Our featured treasure for the month of March is this delicate hand carved Madonna and Child. This item was found south of the McLarty Treasure Museum in 1977. The location of the discovery places it in the area of the Survivors and Salvagers’ Camp established by those that survived the hurricane that destroyed the 1715 […]
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Greetings. This update if for those planning to attend the Conference and Dinner next month in St. Augustine. With the help of Laura Stevenson Dumas who is Director of College Relations for Flagler College, we have been granted free parking for the duration of our Conference from noon Wednesday, March 15, 2017 through noon Sunday,
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Recently a rather important anniversary slipped by the 1715 Fleet community (including me ) unnoticed. It was 50 years ago on February 4, 1967 that the famous “Treasure of the Spanish Main” auction took place at the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York. The sale consisted of 331 lots of major treasures recovered by the Real
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CLICK BELOW TO VIEW LATEST 1715 FLEET SOCIETY VIDEOS: 1715 Fleet Society Plans International Conference Mar 16-17, 2017. VIDEO: 3:04Ben Costello, Director, 1715 Fleet Society, Interviewer: David Lisot, CoinTelevision.com. The second annual 1715 Fleet Society International Conference is scheduled for March 16-17, 2017. It will host noted lecturers and researchers devoted to the study of
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For those of you planning to attend the upcoming Conference next month, I am attaching a map of the Flagler College Campus which will serve to give you some guidance as to where the Conference will be held. As you will see on the map, the Campus is rather large. The location of the Conference
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