(closed 05/29/08) Treasure Auction #3 by Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC
porcelains from wrecks off the Philippines Selections of silver plate cobs from the Consolación wreck of 1681 Selections of milled silver coins from the ...
porcelains from wrecks off the Philippines Selections of silver plate cobs from the Consolación wreck of 1681 Selections of milled silver coins from the ...
, April 7, 2:00 pm EDT): Gold coins and ingots, silver-toned and copper ingots and shipwreck coins. Featuring selections from the Dr. Frank Sedwick ...
Consolación (Canta: Piro Mantilla) Si no tuviera ese amor aunque me root dolor si no pudiera llorar si no pudiera sufrir. Vale mas con todo y ...
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"Callao In April 1681 three galleons colossal sinister, the port of Lima, Peru, Panama, with gold and silver which would be transferred by road to Porto Bello galleons for shipment to Spain . They had been delayed for more than a month in Callao wait another smaller galleon called Santa Maria de la Consolation. This post was blocked because of the revelation of the cash and gold digging mines of Potosi. In space, he arrived in Callao, the Armada del Mar del Sur (name of the division which carried the valuables between Peru and Panama) already has the marina.The viceroy of Peru has ordered the Galleon to drive alone, ignoring for its majestic officials who feared the Galleon would likely be pirates recently reported in these waters. Its patent had carrying 146,000 pesos in coins pearly plaque with 800 bars of silver and gold ingots worth 34,000 pesos.
The Consolacion was built three years earlier in the shipyards in Guayaquil and he is rather ironic that his end would be very stingy with the district.She was 440 tons with 26 guns of iron and bronze and a group of 147 men - officers and sailors. Its captain was Juan Lerma and his owner was Francisco de Valles. She had an uneventful trip until it was close to admitting Rift Guayaquil, when the concern identified six major vessels appropriate (Spanish side) commanded by Captain Bartholomew Sharpe relevance to them. English sources all insist on Sharpe had only two vessels of petty cash. Captain Lerma first changed course and attempted to reach a refuge in Guayaquil.But the decree that "Jack Pirates" earned on his yacht struck a reef or on the rocks and began to decline. After the superb background officers, passengers and part of both entered in a variety of boats and unimportant after the fire of the habitat for Galleon of the hesitation pinch of joy in the direction of ACI difficult to handle. Men Sharpe's work were hot, very hot under the collar because the Spaniards had put the boat fire, and managed to retain much of the company and passengers.They became even angrier when they learned men of his car Galleon charge and what they had missed striking. After the beheading of prisoners, they stayed around the area for several days and many false fisherman natural to try to heal some catches. It was all swagger as they single expert had to raise some sails and rigging. The pirates in the end abandoned....
In three sessions, Wednesday-Friday, April 7-9, 2010
As common our latest Value Auction is full of surprises, but this age we note it is also very well balanced across many fields, with more loose existence coins than ever before. Here are some highlights:
In top acquiescence to the Sedwick patriarch, for the first stretch ever we are gift selections from the Explicit Sedwick ruminate on collecting of 1715-Rapid gold cobs , including cover coins from nearby editions of the Sensible Words of Cobs and other pieces never seen or offered for mark-down, coins that the pioneering “Dr. Cobs” kept as the most suitable examples among thousands that passed through his hands.
The lone possibility to own a “Honest Sedwick” example will start in this auction with neutral two 1715-Agile masterpieces: The finest-known Lima 4 escudos 1711 and one of the first Lima 8 escudos 1712 ever offered.
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