IWC, G Cleverley and 1786 Russian Reindeer Leather
A year or so ago I had read a small article somewhere about an astonishing tale of sunken treasure. No, not gold doubloons and silver salvers from a Spanish galleon, but old leather in a shipwreck off Cornwall. Briefly, the 53 ton Brigantine, Frau Metta Catherina, from Flensburg (then in …