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Sigh...I know that this particular lovely specimen isn't a pirate chest, but the point is these types were used by virtually everyone that was considered a person of merit, from rich merchants to bankers, military officers to yep, rich pirates!Thomas Tew, a powerful merchant and pirate from New York during the mid-1600s, owned a much larger chest and one that is the only certified example of a so-called pirate artifact known. Here's a link-
https://www.loc.gov/resource/highsm.62554/ |
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