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South Carolina State Museum Through September 19th

Featuring actual artifacts as well as reproductions to illustrate the lives and times of buccaneers during the heyday of piracy (approximately 1600-1718), the exhibit will thrill those who have always been fascinated by these desperadoes of the bounding main.

The exhibit displays a pirate ship’s bell, rigging hook, cannon balls, pewter plates, buckles, ballast stones, cannon aprons and small vials of gold dust. A concretion tank features mineralized artifacts as they would have appeared when found on the ocean’s floor. See money plundered by pirates, including silver “pieces of eight,” gold doubloons, and Spanish reals (pronounced ray-ahls). Reproduction cannons from pirate ships give guests the feel of being on the deck of a pirate ship.

South Carolina Silver Varieties in Society 1750-1935
May 15 - January 31, 2011  South Carolina State Museum

A collection of silver used in South Carolina over two centuries can be seen at the South Carolina State Museum beginning May 15, in the elegant exhibit South Carolina Silver: Varieties in Society 1750-1935.

A wide variety of silver pieces from the Museum's collection will be on display, such as a silver service presented to John G. Richard when he left the governor’s office in 1931, an 18th–century breakfast setting, and a men’s silver set featuring humidors and tankards from the antebellum period. Museum guests also will see a section of unusual flatware – mustard spoons, a fish slice and a tomato lifter, a very popular item in the 1850s and ‘60s. English and French silver used in South Carolina also are included.