Sold with original certificate signed by Richard James Vincent Larn, OBE.

Richard James Vincent Larn, OBE (born 1931 ) is a retired Chief petty officer in the  Royal Navy, a businessman and maritime history writer who is widely regarded as one of Britain’s leading historic shipwreck experts.

Dutch East Indianan De Liefde , was lost on a reef known as the Miouw, 15 miles NE of Lerwick in the Shetland isles on 7/8 November 1711 in a gale.