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DescriptionPostcard of a man in a diving suit. The postcard is signed, ‘Arthur McKee, Jr.’ The caption reads, ‘McKees Museum of Sunken Treasure, Treasure Harbor, Plantation Key, Florida.’ The description on the verso reads, ‘Deep Sea Diver Arthur McKee. Holding a 75-lb bar of coral incrusted silver bullion, one of three he recovered from the rotted hull of an ancient Spanish galleon wrecked on a reef “East of Key Largo”. One bar was purchased by the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D.C. for $1,000. The remaining bars are on exhibit at McKee’s Museum of Sunken Treasure, 5 miles south of Tavernier, Florida, at Treasure Harbor, U. S. 1 on Plantation Key. Glass-in-bottom boat trips enable you to actually view deep sea divers at work at the wreck site of an ancient Spanish galleon. Also, the beautiful undersea marina gardens.’