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V25 2022 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE S.S. CENTRAL AMERICA ARTIFACTS EXHIBITEDArtifacts from the fabled wreck of the S.S. Central America were on display in Reno this week. Here's an article from the Reno Gazette Journal. -Editor 
Fred Holabird and Bob Evans in warehouse with SS Central America artifacts A mysterious daguerreotype of a woman and a pair of jeans possibly made by Levi Strauss himself are among nearly 1,000 Gold Rush-era treasures recovered from the fabled "Ship of Gold" that will be on display in Reno this week. Since their recovery between the late 1980s and 2014, the remarkable findings extracted from the sunken S.S. Central America have been in secret storage, but this week begins a national tour, which will start at the National Antique Bottle Convention from July 28 through 31 at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno. This is the first public exhibition of the artifacts, which will be auctioned off later this year. Among the notable recovered items are the lid to the oldest known Wells Fargo treasure shipment box; 1857 clothing, including a pair of the earliest known Gold Rush-era canvas work pants jeans with a button fly that may have been made by Strauss in his early years in business; and jewelry made from California Gold Rush "mother lode" native gold in quartz as gemstones, according to Fred Holabird, president of Holabird Western Americana Collections in Reno.
Other items recovered include pistols; brass luggage tags; passengers' ticket receipts; galley utensils and dishes; ornate, flint glass wine and spirits decanters that appear to have been a standard amenity in the first-class staterooms; eyeglasses in solid gold frames; and chewing tobacco in a pouch apparently from the 1851 London World's Fair, Holabird said. While laden with booty, the S.S. Central America shipwreck was also a deep sea gravesite.
The items on display during the upcoming convention were kept in storage in three different states: Maryland, Massachusetts, and Ohio, until a court-approved settlement was reached ending a decades-long ownership dispute.
Scientist Bob Evans, who was on each of the recovery missions, will be at the exhibit in Reno to talk to visitors about the The items will be offered in public auctions in October and November by Holabird Western Americana Collections. Currently, California Gold Marketing Group of Brea, Calif. owns the antiques. Check out the full article online, which includes a nice video with Bob Evans. -Editor
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Arthur Shippee passed along a USA Today article with exhibit tour information and a great gallery of 24 photos - check it out. Thanks. -Editor 
Room keys and key tags The first display will be Friday through Sunday at the National Antique Bottle Convention in Reno, Nevada. The artifacts will then be at the Chicago World's Fair of Money in Rosemont, Illinois from Aug. 16-20 before heading to the HardRock Summit 2022 Gem and Jewelry Show in Denver from Sept. 8-11. All the items will be up for auction in October and November, though exact dates haven't been announced. Keep an eye on the auction website for more details.
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Fred Holabird provided this image of the exhibit, showing about one third of the total area. -Editor 
Bob Evans provided this report and images from the show. Thanks! "The show in Reno is great! Fred Holabird and his company have put together a fabulous display of non-numismatic artifacts from the Central America. It is wonderful to bring these artifacts to the public and to see their reaction. We have a wide variety including jewelry, bottles and ceramics, wooden treasure boxes, including the lid from a Wells Fargo box, and clothing from the recovered trunks. I am really looking forward to bringing this and even more, including the robot submarine Nemo, to the ANA convention in Rosemont in a couple weeks, to share with all my numismatic friends and the general public. Numismatists currently know the SS Central America story better than any other collecting community, and now they can see the rest of the story and learn the tales these artifacts have to tell. It will be great! See you there!" 
Another article has some more images. -Editor 
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