{"id":1758893,"date":"2022-12-01T18:48:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758893"},"modified":"2022-12-01T18:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:49:13","slug":"treasures-from-sunken-pre-civil-war-ship-of-gold-go-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasures-from-sunken-pre-civil-war-ship-of-gold-go-up-for-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures From Sunken Pre-Civil War \u2018Ship Of Gold\u2019 Go Up For Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftreasures-from-sunken-pre-civil-war-ship-of-gold-go-up-for-auction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758893&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Treasures from a Gold Rush-era sunken ship are set to go up at a Reno auction house on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>When the S.S. Central America, rightly nicknamed the \u201cShip of Gold,\u201d sunk off the coast of South Carolina 165 years ago, it brought real treasure down with it. Some of it is being <a href=\"https:\/\/holabirdamericana.liveauctiongroup.com\/SS-Central-America-Shipwreck-Artifacts-Auction-Part-I-December-2022_as86130_p3?ps=100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auctioned<\/a> off this weekend, including an 1849 Colt pistol, full beer bottles, and numerous gold nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome collectors have been waiting for these extraordinary items to come on the market since the legendary, submerged ship was located in 1988 and Life magazine proclaimed it America\u2019s greatest treasure ever found,\u201d president Holabird Western Americana Collections Fred Holabird <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-new-york-city-san-francisco-reno-ce031b4288eb8352af5ce52f5de981bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the artifacts being sold are <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-new-york-city-san-francisco-reno-ce031b4288eb8352af5ce52f5de981bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> worth up to $1 million, including a lid to the oldest known Wells Fargo treasure box. Additional items being auctioned include 1850s currency, a gold pocket watch, a boiler steam gauge, a perfume bottle, and articles of clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Ship of Gold, originally named S.S. George Law and then changed to the S.S. Central America, was a steamship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/object\/rigged-model-steamship-george-law-central-america%3Anmah_844265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">built<\/a> in 1852 for the United States Mail Steamship Company. It sunk 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/tommy-thompson-treasure-prison-shipwreck-b1981712.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">miles<\/a> off the coast of South Carolina on September 12, 1857, killing 425 people while 125 were rescued. It was on its way to New York from Panama.<\/p>\n<p>The artifacts and gold were effectively preserved because the wreckage of the ship lies 7,000 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic, allowing cold temperatures and a lack of oxygen to aid in their preservation. Other items were in trunks and safes that were still sealed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-470905\" class=\"wp-image-470905 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-830276998-852x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-830276998-852x576-1.jpg 852w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-830276998-300x203-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-830276998-768x519-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-830276998-1536x1038-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-830276998-2048x1385-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-470905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Items treasure rescued from the wreck of the SS Central America, which foundered in 1857 off the coast of South Carolina, as shown in the Lloyd\u2019s Insurance Register (behind). Over 400 pounds of gold bars and coins are expected to raise 7 million when auctioned. on December 8th and 9th, at Sotheby\u2019s, New York. (Photo by Michael Crabtree \u2013 PA Images\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The sinking of the S.S. Central America helped lead to economic panic and recession, known as the Panic of 1857, partly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgs.com\/shipofgold\/history-of-ss-central-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">because<\/a> there were thousands of coins from the San Francisco mint headed to New York.<\/p>\n<p>Not all that glitters is gold in the story of the ship of gold. The man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ss-central-america-shipwreck-1857-ship-of-gold-treasure-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> the wreckage in 1988, deep-sea explorer Tommy Thompson, is in jail for <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/t3YcC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refusing<\/a> to disclose the location of 500 gold coins. Thompson was reportedly being held in contempt of court and being fined $1,000 a day for failing to answer the government\u2019s questions about the booty, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/t3YcC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violating<\/a> his plea deal after reportedly withholding money from investors. <\/p>\n<p>Some of what was found has already been sold in 2000 and 2017 for tens of millions of dollars, and the bell of the ship was donated to the U.S. Naval Academy in early 2022.<\/p>\n<p>There have been multiple recovery trips to gather additional items. In 1990 and 1991, a robot submarine recovered two trunks that belonged to first-class passengers, which are in excellent condition. One of those trunks belonged to a man who served in the Mexican-American War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasures from a Gold Rush-era sunken ship are set to go up at a Reno auction house on Saturday. When the S.S. Central America, rightly nicknamed the \u201cShip of Gold,\u201d sunk off the coast of South Carolina 165 years ago, it brought real treasure down with it. Some of it is being auctioned off this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1758896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}