Watch List notes:

Large, intricate gold bead, 7.65 grams, tested at 22K fine gold, ex-Santa Margarita (1622) 1-3/8" long. Beautiful, ornate and intact, with small holes at either end connected by a gold tube through the middle of the bead, the hollow basket-weave design a cylinder with a higher point in the middle, the central ring decorated with six four-petaled flowers, overall a masterpiece of goldsmithing and one of the most beautiful artifacts we have ever seen from this wreck. From the Santa Margarita (1622), with original Fisher photo-certificate 182 from 1982, pedigreed to the J.P. Silberman Estate.

Estimate: $3000 - $4500