Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-07-21
FAMOUS FINDS.
treasures Lost on Land and Sea and Ar
forwards Recovered.

Treasures Lost on Land and Sea and Ar
forwards Recovered,
The recovery Of the Spanish galleon
wrecked off Hispaniola, of which the
bullion was secured by some English
spectators in 1857, has cost later gen.
erations dearly. The duke of Able.
marie, governor of Jamaica, received
100000, the royal share was 100000,
gentlemen who had adventured el0o
took $4,000 to 10000. Innumerablc
have been the disastrous enterprises
winch this success promoted. Within
the last few years we saw n company.
formed to recover Napoleon's army
chest, sunk, with the vessel that con-
tanned it, at the battle of AbulSir
Perhaps the most interesting find, saw
ing those wondrous tombs in south
Russia, was the Treasure of Guar
razar" discovered in 1858. Some peas
ants travelling from Toledo noticed OBJ
Iects OF gold and jewel work washed
partly out of the ground by heavy
rams. They broke them to pieces and
divided them. Happily, an intelligent
man heard the story in time, bought up
every fragment pieced them all to-
gether and fled to Paris, where he sold
the lot TO the Musee Cluny. The OBJ
Jects proved to be eleven crowns
mostly "votive"-of Gothic monarchs
who ruled Spain during the seventh
century. Of the owner in two cases
there Is no doubt at all, for they bear
ms name written in letters of gold hang
Ing by gold chains from the circlet,
with jewel pendant from each letter.
One bears the simple inscription. "Su-
inthila," who reigned from 621-631 A.
d., and the other: "Reccesvinthus rex
offerret. His date was 649-672. Two,
If not more, are queens crowns. One,
the largest, has thirty big sapphires
and thirty pearls of great size; below
1t hangs cross set with large sapphires
and pearls, which, again, has jeweled
pendants. But we must not describe
infinitely objects which are, perhaps,
better known, to antiquarians at least
than any pieces of goldsmiths' work ex.
listing
The Treasure Of Hildesheim" also is
priceless. 1t was found by soldiers
digging trench for siege practice nea,
the town of that name in 1860. We
can not doubt that this glorious trou
vaille was the camp equipage" Of
some very rich traveller, probably a
Roman general = though conjecture
has boundless field for speculation how
1T could find its way to Hildesheim
which the Roman armies never reached
There are stewpans, pots, plates, {
batterie dc cuisine complete, all of sill
yer, exquisite in form and in ornament
the legs, so to call them, of table
stands for lamps, and other things in
dcfinable, all silver and all love
ly; a complete dinner serv
ice, plates, dishes, cups, COB
let's, of beautiful Greek work
in silver, with gold wreaths and attach
ments. One might say in truth tina
the goldsiniths art could not go beyond
the grace and richness of these article
many of which are ascribed to tn,
first century A. D.-had not the Russian
iinds surpassed them. The IIildeshein
treasure is at Berlin; the Russian at tn
Winter palace. That in truth is plori
Gus beyond imagining. OF one piece
NJ Theirs declared, in rapture, that
nation would be justified in maxim,
war on the car for possession of il
This is the "Nikopol Vase" Volume
have been written, and libraries will b
written, on these marvels Therefore
we do not dwell upon them. The
have been recovered from tumult in tn
neighborhood of the ancient Greek CO.
onies on the Black sea. London Stand
ard