^Lot 499 Pewter clyster-pump nozzle with spherical mass, ex-Guadalupe-Tolosa (1724).

Pewter clyster-pump nozzle with spherical mass, ex-Guadalupe-Tolosa (1724). 247 grams total. 6" long. Recognizable as a medical instrument for administering enemas, with a long, thin, tapering nozzle, medium gray all over and intact except for a small crack at one end, the flat, round piece which holds it at the other end now firmly attached to a roughly round red ball of encrustation that likely is a cocoon of the pre-sinking contents of the device. 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.