^Lot 1943 Brass flintlock pistol butt-cap with encrustation, ex-Guadalupe-Tolosa (1724).

Brass flintlock pistol butt-cap with encrustation, ex-Guadalupe-Tolosa (1724). 156 grams total. 4½" long. Unusual remnant of a long-gone pistol, the brown brass butt-cap intact with a small piece of encrustation adhered to the inside of the concave ball, a small hole at top where it would have been screwed onto the end of the gun. From the Guadalupe-Tolosa (1724), with original certificate from Captain Tracy Bowden through his contract with the Dominican Republic and copy of the article "Graveyard of the Quicksilver Galleons" by Mendel Peterson from the December 1979 issue of National Geographic.