Charles Miller Ltd - Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art

Charles Miller Ltd Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art London Wednesday 29th October 2014

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Estimates are published as a guide only and are subject to review. The actual hammer price of a lot may well be higher or lower than the range of figures given and there are no fixed “starting prices”.

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ARTIST’S RESALE RIGHT (“DROIT DE SUITE”) If a lot is affected by this right it will be identified with the symbol δ next to the lot number. The buyer agrees to pay to Charles Miller an amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay such amount to the artist’s collecting agent. Resale royalty applies where the Hammer Price is 1,000 Euro or more and the amount cannot be more than 12,500 Euro per lot. The amount is calculated as follows: Royalty For the portion of the Hammer Price (in Euro) 4.00% 3.00% 1.00% 0.50% 0.25%

up to 50,000 between 50,000.01 and 200,000 between 200,000.01 and 350,000 between 350,000.01 and 500,000 in excess of 500,000

Invoices will, as usual, be issued in Pounds Sterling. For the purposes of calculating the resale royalty the Pounds Sterling/Euro rate of exchange will be the European Central Bank reference rate on the day of the sale. Since 1st January 2012 Droit de Suite extends to the estates of artists deceased for up to 70 years

Charles Miller Ltd Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AT 25 Blythe Road, London, W14 0PD

Wednesday 29th October 2014 at 12 noon, precisely

POST SALE COLLECTION Important Notice: Lots not collected by 5pm on day of sale will be available from 2pm on Thursday 30th October at Charles Miller Ltd, 6 Imperial Studios, 3/11 Imperial Road, London, SW6 2AG

Public Exhibition

Order of Sale

Sunday 26th October

12pm-4pm

Pictures

Monday 27th October

10am-7pm

Naval

Tuesday 28th October

10am-5pm

Wednesday 29 October (Limited View Only)

10am-12pm

Collectables & Fittings

20-81 85-156

Instruments

160-229

Models

230-271

This auction is conducted by Charles Miller Ltd in accordance with our Conditions of Business printed in the back of this catalogue.

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Explanation of Cataloguing Practice Pictures A work catalogued with the name(s) or recognised designation of an artist, without any qualification, is, in our opinion, a work by the artist.

“Builder’s/Prisoner-of-War-Style…”

In our opinion a modern model which is built closely conforming to the typical types of examples found within the genre.

In other cases, the following expressions with the following meanings are used:

“Restored…”

In our opinion an original model which has been to a lesser or greater extent restored in some or all areas.

The condition report may attempt to detail more precisely which areas these are.

“Attributed to…”

In our opinion probably a work by the artist in whole or in part “Studio of…”

“Workshop of…”

In our opinion a work executed in the studio or workshop of the artist, possibly under his supervision.

“Circle of…”

In our opinion a work of the period of the artist and showing his influence.

“Follower of…”

In our opinion a work executed in the artist’s style but not necessarily by a pupil.

“Manner of…”

In our opinion a work executed in the artist’s style but of a later date.

“After…”

In our opinion a copy (of any date) of a work of the artist.

“Signed…”

“Dated…”

“Inscribed…”

In our opinion the work has been signed/dated/inscribed by the artist. The addition of a question mark (?) adds an element of doubt.

“With signature…”

“With date…”

“With inscription…”

In our opinion the signature/date/inscription/stamp is by a hand other than that of the artist.

Models “Builder’s model…”

In our opinion a model produced in the workshops of the yard “Boardroom model…”

A model which has been produced under contract by a professional modelling firm for the yard.

Catalogue produced by A2

“Restored overall…”

In our opinion a model or object which has been restored in every context, including fixings and mounts.

Model Scales Where possible indications are given of model scales, in some instances these are provided by individual modellers, or worked out from measurements.

Measurements These are provided in order of Height x Width x Depth, unless otherwise stated. Where it is not possible to separate the model from the case, overall measurements are taken from the widest point of each surface.

Condition Condition may be mentioned in italics within brackets at the end of a description; detailed condition reports may be had from CM Ltd. prior to sale and are for reference only. Clients should satisfy themselves in person wherever possible as to the condition of a lot, or ask an agent to inspect it for them. All statements provided by Charles Miller Ltd. are honestly given, however our staff are not trained conservators or restorers and accordingly any statement given will not be exhaustive. Ø PROPERTY INCORPORATING MATERIALS FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES (CITES) An export licence issued by the Department of the Environment will be required for the export of any item made of or incorporating (irrespective of percentage) animal material such as ivory, whalebone, tortoiseshell, rhinoceros horn, rosewood and lignum vitæ etc., and this may take up to eight weeks to obtain. Clients are advised to check with the regulating body in the country of importation regarding any possible restrictions on the importation of items within this category – some countries have an absolute ban on the importation of certain materials. For example, the U.S. generally prohibits the importation of articles containing species that it has designated endangered or threatened if those articles are less than 100 years of age.

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Pictures

Lot 11 (Detail)

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WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)

WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931)

The Pool of London

Fishing Boats

Etching

Pencil

Signed in pencil ‘W L Wyllie’ (lower left)

5 x 10in. (13 x 25.5cm.)

15½ x 21½in. (39.5 x 54.5cm.)

£100-150

£200-400 2.

WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (BRITISH, 1851-1931) Views on the Thames Etchings Both signed in pencil ‘W L Wyllie’ (lower left and right) 8½ x 10½in. (21.5 x 26.5) (2, a pair) £150-250

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LEONARD RAVEN-HILL (BRITISH, 1867-1942)

JOHN JUDGES (BRITISH, 20TH-CENTURY)

Easter Recreations

Evening off Cowes - Isle of Wight

Signed and dated ‘99’ (lower left)

Signed ‘J. Judges’ (lower right)

Pen and ink heightened with white

Oil on board

7 x 10in. (18 x 25cm.)

7¼ x 11½in. (18.5 x 29cm.)

£80-120

£100-150

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SCOTT BROWN (BRITISH, 20TH-CENTURY) The Skylon at the Festival of Britain Signed ‘Scott Brown’ (lower left) Canvas board 9½ x 13¼in. (24 x 34cm.); and another by the same hand Tug at Westminster, oil on canvas board -- 6½ x 9½in. (16.5 x 24cm.)

(2) £100-200

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FRANK HENRY MASON (BRITISH, 1876-1965)

DENZIL SMITH (BRITISH, 20TH-CENTURY)

Heading for Harbour - Poole to Cowes

Dutch fishing boats preparing to raise anchor

Signed and dated ‘Frank H. Mason ‘49’ (lower left)

Signed with intials ‘DS’ (lower left)

Watercolour, heightened with bodycolour

Oil on canvas

9¾ x 13¾in. (24.5 x 35cm.)

9½ x 13½ (24 x 34cm.) to be sold with another, similar, on panel by the same hand 8 x 10in. (20 x 25cm.)

£200-400

(2) £200-300

8. δ WILLIAM HOWARD JARVIS (BRITISH, 1903-1964) Channel swell off the Shambles Signed ‘W. Howard Jarvis’ (lower right) 10 x 13½in. (25.5 x 34cm.) exhibited at the Society of Marine Artists £100-150

10. δ DENZIL SMITH (BRITISH, 20TH-CENTURY) Ships at anchor in a Dutch port Signed ‘Denzil Smith’ (lower left) Oil on canvas laid on board 9½ x 15in. (24 x 38cm.) £100-150

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ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM WILLIAMS OF PLYMOUTH (1808-1895)

SCHOOL OF VAN DE VELDE (ENGLISH, EARLY 18TH-CENTURY)

A Sloop of the Royal Navy entering the harbour at St. Michael’s Mount

Evening Gun Oil on Canvas

Oil on canvas

22½ x 23in. (57 x 58.5cm.) in a carved giltwood frame

26½ x 39in. (67 x 99cm.)

£2000-3000

£1500-2000

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THOMAS BUTTERSWORTH (BRITISH, 1768-1842) The loss of the ‘Blenheim’, March 1807 Signed ‘T Buttersworth’ (lower right) Oil on panel 8 x 10½in. (20 x 26.5cm.)

Ordered in 1755, Blenheim was a 1,827 ton ‘Sandwich’ Class ship of 90-guns built at Woolwich and launched in 1761, just in time for the final year of the Seven Years’ War. Intermittently commissioned thereafter, she served at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) but was cut down to a 74 in 1801-2. She was serving as flagship to Sir Thomas Troubridge’s squadron in 1807, but was by now in alarming condition and required constant pumping just to stay afloat. Troubridge ignored the warnings Captain Bissell gave and, when in March she was sent in Company with the sloop Harrier and frigate Java to sail from Madras to the Cape, Java and Blenheim were separated from Harrier in a gale somewhere east of Mauritius.

They were never seen again, nor have any remains been found, but all hands (over 800) were lost including Troubridge, Bissell, Captain Charles Elphinstone (nephew of Admiral the Lord Keith), the midshipmen George, Lord Rosehill (eldest son and heir of Rear-Admiral the Earl of Northesk) and William Henry Courtenay (illegitimate son of the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV). Also lost was former Bounty mutineer James Morrison.

£1000-1500

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R.A. OLIVER (ENGLISH NAVAL SCHOOL), CIRCA 1833

ENGLISH NAVAL SCHOOL, CIRCA 1821

A View of Plymouth Sound with Mount Edgecombe, Devenport and Drakes Island

Brig from Cork landing cattle at Aust, injured on the shoal rocks last night in the storm August 19th 1821

Signed, inscribed and dated ‘July / 33’ (lower right)

Pen, pencil and wash

Watercolour on conjoined sheets

7 x 11in. (18 x 28cm.)

10¼ x 28¾in. (26 x 73cm.) unframed, unmounted

£80-120

£250-350

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J.D. McLEAN (BRITISH, 19TH-CENTURY) “Alexandra” in gale, January 9th 1882, Malta to Corfu Signed and dated ‘J.D. McLean ‘82’ (lower right); and inscribed as per title on old stretcher 15½ x 19¾in. (39.5 x 50cm.)

Built at Chatham and commissioned at Flagship Mediterranean in 1877, Alexandra (named after the new Princess of Wales) was the last ship to mount full broadside armament below deck, and the first to deploy high-pressure cylindrical boilers which drove her 9,490 tons equipped with 21-foot screws to 14.5 knots - the fastest warship in the world at the time. In 1891 she became flagship to the R.N. reserve at Portsmouth, then a mechanical training ship in 1903 and was sold in 1908.

£200-300

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WILLIAM HOLT YATES TITCOMB (BRITISH, 1858-1930) On visit to Ville Franche, 1926 Signed ‘W.H.Y. Titcomb’ (lower right) and inscribed with title on old label to reverse Watercolour 10 x 14¾in. (25.5 x 37.5cm.) £300-500 18

19. δ GEORGE AYLING (BRITISH, 1887-1960) A squadron of Battleships coming to anchor Signed ‘G.E.O. Ayling’ (lower right) Pastel 15¼ x 22in. (38.5 x 56cm.); together with an English Naval School watercolour entitled ‘H.M. Sloop Jumna 16’, signed ‘SS 1860’ (lower right) -- 8¾ x 12¾in. (22 x 32.5cm.)

(2) £250-350

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Naval

Lot 50 (Detail)

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THE BATTLE OF BEACHY HEAD (THE BATTLE OF BEVEZIERS) “This morning arrived here an express from my Lord Torrington, with an account, that he engaged the French Fleet, consisting of 82 Men of War…”. Official announcement of the engagement from Whitehall, describing the battle and losses. Also included is a fold-out map drawn by several Officers present at the engagement, showing positions of the ships, in both pictorial and bird’s eye view, in a complete and genuine issue of THE LONDON GAZETTE, dated July, 3rd, 1690 £300-400 23.

THE FIRST FLEET interesting and lengthy letter by Mr. Alley, a Surgeon in the Lady Juliana transport, bound to Botany Bay, dated from the Cape of Good Hope, March 22nd, 1790, describing the events on board regarding convicts, passage, and drownings. In all, 11in. of column space (Front Page, Column 4), in a complete and genuine issue of THE MORNING POST AND DAILY ADVERTISER, dated August 20th, 1790 £400-600 24.

THE DEFEAT OF THE BREST SQUADRON

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PEREGRINE OSBORNE, EARL OF DANBY, REAR ADMIRAL OF THE RED: TWO M ANUSCRIPTS written on laid paper with part watermark, and comprising two character references for “Mr. Doggett” a fleet chaplain, both signed Danby, one dated 22nd September 1693, the other with remnants of seal (2) £150-250

“I take the liberty of communicating to you, for the information of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, that I fell in with the enemy’s squadron on the 12th instant, the Rosses bearing S.S.W. five leagues, and after an action which continued most of the day, four of their ships struck their colours…”. Official account of the defeat of the Brest Squadron, by Sir John Borlase Warren, from H.M.S. Canada, on the 18th of October, 1798. Also further detailed accounts from the Melampus, describing the persons and actions, and a full list of French ships taken, as well as a list of the British Fleet, their Captains, and number of guns -- 23in. of column space (Page 3, Columns 2-3), in a complete and genuine issue of THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER, dated October 23rd, 1798 £300-400 25.

THE BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN (PLATTSBURGH)

a series of papers relating to the Battle of Solebay, the first battle of the 3rd Anglo-Dutch War, near Southwold in Suffolk, where a fleet of 75 Dutch ships under Admiral de Ruyter surprised the joint Anglo-French fleet. After fierce fighting and losses, both sides claimed the victory -- 24in. of Column Space, in four complete and genuine issues of THE LONDON GAZETTE, dated May 27th, 30th, and June 3rd and 6th, 1672

“By several persons who witnessed the naval engagement on Lake Champlain this day, it is undoubtedly true that four of the largest British vessels have been captured by the fleet. It is stated by many who were in full view, that every British vessel had been captured except three galleys. The British Commodore was killed the first shot…”. A series of articles pertaining to the engagement - the first news, the British Official Account, private letters describing first hand accounts, news from Canadian sources, and letters from Officers of both sides, as well as lists of casualties. A very full and comprehensive view of the battle -- 52in. of column space, in four genuine and complete issues of THE TIMES, dated October 20th, 22nd, 24th, and 25th, 1814

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£300-400

£200-400

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THE BATTLE OF SOLEBAY: 28TH OF MAY 1672

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Any fans which commemorate the British naval victories of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are considered to be extremely rare, and most of the handful of examples recorded celebrate Nelson’s final and greatest triumph at Trafalgar. In this context, it should be noted that neither the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich nor the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth holds a single fan relating to Admiral Lord Duncan and/or his victory at Camperdown. Similarly, none are held in the country’s largest private collection at the specialist Fan Museum, also located in Greenwich, and indeed no example has so far been traced in any other public collection.

Following the French occupation of Holland soon after the outbreak of the Revolutionary Wars, the Royal Navy suddenly found itself having to face the not inconsiderable Dutch fleet in addition to the naval forces of France herself. Adopting the usual strategy of blockading all the enemy’s ports, a powerful squadron under Admiral Duncan was sent to stand off the Texel and thereby prevent the Dutch either menacing the security of Britain or simply harrying English merchantmen. Duncan mounted his blockade throughout the summer of 1797 but was ordered home for a refit early in October. Leaving several frigates to maintain a watch, he had barely anchored in Yarmouth Roads when a despatch boat arrived with the news that the Dutch fleet had taken advantage of his absence and put to sea. Weighing anchor immediately, Duncan sped back to the Dutch coast to prepare for battle and engaged the enemy fleet just after midday on 11th October, three miles NW of Kamperduijn (Camperdown). The two fleets each had sixteen ships-of-the-line, but the Dutch had more frigates and also the advantage of position. Duncan, in H.M.S. Venerable, attacked the Dutch in two columns and a furious action ensued lasting several hours. The Dutch flagship Vrijheid attracted some of the bitterest fighting and by the time Admiral de Winter surrendered her at about 3.15pm., she was a total wreck and he himself was the only unwounded man aboard her. Eight Dutch men-o’war and a frigate had already surrendered with the result that when their flagship struck her colours, the battle was effectively ended.

Casualties on both sides were very heavy and the Dutch prizes, two of which sank during the journey back across the North Sea, were all so badly damaged that none were fit for further service. It was not only a decisive victory for Duncan, but it also marked the end of Dutch sea power and the eclipse of the Dutch navy as a significant force in European history.

£1500-2500

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‘REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS RELATING TO HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE AT SEA’

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W. Sharpe, London, 1790, thirteenth edition, 232 pages with indices and copper engravings over section parts and in occasional places, describing in detail the duties from Flag Rank to the Cook, with sections for Hospital Ships, rates of wages, hurt money, pensions, examples of accounts forms, lists for stores and munitions, additional regulations by Rate, pull-out observation sheet template etc., owner’s name inscribed inside cover Captain Losack / Royal Navy, bound with full calf boards and gilt titles on spine (front cover detached, marks and scuffing, pages clean and apparently complete) -- 10 x 8¼in.

(25.5 x 21cm.)

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George Losack entered the Royal Navy in 1778 and was made Captain on 22nd November, 1790 - a feat undoubtedly celebrated by this acquisition. He died an Admiral of the Blue on 22nd August 1829.

£400-600

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‘H.M.S. VICTORY: BUILDING, RESTORATION & REPAIR’

by Arthur Bugler for H.M.S.O. London 1966, 382 pages with detailed technical diagrams, photographs and descriptions, bound in full calf blue hardboards with gilt blocked top leaves and titles to spine; together with a complete set of accompanying plans contained in blue cloth box with matched spine -- 11 x 9in.

(28 x 23cm.)

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‘REPORT OF A COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE ADMIRALTY TO EXAMINE AND CONSIDER THE EV IDENCE R ELATING TO THE TACTICS EMPLOYED BY NELSON AT THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR…’

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printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd, London, 1913, for H.M.S.O., 107 pages with three pull-out charts, bound in blue quarter calf with gilt spine, book plate for the National Maritime Museum inside cover and stamp for Admiralty Library on title page -- 13½ x 8¾in.

(34.3 x 22.2cm.)

