Preliminary sketch - first phase

The Fugger mark on the copper ingots: from the mines....

"Copper mines", painting by Henri Met de Bles or "Il Civetta" (1480-1550), oil on wood, now at the Uffizi gallery.

.. to the Fugger Kontor, with Lisbon as one of many customers of Her Jacob Fugger..

... to this letter in the hand of a tax and papal indulgencies collector...

.. to Papal coins...

... to an ingot from an unknown Portuguese shipwreck in the Seychelles*...

from BLAKE, W. & GREEN, J, 1986, "A mid-XVI century Portuguese wreck in the Seychelles", International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, vol.15, 1, London: February 1986, pp.1-23.

* in 1986, the archaeologists did not knew that this "trident-like" symbol was the Fugger mark.

.. to the Namibia shipwreck ingots.