SS Central America Shipwreck Artifacts Auction, Part I (December 2022)

Lot includes 3 pairs of matched, brass luggage tags, two with original leather fobs: #1270, #1502, and #1746. "San Fo to NY via Panama." M...

A white ironstone rectangular bowl, marked // Ironstone China / Barrow & Co. // on the bottom (1853- 1856). Called a "Janus" bowl beca...

These cufflinks recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck in 2014 from Coin Pile #6 are made with four 15 x 12 mm oval slabs of gold-bearing w

This is the finest known of all the S.S. Central America passenger receipts on pre-printed US Mail Steamship Company forms coming from New York. // Un

This gold signet ring, size 8.5, weighs 6.58 grams (0.211 ozt) and bears the initial SS on the small shield-shaped cartouche. Oddly, the initials are

A rare note from the safe of Purser Hull recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck in 2014. Bank of Syracuse, NY, $5, Haxby G12c. Haxby states

State Bank of Newark, NJ $3, which Haxby notes is only known in proof. Stained throughout, but no holes or tears. In November 1853, counterfeit $5 not

Stickpin made from a Type II $1 gold coin in beautiful condition, total weight 2.31 grams (0.074 ozt) with a firmly attached stickpin. Total length is

Small gold buckle recovered from the S.S. Central America shipwreck debris field. Ornate engraving on the front, no maker mark on reverse, 28 x 21 mm.

Four native gold-in-quartz specimens from one of the gold pokes found in the port-side debris field, Coin Pile #23, of the S.S. Central America shipwr