£200-300

£150-200

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AN UNISSUED PROCESSION PASS FOR THE FUNERAL OF LORD NELSON

FRENCH PRISONER SCHOOL, CIRCA 1812

copper engraving with good plate marks, mounted, framed and glazed, size including frame -- 11½ x 12½in. (29 x 31.5cm.) £300-400

A Prison Hulk anchored in the Medway with a Man of War beyond Inscribed and dated ‘Ponton le Crown Prince Frederick (Prince Courzonné) Prison Flottante, Contenant. 800 honnes, de prisonniers Francais, en station en la Riviere de Medway, depot de Chatham en Angleterre le 8 Auot 1812’ Signed with monogram ‘JBG’ (at centre)

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Pen, ink and wash

AFTER JOHN HOPPNER

13 x 18in. (33 x 46cm.)

Nelson Mezzotint by Charles Turner, before lettering, circa 1806

£500-700

25½ x 16½in. (65 x 42cm.)

The first published edition of this famous print was 9th January, 1806, suggesting that this proof possibly dates from late 1805.

£150-250

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A WHITE ENAMEL PASTE MEDALLION OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON, WILLIAM TASSIE (SCOTTISH, 1777-1860), CIRCA 1805 shown in profile to the right, wearing coatee with epaulette, frilled chemise and stock, his hair powdered and worn en queue, the truncation impressed TASSIE F 1805, set in a plain gold mount with associated ring shank possibly converted from a bracelet -1in. (2.5cm) high £300-400

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A LARGE LIMITED EDITION 150TH TRAFALGAR ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE TYG BY ROYAL DOULTON

A 1905 ETCHED GLASS COMMEMORATIVE RUMMER

with raised and painted decoration showing Nelson on the quarterdeck and Victory in action, signed H. Fenton by handle, with rope and block handles, the base with maker’s mark, historical inscription to Nelson and numbered 321/600 -- 10½in.

(26.5cm.) high

the bowl inscribed H.M.S. VICTORY 1759 with vessel depicted under sail opposite -- 8¾in. (22cm.) high £150-250 37.

£400-600

A 1905 CENTENARY ROYAL DOULTON TOBACCO JAR AND COVER

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embossed with portrait medallions, Victory at Trafalgar and Nelson’s arms, the base impressed with maker’s marks -- 5in.

(12.8cm.) high; together with a two-handled mug of similar type (lacking silver rim, both handles repaired) -- 6in. (15cm.) high

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY COMMEMORATIVE BLUE AND WHITE PEARLWARE BOWL TO LORD NELSON with transfer portrait of Nelson encircled with quote and naval devices (restoration, repairs and cracks) -- 8¼in. (21cm.) diameter

(2) £300-400

£80-120

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ALEXANDER DAVISON’S MEDAL FOR THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, 1798

A WHITE METAL MEDALLION COMMEMORATING THE COMPLETION OF NELSON’S COLUMN IN 1843

in bronze, by C.H. Küchler (Hardy 5), in fine condition

after J. Davies (Hardy 99); together with two silver counters celebrating the Battle of Copenhagen (one pierced for suspension; Hardy 24); a British and Foreign Sailors’ Society copper brooch of H.M.S. Victory (Hardy 122); and a small medallion from the same source (Hardy 117)

£250-350 39.

THE NELSON SOCIETY, BI-CENTENARY OF TRAFALGAR, REPLICA FLAG OFFICER’S LARGE GOLD MEDAL in silver-gilt in imitation of the large gold, contained in presentation box with ribbed silk naval ribbon and certificate numbered 239/300; together with an early 19th-Century pressed brass drawer handle commemorating the death of Nelson, mounted within small frame (2) Draw handle in worn condition. £180-250

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A RESTRIKE OF BOULTON’S TRAFALGAR MEDAL 1966 restrike, in silver, by John Pinches Ltd (Hardy 149); together with an example of the reduced size 1905 Spink Centenary example, in white metal (Hardy 110); and a British and Foreign Sailors’ Society, 1905 Victory Medallion (Hardy 112) (3) £150-250

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A COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLION FOR THE DEATH OF NELSON in bronze, after Webb and Flaxman (Hardy 63), in fine condition £100-150

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A WHITE METAL MEDALLION COMMEMORATING THE DEATH OF NELSON after Wyon (Hardy 65), contained in an associated but not official red morocco case £200-250

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AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY YARD STICK MADE FROM VICTORY’S MAIN M AST TIMBER made from two pieces joined at the centre with a scarf joint and brass plates, with two notched and brass-filled 4½in. divisions each end, one end with pinned silver plate reading In Memory of Adml Lord Nelson / Part of the Main Mast of the Victory in the Battle of Trafalgar. 21 Octr. 1805 -- 36in. (91.5cm.) long £200-300 45. Ø AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAVAL DIRK with 16in. steel blade, curved brass guard, fluted ivory handle with ‘GR’ device on band and square-capped brass end piece (lacking scabbard) -20¾in. (52.7cm.) overall £300-500 46.

A 19TH-CENTURY NAVAL OFFICER’S SEA SERVICE SWORD with 31¼in. blade, regulation hilt and grip, contained within associated brass-mounted leather scabbard (blade polished, lacking fishskin to grip) -- overall measurement 37½in. (95cm.) £80-120 47.

C.M. GAVIN: “ROYAL YACHTS”, 1932 number 44 (of 1,000 copies), illustrated throughout, some plates in colour, these tipped in with tissue guards, and with numerous appendices, original full dark blue morocco with gold-blocked royal standard on upper cover, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, binding very slightly rubbed in places but otherwise a good copy Published “by generous permission of His Majesty the King”, in 1932, this widely-regarded standard work - which traces the entire history of British royal yachts - is still regarded as the definitive work on the subject and seems unlikely ever to be superseded.

£150-200

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H.M. R OYAL YACHT OPHIR (1901) an impressive ship’s badge, removed from one of the two 32-foot steam cutters carried aboard Ophir during her royal tenure, the oval copper plate depicting the yacht’s distinctive device of a Tudor rose within a royal garter engraved Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense and laid upon the stock of a crowned anchor, with rope-twist border -- 12½ x 9½in. (32 x 24cm.), mounted on a wooden oval for display, an interesting relic of the rare charter of a commercial vessel for royal duty; together with a printed copy of the illustrated mss. journal of Petty Officer Harry Price, RN, entitled The Royal Tour, 1901, or the Cruise of H.M.S. Ophir, publ. by Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1980 (2) Ophir was a highly distinctive twin-screw steamer ordered for the Orient Line’s prestigious Australian service in 1891. Built by Robert Napier & Sons at Glasgow, she was registered at 6,814 tons gross (2,920 net) and measured 465 feet in length with a 53½ foot beam. Powered by two of her builder’s own triple-expansion engines she could make 18 knots at full speed and, whilst she had passenger accommodation in three classes, her first class public rooms were particularly lavish. In fact, so luxurious were her appointments that she proved a logical choice when the government found it necessary to charter a suitable liner to convey the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary) on their overseas tour in 1901. After minor modifications, including the positioning of two 32-foot steam cutters over the poop, and thereafter repainted in her new white livery, Ophir left Portsmouth on 16th March 1901 for the first-ever Royal Tour in the modern sense. Every continent in the Empire was visited except India, and by the end of the seven-month voyage, she had steamed 45,000 miles. Returning to commercial sailings the following year, her royal connection made her even more popular with the travelling public although her running costs were so high that she was frequently laid up during the low season. Serving as an armed merchant cruiser during the Great War, she was paid off for the last time in 1919 and broken up in 1922.

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A SHELF MADE FROM TIMBER RECOVERED FROM QUEEN VICTORIA’S S TATEROOM ABOARD THE R OYAL YACHT VICTORIA & ALBERT II constructed in mahogany with shaped end-pieces and hanging rail under, with brass plaque engraved This Shelf is made from a Panel in / QUEEN VICTORIA’S BEDROOM / on board the “ROYAL YACHT VICTORIA and ALBERT” / which was broken up at Portsmouth / March 1904 -- 17½ x 36in. (44.5 x 91.5cm.)

A paddle yacht of 2,470 tons, she was launched in 1855 and in constant use until laid up in 1900 and replaced by the Victoria & Albert III.

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ROYAL YACHT SERVING PLATE OFF ROYAL GEORGE, 1817 an oval creamware serving plate, by Sharpus & Co., Cockspur Street, London, blue and white transfer printed decoration with gilded and scalloped edge, the plain white centre bearing the Prince of Wales’ feathers within a crowned royal garter -- 12in. wide x 9½in. high (30.5 x 24cm.)

Apparently produced for the wardroom of the Royal George, the royal yacht most used by George IV when he was Prince Regent (1811-20). Named for the Prince, the future George IV, rather than his father, the ailing George III, the Royal George was built at Deptford in 1817 and bore all the hallmarks of the Regent’s flamboyant taste.

Carrying a full ship-rig on her three masts, she was measured at 330 tons burden and was 103 feet long on her main deck with a 26½ foot beam. Luxuriously fitted out in a manner befitting her status, she attracted much attention - “The vessel is the most elegant ever seen” wrote a contemporary observer “….with gilt mouldings and the windows of plate-glass. Ornamental devices in abundance…… producing a superb appearance.”

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After a remarkably colourful career during three reigns, Royal George’s life as a working yacht came to an end in 1843, following the completion of the first royal steam yacht Victoria & Albert I. Thereafter relegated to the role of an accommodation ship for officers and men of the RoyalYacht flotilla and based at Portsmouth, she survived, astonishingly, until 1905 when she was finally broken up.

£300-500

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FOUR ITEMS OF 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL YACHT CHINA

blue and gold pattern, comprising an oblong meat platter; a side plate and two saucers, each with crown and garter device at centre, inscribed HER M AJESTY’S YACHT, each with maker’s marks for Copeland to reverse --the platter 12½in. (31.7cm.) diameter (4) £500-700 52.

A PLATE FROM THE ROYAL SERVICE FROM THE R.Y. VICTORIA & ALBERT III the green border with gold ropework design interspersed with alternating blue and white medallions for George V, the reverse with maker’s marks for T. Goode & Co., London -- 9¾in. (24.7cm.) diameter £500-700

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A MESS PLATE FROM THE ROYAL YACHT OSBORNE with blue-bordered rim and device for the Prince of Wales, with gilt crown and anchor inscribed ROYAL YACHT OS BORNE, the reverse impressed with maker’s mark for Worcester -- 10½in.

(26.5cm.) diameter £150-250 54.

THREE RARE SILVER ADMIRALTY-PATTERN FORKS FROM THE R.Y. VICTORIA & ALBERT II with assay marks for London 1854/5 and 1859/60 and each impressed with government broad arrow mark -- 7in. (18cm.) long (3) £150-250 53 (Detail) 55.

A PAIR OF BRASS CANDLESTICKS, POSSIBLY FROM THE WARDROOM OF A ROYAL YACHT each engraved with the crown, V.R., and numbered 1289 and 3319 respectively, both with later heraldic boar’s head applied -- 8½in.

(21.5cm.)

(2) £250-350 56.

A RARE 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL NAVY BLUE AND WHITE MEAT PLATTER with central transfer depicting a fouled anchor with naval crown, a wreath of laurels and oak leaves under and banner inscribed Marine over and ropework border, the reverse with maker’s marks for Davenport -- 15in. (38cm.) diameter £100-150 55

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A QUANTITY OF 19TH-CENTURY BOVEY TRACEY BLUE AND WHITE MESS PLATES

THREE ITEMS OF BOVEY TRACEY BLUE AND WHITE MESS WARE comprising a rare Edwardian example numbered 15; an unusual 19th-Century design with paddle frigate border for mess No. 10; and a ‘young head’ pattern mess bowl for mess No. 50 -- mess No. 10 10in. (25.5cm.) diameter

‘young head’ pattern for mess numbers 3, 4, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 56 (mixed conditions) -- 9½in. (24cm.) diameter (8)

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THE UNIFORM HAT, EPAULETTES AND SWORD FOR CAPTAIN R.E. SHAW, RN ADC

A COLLECTION OF 19TH/20TH-CENTURY NAVAL SWEETHEART BROOCHES

comprising regulation bicorn with bullion tassels and loops, together with epaulettes and belting, contained within original box of issue; together with a regulation officer’s sword by Matthews & Co, with 31in. etched steel blade, gilt-brass hilt with shagreen grip, brass-mounted scabbard and outer leather guard case

comprising: unofficial badge-type examples in sterling silver for Adventure; Glorious; Indus; Canada; Dauntless and HMTB 110; gold examples for Valiant; Aurora; Lance; official badge types in sterling silver for Raleigh and Argonaut; sterling silver profile types for Royal Arthur; Kenya; and the Swedish Navy’s Sundsvall; a gold profile for an early submarine and a brass late 19th-Century cruiser; and silver-backed full enamel examples for Hood; Sydney and Ajax

(2) £900-1200 60.

(19) £600-800

A LIEUTENANT COMMANDER’S UNIFORM FOR THE ROYAL NAVY, CIRCA 1930 comprising cocked hat with bullion loop and tassels, in fitted case, epaulettes with devices as appropriate, in fitted tin with owner’s label inscribed C.M. Beadnell, RN, frock coat, waistcoat and trousers £300-500

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A LATE 19TH-CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN’S LOG BOOK

H.M.S. HOOD: A RARE SOUVENIR LETTER CARD

written by G.M.A. Rowe in a clear hand aboard H.M.S. Illustrious with daily entries between 10th May 1898 and 5th October 1900, profusely illustrated with hand-coloured charts and technical diagrams, quarter calf regulation log book with marbled end boards -- 13 x 8in. (33 x 20cm.)

unused, brown envelope with six conjoined views of the interior and exterior of Hood, the reverse inscribed THE BOOK STALL H.M.S. HOOD -- 4¼ x 6¼in. (10.8 x 16cm.); together with approximately fifty photo postcards, mostly of pre-war naval interest, including some early submarine views, assorted dates, monochrome and colour

A Majestic Class battleship built at Chatham and launched in 1896, Illustrious was commissioned on 10th May 1898 - the date this log begins, the entry noting At Chatham. Hands employed as requisite…

Placed Mr Peakring, under arrest. Hands employed drawing maxims small arms and accoutrements. Mr Peakring was cautioned by Captain for being under influence of liquor. She formed part of the Mediterranean Squadron, was a guard ship in the Great War and broken up in 1920.

(a lot) £150-250

£300-500 63.

GREAT WAR: CONFIDENTIAL ‘WAR INSTRUCTIONS FOR BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS’, AUGUST 1917 a rare and remarkably good copy of the Admiralty’s official publication C.B. (Confidential Book) 415, “War Instructions for British Merchant Ships”, issued August 1917, containing 86 printed pages plus two Addenda, and also including numerous ‘Convoy Zig-Zag’ diagrams, allied and enemy submarine silhouettes, and four black and white photographic plates of mines and torpedoes, original blue buckram with lead-weighted covers (for rapid disposal at sea) and individually numbered 2102 Pasted into the front of the book is an interesting declassification certificate from “the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Captain A. Francillon, Master of S.S. Ryckett for his retention as a memento of War Service”, dated 1st July 1919.

£200-300

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BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE: A COLLECTION OF COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS comprising an 8in. bulkhead clock mounted on board with brass plate inscribed H.M.S. EXETER SUB.LIEUT J.E. CAUSTON R.N.V.R BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE 13TH DECEMBER 1939 -- 13 x 12in. (33 x 30.5cm.); together with a set of three photographs of Ajax, Achilles and Exeter framed in series, with same provenance on mount; a Third Reich red ensign attributed to a launch from Graf Spee -56 x 93in. (142 x 236cm.); and a small treen bowl made from Ajax teak (4) In December 1939, three British cruisers - Ajax, Achilles and Exeter - under the command of Commodore Henry Harwood formed one of various task forces searching the South Atlantic for the German pocket-battleship Graf Spee which had been preying on the Allied merchant shipping since soon after the War began. Harwood believed Graf Spee would be attracted to the busy shipping lanes off the estuary of the River Plate and his intuition proved uncannily accurate when he sighted his adversary on 13 December. Splitting his force to sail either side of Graf Spee, Harwood went into action immediately. Within half-an hour, all three of his cruisers had been damaged, with Exeter and Ajax so severely mauled that Harwood was forced to retire. Instead of pursuing his quarry when he was in a position either to defeat them or to escape, Captain Langsdorff took Graf Spee into the neutral port of Montevideo where he was allowed to remain for a few days. Believing that he was boxed in by a superior force which was growing by the day, Langsdorff took his ship out into the Plate estuary on 17 December and scuttled her. A somewhat hollow victory for the Royal Navy, the three cruisers had nevertheless fought valiantly against a much more powerful enemy whose sinking provided a sorely-needed boost to British morale as the War gathered momentum.

ÂŁ800-1200

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A SOUVENIR ‘JOLLY ROGER’ FROM H.M. SUBMARINE UTMOST, CIRCA 1942 the black cotton field with skull and crossbones flanked by success emblems duplicated both sides -- 25 x 29in. (63.5 x 73.5cm.)

Provenance: T.W. Lilley, Acting Leading Stoker aboard Utmost 1940-1942, and thence by descent.

Launched by Vickers Armstrong in April 1940 and commissioned that August, once some initial teething troubles had been resolved, Utmost quickly proved herself as one of the RN’s more effective submarines.

As her ‘Jolly Roger’ testifies, in her brief career she sank seven Axis merchantmen, damaged three and also damaged the Italian Cruiser Trieste. She was returning to Malta in November 1942 from a successful patrol when she was located and sunk by the Italian torpedo boat Groppo with the loss of all hands.

Thomas William Lilley (1916-1974) joined Utmost as his first submarine.

He remained aboard until April 1942 when he was sent ashore for a Petty Officers’ course. It seems this Jolly Roger was made by the signalman and presented to him on his departure. Two other souvenir examples from Utmost are held at the Royal Navy Museum, Gosport.

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Officially frowned on, the Jolly Roger was universally taken up by submariners of all nations who had been “slandered” as Pirates by Sir Arthur Wilson, First Sea Lord in World War One, who stated that submarines were “underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English”, and that he would convince the Admiralty to have the crews of enemy submarines captured during wartime hanged as pirates. Consequently they were flown by returning crews to list their “kills”: the horizontal bars represent torpedo strikes - white for merchant and red for naval; the swords are for involvement in Special Forces Operations (dropping/ collecting agents); the star for a target destroyed by gunfire, and the life buoy for rescuing a downed air crew.

£800-1000

Thomas Lilley (circled) with crewmates 1942 67.

AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING SUBMARINER’S PRESENTATION SWORD, 1941 of GRVI regulation pattern with 32in. etched steel blade, gilt-brass half-basket hilt inscribed on the thumb-piece C.A. Dawes, RN, bullion cord and tassel, contained within regulation scabbard of issue inscribed to top Presented by the Officers & Men of H.M. Submarine “TIGRIS”, February 1941 -- 38in. (97cm.) overall The ‘T’ Class submarine Tigris was launched shortly after War broke out in October 1939 at Chatham Dockyard. She enjoyed a busy career and sank a number of Axis merchantmen (including the Norwegian Richard With which was lost with 101 Norwegian lives) and the Italian submarine Michele Bianchi. She left Malta on 18th February 1943 and was last sighted on the 24th and believed to have been sunk in a depth charge attack on the 27th by the German submarine chaser UJ2210.

C.A. Dawe was an engineering officer aboard Tigris who achieved seniority on 1st February 1941 - his shipmates giving him this sword.

By December that year he had transferred to Sturgeon and two years later was located at the Scottish submarine base Ambrose in Dundee, home of the 2nd/9th Submarine Flotillas.

£500-800

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THE BELL FROM H.M. SUBMARINE R10, 1917 cast in brass with crown top, black-filled lettering as per title, moulded rim and clapper -- 9 x 9in. (23 x 23cm.) £600-800 69.

ALARM BELL FROM GERMAN SUBMARINE U-111 a brass bell with clapper, stipple engraved Alarm Bell Taken From German Submarine U-111 -- 6in. high (15cm.)

U-111 was one of the ‘U-93’ class of submarines, the first batch of which was ordered from Germaniawerft at Kiel in May 1916. Displacing 808 tons (surfaced) and 946 tons (submerged), all vessels in the class measured 235 feet in length with a 21 foot beam and could make almost 17 knots at full power when above the waves. Well-armed with six torpedo tubes (4 bow & 2 stern) and deck guns fore and aft, each carried a complement of 39 officers and men. U-111 herself was launched on 5th September 1917 and was completed for sea early in January 1918. Despite her brief wartime career operating solely in the Irish Sea and the ‘Western Approaches’, she sank two allied steamers on her first patrol (26 March - 23 April) and at least one other on her second cruise (27 May - 24 June). Hampered

by British anti-submarine patrols in the Irish Sea on her third patrol (25 August-29 September), she obtained no further sinkings and surrendered herself at Harwich, after the Armistice, on 20th November 1918. One of the six U-boats handed over to the Americans as war reparations, all of which were towed to the USA and then sunk as targets, U-111 also held the curious distinction of being the only German U-boat of the Great War (out of the total of 139 completed) to number a clergyman among her crew, Marinepfarrer Wilhelm Meinhold.

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£200-400

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AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING SILVER NAPKIN RING USED BY G.W.G. “SHRIMP” SIMPSON, SUBMARINE FLOTILLA COMMANDER MALTA, 1941-3 engraved G.W.G SIMPSON and then listing every vessel served on between 1915-28, Sheffield hallmarks for 1920-21 -- 2in. (5cm.) diameter George Walter Gillow Simpson (1901-1972) became a submariner in 1921.

His greatest service to the navy was compressed into two strenuous years from January 1941 to January 1943 while he commanded the flotilla of submarines (to become famous as the Fighting Tenth) based on the beleaguered island of Malta in the centre of the Mediterranean and which had long been crucial to the Royal Navy’s strategy; Now wholly reliant on seaborne supplies for its military and civilian needs, it was susceptible to siege by air forces and very difficult to defend. Grand Harbour could not safely be used by surface ships, but submarines were able to lie in Marsamxett where the solid old Lazaretto isolation hospital offered protection for personnel and some shelter for submarines alongside.

Admiral Cunningham, C-in-C, Mediterranean, assigned Simpson the prime task of preventing supplies and reinforcements from Italy reaching axis armies in North Africa. The enemy supply lines could be reached in a day or so by the slow, small U-class submarines and proximity permitted three or four regulars to be on patrol at any one time; but wartime dangers were exacerbated by confined and revealingly clear waters, a shortage of torpedoes, and increasingly expert enemy counter-measures. Submarine casualties were heavy throughout the Mediterranean. Twenty-three boats were sunk during his time at Malta: twelve had sailed from his flotilla and two were bombed in harbour. But Simpson, with a cheerfully unpretentious brand of leadership and an absurdly small staff, consistently ran the show at peak efficiency despite daunting discouragements. More to the point, his tenth flotilla did all that was required of it, and more.

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OPERATION MINCEMEAT: AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING SEXTANT OWNED BY G.H.J EVANS (CAPT. ALAN HILLGARTH) R.N. with 7in. radius polished brass bell-frame, signed, inscribed and numbered Heath & Co. Ltd, Craysford, London, L986, G.H.J. Evans RN, Vernier with quick-release clamp, shades, mirrors, and mahogany handle, secured within fitted box of issue complete with accessories and test certificate for 1914, approximately 11in. (28cm.) square Alan Hillgarth (1899-1978) was christened Hugh Evans but changed this by deed poll in 1928. He began his career with the navy young and was wounded at Gallipoli aged just 16. Excelling at languages, when he finally left the navy as a Lt Cmdr in 1927 he turned his hand to writing adventure novels, with some critical success. A close observer of the Spanish Civil War, when World War II broke out, he was able to successfully exploit his connections with Spain (and develop a wide spy network) and keep them neutral - amazingly only 26 Nazi U-boats were serviced and provisioned during the entire conflict. He enjoyed Churchill’s complete trust and it was probably this relationship that allowed him to proceed with one of the most audacious intelligence stings of the War. The story of operation Mincemeat has been well told over the years, not least in the film “The Man who Never Was” (1956) and several books, however the fact remains that a convincingly dressed corpse still carrying “sensitive” documents and ephemera fooled the Germans, and Hitler in particular, into believing the Allies intended to launch a counter-offensive invasion at Greece and not Sicily as was the case.

£600-800

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A PAIR OF U-BOAT OFFICER 7 X 50 FIXED FOCUS BINOCULARS

BY ERNST LEITZ, WETZLAR, CIRCA 1940

ATTRIBUTED TO SYDNEY KNOWLES (BRITISH, 1921-2012)

with black-painted tubes, rubber end caps to eyepieces and around objective lenses, stamped in white-filled lettering underneath 7 x 50 beh 472444, complete with leather strap and contained within fitted case of issue, the lid impressed with period German naval markings -- 10 x 8¾in. (25.5 x 22cm.)

X Men detaching a warhead Oil on board Inscribed in pencil to verso ‘Taken from Lay Apart Store / HMS Vernon / Painted by S. Knowles.’

18¼ x 21½in. (46.5 x 54.5cm.)

£700-900

A similar painting signed by Knowles is on display at the Historic Diving Museum, Alverstoke.

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At the outbreak of WWII Knowles was serving as a stoker and, as such, took part in Operation Pedestal (the relief of Malta). In 1942 he joined the Underwater Working Party under the direction of Lt Cmdr Lionel “Buster” Crabb, based in Gibraltar. Their main responsibility was to check for limpet mines left on allied shipping by Italian frogmen and manned torpedo men who were very skilled - Knowles was played

by Michael Craig in the 1958 film The Silent Enemy which is about this unusual theatre of the War. In 1955 Crabb took him to survey the Russian cruiser Sverdlov during a visit to Britain, a year later Crabb disappeared in controversial circumstances diving alone on her sister ship, the Ordzhonikidze.

A PAIR OF GERMAN NAVAL OFFICER’S 7 X 50 BINOCULARS BY ERNST LEITZ, WETZLAR, CIRCA 1940 with textured tubes, black-painted metal fittings, split focus eyepieces, stamped on the back plates 7 x 50 beh 385802 (T) KF’; and the German naval mark 33759N, complete with hanging strap -- 8½in. (21.5cm.) £550-650 74.

£200-400

A RARE U-BOAT CREW KIT, CIRCA 1940 comprising leather coat, trousers and boots, cotton tunic with insignia for ?signalman and sailor’s blue and white collar, submarine service cap tally, a sou’wester and an album of war time photographs (a lot) £1000-1500

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A KAISERMARINE NAVAL ENSIGN, CIRCA 1914 printed on both sides of a single piece of bunting with reinforced corners and edging, the sleeve stencilled Kaiserl. Kriegsfl 200 x 335, with rope lanyard -- 79 x 128in. (2m. x 325cm.)

Provenance: this flag was given to the vendor’s late father by the RNVR where he taught morse code on a London-based training ship.

£600-800

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AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING TRINITY HOUSE PATTERN BUOY LAMP, CIRCA 1930 heavily constructed in copper and brass, with original carbide generator light fitting, red glass filter, magnifying lamp glass and thick protective outer glass, with hinged chimney (one panel of the outer glass pierced) -- overall measurements 24in. (61cm.) high; copy letter of provenance This lamp was in service near Dover when hostilities broke out in 1939.

It is understood that the pierced outer glass was the result of a stray German bullet caused during a dog fight.

£500-800 78.

A LARGE SHIP’S BADGE, OR TOMPION, FROM H.M.S. THUNDERER (1911) heavily cast in brass and finished in black paint with polished highlights, now with threaded hanging bolt behind -- 11in. (28cm.) high This badge was issued in 1919. Thunderer enjoys the distinction of being the last battleship to be built on the Thames. She served at Jutland in 1916 and was sold for breaking in 1927.

£250-350

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H.M.S. SEPOY: AN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN DURING SERVICE ON THE CHINA STATION, CIRCA 1930 comprising approximately 100 photographs including 30-40 naval-related views aboard ship, portraits etc., the rest largely topographical souvenirs taken when on leave, secured in photo album and mostly titled with white ink, leather cover embossed H.M.S. SEPOY CHINA STATION COMMISSIONED 1ST OCTOBER, 1929 -- 9 X 11½in. (23 X 29cm.) £200-300 80.

AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING PRESENTATION SALVER COMMEMORATING THE S INKING OF THE CHING YUAN AT WEI HAI WEI, 1 895 constructed in plated silver with central device of Chinese characters, inscribed around edge Ching Yuan / The Im perial Chinese Navy, with outer inscription reading Armstrong Cruiser./’Chingyuan’. Captain Yeh./Sunk by Japanese Gunners/in possession of a Chinese fort/at Wei Hai Wei. 8th February 1895. with maker’s marks impressed to reverse, on three feet -- 12in.

(30.5cm.) diameter £150-200 81.

A NAME BOARD FROM THE MINE HUNTER H.M.S. BICESTER (1985) 80

with 6in. high chromium-plated lettering attached to oak backing board with hanging straps -- overall measurements 10½ x 61in.

(26.5 x 155cm.)

Built by Vosper Thornycroft and launched in June 1985, Bicester was decommisioned in 2000 and sold to the Greek Navy a year later.

£500-700

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AN HISTORICALLY-INTERESTING BELL FOR THE BRIG/FIRESHIP MARY, 1808

A SHIP’S BELL FROM THE PASSENGER SHIP QUEEN OF THE LAKE, 1907

cast in bell metal with crown top and raised lettering to front inscribed BRIG MARY 1808, complete with clapper -- 12¾ x 12¾in.

(32.5 x 32.5cm.)

cast in brass with the name engraved to front with black wax filling, red-painted interior, with clapper -- 10 x 10 (25.5 x 25.5cm.)

The distinctive crown top suggests this bell was probably for naval rather than mercantile use. A candidate which fits quite neatly was one of twenty vessels nominally ‘hired’ in 1809 to supplement Lord Cochrane’s fireship attack on the powerful French squadron anchored in the Basque Roads. Mary is recorded as a brig of 100 tons and, like all these craft, was expended in the action of 11th April 1809. How her bell was recovered is not known at present, but the Île-d’Aix (the island and fort guarding the Basque Roads and harbour) is in shallow water - in fact many fireships missed their mark and one even grounded.

The attack at Basque Roads comprised eleven ships of the line, seven frigates, four brig-sloops, two bomb vessels, six brigs, one schooner, two cutters, forty transports or fireships and three Congreve rocket barges - but Lord Gambier refused to press home the advantage and forced a furious Cochrane to withdraw. Whilst great damage had been inflicted, the threat was not eradicated and the remaining French squadron continued to harry allied shipping until the end of the war.

£1200-1500 86.

Built by the Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Ayr and registered at 152 tons, no record survived of her career or demise.

£500-700 89.

A SHIP’S BELL FROM THE S.S. PRIMA II, BERGEN (1916) cast in brass with name etched as per title to front (lacking clapper) -- 13 x 12in. (33 x 30.5cm.) £500-700 90.

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BRASS MORTAR of typical tapering form with decorative down-turn lug handles -7¼ x 8in. (18.5 x 20cm.) £250-350

A SHIP’S BELL FROM THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD CARGO SHIP PLOVER, 1936 cast in brass with moulded rim, black-filled lettering to front inscribed G.S.N. Co. Ltd., Plover, suspension loop and clapper -11 x 12in. (28 x 30.5cm.)

Built by the Caledon Shipbuilding Company, Plover registered 351 tons. In November 1961 she suffered a collision and was broken up by Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.

£400-600 87.

THE BELL FROM THE LOWESTOFT TRAWLER/MINESWEEPER IMPREGNABLE, 1911 cast in brass with black-filled lettering to front inscribed S.S. IMPREGNABLE 1911 LOWESTOFT -- 9 x 8in. (23 x 20cm.) £400-600

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A BUST-LENGTH FIGUREHEAD OF JOHN JERVIS, EARL OF ST.VINCENT, CIRCA 1800 carved from the solid and depicted wearing uniform coat with sash, gold medal and garter star, stock and cocked bicorn hat (wear, conservation) -- 32in. (81.5cm.) high £2000-3000 92.

AN 18TH/19TH-CENTURY SMALL CRAFT CAPSTAN heavily constructed in oak with cast iron binding -- 16 x 12in.

(40.5 x 30.5cm.) £400-600 93.

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY TRINITY HOUSE CARVED PLAQUE carved from the solid, with relief representations of the four ships separated by the George Cross, with banner heading inscribed TRINITAS.IN.UNITATE, gessoed and painted with wall-securing holes drilled in the four corners, now with hanging wire -19 x 21½in. (48 x 54.5cm.)

It has been suggested that this plaque was originally located above the door of a Trinity House lightkeeper’s cottage.

£300-500

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A MID 19TH-CENTURY, POSSIBLY CONCEPT MODEL, FOR A SLIDE-ACTION NAVAL GUN

A RARE 19TH-CENTURY SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK BOXLOCK ‘DUCK’S FOOT’ VOLLEY PISTOL BY SPENCER, LONDON

with 9½in. tapering brass barrel, fully bored, the touch hole with platform for ignition mechanism, mounted on stepped mahogany naval-type truck with traditional black elevation, set onto polished brass sliders, pin mounted to swivelling platform on original oval base with wooden ball feet -- 17½in. (44.5cm.) diameter

with 2in. turn-off barrels with decorated muzzles numbered from ‘4’ to ‘7’, breech-block stamped with proof marks and engraved on underside with profile of a ship in full sail entitled BARRACUDA and signed as per title, sliding safety-catch, walnut butt inlaid with skull (some corrosion marking throughout) -- 7in. (18cm.) overall

£1500-2500

£5000-7000

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A 19TH-CENTURY DIDACTIC MODEL HELM AND STEERING GEAR

AN ADMIRALTY-PATTERN TILLER YOKE

A LATE 19TH-CENTURY BRASS TILLER YOKE

with 9in. six-spoke brass helm with spike, mounted on brass steering column with rope pulleys to steering gear, on mahogany display base -- 14 x 13½ x 17in.

(35.5 x 34.3 x 43cm.)

cast in brass in the form of two stylised dolphins, their tails containing spools, mounted on a wooden display board -- overall measurements 8 x 24½in.

(20.3 x 62cm.)

in the form of two opposed anchors, the ring supporting sheaves -- 21½in. (54.5cm.) diameter £300-500

£150-250

£350-450

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A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S SEA CHEST robustly constructed in oak and of slightly tapering form, with hinged candle box and compartment within containing a gimballed compass (lacking card), carved handle (with original rope becketts) -- 17½ x 37½ x 16in. (44.5 x 95 x 40.5cm.) £350-450 100.

A WALKER’S “CHERUB” MARK III TAFFRAIL SHIP-LOG in unused state, retaining labels and contained in fitted pine box with wrapped accessories and instructions in lid -5½ x 19¼ x 11¼in. (14 x 49 x 28.5cm.)

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£150-250

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A RARE SET OF MARINE ARCHITECT’S ADMIRALTY-PATTERN SHIP WEIGHTS, BY STANLEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1930 comprising six mahogany-clad lead weights impressed with maker’s marks and contained within baize-lined fitted case of issue -- 9in. (23cm.) square £150-250 102.

AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY FRENCH MARINE CLOCK AND BAROMETER DESK COMPENDIUM unsigned, with 2½in. enamel dials and black steel hands, set in brass drums, mounted on the flukes of an anchor, on black marble display base -- 8½in. (21.5cm.) high; together with a late 19th-Century clock set within lifebuoy frame with English design registration mark for 1871 -- 4½in. (11.5cm.) diameter (2) £300-400

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MARINE BOOKS a quantity including twenty-four from the Time-Life Books series, black boards with gilt titles; Roskill: The War at Sea, four vols with dust jackets; and approximately twenty-five volumes of mostly naval interest.

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(a lot)

AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING ESCRITOIRE/WRITING SLOPE FROM LLOYDS COFFEE HOUSE, CIRCA 1801

SIR FRANCIS CHICHESTER: A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA

£80-120

constructed in brass-bound mahogany with several maker’s labels inscribed Games, St. Paul’s Churchyard, secret recess and accessories including candle sconces, reading slope rest, pen holders etc., inscribed inside lower document compartment C. D. Symonds / Lloyds Coffee House / London / 9 January 1801, with brass plaque set into lid inscribed J. W. Grigg (wear, missing components and main key) -- 8 x 24 x 11½in.

(20 x 61 x 29cm.)

comprising several photographs and postcards variously inscribed with captions, including images as an infant and of his father in R.A.F. Service; and a handwritten cookery book thought to be by his mother with several loose additions and cuttings, approximately 1920-40, contained within marbled boards (front cover detached) £80-120

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‘YACHTING WORLD’ a run of Yachting World magazines between 1946-1978 inc., bound in blue cloth with gilt titles; together with a run of Yachting World Annuals 1949-1960; 1962-3; 1970 and 1973, in green cloth bindings; and a quantity of yachting volumes including seven by Uffa Fox; and approximately thirty more of yachting interest (a lot)

£300-500

£80-120 107.

