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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 34697, member: 44&quot;]af, thanks for the info on bullion history during that period, very interesting. I also wasn&#039;t sure what a &quot;nef&quot; was. The one like yours on WorthPoint was called a nef. I saw several silver Dutch ships with wheels called nefs like the followings. At first I thought they might be wine bottle holders, they aren&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://spoonplanet.com/shipshuge1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://spoonplanet.com/shipshuge1.html" rel="nofollow">http://spoonplanet.com/shipshuge1.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6536885" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6536885" rel="nofollow">http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6536885</a></p><p><a href="http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/starobject.html?oid=126823" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/starobject.html?oid=126823" rel="nofollow">http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/starobject.html?oid=126823</a></p><p><br /></p><p>What purpose the wheels, what purpose ships with wheels, is beyond me. Welll, I guess with wheels you could drag the ship through the desert if you had a mind to. Just yesterday while scanning the TV channels in hopes of finding something, anything, worth watching, I came upon a hunt for a ship(s) in the Mojave Desert. Seems there have been fleeting glimpses of ships from Spanish galleons to Viking ships in that desert and possible other deserts in that corner of the world since the mid 1800s. It&#039;s one of those perpetual treasure hunts similar to the Lost Dutchman Mine in what, the Superstition Mts? I know, I know!!! Those silver Dutch ships with wheels are really the <i>Flying Dutchman</i> ghost ship that is now wandering through the deserts of the U.S. southwest.</p><p><a href="http://www.desertusa.com/desert-activity/lost-ship-desert.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.desertusa.com/desert-activity/lost-ship-desert.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.desertusa.com/desert-activity/lost-ship-desert.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=52" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=52" rel="nofollow">http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=52</a></p><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2150764/Pictured-The-eerie-rusting-50-year-old-ghost-ships-reminder-desert-used-sea.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2150764/Pictured-The-eerie-rusting-50-year-old-ghost-ships-reminder-desert-used-sea.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2150764/Pictured-The-eerie-rusting-50-year-old-ghost-ships-reminder-desert-used-sea.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve worked with the mark on the far right of your ship and the 3 marks on the far right of the eBay ship hoping to see something. I didn&#039;t have any real luck. Yours looks like it has the number 18 or 16 on it and other &quot;stuff.&quot; Just a little funny, on zooming in on yours it almost looks like a large duck head with bill on the left. Like the duck is lying on it&#039;s back. When you rotate the pic 90 degrees to the right, the duck is standing upright. Can&#039;t make out anything on the 3 marks of the eBay ship other than possible a &quot;3&quot; or &quot;W&quot; on the far right mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p>[ATTACH=full]8715[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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