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Spanish Shippers Marks on Wax, Pottery and Silver Bars. (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mitch W Marken.

This paper discusses the purpose and meaning of markings found impressed into pottery vessels, beeswax blocks, or carved into silver bars and possibly other trade goods shipped aboard Spanish galleons between 1500-and 1800. The paper will discuss examples recoverd from shipwrecks from the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific trade, archival evidence and modern correlations.