FLAGS OF THE BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE published by The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph, Liverpool, late 19th-Century and illustrating coloured representations for principal steamer, funnel and flag colours, together with flags for the international code, sailing vessels, government and international mercantile flags -- 22 x 32in. (56 x 81cm.), linen-backed and contained within card binding with gilt title, embossed flags of merchant shipping by the Journal of Commerce -- closed 8 x 4½in.

(20 x 11.5cm.) £250-350 107

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SIR THOMAS LIPTON’S FAMOUS STEAM YACHT ERIN a Royal Doulton white dinner plate, with scalloped edge decorated in gold and the rim bearing the crossed coloured flags of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club and Lipton’s celebrated yacht(s) Shamrock above S.Y. Erin on a scroll -- 10in. (25.5cm.) diameter 108 (detail) The steam yacht Erin was purchased in 1898 by Sir Thomas Lipton, one of the early twentieth century’s most determined yachtsmen and the dominant personality in the tea industry, two years after she was launched under her original name of Aegusa. Rigged as a screw schooner, she was registered at 451½ tons net and measured 264½ feet in length with a 31½ foot beam. Powered by a triple-expansion engine fired from two Scotch boilers, she was both fast and elegant and, having once passed into Lipton’s ownership, soon became one of the most well-known steam yachts on both sides of the Atlantic. Lipton’s great passion was to win the America’s Cup and Erin served as his floating base for his unsuccessful challenges in 1899, 1901 and 1903. En route to the United States for a fourth challenge when war was declared in 1914, she returned home after first being fitted out as a hospital ship.

Presented to the Admiralty, who restored her original name as there was an existing Erin in the fleet, she served as a hospital ship in the Mediterranean until torpedoed and sunk in June 1915.

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£100-150 110.

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LORD INVERCLYDE’S STEAM YACHT BERYL a Royal Doulton gold-edged white dinner plate, the rim bearing the crossed coloured flags of the Royal Thames and Royal Southern Yacht Clubs above a scroll reading Beryl -- 10½in.

(26.5cm.) diameter Designed and built by Scott’s of Greenock for Lord Inverclyde of Castle Wemyss in 1904, Beryl was a magnificent screw schooner which boasted a promenade deck of 92 feet amongst her appointments. Registered at 427 tons gross (207½ net and 484 Thames), she measured 168½ feet in length with a 25 foot beam and was engined by her builders. Sold to Lord Hollenden in 1913, who renamed her Lorna, she was hired for wartime service in September 1914 and spent the War, armed with 1-12pdr. and 1-6pdr., in the Auxiliary Patrol. Released by the Admiralty in December 1919, she was then sold to Sir Walter Preston, M.P., who was able to loan her to the Government again in September 1939 when the Second World War began. Mounting a single 12pdr. gun, she served initially as an Armed Boarding Vessel but is unrecorded after May 1941, perhaps due to enemy action.

£60-80

A RARE HAND-PAINTED PRESENTATION PIER-HEAD CUP AND PIPE SET, CIRCA 1866 the cup with profile of merchant vessel underway flying identification flags, inscribed around the base ADMIRAL CAPT JH CHANALER -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) high; together with a porcelain pipe bowl depicting the same vessel, inscribed ADMIRAL and further inscribed HENRY DAVIES, ST. DAVIDS, SOUTH WALES 1866 -5½in. (14cm.)

(2) £200-400 111.

A PAIR OF CUT GLASS MARINE DECANTERS, CIRCA 1840 with wheel etched design including wheat sheaves and flowers flanked by facet cutting and mushroom stoppers -- 8½in. (21.5cm.) high (2) £150-250

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AN ADMIRALTY-PATTERN DIVER’S KNIFE BY SIEBE GORMAN & CO

A PAIR OF 19TH-CENTURY NAÏVE REVERSE-GLASS PICTURES FOR THE SINKING OF PRINCESS ALICE

the 8in. steel blade signed as per title, with turned wooden handle and contained within a brass sheath stamped NON-MAGNETIC / A.P. 6261 with leather belt loop -- 13½in.

(34cm.) overall

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£200-300 113.

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A MID 20TH-CENTURY DIVER’S KNIFE unsigned, possibly by Siebe & Gorman, with 7½in. steel blade, turned handle, contained within black-painted sheath with canvas strap stencilled ZA6292 -- 14in. (35.5cm.) long overall £100-150 114.

A 19TH-CENTURY GILT-BRASS PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH

depicted steaming in profile; and the collision -- each 15½ x 23½in. (39.5 x 59.5cm.) framed (2) £300-500 116.

AN ORIENTAL SERVICE ADVERTISING POSTER FOR MESSAGERIES MARITIMES after Len Bull and printed by Hill, Siffkin & Co Ltd, London and depicting the coastlines for Japan and China, with welcoming characters from each nation, two-funnel steamship underway below next to destinations reading CEYLON STRAITS CHINA AND JAPAN -39½ x 24½in. (100 x 62cm.) £300-500

shoulder length, depicted in large hat facing right, now mounted on plush-backed circular mount -- 14in. (35.5cm.) diameter £300-500

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A VERY RARE ILLUMINATED TRAVEL AGENT’S SIGN FOR CUNARD LINE, CIRCA 1920

TRAVEL POSTER OF A NORWEGIAN FJORD, CIRCA 1925

etched and hand-painted after the famous poster by Walter Thomas and depicting the Aquitania with distant view of the Mauretania arriving in New York, past the Statue of Liberty, with large seagull, inscribed over Cunard Line and entitled in sea ‘Ocean Fliers’ EUROPE-AMERICA, mounted within pressed metal frame with lighting components to top and later brass suspension hooks -- overall measurements 30½ x 39½in. (77.5 x 100cm.)

indistinctly signed ‘Bruno Bi…’, chromolithograph -- 32½ x 21¾in.

(82.5 x 55.5cm.) £100-200 120.

COMMEMORATIVE LINER BROOCHES

£2000-3000

silver-backed examples for Ascania and Vandyck; a gilt-metal example for Ausonia and a silver signal brooch denoting ‘R.J.S.’; together with two lantern slides of the Stella d’Italia

118.

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AN ETCHED GLASS PURSER’S WINDOW FOR THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY

£80-120

the frosted glass panel with company device inscribed as per title, set in an oak sliding panel -- overall measurements 30¼ x 24¼in.

(77 x 61.5cm.) £300-500

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INMAN & INTERNATIONAL STEAM SHIP CO: A QUANTITY OF ‘IMARI’ PATTERN PORCELAIN BY DOULTON OF BURSLEM, CIRCA 1890

INMAN & INTERNATIONAL STEAM SHIP CO: A QUANTITY OF ‘IMARI’ PATTERN PORCELAIN BY DOULTON OF BURSLEM, CIRCA 1890

comprising one dining plate, one side plate and two coffee cans and saucers, each with impressed maker’s marks and line transfers on undersides, the plate -- 9¾in. (24.7cm.)

comprising three side plates and two coffee cans and saucers, each with impressed maker’s marks and line transfers on undersides, the side plate -- 6¾in. (17cm.)

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£300-500

£300-500 123.

INMAN & INTERNATIONAL STEAM SHIP CO: A QUANTITY OF ‘IMARI’ PATTERN PORCELAIN BY DOULTON OF BURSLEM, CIRCA 1890 comprising one dining plate, one side plate and two coffee cans and saucers, each with impressed maker’s marks and line transfers on undersides, the plate -- 9¾in. (24.7cm.)

(6) £200-400 124.

A COLLECTION OF COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLIONS FOR THE S.S. GREAT EASTERN

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three in white metal comprising Lewis’s Great Eastern Exhibition 1886; souvenir tokens purchased onboard 1860 and 1886; and one brass token purchased aboard 1860; together with white metal and brass medallions commemorating the launch of the Great Britain; and an engraved steel rivet with naive profile of Great Eastern dated 1891 (7) £250-350

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TITANIC MEMORIAL MUSIC

TITANIC MEMORIAL POSTCARDS

an interesting and very rare selection of sheet music mostly composed in the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic, comprising “The Wreck of the Titanic”, piano sketch, by Haydon Augarde; “The Wreck of the Titanic”, piano solo, by William Baltzell; “The Wreck of the Titanic”, descriptive march, by John Thomas; “Just as the Ship Went Down”, a song, words by Edith Lessing, music by Adler & Gibson; “Just as the Boat Went Down”, the “first Titanic song, souvenir edition”, by Marvin Lee; “That dear dear ship Titanic”, a song, by Edward Tassie; “The Band played ‘Nearer my God to Thee’ as the ship went down”, a song, words

by Mark Beam, music by Harold Jones; “Nearer my God to Thee”, sacred song, words by Sarah Adams, music by Bernard White; another version but with two settings (French and English); and a book of organ music by Joseph Bonnet, including “In Memoriam Titanic”, all but the last with pictorial covers, some with edge tears or similar chipping

the complete set of six black and white Bamforth cards featuring the hymn “Nearer my God to thee…” reputedly sung just before Titanic foundered, five unused as issued, the other written but unstamped; together with “The Deathless Story of the Titanic”, Lloyd’s Weekly News, 2nd edition, pictorial paper covers, illustrated throughout, some edge tears but generally good condition given the nature of the publication

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A FIRST CLASS STATEROOM RUG, FROM THE R .M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH, CIRCA 1947

£300-500

(7) Lloyd’s Weekly News produced one of the first ‘special’ publications immediately following the loss of the Titanic in April 1912. An instant ‘best seller’, it ran to several editions in quick succession.

£80-120 127.

manufactured by Templetons in wool, with yellow ground with floral devices, the back stencilled QE M78 -- 102 x 56in.

(259 x 142cm.) £800-1200

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130. Ø A NARWHAL TUSK (MONODON MONOCEROS), CIRCA 1925 with emergent corkscrew taper -- 94in. (239cm.) long; 5,030g.; Article 10 Certificate included £5000-8000 131. Ø A NARWHAL TUSK (MONODON MONOCEROS), CIRCA 1925 with emergent corkscrew taper -- 88½in. (225cm.) long; 5,700g.; Article 10 Certificate included £5000-8000 132. Ø A NARWHAL TUSK (MONODON MONOCEROS), PRE-1960 with emergent corkscrew taper -- 82¾in. (2.15m.) long; 5kg; Cites No. 226060/01 £4000-6000 133. Ø A NARWHAL TUSK (MONODON MONOCEROS), PRE-1957 with emergent corkscrew taper -- 81½in. (207cm.) long; 5kg; Cites No. 361135; together with State appointment certificates and letters from 1957-1962 to Jørgen Leo Andersen (an Engineering Inspector for Greenland), signed by King Frederik IX and Princess (now Queen) Margrethe (a lot) £4000-6000 134. Ø A SHORT SECTION OF NARWHAL TUSK (MONODON MONOCEROS), 19TH-CENTURY approximately 2¼in. diameter, with typical barley-twist form -19¾in. (50cm.) long; Article 10 Certificate included £200-400

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138. Ø

A 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK PAN BONE PLAQUE

A 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK MARINE IVORY WALKING STICK

depicting a whale ship and boats whaling, inscribed Frolic.

London. to lower edge, and highlighted with red ink and lamp black, top corners pierced for suspension -- 5½ x 8in. (14 x 20cm.)

the tapering malacca shaft with turned ivory handle, the end carved in the form of a clenched fist -- 35¼in. (89.5cm.)

£600-800

£400-600 139. Ø

136. Ø

A 19TH-CENTURY BALEEN AND MARINE IVORY RIDING CROP

A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S SCRIMSHAW-WORKED WALRUS TUSK worked over one side with inscription pricked out reading P HARPER BARK KATHLEEN 1855 STOVE AND SUNK BY A WHALE -- 17¾in. (45cm.); 487gms.

the baleen shaft squared and twisted towards lion’s head finial with silver cuff under and at tip -- 33in. (84cm.) long; together with a sailor-work marquetry wood picture depicting a schooner underway off a lighthouse -- 7 x 11in. (18 x 28cm.) framed and glazed

£250-350

(2) £250-350

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TWO EARLY 19TH-CENTURY IRON HARPOONS with hinged flukes, beaten shafts and tapering sockets -- the larger 35¾in. (91cm.)

(2) £300-500

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A FINE 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE’S TOOTH

A PAIR OF 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALES’ TEETH

incised over one side and depicting three vessels underway, with foliate border and dogtooth motif to tip and root -- 6½in.

(16.5cm.); 652gms.

each incised in the round and depicting two children, hanging flowers; the goddess Ceres and a biblical farmer, highlighted in blue, green and yellow inks -- 4in. (10cm.) high; 258gms. combined

A SET OF THREE SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALES’ TEETH COMMEMORATING THE BATTLE OF FLAMBOROUGH HEAD, 1779

£1000-1500

(2) £250-350

probably late 19th/early 20th-Century, the two 3½in. teeth engraved with the commanders and their vessels and a 2¾in. tooth bearing inscription as per title and note of Captain Sir Richard Pearson’s defeat by John Paul Jones, contained in a fitted plush-lined wooden box -- 10in.

(25.5cm.) diameter (3) £250-350

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143. Ø A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE’S TOOTH incised over one side and depicting a whaler hove to with whale boats harpooning their prey -- 6½in. (16.5cm.); 437gm. £1200-1800 143

144. Ø A S CRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE’S TOOTH incised on both sides and depicting a whaler sailing off the headland with lighthouse flying an owner’s pennant inscribed ‘WN’, and title underneath reading Ship BARON homeward bound, the obverse depicting a semi-clad lady -- 6¼in. (16cm.); 482gm. £300-500 145. Ø

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AN ATTRACTIVE 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE’S TOOTH incised over one side with profile of a whaler entitled Alice Watson, flanked by British and U.S. flags and with cannons -- 5in.

(12.5cm.); 223gm. £250-350

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A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED COW’S HORN 146

incised on both sides and depicting Grace Darling rowing shipwrecked crew towards her lighthouse, mounted on a decorative brass table centrepiece -- 19½ x 17in. (49.5 x 43cm) £1000-1500 147.

A FINELY DETAILED 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED COW’S HORN depicting the Royal Arms outlined with copper pin heads -- 10in.

(25.5cm.) high

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£800-1200 148.

A SAILOR’S SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED COW’S HORN, CIRCA 1880

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incised with a whaler flying a British flag, two children and other designs including an arrow-pierced heart, dated 1880 -- 17in.

(43cm.) long £600-800

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AN UNUSUAL MID 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAVAL DIORAMA IN BOTTLE consisting of a two-deck English Man-Of-War sailing into a harbour with stylised buildings and porpoises etc., the painted lid with complication apprentice-type securing -- 12 x 7in.

(30.5 x 17.7cm.) £250-350

A 19TH-CENTURY SET OF SAILORWORK MARINE IVORY MODEL TOOLS comprising ten typical tools including saw, mallet, rasp, flensing knives, hatchet etc., the handles drilled with threading holes and suspended on a white ribbon, each -- 3½in. (9cm.) long

150.

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A SET OF THREE MODERN KNOTWORK DISPLAYS

£250-350

each display attractively mounted on a black-painted wooden background with broad ropework border frame, the reverses signed and inscribed Made by J.A.J. Versteeg… -- overall size 23 x 32in. (58.5 x 81.2cm.)

(3) £150-250

152. Ø A GOOD 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S WHALEBONE WOOLWINDER SHAFT AND CLAMP turned and carved from whalebone sections and finished with lined decoration, the top filled with red and black coloured sealing wax (lacking vanes) -- 14½in.

(37cm.) high £250-400

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A CARVED IVORY AND WOOD DIEPPE BALANCE TOY, CIRCA 1820 depicting a young lady playing the violin, balanced on one toe, with wires and lead counterweights on turned wooden support with velvet base -- 7½in. (19cm.) high overall £500-800 154. Ø A CARVED IVORY AND WOOD DIEPPE BALANCE TOY, CIRCA 1820 depicting a military veteran in large bicorn hat, balanced on one toe, wires with lead counterweights and turned support on velvet base -- 7½in. (19cm.) high overall £500-800 155. Ø A CARVED IVORY DIEPPE BALANCE TOY, CIRCA 1820 depicting a lady in a large bonnet holding a basket of flowers and pirouetting on one toe, with lead-weighted wires and turned wooden support column on velvet base -- 7¾in. (19.5cm.) overall £500-800 156.

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SPINNING JENNY AUTOMATON depicting ladies wearing bonnets performing activities such as spinning and cosseting a baby, a child playing with a spotted dog and a windmill on right, the main wheel on carved anchor support with bone cogs and gears under platform -- 5in. (12.5cm.) high £800-1200

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JOHN CARTER MAHOGANY 8-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH AUXILLIARY COMPENSATION, NO. 134, CIRCA 1829

JAMES MURRAY SMALL MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 497, CIRCA 1825 the 3½in. silvered dial signed James Murray, Royal Exchange, London, No. 497, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, gold hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral temperature and meantime adjustment screws, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl punch-numbered 327 and M&S (Murray & Strachan), screw-down brass bezel with convex glass, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass drop handles, the interior with paper trade label for L. Vander Voodt-Cornet, Antwerp -- 7in. (18cm.) square approx. £800-1200

the 4½in. silvered dial signed John Carter, Tooley Street, London, No. 134, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, 2-frame brass movement with reverse fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with wedge-shaped temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, auxiliary compensation, diamond endstone, free-sprung white metal helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl with screw-down bezel with convex glass, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass drop handles -- 7½in. (19cm.) square approx.

John Carter worked at 207 Tooley Street between 1829 and 1859. He was a highly respected maker and this chronometer exhibits both the wedge-shaped weights and convex glass typical of Carter’s work and also his own form of auxiliary compensation to the balance. Carter won the Greenwich Premium trials in 1834 and 1835, he was a maker to the Royal Navy and became Lord Mayor of London in 1857.

£2500-3500

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BARRAUD MAHOGANY 8-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 5054, CIRCA 1830 the 4½in. silvered dial signed Corrected & Adjusted by Barraud, 41 Cornhill, London, No. 5054, champlevé Roman numerals, large subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued-steel hour and minute hands, 2-frame brass movement with reverse fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with wedge-shaped temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl with screw-down bezel, in three-tier mahogany box with brass drop handles and vacant signature plaque -- 8in. (20cm.) square approx. £1500-2000 163.

