Actual MUSKETBALL Salvaged from the famed ATOCHA (1622)
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Please note: we do not accept "best offers" or trades or negotiate on price; nor do we ever reveal reserves or break up lots... so please don't email us about any of these -- Thank you! Actual MUSKETBALL Salvaged from the famed ATOCHA (lost at sea in the year 1622) . Heavy lead ball is apprx. 1/2" dia., and comes with paper copy of the Certification Of Historic Artifact document issued by Melvin Fisher, the man who spearheaded the search for the lost ship. Also includes several pages of background info on the Atocha. From "Mel's Story" (Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society): "...b y 1971, Mel had been searching all round the Marquesas and had found nothing. Suddenly the trail picked up. Bob Holloway, one of Mel's captains, found a huge Spanish anchor and some olive jar fragments a good indication that a ship was nearby. Mel thought his troubles were over. As he continued to search, Don Kincaid, a young underwater photographer who had just joined the Treasure Salvors crew, discovered an 8-1/2 foot gold chain. Surely this was it? It was not until two years later that Mel's son Kane found a silver bar inscribed with numbers that matched the Spanish manifest of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha. This was the proof Mel had been looking for. Over the next two years there were more finds large and small, valuable and ordinary. On July 13,
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