Treasure and World Coin Auction # 16

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 ...