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ROBERT MOLYNEUX MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH EXTREMELY RARE MOLYNEUX’S AUXILIARY COMPENSATION BALANCE, NO. 2299, CIRCA 1840 the 3½in. silvered dial signed Robert Molyneux, Patentee, 30 Southampton Row, Russell Squr, London, No. 2299, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued-steel hands, fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with peripheral temperature and meantime adjustment screws, Molyneux’s auxiliary compensation, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl in two-tier mahogany box (formerly three-tier, top lacking) -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) square approx.

Robert Molyneux worked from premises at 30 Southampton Row between 1832 and 1842. He patented his invention of a compensation balance with auxiliary (Patent No. 8.418) in March 1840 and initially fitted it to two chronometers which were sent for trial at Greenwich between January and June 1840. The purpose of this auxiliary, as with most auxiliary compensations, was to reduce the total effect of the middle temperature error. The principle of Molyneux’s auxiliary is identical to that invented by another London maker, John Sweetman Eiffe, at around the same time but differs in construction. Very few chronometers with Molyneux’s auxiliary compensation are known to exist and the present chronometer is a very rare example. Molyneux obtained some quite remarkable trial results with this auxiliary, far better than those submitted by Eiffe, but this is thought to be due in part to his painstaking workmanship. The very careful manufacture and laborious adjustment required in the manufacture of both Molyneux’s and Eiffe’s designs were perhaps the reason why so few were constructed. They did however form the basis for the improvements of other makers including Kullberg and Mercer.

box somewhat distressed and with top hinged lid missing and blank replaced signature plaque.

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£1000-1500

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FRENCH SMALL MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 4477, CIRCA 1840

BLISS & CREIGHTON SMALL MAHOGANY AMERICAN 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER USED BY THE AMERICAN LINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY, NO. 1124, CIRCA 1850

the 3½in. silvered dial signed French, Royal Exchange, London, No. 4477, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued-steel hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, Earnshaw-type bimetallic compensation balance with wedge-shaped temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl, screw-down brass bezel with convex glass, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass drop handles, the interior with paper trade label for J. Stevenson, Banff -- 6½in.

(16.5cm.) square approx. £800-1200

the 3½in. silvered dial signed Bliss & Creighton, New York, No. 1124, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gilt hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl, screw-down brass bezel, in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass drop handles, the interior with paper trade label for F. Smith & Son, Southampton and inscribed in ink “American Line - Spare” -- 7in. (18cm.) square approx.

Bliss & Creighton: established in Brooklyn, New York in 1837 and lasted until 1855. In 1848 they advertised that their chronometers were entirely American-made.

The American line: formed as the American Steamship Company in 1872, it was inaugurated by the ship Pennsylvania in 1873. In 1884 the American Line was bought by the owners of the Red Star Line but continued to operate under its own name. The American Line service to Southampton was begun in 1893 and it is likely that the present chronometer was purchased second-hand in Southampton as a spare chronometer for one of the American Line’s ships on the cross-Atlantic route.

£800-1200

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JOHN FLETCHER MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 2258, CIRCA 1860

JOHN POOLE ROSEWOOD 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH POOLE’S AUXILLIARY COMPENSATION BALANCE, NO. 2972, CIRCA 1860

the 3 7/8in silvered dial signed John Fletc her, M aker To The Admiralty, 48 Lombard St., London, 2258, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, punch-numbered gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier mahogany box with brass flush handles and vacant signature plaque -- 7in. (18cm.) square approx. £700-1000

the 3½in. silvered dial signed John P oole, M aker To The Admiralty, 57 Fenchurch St., London, 2972, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, movement punch-numbered on the pillar plate, fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, Poole’s auxiliary compensation, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, punch-numbered gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier brass-bound rosewood box with bone signature plaque also inscribed sold by B.R. Hennessy, 5, Wind St., Swansea -- 6½ x 7in. (16.5cm x 18cm.) square approx.

John Poole (1818-1867): Poole worked in premises at 57 Fenchurch Street between 1858 and 1885, he was one of the great makers who established himself as a chronometer maker in 1840. He is perhaps most famous for his auxiliary compensation which was first applied in 1850, of which the present chronometer is a fine example. Poole’s auxiliary was commercially successful being easy to make, it acts only in the cold (the reverse of Molyneux’s).

£1000-1500

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MCGREGOR & CO, 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER WITH MERCER’S AUXILIARY COMPENSATION BALANCE, NO. 2568, CIRCA 1877

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ONESIME DUMAS, MAHOGANY FRENCH 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 1034, CIRCA 1870 the 3½in. silvered dial signed O. Dumas a St. Nicolas, Pres Dieppe, No. 1034, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down sector, gilt hour and minute hands, movement with reverse fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, “Z-type” bimetallic compensation balance with adjustable cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl, screw-down brass bezel, in three-tier mahogany box with brass drop handles, bone signature disc -6½in. (16.5cm.) square approx.

the 4in silvered dial signed D. McGregor & Co., MAKERS TO THE ADMIRALTY, Glasgow & Greenock, M/2568, Auxiliary H Compensation, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, movement made by Mercer punch-numbered 1186 on the dial plate, fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, Mercer’s auxiliary compensation, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, punch-numbered gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier brass-bound and inlaid box with mother of pearl signature plaque -- 6½ x 7½in. (16.5 x 19cm.) square approx. £1200-1800

Onésime Dumas (1824-1889). A chronometer-maker and nephew of Henri Motel, he was an apprentice first of Perrelet and then of Charles-Auguste Berthoud. After having worked for a short period with Motel, he succeeded Gannery at St. Nicolas d’Aliermont. He exhibited precision horology at Rouen in 1856 and chronometers at Paris in 1857.

He was the first maker in France to produce chronometers of English caliber.

£2000-3000

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JAMES DWERRYHOUSE MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 2101, CIRCA 1890

BROCKBANK & ATKINS FOR THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY (P & O) MAHOGANY 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 2424, MADE IN 1913

the 4 1/8in. silvered dial signed James Dwerryhouse, Liverpool, No. 2101, champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement with jewelled locking stone, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier brass-bound mahogany box with brass flush handles and signed and numbered signature plaque -- 7in.

(18cm.) square approx. £800-1200

the 4 1/8in silvered dial signed Brockbank & Atkins, London, No. 2424, also inscribed in red P & O S.N.Co., champlevé Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, gold hour and minute hands, movement with fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, Earnshaw bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, diamond endstone, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl in three-tier mahogany box with brass flush handles and signed and numbered signature plaque -- 7½in. (19cm.) square approx.

It is extremely rare to find a chronometer inscribed specifically for use

by P&O, in fact, to date only one other example appears to have been offered at auction. According to our research this chronometer No. 2424 was made in 1913. See: “Chronometer Makers of the world”,Tony Mercer, 2004, p.113.

£1000-1500

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AN EIGHT-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY THOMAS MERCER, CIRCA 1960 the 4¾in. diameter silvered Arabic dial with eight day up/down dial, signed Thomas Mercer, blued-steel hands, numbered ‘1002 N’ to the centre of seconds dial, chain fusee with Earnshaw-type escapement, cut bimetallic balance with helical balance, two-tier spot-finished plates, bowl numbered ‘1004’, contained within a lacquered-brass bowl and gimbal, within a two-tier case with glazed top and retailer’s plaque to the front inscribed KELVIN HUGHES/LONDON-GLASGOW, the box -- 8¼in. (21cm) square £1000-1500 174.

AN 8-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY THOMAS MERCER LTD, ST. ALBANS, NO. 8353, CIRCA 1954 the 4½in. silvered dial signed as per title, blued-steel hands, single chain fusee movement with plain gilt finished plates, spring detent escapement to cut bimetallic balance with circular heat compensation weights, Earnshaw escapement and palladium helical balance spring, counternumbered throughout, gimbal-mounted within two-tier wooden box with blanked slave dial contacts, key and retailer’s plate for ‘Kelvin Hughes London’ -- 8in. (20cm.) square £800-1200 172

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A TWO-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY VACHERON & CONSTANTIN, 364959, GENEVA with 4in. silvered dial signed and numbered as per title, Roman hour numerals, gold hour and minute hands, subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials with blued steel hands, cut bimetallic balance with cylindrical heat compensation weights, helical blued steel balance spring, Earnshaw escapement, spring foot detent counter-numbered brass bowl gimballed in three-tier mahogany box with ivorine plaque inscribed Vacheron & Constantin, 364959, the top lid with inlaid brass cartouche (blank) -7¼in. (18.5cm.) square box £1000-1500

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EDWARD BAKER 8-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER, NO. 827, CIRCA 1830 the 4½in. silvered dial signed Edwd. Baker, London, 827, champlevé Roman numerals, large subsidiary seconds and up-and-down dials, blued-steel hour and minute hands, 2-frame brass movement with reverse fusee and chain, Harrison’s maintaining power, Earnshaw-type footed spring detent escapement, bimetallic compensation balance with cylindrical temperature weights and meantime adjustment nuts, free-sprung blued-steel helical balance spring, gimbal-mounted brass bowl with screw-down bezel, convex glass -- 5¼in. diameter

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CHROMED AND STAINLESS STEEL DECK AND POCKET LEVER CHRONOMETER WITH ENAMEL DIAL, INDIRECT CENTRE-SECONDS, FITTED DECK BOX AND H.M. CHRONOMETER DEPOT RATING CERTIFICATE DATED 1947, CASE NO. 99855, CIRCA 1945 white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer minute track, blued-steel spade hands, 41 mm., frosted gilt movement with 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, index regulator, three-body case, screw-down back and bezel -- 62 mm. diameter

£800-1200

£300-500

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ULYSSE NARDIN RETAILED BY ANDREAS HUBER, SILVER DECK AND POCKET LEVER CHRONOMETER WITH ENAMEL DIAL AND GUILLAUME BALANCE, NO. 120914, CASE NO. 610347, CIRCA 1945

AN ELECTRIC QUARTZ MARINE CHRONOMETER BY TAMAYA, CIRCA 1975

white enamel dial with Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, blued-steel spade hands, 48 mm., frosted gilt movement with 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, anibal-brass Guillaume balance, blued-steel Breguet balance spring with terminal curve, swan-neck micrometer regulator, four-body polished silver case, the back with wrigglework engraved nautical design and initials W.G., hinged silver cuvette signed Andreas Huber, Munchen-Berlin -- 59 mm. diameter £700-1000

Provenance: John Millar RYS

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with black-painted 4in. dial, white Arabic numerals with luminous spotting above hours and minute hands, sweep seconds, signed at middle TAMAYA MARINE CORPS, stainless steel below, the movement with start/stop button secured to Bakelite base within teak case with plush lid, signed, securing hook and maker’s top plate -- 4 x 7¼ x 7¼in. (10 x 18.5 x 18.5cm.)

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A LATE 18TH-CENTURY TELESCOPE MAGAZINE BY JESSE RAMSDEN

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 2IN. LIBRARY TELESCOPE BY ROBERT BANKS, LONDON

the 26in. main tube signed on top Ramsden London, single-draw with rack and pinion fine focusing, attached to tripod table stand with stabiliser, contained within original mahogany case complete with accessories -- 30¾in. (78cm.) diameter

the 25½in. lacquered-brass main tube signed to top Banks 441 Strand London, mounted on folding tripod stand with stabiliser -- 37¾in. (96cm.) closed £250-350

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A LATE 19TH-CENTURY PATINATED BRASS FIGURE OF GALILEO

A TELESCOPE MAGAZINE BY JAMES LONG, ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON, CIRCA 1800 with 2in. single-draw lacquered-brass telescope, the 28½in. tube with rack and pinion focusing, signed on the eyepiece as per title and mounted on folding tripod stand, within original fitted case with accessories and period illustration and instructions pasted inside lid -- 30¾in. (78cm.) diameter

unsigned but probably French, depicted in a fur-trimmed gown, holding a telescope and pointing towards the sky, standing next to a globe on moulded platform base -- 16in. (40.5cm.) high £400-600

James Long worked between 1781-1805 from the Royal Exchange and retired 1811.

£400-600

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A SURVEYOR’S COMPASS LEVEL AND TRIPOD, CIRCA 1740 unsigned, 4¼in. printed compass dial with steel needle and marbled edges, contained within hinged mahogany sighting level with fixed focus, 24in. brass telescope, hinged by the eyepiece with elevation screw and mounted on tripod stand with threaded wooden legs -- 54in.

(137cm.) high £400-600 185.

A LATE 18TH-CENTURY SURVEYING COMPASS AND LEVEL BY W. & S. JONES, LONDON constructed in lacquered brass, with 4¼in. silvered dial signed W. & S. Jones, 30 Holborn, London, with needle clamp, liquid-filled level mounted on Y-frame over with 24¾in. telescope with rack and pinion fine focus, the whole mounted on socket for tripod assembly and contained within original fitted mahogany box -- 6½ x 26in.

(16.5 x 66cm.); together with a circular protractor by the same maker contained in fitted box with trade label for Husbands of Melbourne and period owner’s inscription underneath inscribed…Blond

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AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY SURVEYOR’S COMPASS AND LEVEL BY TROUGHTON, LONDON

A 2IN. SINGLE-DRAW MARINE TELESCOPE USED BY THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS

constructed in lacquered brass with silvered compass mounted on support bar, signed as per title with level and telescope over and threaded tripod mountings for tripod stand; together with a boxed set of six ivorine rules

by Troughton & Simms, London; a proportional divider by C. Baker with government mark; a prismatic drawing instrument by Troughton & Simms in lacquered brass; a small circumferentor, probably by Stanley but unsigned; a trade catalogue for Cooke, Troughton & Simms Ltd issued 1928; and a trade catalogue for Buck & Hickman Ltd circa 1930, the level -- 6½ x 26 x 6in. (16.5 x 66 x 15cm.)

splash cuff with lens cap, tapering leather-covered tube, signed by the eyepiece Ross London / Marquis of Hastings -- 25in. (63.5cm.)

(a lot)

£100-150

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A 2½IN. SEA SERVICE TELESCOPE BY J. BRUCE & SONS, LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1850 the tapering brass tube with leather covering, splash cuff and single draw, signed as per title, with dust slide -- 31¼in.

(79.5cm.) closed

£250-350

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A 1¾IN. DECAGONAL SINGLE-DRAW MARINE TELESCOPE BY NAIRNE & BLUNT, LONDON, CIRCA 1780

A LATE 18TH-CENTURY 1½IN. SINGLE-DRAW MONOCULAR BY DOLLOND, LONDON

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 1¾IN. MONOCULAR BY ROCHETTE, PARIS

probably pine, the tapering main tube with lacquered-brass fittings for main lens assembly and draw-tube signed as per title with tapering eyecup with dust slide -- 49½in. (125.5cm.) closed

with plated fittings, tortoiseshell main tube, signed on draw as per title -- 2¾in.

(7cm.) high

£600-800

£150-250

AN ENGLISH 1IN. MINIATURE MONOCULAR, CIRCA 1750

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 2IN. TWO DRAW MONOCULAR BY CHEVALIER, PARIS

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY ADAMS-PATENT MONOCULAR

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the tapering main tube with single plated draw signed Rochette Palais Egalité No. 114 à Paris -- 3in. (7.5cm.) long

with 1¾in. reflective lens, seven nickel-plated draws, leather-covered main tube embossed in gilt DUDLEY * ADAMS * LONDON *, contained within original plush-lined wood and leather pocket case with old price inscribed inside lid for 60/-

with ivory main tube, gilt-brass draws, signed and inscribed by eyepiece Vt. Chevalier aine Ing, Opt, en Brevete Quai de L’Horloge No. 69 à Paris -- 3in. (7.5cm.) high closed; together with a pair of late 19th-Century French ivory opera glasses

by Chevalier

£150-250

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unsigned, tapering lignum vitæ main tube with threaded focus and ivory eyepiece and main lens assembly -- 1¾in. (4.5cm.) high £150-250

£100-150

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A 1IN. LEATHER THREE-DRAW TELESCOPE, PROBABLY ITALIAN, EARLY 18TH-CENTURY

AN ENGLISH LATE 18TH-CENTURY 1IN. THREE-DRAW CARD AND HORN TELESCOPE

with ivory staging and threaded lens cap -- 15½in. (39.5cm.) closed

unsigned, the fishskin-covered main tube with brass lens cap, the green-coloured draws with focus lines and horn stages, tapering eyepiece with dust slide -- 12in. (30.5cm.) closed; together with an unsigned four-draw mahogany and brass telescope

£600-800

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AN 18TH-CENTURY ¾IN. THREE-DRAW VELLUM AND CARD TELESCOPE BY ANGELO OERECINI

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the red-coloured and decorated main tube signed as per title, the draws with focus lines, horn staging, and tapered eyepiece with dust slide -- 12¾in. (32.5cm.) closed

A ¾IN. SINGLE-DRAW POCKET TELESCOPE BY RAMSDEN, LONDON, CIRCA 1770

£500-700

with parallel mahogany main tube, three-section draw, signed Ramfden by the tapering eyecup with dust slide -- 9½in. (24cm.) closed £200-300

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A PAIR OF GERMAN POLISHED STEEL 10 x 80 FIELD BINOCULARS BY R. FUESS, BERLIN, APPROXIMATELY 1940

A COMPOUND MONOCULAR MICROSCOPE BY E. HARTNACK & A. PRAZMOUSKI, PARIS, APPROXIMATELY 1865-70

A BOTANIST’S FIELD SET

with adjustable settings, stamped to the side ‘D.F. 10 x 80 cro 2536.’ and mounted on a later tripod stand -- 45in. (114cm) high approximately (lowered) In an attempt to avoid air raids, German instrument makers used three letter codes in the run up to War in 1939. R. Fuess was allotted ‘c r o’, however their production was very limited as they were bombed in the early years of the war.

£2000-3000 200.

