Spanish Shipwreck Beads

Spanish Shipwreck Venetian Glass Trade Beads

Wreck Of: Nuestra Senora de los Milagros (Our Lady of Miracles)

Sunk: February 22 1741, Puntan Matanceros, Mexico

This frigate class Spanish merchant ship sailing from Cadiz, Spain with goods for the Colonial market wreckedx off the coast of the Yucatan while avoiding detection of the British war and Pirate ships operating out of Port Royal, Jamaica. These glass beads would have been used as trade or gift items to native people in unexplored areas of the Spanish Empire.