Watch List notes:

Large copper cooking pot, encrusted inside, with display sign. 6 lb 10 oz, 8-1/2" tall and 8-1/2" in diameter. Very impressive artifact, the spherical body all intact (brown in color) but thin and cracked, held together by a thick, white crust of shells and sand on the interior, visible through a 6"-wide opening at top, three small posts on sides (one missing) where handles used to be, accompanied by a small, printed foam-board sign from when the pot was on display in a museum or traveling exhibit. With original Fisher photo-certificate #A-601, and pedigreed to our Auction #6, with original lot-tag #1689. Recovered from: Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida

Estimate: $1250