Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket coins it dates from the latter

it dates from the latter half of the 19th Century

A remarkable antique ring and brooch and pendant dating from the late Victorian period

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circa 1910

Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket coins it dates from the latterDATE: Vintage, c. 1994 This remarkable vintage locket is made from a silver ingot recovered from the wreck of the Nuestra Sonora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sunk off the Florida Keys in 1622 laden with over 40 tons of gold and silver, and an estimated 70 pounds of Colombian emeralds. The wreck was discovered over 300 years later, in 1985, by Mel Fisher, who had been searching for it since the early '70s. It was a long and dangerous process,