A PAIR OF 10 X 80 FIELD BINOCULARS PRODUCED BY TZK, POLAND, CIRCA 1968 the polished steel tubes with adjustable settings and hand grips with elevation scale on left, contained within original fitted tin box complete with accessories including eyeshade and monocular prismatic sighting attachment stamped xbk TZK 1968 B33, shades etc., with maker’s contents label pasted inside lid and mounted on polished wooden tripod stand with metal fittings -- 55in. (140cm.) lowered

the lacquered-brass tube signed by the eyepiece E. Hartnack & A. Prazmouski, Rue Bonaparte 1, Paris, oxidised-brass stage with revolving light disc, reversible mirror under and base metal foot, contained in fitted mahogany case numbered ‘13901’ with accessories including two nosepieces, two eyepieces and some mixed slides -6 x 11 x 6in. (15 x 28 x 15cm.); together with a pocket aneroid barometer retailed

by J. Lizars Ltd, Glasgow; two cased Sykes hydrometers with book of hydrometer tables; and a small cased drawing set

comprising a portable microscope by Swift & Son with three nosepieces, parabolic light reflector, platform etc., contained in fitted case with accessories including slide making set, scalpel, tweezers, brush, pencil etc., itself contained within a leather bag with copies of Routledge’s Common objects of the microscope; Wild flowers of the chalk by John Gilmore and a canvas backed folding map of Cornwall -- bag approximately 9 x 12in. (23 x 30.5cm.); together with a Sykes hydrometer in case (2) £250-350

(6) £150-250

£2000-3000

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‘ATLAS COELESTIS CONTAINING THE SYSTEMS AND THEORYES OF THE PLANETS AND CONSTELLATIONS OF THE STARS.’

A FINE UNIVERSAL COMPASS SUNDIAL BY TROUGHTON & SIMMS, LONDON

by John Seller, London, no publisher, circa 1690, engraved allegorical title, engraved plates, charts and tables, of which 46 double-page, owner’s name on fly for ‘John Preston’, contemporary calf (rubbed) -- 5¾ x 3¾in. (14.5 x 9.5cm.)

with 3in. silvered dial engraved with compass rose, two spirit levels and needle with clamp, hinged chapter ring signed as per title, with folding gnomon and latitude arm, supported on three threaded feet and contained within original blue plush-line sharkskin case with maker’s instruction sheet folded within -- 6in.

(15cm.) diameter

Ref: Wing S2463 (with variant spelling of title); cf. Shirley C.SELL 1a.

£2000-3000

£800-1200

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A FINE LATE 19TH-CENTURY MAGHRIBI PLANISPHERIC ASTROLABE the mater with throne, hinged joint and ring containing seven double-sided latitude plates with alignment lugs at north, pierced and chiselled foliate rete with leaves engraved with star names, the reverse with upper right quadrant scale divided between 0º-90º with graduated alidade sights secured by tapering pin and horse -- 6¼in.

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A RARE UNIVERSAL EQUINOCTIAL RING DIAL BY RICHARD ABBOTT, CIRCA 1670 constructed in lacquered brass and engraved with black jewellers’-wax-filled characters, the outer meridian ring signed Richard Abbott Fecit and engraved with latitude scale, the reverse with nautical quadrant ring engraved 0-90º with pinhole; suspension ring on sliding cursor shackle with universal joint, central bridge with sliding pinhole gnomon to calendar scale, the reverse with sun declination scale inscribed 0-20-0; the inner ring with Roman numeral hour scale engraved III-XII-IX and calibrated on inside edge; contained within original puce velvet-lined shagreen case with hinge and securing hooks, the dial -- 3½in. (9cm.) diameter Richard Abbott (B.1654) was apprenticed to Hilkiah Bedford from the Clockmakers’ Company and worked between approximately 1668 and 1676.

This is thought to be the only known example of a universal ring dial by Abbott.

Provenance: With Trevor Philip & Son, 2006. £3000-5000 207.

A FINE 19TH-CENTURY, POSSIBLY OTTOMAN TURKISH, ISLAMIC ASTROLABIC QUADRANT with markings in red and black, gilt decoration, red-painted edges, the ecliptic in red, divided horizon with gilt decorations every 5°, diagram of unequal hours to top right corner, two ?instruction cartouches, the reverse with a gilt-decorated sexagesimal trigonometric grid, with ?later plumb bob string, contained in stitched bag -- 7in. (17.5cm.) maximum radius 207

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£2000-3000

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A BRASS SUNDIAL BY J. GILBERT, LONDON, 1776

A BRONZE ARMORIAL SUNDIAL BY HEATH & WING, LONDON, CIRCA 1770

finely engraved with subdivided chapter ring divided in Roman numerals IV-XII-VIII, signed and dated J. GILBERT, TOWER HILL, LONDON, 1776, foliate compass rose and substantial gnomon, the underside with wooden peg feet -- 14in. (35.5cm.) diameter

signed as per title by ‘north’, compass rose to centre, chapter ring divided III-XII-VIII, armorial device at south and original gnomon -- 11¾in. (30cm.) diameter

John Gilbert (w.1751-91) was the second of three ‘John Gilberts’ in this famous family firm operating from premises in Tower Hill. It was unusual for them to date their instruments. Amongst their many apprentices was Peter Dollond.

The armorial device is believed to be that of the Rouse-Boughton family, the ninth baronet was Sir Charles William Rouse-Boughton (1747-1821), an administrator in the East India Company, and latterly an MP in Pitt the Younger’s administration.

£1000-1500

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A FINE ADMIRALTY STANDARD COMPASS, PATTERN 1, CIRCA 1912 210 210.

A FINE MARINE SIGHTING COMPASS BY LANGFORD, BRISTOL, CIRCA 1850 the 6in. card, signed on paper label LANGFORD CHRONOMETER AND NAUTICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER 53, QUAY, BRISTOL., countersigned by ‘south’ for printers Lavars & Ackland, Lithog, Bristol, contained within a lacquered-brass bowl with card lock, detachable sights and glazed top with cross-hairs, gimbal-mounted within original wooden box with detachable lid and securing hooks -- 9 x 12 x 12in. (22.8 x 30.5 x 30.5cm.) £600-800 211.

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY POCKET COMPASS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN GILBERT unsigned, the 1¾in. printed compass card on jewelled pivot, contained within nickel-plated drum with domed glass and card locks to underside and tapering pivot, contained within a turned fruitwood case with reversible usage cuff and pin mount and threaded lid -- 2 x 2½in. (5 x 6.5cm.) £250-350

heavily constructed in black-painted brass, numbered ‘B207’ throughout, with 7½in. diameter blue and black card counter numbered, dated ‘25-9-12’ to reverse with sapphire centre cap, contained within lid compartment with maker’s label inscribed Thomas Whiston, Compass Maker to the Royal Navy, white-lined bowl with lacquered-brass fittings, folding sights, shades etc., with gimbals and mounting frame with accessories including spare steel point, plummet, bubble level etc., contained within fitted mahogany box of issue with counter date in lid and securing hooks, overall measurements - 10¼ x 15 x 13½in.

(26 x 38 x 34.5cm.)

The Admiralty Compass Committee, founded in July 1837 to resolve the problem of poor compasses in RN ships, comprised six members (including Francis Beaufort and James Clark Ross) and first met on the 24th of July that year in the Admiralty Library. The first product of this committee was the Admiralty Standard Compass Pattern 1 of 1840, which transformed marine compasses overnight. Orders from foreign navies flooded in and it remained the principal RN compass until 1888, after which it was re-designated a ‘landing compass’. In his book Steady As She Goes, Cmdr A. Fanning states ‘Although it was removed from the Rate Book shortly before World War II, it is known to have still been in operational service as late as 1944’.

Provenance: John Howard, Chief Experimental Officer, Admiralty Compass Observatory, Ditton Park. £400-600

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A ‘HUSON’ STAR GLOBE BY HENRY HUGHES & SON LTD, LONDON, 1920

A FULLER CALCULATOR MODEL 1 BY W.F. STANLEY & CO LTD, LONDON, CIRCA 1950

the 7in. paper-covered wooden globe signed THE HUSON STAR GLOBE / H. HUGHES & SON LTD / LONDON / 1920 mounted in brass meridian and horizon rings counter stamped and numbered ‘3066’, removable axis rings and sliding indicators, contained within teak box with inset top handle and instructions pasted inside lid, approximately -- 10½in. (27cm.) square

of typical construction, with inner and outer cylinders mounted to a mahogany handle with calibrated brass readers, contained in fitted box with brass mounting bracket, maker’s label and instruction leaflets - 18in. (46cm.) diameter

Provenance: John Howard, Chief Experimental Officer, Admiralty Compass Observatory, Ditton Park.

£200-300

£300-500

Provenance: John Howard, Chief Experimental Officer, Admiralty Compass Observatory, Ditton Park.

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A 2¾IN. DESK GLOBE BY J.L. & CO, LONDON, CIRCA 1860

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A 12IN. RELIEF GLOBE BY RÄTH, CIRCA 1950 the coloured paper gores with maker’s cartouche, printed with the continents in relief, the oceans with depth contours, overprinted with prevailing wind information and principal cable routes etc., mounted within aluminium meridian half-circle on turned oak stand -- 19¾ inches (50cm.) high

with twelve hand-coloured gores with polar calottes, maker’s labels stamped as per title, Tasmania, Cape Colony, tracks for Humphrey Palliser, Chinese Empire, Ecliptic line etc., mounted on miniature wooden stand with brass meridian -- 5½in. (14cm.) high £400-600 217.

£250-350

A QUANTITY OF INSTRUMENTS including twelve assorted hand compasses; a Morse key; two surveyors’ needles; levels; a distance meter by Hughes; and two late 19th-Century dip needle instruments by Bamberg (a lot) Provenance: John Howard, Chief Experimental Officer, Admiralty Compass Observatory, Ditton Park £80-120

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A LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MARINE INCLINOMETER, PROBABLY BY RAMSDEN the lacquered-brass pendulum indicator with reciprocating upper action mounted on a bedplate engraved with two 30º scales and broad arrow marks, contained within an inverted glazed keystone case for bulkhead mounting -- 22in. (56cm.) high 220: A similar clinometer in use aboard ‘Calliope’ c.1895 218.

A near-identical example of this instrument signed by Ramsden was sold at Christie’s, South Kensington, 17 November 2004, Sale 9969, lot 210.

A 5IN. VERNIER SEXTANT BY TROUGHTON & SIMMS, LONDON, CIRCA 1820

£800-1200

the polished brass frame with arc signed as per title and inscribed silvered scale divided to 150º, vernier with clamp and magnifier, index arm engraved CLYDE ENGINEERS’ OFFICE No. 2, threaded wooden handle contained in fitted keystone box complete with sighting tubes and filters -- 8 x 9¾in. (20.3 x 24.5cm.)

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A PRESENTATION COURSE BEARING CORRECTOR, CIRCA 1920

£900-1200

unsigned, constructed in oxidised and polished steel, inscribed around edge With the compliments of the Marconi International Marine Co, the threaded central handle inscribed Captain A.E. Howe MBE, contained within fitted mahogany box with instructions pasted on base with sliding lid -- 6¼in. (16cm.) square

219. Ø

£80-120

AN 11IN. RADIUS VERNIER OCTANT BY SPENCER BROWNING & CO, LONDON, CIRCA 1850 the wooden frame with inset scale stamped ‘SBR’ at centre and divided to 105º, makers’ plate signed as per title, pencil, lacquered-brass index arm, pinhole sights, mirrors and shades, contained within stepped keystone box with embossed lock plate and key -- 14in. (35.5cm.) high; together with a polished ‘Mates’pattern sextant by Hughes (2) £400-600

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AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY TABLE STEREOSCOPE unsigned, with rack and pinion focusing, mechanical action to advance stereo cards (private domestic, circa 1920), opaque glass lighting top and clear glass viewer, contained within mahogany case with detachable side panel -- 22 x 8 x 8in.

(56 x 20 x 20cm.) £300-500

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A RARE COMBINATION THERMO-BAROGRAPH BY NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON, CIRCA 1930 the double-height drum with clockwork motor, seven-diaphragm barograph movement with thermo-recorder mounted over with lacquered brass fittings, the bed plate signed as per title, contained within a glazed oak case with left-hinged lid and chart drawer in base. Overall measurements -- 11 x 16½ x 11in. (28 x 42 x 28cm.) £800-1200 225

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A MID 19TH-CENTURY MARINE BAROMETER BY GOWLAND & SON, LIVERPOOL

A SMALL CRAFT PRECISION SEXTANT BY FRANCIS BARKER & SON LTD, EDENBRIDGE, KENT, CIRCA 1960

the burr walnut case with carved decoration above brass case weight, thermometer to front and signed on the ivorine scales as per title behind bow-fronted glass -- 37½in. (95cm.) high

the 3in. diameter drum constructed in coated aluminium with polished scale, magnifier, adjustment key and maker’s label, secured within a lined leather case with correction certificate and neck strap, complete with card box of issue with instruction and care leaflets, and an informal error certificate dated for 1970, the box 3½ x 5 x 6¼in. (9 x 13 x 16cm.); together with a 6½in. radius three-circle micrometre ‘Hezzanith’ sextant by Heath with crackle-finished frame, contained in fitted box with accessories and test certificate for 1963-11in. (28cm.) diameter; and copy of Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen by Mary Blewitt

£800-1200 225.

AN ATTRACTIVE MID-19TH-CENTURY SYMPIESOMETER BY SPENCER, BROWNING & CO, LONDON with silvered interior engraved with mercury and alcohol scales, regulator wheel at base, the top signed as per title and mounted in a glazed mahogany case with scale slide to right hand side and trade label for ‘Dekemel Brothers & Co., Antwerp’ behind -24½ x 3in. (62 x 7.5cm.)

(3) £100-150

Spencer, Browning & Co. worked between 1840 and 1870, largely from two premises in the Minories and Vine St., London.

£800-1200

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AN 18TH-CENTURY IVORY FOLDING RULE

AN 18TH-CENTURY BRASS RULE BY BENJAMIN COLE, LONDON

engraved on both sides and comprising a 12in. rule and a money table, the columns headed LSD, inscribed on the inside edge Henry Cooper, March Ye 23d 1753 NS -- 6¼in. (16cm.) folded

divided on one side over 12in. between 0-36 and signed as per title to top; together with another, similar, signed James Gargory and stamped TC with crown over

£300-500

(2) Either Benjamin Cole (I) 1720-1750 or Benjamin Cole (II) 1766-1782 could be responsible for the first instrument; James Gargory is recorded as working between 1835 and 1862 from Bull Street, Birmingham

£200-400 229. Ø AN IVORY FOLDING RULE BY HALSE & SON incised over both sides and signed as per title -- 6¼in. (16cm.) closed; together with folding rule by Casartelli -- 3¼in. (8.3cm.) closed (2) £80-120

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A 1:72 SCALE NAVY BOARD-STYLE MODEL OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 36-GUN FRIGATE CONFEDERACY [1778]

AN ATTRACTIVE 20TH-CENTURY SCALE MODEL OF THE AMERICAN FLUSH-DECKED SLOOP DALLAS [1812]

modelled by H. Philips, with open frames below painted main wales, partially planked decks with belfry, bitts, gratings, helm and bound cut-away masts, contained in a glazed wooden case. Overall measurements including base -- 11 x 41½ x 12½in.

(28 x 105.5 x 31.5cm.)

the carvel planked hull with rudder and chain plates, plank deck with fittings including bowsprit with dolphin striker, bitts, bell, gratings, stovepipe, shot racks with shot, central brass carronade bilge pumps on swivel mount, saloon lights and tiller, twin-raked masts with yards, booms, standing and running rigging and full suit of stitched linen sails with reefing points, patched repairs, staining and shot holes, mounted on turned ebonised columns on plush-lined display base within glazed mahogany case -- overall measurements 26 x 36 x 12in. (66 x 91.5 x 30.5cm.)

Built in 1778 by Jedidiah Willets on the Thames River at Norwich, Connecticut, the Confederacy was measured at 971 tons and was 154 feet in length (berth deck) with a 37 foot beam, a highly unusual ratio by the standards of the time. Nominally a fifth rate mounting 36 guns, she was exceptionally long, almost 160 feet overall, and bore a marked resemblance to the so-called “galley-frigates” of the previous century.

Built and rigged for speed yet strikingly ornate, with profuse carving, she was described as being “a very fast ship and well built” at the time of her subsequent capture by the Royal Navy. Despite her many merits, she proved an unlucky ship and saw little service under the Continental flag after her early success on 6th June 1779 when, in company with the U.S. frigate Boston, she captured three English privateers. Her next mission was to carry a French diplomat back to Europe but when, after many delays, she was finally able to sail towards the end of the year, she was severely damaged in a gale off the Bahamas and had to put into Martinique to be re-rigged. Eventually returning to the safety of the Delaware, she was then found to be in need of an extensive refit which took most of 1780 to complete. Returning to service, she captured two British merchantmen, the Elizabeth and the Nancy, in the Atlantic on 5th January 1781 but was then herself taken off the Virginia Capes on 14th April. She was returning home from Cape Franois (Martinique) loaded with valuable military stores and colonial produce when she was sighted by two British frigates, H.M. Ships Roebuck and Orpheus, patrolling the eastern seaboard. They gave chase and, without a shot being fired, forced Confederacy to surrender, whereupon she was absorbed into the Royal Navy with her name slightly amended to Confederate but was not commissioned and was broken up at Woolwich in March 1782.

£600-800

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A MINIATURE BONE PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MODEL depicting a 74-gun ship, hull carved from the solid with ebonised wales, red-painted gun ports, carved warrior figurehead, head rails, stern and quarter-pieces, some simple fittings including belfry, companionways and decklights, bound masts with yards, s’tun’sl booms, standing and running rigging with suspended long boat, mounted on shaped bone base attached to wooden stand with glass dome cover with carved bone crown finial -7 x 5in. (18 x 12.5cm.) overall £400-600 233.

A MINIATURE BONE PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MODEL depicting a 74-gun ship, hull carved from the solid with ebonised wales, red-painted gun ports, carved warrior figurehead, head rails, stern and quarter-pieces, some simple fittings including belfry, companionways and decklights, bound masts with yards, s’tun’sl booms, standing and running rigging with suspended long boat, mounted on bone base with in glazed wooden case.

Overall -- 6 x 5¼ x 2½in. (15 x 13 x 6.5cm.)

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£400-600

A SMALL SCALE MODEL OF THE SCHOONER H.M.S. PICKLE [1805]

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modelled by H. Philips, with carved hull and lined decks, with fittings including anchor winch, belaying rails, companionways, capstan, tiller etc., twin raked masts with yards, booms and gaffs, standing and running rigging, mounted on ebonised display base -- overall measurements 21½ x 23½in. (54.5 x 59.5cm.)

