TH), both with original photo-certificates from the salvagers. 410 grams, 9-1/2" long (...

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 ...