£200 - £300
The Dutch East India Company (VOC), Hollandia, Isles of Scilly, 1743 Silver cutlery. Four pieces, one crested. The crest is that of the Imhoff-Bentinck family. Amongst the passengers were Hendrik Francois Van Imhoff, his wife Mechteld Bentinck, and her 22-year-old sister Anna. Henrik was the youngest brother of Gustav Willem, Baron von Imhoff, the new Governor-General of the East Indies. Hollandia, 3rd July 1743, Isles of Scilly Built in Amsterdam in 1742, the 32-gun, 700-ton Dutch East India Company ship was carrying more than 120,000 guilders worth of silver coins on her maiden outward-bound journey to Batavia (now Jakarta). All of the estimated 276 people on board lost their lives when the ship sank during a storm off the island of Annet and the firing of the cannons to alert the locals to the ship’s distress may be the reason for the naming of ‘Gunner’s Rock’ in the vicinity. Found in 1971, after a three-year search, by Rex Cowan using pioneering proton magnetometry technology, bronze cannon, silver cutlery, lead ingots and silver coins were amongst the items recovered from the wreck that lies at a depth of more than 100ft.
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