A WELL PRESENTED 1:36 SCALE MINIATURE MODEL OF THE BOUNTY modelled in wood by J. Ryan with 2½in. planked and framed hull exposed on the starboard side, deck with fittings including sail winch, fitted boat in chocks, belaying rails, gratings, rigged helm and whip-staff, bound masts with yard, s’tuns’l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted on a mirrored base within walnut glazed case. Overall measurements -- 7 x 8in. (18 x 20cm.); Carry box £200-400

Pickle, captained by Lt Lapenotiere, famously delivered Collingwood’s Trafalgar Dispatch. Forced to land at Falmouth, he hired a post-chaise and, 37 hours and 19 changes of horse later, arrived at the Admiralty at 1am where he stated to Lord Barham, We have gained a great Victory… but we have lost Lord Nelson

£250-350

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A LATE 19TH-CENTURY STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE RAMSGATE FISHING SMACK PATIENCE, PENNANT NUMBER R249 the hull carved from the solid, lead keel and rudder, refinished in pink and green with original black topsides inscribed R.249, the scored deck with fittings including anchor, chains and sail winches, covered hatches, working mechanical capstan, stovepipe, companionways with sliding hatch cover, carved tiller and other details, the masts with standing running rigging and full suit of ochre coloured canvas sails, mounted on black painted cradle base (overall restoration) -- 57 x 67in. (145 x 170cm.)

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £800-1200

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A FINE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL OF THE HASTINGS PLEA SURE YACHT ALBERTINE, CIRCA 1885 the 22½in. clinker hull planked and pinned in fruitwood with bilge keels, mahogany lining and fittings including benches and seats, gilt-painted seat back inscribed ALBERTINE, copper-plated keel with securing chain, masts with full suit of stitched linen sails with running rigging and other details (missing rudder and tiller, rigging later). Overall measurements -- 28 x 38in. (71 x 96.5cm.); together with four framed sets of period images of the Albertine; and three volumes of local history and some additional data (8) The Albertine was originally built in 1885 when day trippers began arriving in Hastings in large numbers. She was replaced with a similar but larger version, the New Albertine, in 1891 which remained in service until 1924. It has been suggested that this model was used to advertise the day trips.

£1200-1800

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A CONTEMPORARY MODEL OF A 20-GUN TWO-MASTED BRIG, CIRCA 1840

A FINELY DETAILED SOLID SILVER 32’:1” SCALE MODEL OF CUTTY SARK AS DEPICTED LEAVING SYDNEY ON 16TH OCTOBER, 1885 UNDER CAPTAIN WOODGET

the hull carved from the solid with lead keel, carved polychrome figurehead, carved stern and quarter lights, headrails with boomkins and catheads, scored deck with fittings including bitts, deck rails, belaying rails and pins, hatches, carronades on sliders, capstan and other details, bound masts with standing and running riggings, blocks and tackle, mounted on a cradle stand on wooden display base, model measurements -- 33 x 41in. (84 x 104cm.); together with a period framed photograph of the model prior to conservation

modelled in 2.5 kilograms of sterling silver, from his own researches by R. Edwards, the hull with the frame exposed below the main wales, port holes, carved decoration including figurehead and stern, catheads with anchors and chains, the scored deck with details including deck rails, capstan, pumps, companionways, winch, belaying rails with pins, covered hatches, panelled deck houses with boat over, davits with covered boats, saloon light, signal gun, helm and crew, the masts with yards, foot ropes, full suit of sails, standing and running rigging with blocks and other details, mounted in a cut-away oak waterline display base with silver plaque, all silver components fully hallmarked for London 2012. Overall measurements -- 16½ x 27in.

(42 x 68.5cm.); carry case

(2) This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £1200-1800

£3500-4500

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A LARGE LIVE-STEAM MODEL FOR A PASSENGER CARGO SHIP, CIRCA 1890 the hull carved and hollowed from the solid with copper pinned plating below the waterline, black-painted topsides with decorated boot top and scored decks, with details including anchors and chains, capstan, belfry, brass-capped deck rails, companionways, oxidised-brass hatch covers, removable superstructure with open bridge and wheel house, ventilators, stayed funnel with whistle, davits with carved life boats, aft saloon, working steering gear and other details, stepped masts and yards with standing and running rigging, the hull containing a double spirit burner, boiler and single cylinder engine driving four-blade brass propeller, resting on wooden chocks -- measurements overall 38 x 60 x 15in. (96.5 x 152.5 x 38cm.); together with wood-framed glass and Plexiglas display case (later) on castors -45½ x 63½ x 23in. (115.5 x 161.3 x 58.5cm.)

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(2) This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £1500-2500

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A DETAILED DISPLAY MODEL OF AN AMERICAN SINGLE-SCREW TRAMP STEAMER with masts, rigging and derricks, anchors and winches, cleats, bollards, ventilators, deck rails, ship’s bell, companionways, hatches, superstructure with stayed funnel, three ship’s boats in davits, deck lights, ship’s wheel and other details, finished in maroon and black with natural wood decks, mounted on two brass columns on display base within brass-bound glazed case -- 11½ x 34in. (29.1 x 86.4cm.)

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £600-800 241

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A TRAVEL AGENT’S WATERLINE MODEL FOR THE CRUISE LINER MV SEA PRINCESS modelled by Norman Hill Models, the laminated carved hull with port holes, green-painted service decks fitted with anchor winch, bitts, crew pool, superstructure with open wing bridges and rangefinder, communications mast, lifeboats in davits, lined passenger decking, capped deck rails and companionways, yellow-painted funnel etc., mounted on a blue glass sea with painted wash, maker’s label and company plates, Plexiglas cover -- overall measurements 11½ x 44¾ x 11in.

(29 x 113.5 x 28cm.)

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£900-1100

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A SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY CARGO SHIP KAKARIKI [1926]

A WELL PRESENTED MODEL OF THE TIMOSSI-FERRARI RACING HYDROPLANE ARNO XI [1951]

modelled by H. Phillips, with laminated and carved hull, finished in grey with white topsides, lined decks, with details including anchor winches with chains, bitts, deck rails, ventilators, companionways, covered hatches, mast with derricks, raised superstructure with open bridge, funnel, lifeboats in davits etc., depicted sailing on a calm blue sea within Plexiglass wooden case -- overall measurements 13½ x 32¾ x 9¾in. (34 x 83 x 25cm.)

with polished, planked and pinned mahogany hull, chrome-plated brightwork fittings including propeller, steering gear and rudder, Ferrari-red engine cowling inscribed Nando Dell ‘Orto, company insignia and exhaust pipes, fitted cockpit with stitched leather seat, helm, dials and wind shield, loosely mounted on a black display stand. Overall measurements -- 9 x 35in. (23 x 89cm.)

£200-400 244.

A LATE 19TH-CENTURY WATERLINE MODEL OF THE TWIN-FUNNELLED PASSENGER CARGO SHIP ALEXANDRIA probably by Triggs Maritime Architects, with laminated and carved hull, scored decks with fittings including anchor winch, stovepipe, companionways, light turrets, covered hatches, raised superstructure with bridge and crew, stayed raked funnels with cotton wool smoke, covered lifeboats in davits and other details, depicted steaming in a calm green-painted wood sea within white-painted display case with glazed front -- overall measurements 16 x 34 x 7in. (40.5 x 86.5 x 17.5cm.)

The Arno XI was built to the order of Achille Castoldi by the Timossi yard on Lake Como in order to achieve a record speed for the class. Enzo Ferrari was persuaded to provide a 4.5 litre V12 engine which, when twin superchargers were added, generated an astonishing 502bhp which drove the boat to 150.19mph in October 1953 - a record which still stands for an 800kg boat. The vessel is still extant and can be seen occasionally on Lake Como; it changed hands in May 2012 for E868,000.

£600-800

£250-350

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A SCALE WOODEN MODEL OF THE ROYAL YACHT CAROLINE’S LAUNCH [1749] modelled by H. Philips, with laminated carved wooden hull, finished in white with gilt lining and decoration, fitted internally with gratings, bottom boards, seats and oars and mounted on wooden cradles -- overall measurements 5 x 22in. (13 x 56cm.) £150-250

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A LARGE LATE 19TH-CENTURY POND YACHT HULL with planked and pinned carvel hull, wooden keel, rudder, two hatches, three mast holes and gun wale -- 67in.

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A FINELY PLANKED ½IN.:1FT. SCALE MODEL OF THE CORNISH PILOT GIG NEWQUAY [1812] built by R. Philips, of lime, holly, spruce and mahogany, fully framed and with clinker-built planking, bottom boards, foot rests, thwarts and rowlocks for six oarsmen, finished in blue, white and varnish and mounted on two turned columns, display base with six oars and plate. Measurements overall -- 4 x 17¾in. (10 x 45cm.). Carrying box, historical notes and builder’s certificate The Newquay, originally built by Williiam Peters of St. Mawes, Cornwall, is still extant and is used for racing events.

£350-450

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AN ATTRACTIVE AND FINELY RESTORED EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SHIP MODEL representing a three-deck 90-gun Third Rate ship of the line, with planked and pinned hull, ebonised wales, brass guns with red port lids, finely carved warrior-form figurehead, bow and stern decoration, scored decks with fittings including capstan, belfry, water casks, gratings, well deck, deck lights, chicken coops etc, bound masts with yards, s’tun’sl booms, double dolphin striker and boomkins with standing and running rigging, bone blocks and tackle, streamer and ensign, mounted on ‘sun-burst’ inlaid base with carved railings and polychrome ‘Jack Tar’ corner guards, contained within glazed dome cover on cloth-covered base. Measurements overall -- 11 x 16 x 10in.

(28 x x 40.5 x 25.5cm.) £8000-10000

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AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND BALEEN SHIP MODEL FOR A 100-GUN SHIP

A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND BALEEN MODEL FOR AN 80-GUN SHIP

the planked and pinned hull with baleen wales, brass guns with red port lids, polychrome figurehead and transom, brass anchors with bound bone stocks, scored deck with fittings including belaying rails, water barrels, well deck, belfry, guns in stepped bone carriages, companionways, deck light and other details; bound masts, yards with s’tuns’l booms, standing and running rigging with bone blocks, mounted within polychromed strawwork display case with six-panel mirrored back, hinged doors and brass top handle. Cased measurements -- 11¾ x 15 x 6in.

(30 x 38 x 15cm.)

the planked and pinned hull with baleen wales, brass guns with red port lids, catheads with brass and bone anchors, carved warrior figurehead, head rails, stern and quarter galleries, scored deck with fittings including belaying rails, capstan, stovepipe, belfry, well deck with gratings, companionways, deck lights, guns in stepped trucks and other details; bound masts, ebonised yards with bone s’tuns’l booms, standing and running rigging with bone blocks, mounted on a plush-topped bone-edged display base with legend, secured within a glazed case. Model measurements -- 12 x 14in. (30.5 x 35.5cm.); cased measurements -- 14½ x 18 x 7½in. (37 x 46 x 19cm.)

£5000-8000

Provenance: With Partridges, Bond Street circa 1970 £5000-8000

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252. Ø A LARGE, FINELY DETAILED AND WELL PRESENTED BONE AND BALEEN NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE SHIP MODEL FOR A 38-GUN FRIGATE with planked and pinned hull pierced for thirty guns, baleen main wales and bulwarks, decorative head and stern carvings with warrior figurehead and glazed stern lights, Georgian brass anchors with bound bone stocks; planked deck with fittings including gratings, bitts, stove pipes, pierced hammock racks, guns in carriages, capstan, covered companionways, helm, saloon lights etc.; bound masts with standing rigging, chain plates and deadeyes, running rigging with bone blocks and two fitted longboats suspended between main and fore masts, yards with s’tuns’l booms and streamer, mounted on wood and bone marquetry base with bone feet. Measurements overall -- 26 x 34in. (66 x 86.5cm.) £8000-12000

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AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BOXWOOD SHIP MODEL

AN UNUSUAL COLLECTION OF BOXWOOD MODELS, PROBABLY FRENCH, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY

for a three-deck ship-of-the-line, carved 5in. hull with ebonised wales, cannon, red port lids, figurehead and decorated stern, scored decks with fittings including capstan, well deck with long boat, water casks, gratings, compass box and saloon lights, masts with standing and running rigging with paper sails, mounted on hexagonal display base with wooden balustrade and carved decoration, under glass dome cover. Overall -- 12 x 10in.

(30.5 x 25.5cm.)

fourteen models of similar construction and quality, comprising eight two-deck ships of the line; two frigates and four sloop-type craft, each with hulls carved from the solid with ebonised wales, simple figureheads and deck fittings, and masts with vellum sails lined in pencil to simulate reefing points, mounted on wooden stands and contained over two levels in a mahogany glazed display case (old wear, dust etc.) Cased measurements -25½ x 29 x 12in. (65 x 73.5 x 30.5cm.)

£1000-1500

£4000-6000

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A 1:48 SCALE ADMIRALTY DOCKYARD OR NAVY BOARD MODEL FOR AN UNIDENTIFIED TWO-MASTED 8-GUN VESSEL OF CIRCA 1720 constructed in boxwood with exposed frames below ebonised wales and scored planking with trenails over, tapering rudder, chain plates with deadeyes, Venetian Red gun port lids, swivel gun mounts, finely carved figurehead in the form of Neptune, delicately painted eggshell blue scrollwork bulwarks and catheads with sheaths, carved quarter badges and stern, semi-open decks with fittings including belaying rail with pins, windlass, capstan, covered hatches, cleats, bilge pumps, poop rail and companionways, great cabin with compass rose parquetry floor, and keel with mast steps etc., mounted on two wooden balustrades with tapered steel side supports within late 19th-Century glazed display case with mirrored back and side panels (missing taffrail, part of the head and head rails, loose companionway and knee within, dust and wear; cases back mirror broken). Model overall -- 6 x 22in. (15 x 56); Case -- 11 x 26 x 7½in.

(28 x 66 x 19cm.)

Provenance: English private owners from the first half 19th-Century and thence by descent. ÂŁ60000-80000

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This model enjoys several distinctive features which suggest it is probably a unique example. Apparently unlisted and of a hybrid design, it is possible that it was built as a private commission for an important official, either as a proposal or one that was intended for private use. The most immediately distinctive feature is the delicately-carved figurehead of Neptune - all the known “Neptunes” are large ships of the line and not small craft. It is thought that the Admiralty were beginning to experiment with character heads on small 5th and 6th Rates around 1720 so it is not impossible to extend that to an 8-gun vessel; alternatively, were this a proposal model it would seem probable that a simple billet head, or perhaps the usual Lion, would be used, that it’s a character head on such a small craft is rare. It is possible that this hybrid design might have been considered for a small class -- an early “Neptune” class perhaps, but which remained a proposal (latterly there was a “Neptune” class of 1st Rates built from 1790); alternatively, if it represents a one-off commission for a wealthy naval dignitary, it may incorporate part of his Grant of Arms. The distribution of the gun ports is also unusual - six in the stern and two forwards providing for a very long deck with shallow bulwarks (often associated with bomb ketches) and, most unusually, a capstan and windlass almost side-by-side. The mast distribution suggests it may have been rigged as a snow and, with a comparatively shallow draft carrying a large sail area, it should have been a fast sailer - ideal for ferrying the new Hanoverian monarchs’ officials over the English Channel and North Sea perhaps? The loss of the taffrail carvings in the late 19th-Century is a great shame as these may have held additional clues, and it is thought that after suffering this accident it was placed in the overly-tight case.

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A PROPOSAL MODEL FOR A 40 METRE PATROL CRAFT BY VOSPER THORNYCROFT, CIRCA 1980

A PROPOSAL MODEL FOR A 44 METRE ‘SANDOWN’ CLASS MINE HUNTER SWEEPER BY VOSPER THORNYCROFT, CIRCA 1988

the carved and laminated wooden hull with twin jet propulsion system, finished in grey and red below the waterline, with fittings including anchor winch and chain, quick-firing guns, communication masts, speed launches, sonar, life rafts in quick-launch davits, mounted on four turned brass columns and wooden display base with brass plaque and Perspex cover, overall measurements -- 18 x 40½ x 17in. (45.7 x 103 x 43cm.)

constructed from carved and painted laminated wood with green decks and fittings including anchor winch, quick-firing gun, bridge with radar and communications mast, exhaust with ventilators, life rafts in quick-launch davits, speed boat, miniature submarine, sonar equipment etc, mounted on two turned-brass columns on blue cloth-lined display base with builder’s plaque and maker’s label for Vosper Thornycroft, with Perspex cover, overall measurements -- 25 x 49 x 19in. (63.5 x 124.5 x 48.2cm.)

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £400-600

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £500-800

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A BUILDER’S PROPOSAL MODEL FOR A LIGHT FRIGATE BY VOSPER THORNYCROFT, CIRCA 1970 the carved and laminated hull with detachable stern section, sonar, twin propellers and rudders, finished in grey, red below the waterline and green decks with fittings including anchor with chain and winch, quick-firing guns, torpedo tubes, bridge with communication tower behind, ventilators, anti-missile system, speed boats, life rafts and helicopter, mounted on two turned brass columns on wooden display base with maker’s plate for Vosper Thornycroft, Perspex cover, overall measurements -17 x 51 x 13in. (43 x 129.5 x 33cm.)

The purpose of the detachable stern is to demonstrate the versatility of this craft to potential clients, with alternatives probably including mine laying types etc. The profile of this model conforms quite closely to the Amazon Class, three (of eight) were built by VT but relied on aluminium to lighten the vessel - a flaw savagely exposed in the Falklands War where two of the class (Ardent and Antelope) were sunk.

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £600-800

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A WATERLINE MODEL OF H.M. SUBMARINE CONQUEROR [1969] constructed from carved laminated wood finished in black and depicted with forward steering vanes and conning tower with officers’ and communication aerials passing through a calm moulded seascape with painted white foam wash, on raised wooden display base -- 6 x 48 x 13in. (15 x 122 x 33cm.)

The 4000 ton ‘Valiant’ Class nuclear attack submarine Conqueror was laid down by Cammell Laird, 5th December 1967, launched eighteen months later and completed in November 1971. Perhaps her greatest moment has also remained her most controversial - the sinking of the General Belgrano on 2nd May 1982 during the Falklands campaign has provoked impassioned debate ever since. She was sold for breaking in 1990.

