Saturday, 8. February 2003
Topic: - on February 8, 2003 at 1:07:41 PM CET
Columbus Bell to Go on Auction Block
-For sale: one ship's bell, old and corroded, big piece missing. First user: Columbus.
Bidding starts at $1 million when that bronze artifact from the Santa Maria, the flagship of Christopher Columbus' historic 1492 voyage, goes to auction Feb. 20 in Madrid.
The bell belongs to an Italian diver, Roberto Mazzara, who found it in a shipwreck off Portugal's coast in 1994 and did years of detective work to prove it is the bell that tolled when Columbus and his tiny flotilla arrived in America.
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