Empty but still a treasure

NEW YORK: PIRACY on the High Seas may be among the most dastardly of criminal activities, but when you look back at the Spanish Main with all its swashbuckling and early Hollywood Fairbanks and Flynn connotations, it remains among the most stirring and romantic.

Little wonder, then, that there were plenty of takers at Christie’s East in New York on December 12 …

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