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This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £300-500

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A 1IN.:1FT. SCALE HALF-MODEL OF A ‘VICTORY’ CLASS RACING AND SAILING KEEL BOAT [1934] modelled by P. Ward, with laminated carved and painted hull, with varnished decks and compartment, with cutaway mast and tiller, mounted on mahogany board inscribed Victory Class -- overall measurements 9½ x 25in. (24 x 63.5cm.) £150-250 261.

A 1:18 SCALE HALF-MODEL FOR A FAIREY HUNTSMAN 28 modelled by P. Ward, with laminated carved and painted hull, with brass propeller and rudder, raised cabin superstructure with engine air intake and mast, mounted on mahogany display board with engraved plate -- overall measurements 12 x 24½in.

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A ¾IN.:1FT. SCALE HALF-BLOCK MODEL OF THE OCEAN R ACING YACHT MYTH OF MALLAM [1947] modelled by P. Ward, with laminated and carved painted hull, the deck with cabin superstructure and cutaway mast, mounted on blue-painted display board with designer and owner details -- overall measurements 10¾ x 29in. (27.3 x 73.5cm.) £150-250

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A BUILDER’S MODEL OF THE M.V. COUNTY CLARE, BUILT FOR SATURN SHIPPING BY AUSTIN & PICKERSGILL LTD, SUNDERLAND, 1970

A 1:200 SCALE BOARDROOM MODEL FOR THE BULK CARRIER KILDARE, BUILT FOR THE ABC LINE BY DAEWOOD LTD, 1972 the laminated and carved hull with rudder and propeller, painted fittings and piping, deck rails, spare propeller, white superstructure with bridge, communications mast, covered lifeboats in davits, liveried funnel and other details, mounted green-lined base with maker’s plates within metal-bound glazed display case -- 18 x 69½in. (46 x 176cm.)

the carved and laminated hull finished in red and black, with bilge keels, gilt metal four-bladed propeller and rudder, with white topsides and painted deck with details including deck rails, anchor winches, companionways, covered hatches, raised derricks with winches and rigging, aft superstructure with bridge and wing bridges, communications mast, liveried funnel, lifeboats in davits, spare propeller etc., contained within glazed case with maker’s label for the Sunderland Model Making Co. Ltd. and specification plate, supported on original table stand, measurements including stand -- 62 x 87 x 19in. (157.5 x 221 x 48.2cm.)

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road.

Renamed Al-Taha (1974) and broken up at Alang in March 1987.

£1000-1500

Built at Eriksbergs yard in Gotheberg, Kildare was registered at 83,714 tons. Renamed New Phase (1989); and Silver Cloud (1990), she was broken up in China in 1993.

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £2000-3000

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A FINE BUILDER’S-STYLE MODEL OF THE S.S. ARABIC, BUILT FOR THE WHITE STAR LINE BY HARLAND & WOLFF LTD, BELFAST [1881] modelled by C. Hooper, with laminated and carved wooden hull, fitted with plated propeller, portholes, boarding companionway and rudder, planked decks complete with detailed polished and painted fittings as appropriate, superstructure with open bridge over wheelhouse, stayed funnel with safety valve extension pipe and whistle, covered lifeboats in davits, four raked yellow masts with yards, standing and running rigging and much other fine detailing. Mounted on four metal columns on display base with builder’s-style plate within glazed wooden case. Overall measurements -- 24½ x 69 x 17in. (62 x 175 x 43cm.)

Laid down and launched (in April 1881) as the White Star Line’s second Asiatic but renamed whilst fitting out, the newly-styled Arabic was built - like all the White Star ships - by Harland & Wolff at Belfast. Along with her identical sister Coptic, she was designed for the company’s San Francisco to Hong Kong run and had accommodation for 75 1st and 900 3rd class passengers. Registered at 4,368 tons gross (2,788 net), she measured 428 feet in length with a 42 foot beam and was powered by compound engines by Jack Rollo & Co. of Liverpool. With a maximum speed of 14 knots, she cleared Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 10th September (1881) and, after three round trips, sailed for Hong Kong via Suez in February 1882 to take up her permanent duties in the Pacific. Briefly chartered for an Australian interlude in 1886, she returned to the North Atlantic for most of 1887 and into the following spring prior to resuming her Pacific sailings in May 1888. With new tonnage coming into the company’s fleet, Arabic was put up for sale at the end of 1889 and purchased by Holland-America for £65,000 in February 1890. Refurbished and renamed Spaarndam, she thereafter ran on her new owners’ main Rotterdam to New York route until withdrawn from service in February 1901 and broken up the same year.

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £6000-8000

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A FINE HALF-BLOCK BUILDER’S MODEL OF THE COMPOSITE FULLY RIGGED SHIP CITY OF HANKOW, BUILT BY ALEXANDER STEPHENS & SONS FOR GEORGE SMITH & SONS, 1869 constructed in ½in. laminated ‘bread and butter’ sections with black topsides and stencilled data amidships, mounted on mahogany display board with hooks and inset plate stencilled with yard details, overall measurements -- 12 x 68in. (30.5 x 173cm.)

She was sold to G.J. Robertson of Sydney in 1900, and then to the Royal Australian Navy in 1913 for use as a coal hulk, and was finally sunk as a target in 1932 by H.M.A.S. Albatross.

£2000-3000 267.

A BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE CARGO SHIP S.S. ENGINEER, BUILT FOR TATHAM & CO BY MURDOCH & MURRAY, GLASGOW, 1884 the laminated and carved hull with wooden propeller, finished in varnish and black above the waterline, with lacquered decks with fittings including deck rails, bitts, anchor winch, companionways, steam winch, cutaway masts, covered hatches, lined superstructure including wheel house with open bridge, wooden ventilators, cutaway funnel, wood-capped deck rails, carved boat in davits, emergency helm and other details, mounted on a mahogany display board with inset stencilled builder’s plate, contained within original curved top glazed case for wall hanging -- overall measurements 14 x 54¾ x 7in. (35.5 x 139 x 17.5cm.)

A small vessel of just 599 tons, the Engineer was enroute beween Caliari and Massowah with a cargo of rice when she ran aground off the Andi Seli Island, near Suakin on the 20th November 1886 and became a total wreck.

£1500-2000

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A BUILDER’S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE TWO-MASTED WOODEN SCHOONER MOONSTONE, DESIGNED AND BUILT BY CAMPER & NICHOLSON, 1879

A 19TH-CENTURY BUILDER’S HALF-MODEL FOR A THREE-MASTED SCHOONER the laminated hull carved in contrasting woods with ebonised topsides, keel and rudder, with natural wood stringing and deck, mounted on mahogany board -- 7¾ x 36in. (19.5 x 91.5cm.)

carved from laminated wood and finished in ‘copper’ with black topsides and cutaway masts, mounted on contrasting blue display board inscribed MOONSTONE 158 TONS BM 1879, overall measurements -- 15 x 63in. (38 x 160cm.)

£600-800

Originally built for a Mr John Coulthurst, between 1896 to 1900 she was laid up in a mud berth at Camper & Nicholson’s Lower Yard awaiting a buyer after Mr Coulthurst bought the 315 ton Francesca in 1896. In 1901-2 she belonged to J.Howden Freme but he sold her to J.R. Samuel in 1903. He in turn sold her to Harold K.M. Bellew in 1906 who sold her to The Canary Fruit & Fish Canning Co. in 1909 and who changed her name to Ways. She disappears from Lloyd’s Yacht Register in 1910.

Charles Miller Ltd is grateful to Jeremy Lines, Voluntary Archivist for Camper & Nicholsons, for his assistance with this lot.

£2000-3000

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A RARE BUILDER’S MODEL FOR THE SEA-GOING HOPPER DREDGER VENEZIA BUILT BY A.F. SMULDERS, ROTTERDAM FOR THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT, 1909 with carved and laminated hull with bilge keels, port holes, silvered propellers and A-brackets with twin rudders flanking bucket ramp, the hull with detailed fittings including awning stanchions, bitts, studded anchor chain, wooden companionway housing, silvered and grey-painted dredging components, open bridge with telegraphs and steering motor, engine room lights, twin stayed funnels with markings, two fitted lifeboats in davits and other details, mounted on silvered columns within original glazed mahogany display base, complete with four dual language builder’s plates in French, Italian and English and mounted on original stand. Measurements including stand -- 61¼ x 29 x 65½in.

(155.5 x 74 x 166.5cm.)

Fitted with suction and pressure-discharge systems, the Venezia was capable of displacing 700 tons per hour using buckets, or 1000 tons per hour with the suction pipe. She was 65.5 meters long with a breath of 10.5 meters and was able to steam at 8 knots when fully loaded to a depth of 4.4 meters.

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £5000-8000

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A BUILDER’S MODEL FOR THE CARGO SHIP M.V. MALLARD, BUILT BY SCARR OF HESSLE FOR THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO LTD, 1944 the carved, laminated hull finished in black and pink below the waterline, with painted metal fittings including anchors with studded chain and anchor winch, deck rail, companionways, rigged masts with navigation lamps and derricks, covered lined-boxwood hatches, painted superstructure with bridge and wing bridges with machine guns, funnel, ventilators, davits with fitted lifeboats and carley float on slide and other details, mounted on four turned wooden columns on raised mahogany display base with painted builder’s plate, within original glazed mahogany case -- overall measurements 23¼ x 46½ x 15¼in.

(66.5 x 118 x 38.7cm.)

A small vessel of 377 tons, Mallard became Norwich Trader in 1948 and Nikolaos in 1965. She was broken up at Aliaga in 1988. This model is a typical wartime production using as much wood and painted metal as possible and is interesting for displaying two pairs of machine guns on her wing bridges and an anti-aircraft gun aft.

This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road. £800-1200

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End of Sale Our next sale will be held in April 2015, for which entries are currently invited.

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Ship Name Index

Admiral Albertine Alexandra, H.M.S. Alexandria, S.S. Alice Watson American Line Aquitania, R.M.S. Arabic, S.S. Arno XI Ascania, S.S. Ausonia, S.S. Baron Beryl, S.Y. Bicester, H.M.S. Blenheim, H.M.S. Bounty Caroline, H.M.R.Y. Ching Yuan City of Hankow Confederacy Conqueror, H.M.S. County Clare, M.V. Cutty Sark Dallas Engineer, S.S. Erin, S.Y. Exeter, H.M.S. Fairey Huntsman 28 Graf Spee, S.M.S. Great Eastern, S.S. Hood, H.M.S. Impregnable, S.S. Kakariki, S.S. Kathleen

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110 236 16 244 145 165 117 265 245 120 120 144 109 81 13 234 246 80 266 230 259 263 239 231 267 108 65 261 65 124 64 87 243 136

Kildare, M.V. Light Frigate Mallard, M.V. Mary Mauretania, R.M.S. Mine Hunter Moonstone Myth Newquay Ophir, H.M.R.Y. Osborne, H.M.R.Y. P & O Patience Patrol Crafts Pickle Plover, S.S. Prima II, S.S. Princess Alice, S.S. Queen Elizabeth, R.M.S. Queen of the Lake, S.S. R10, H.M.S. Royal George, H.M.R.Y. Sea Princess, M.V. Sepoy, H.M.S. Stella d’Italia Thunderer, H.M.S. Titanic, R.M.S. UIII, S.M.S. Utmost, H.M.S. Vandyck, S.S. Venezia Victoria & Albert II, H.M.R.Y. Victoria & Albert III, H.M.R.Y. Victory, H.M.S.

264 258 271 85 117 257 268 262 248 48 53 171 237 256 235 86 89 115 127 88 68 50 242 79 120 78 125, 126 69 66 120 270 49, 54 52 28, 44

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Artists’ Index Artist Ayling, G. Brown, S. Bull, L. Butterworth, T. English School French School Hoppner, J. Jarvis, W.H. Judges, J. Mason, F.H.

Lot 19 5 119 13 15, 115 32 31 8 6 7

McLean, J.D. Oliver, R.A. Raven-Hill, L. Smith, D. Tassie, W. Thomas, W. Titcomb, W.H.Y. Van de Velde, W. Williams, W. Wyllie,W.L.

16 14 4 9, 10 33 117 18 12 11 1, 2, 3

Instrument Makers’ Index Abbott, R. Adams, D. Baker, E. Banks, R. Barker, F. & Son Ltd Barraud Bliss & Creighton Brockbank & Atkins Bruce, J. & Sons Carter, J. Casartelli Chevalier Cole, B. Dollond Dumas, O. Dwerryhouse, J. Fletcher, J. French Fuess, R. Galileo Gargory, J. Gilbert, J. Gowland & Son Halse & Son Hartnack, E. & Prazmouski, A. Heath & Wing Hughes, H. & Son Ltd

206 190 175 182 226 162 165 171 188 161 229 192 228 191 168 170 166 164 199 183 228 208, 211 224 229 201 209 213

J.L. & Co Jones, W. & S. Langford Long, J. Marconi McGregor & Co Mercer, T. Molyneux, R. Murray, J. Nairne & Blunt Negretti & Zambra Oerecini, A. Poole, J. Ramsden, J. Rochette Ross Rӓth Seller, J. Spencer Browning & Co Stanley, W.F. & Co Ltd Swift & Son Tamaya Troughton Troughton & Simms Tzk Ulysse Nardin Vacheron & Constantin

216 185 210 181 221 169 173, 174 163 160 189 223 196 167 180, 198, 220 193 187 214 203 219, 225 215 202 178 186 204, 218 200 176 172

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there has been no material loss in value of the Property from its value had it accorded with its catalogue description.

To claim under this guarantee the Buyer must:(i) notify Charles Miller Ltd. in writing within one (1) month of receiving any information that causes the Buyer to question the authenticity or attribution of the Property, specifying the lot number, date of the auction at which it was purchased and the reasons why it is believed to be Counterfeit; and (ii) return the Property to Charles Miller Ltd. in the same condition as at the date of sale and be able to transfer good title in the Property, free from any third party claims arising after the date of the sale.

Charles Miller Ltd. has discretion to waive any of the above requirements. Charles Miller Ltd. may require the Buyer to obtain at the Buyer’s cost the reports of two independent and recognised experts in the relevant field and acceptable to Charles Miller Ltd. Charles Miller Ltd. shall not be bound by any reports produced by the Buyer, and reserves the right to seek additional expert advice at its own expense. In the event Charles Miller Ltd. decides to rescind the sale under this Guarantee, it may refund to the Buyer the reasonable costs of up to two mutually approved independent expert reports, provided always that the costs of such reports have been approved in advance and in writing by Charles Miller Ltd.

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ABSENTEE BID FORM

Charles Miller Ltd Sale Title Maritime & Scientific Models, Instruments & Art Date 29th October 2014

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Code: Wizard Please mail or fax to: Charles Miller Ltd 6 Imperial Studios, 3/11 Imperial Road London SW6 2AG Fax +44 (0) 207 806 5531

Important

Please bid on my behalf at the above sale for the following Lot(s) up to the hammer price(s) mentioned below. These bids are to be executed as cheaply as is permitted by other bids or reserves and in an amount up to but not exceeding the specified amount. The auctioneer may open the bidding on any lot by placing a bid on behalf of the seller. The auctioneer may further bid on behalf of the seller up to the amount of the reserve by placing responsive or consecutive bids for a lot.

I agree to be bound by Charles Miller Ltd.’s Conditions of Business. If any bid is successful, I agree to pay a buyer’s premium on the hammer price at the rate stated in the front of the catalogue and any VAT, or amounts in lieu of VAT, which may be due on the buyer’s premium and the hammer price.

Methods of Payment Charles Miller Ltd. welcomes the following methods of payment, most of which will facilitate immediate release of your purchases.

Wire Transfer to our Bank Electronic transfers may be sent directly to our Bank: HSBC Bank Plc 38 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DG Please ensure all bank charges are met so that we receive the total invoiced amount

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IBAN No.: GB47MIDL40190401754750 BIC.: MIDLGB2128K Sort Code: 40-19-04 Account No.: 01754750 Account Name: Charles Miller Ltd Credit/Debit Card A 4% surcharge is payable on all credit card transactions; there is no charge for UK debit cards. International debit cards attract a 4% surcharge. By signing this form you are authorizing payment for this sale.

Sterling Bankers Draft Drawn on a recognised UK bank.

Sterling Cash or Cheque Cheques must be drawn on a recognised UK bank. We require seven working days to clear a cheque without a letter of guarantee from your bank.

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Sale venue: 25 Blythe Road, London W14 0PD

Part view & Post sale collection: 6 Imperial Studios, London SW6 2AG

Payment

Payment is due in sterling at the conclusion of the sale and before purchases can be released. Please note that we require seven working days to clear sterling cheques unless special arrangements have been made in advance of the sale.

We are pleased to accept major credit cards (regrettably we are unable to accept American Express), for which a surcharge will be made of 4% of the transaction total. There is no charge for payments made by UK debit cards. International debit cards are subject to 4% surcharge. Cash payments above £6,000 will not be accepted without prior arrangement.

Electronic transfers may be sent directly to our Bank (please add any additional bank charges ensuring we receive the full receipted amount): HSBC Bank Plc 38 High Street Dartford Kent DA1 1DG

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GB47MIDL40190401754750 MIDLGB2128K 40-19-04 01754750 Charles Miller Ltd

Storage

On receipt of cleared funds, lots can be collected from Charles Miller Ltd.’s premises at 6 Imperial Studios, 3/11 Imperial Road, London SW6 2AG. Please note that collection is BY APPOINTMENT on +44 (0) 207 806 5530. All lots should be cleared within a month of the auction date, after which they will be transferred to a third party for storage. A transfer fee of £10 per lot plus all incurred transfer and storage costs due to the third party will be payable prior to release.

Post Sale Collection

If a lot is robust enough to be posted at the buyer’s risk, we will do our best to oblige for a modest admin charge. We are not professional packers and will only use what second-hand materials are to hand and cannot accept responsibility for lots which are lost or damaged in transit. We strongly suggest that complex/fragile/large lots are referred to a shipper for quotation purposes before the sale - please ask for details.

Charles Miller Ltd 6 Imperial Studios, 3/11 Imperial Road, London, SW6 2AG Tel: +44 (0) 207 806 5530 • Fax: +44 (0) 207 806 5531 • Email: enquiries@charlesmillerltd.com