Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket coins circa 1910

circa 1910

The head is formed as an infinity knot

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

It's beautifully detailed

trees rising up in the background

Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket coins circa 1910DATE: 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,