2023 Marine Sale catalog

T he M arine S a le

AUGUST 10-11, 2023

THE M ARINE S ALE

Thursday and Friday, August 10 and 11, 2023

Both sessions starting at 9:30 a.m. Eastern

Location:

Headquarters: 1483 Route 6A, East Dennis, Mass. I 508-385-3116 I info@eldreds.com

Preview:

Wednesday, August 9, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the sale days starting at 8:45 a.m., and by appointment

View all lots at www.eldreds.com

IMPORTANT NOTICES

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Terms

A buyer’s premium will be added to the hammer price of all purchases. The buyer’s premium is 26 percent of the final bid price up to and including $500,000, and 10 percent of the final bid price over $500,000.

We accept checks, cash, money orders, wire transfers and major credit cards for payment. Credit cards can only be used for up to $5,000 of the invoice total and the card must have a U.S. billing address.

Bidders holding a Massachusetts or out-of-state resale number must provide the certificate or copy thereof when registering to bid or otherwise will be required to pay 6.25% Massachusetts sales tax on purchases. Items picked up in or shipped to Connecticut are subject to 6.35% Connecticut sales tax. Residents of other states may be subject to state and local sales taxes.

Condition Reports

Prospective bidders should satisfy themselves by personal inspection as to the condition of each lot. It is the bidder’s responsibility to obtain a condition report, by either visiting our website or contacting us. Although condition reports may be given on request, such reports are statements of opinion only. The absence of a condition report does not imply the property is in good condition. Regardless of whether or not a condition report is given, all property is sold subject to Item 1 of our Conditions of Sale, which provides that all property is sold as is.

All dimensions are approximate.

Items made with marine mammal or other animal parts will not be shipped internationally, and some are not eligible to be shipped outside of state. Please be aware of your own local laws and regulations and bid accordingly.

Joshua F. Eldred CEO and President

Head of American and European Paintings jeldred@eldreds.com

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ANTIQUES & FINE ART SPECIALISTS

I find that the more our society succumbs to technology, the more appealing and fascinating the study of our maritime past becomes. We take for granted such simple and routine tasks like going to the store for fresh meat and produce, and hopping in a car and getting turn-by-turn directions simply by asking our phones to navigate for us. Instead of our GPS and Google, sailors had sextants and compasses. They relied on these simple tools, and their wits, to explore the oceans, discover new lands, complete their trek, or simply just survive their voyage.

Who among us doesn't dream of setting sail, alone in the vast ocean with your fellow crew, under a canopy of stars? When my to-do list is a mile long, my inbox is overflowing and my devices barrage me with alerts, I certainly do. What was normal for the sailors of the past is now a romanticized ideal of bringing ourselves back to a “simpler time”.

Collecting artifacts and artworks celebrating these past eras provides a tangible bridge to that time and place. We cannot experience the majestic site of whaleships returning to the docks, or see the U.S.S. Constitution defeat the H.M.S. Guerriere, but through paintings and scrimshaw and other treasures left by those who roamed the sea, we can begin to feel part of it.

I am very proud of this year’s auction as I think it one of strongest and most diversified in many years. I hope there is a painting, navigational instrument, piece of scrimshaw or other piece of history that helps transport you back to the days of the mighty sailing ships and navigating, not by Google, but by the stars.

Joshua Eldred President

PROPERTY FROM

The Bob and Nina Hellman Collection

A Rhode Island Estate

The Collection of Michael Gill

A West Coast Collection

The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts

A Pennsylvania Collection

An Important Collector

A Cape Cod Collection

A Midwest Collection

And Numerous Other Estates and Collections

INDEX

Index of Artists

Page 6-7

Session I

Lots 4001-4241

Session II

Page 4501-4862

Bidder Information

Page 202

Conditions of Sale

Page 203

Absentee and Phone Bid Form

Page 205

List of Illustrations

Page 208

SESSION I

Thursday, August 10 9:30 A.M.

Scrimshaw & Whaling

A Private Rhode Island Collection Lots 4001-4019

A PRIVATE RHODE ISLAND COLLECTION

sourced almost entirely from E. Norman Flayderman

According to scrimshaw authority John Rinaldi, “NH” marks followed by a series of numbers indicates a piece was from the collection of Meylert Armstrong of Greenwich, Connecticut and New Hope, Pennsylvania, probably the preeminent collector of scrimshaw from the 1930s to the 1950s. Rinaldi claims that when E. Norman Flayderman purchased much of Armstrong’s collection he marked the items “NH”, standing for “New Hope”, followed by a series of numbers. The Armstrong Collection formed the nucleus of Flayderman’s collection, and a substantial number of items illustrated in Flayderman’s Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen are from Armstrong’s collection, with the “NH” mark visible on several illustrations.

4001. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH PATRIOTIC AND SAILING MOTIFS

19th Century

Obverse depicts an American-flagged topsail schooner, a sailor climbing a flagpole flying a large 12-star American flag, and a rectangular cartouche with two stars and “1847”. Reverse depicts a star medallion, an American-flagged ship, and a Middle Eastern-style structure with a gate and several minarets. The structure is flanked by palm trees and a portion has deep intaglio-style carving. Smaller images throughout of plants, trees, sailing vessels, a classical-style building and a saltworks pump windmill. Overlapping circle and sawtooth border encircles base. Nice patina. Length 6.25”. 6,000/9,000

Provenance:

Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania, marked in white ink in hollow of tooth “NH120K”. E. Norman Flayderman.

4001, obverse and reverse

4002, obverse and reverse

4003. SCRIMSHAW WHALE IVORY MORTAR AND PESTLE

19th Century

Mortar with “Jessie” and a floral garland in a decorative cartouche topped with a six-pointed star and centering an elliptical and starburst band. Diamond border around rim interrupted by five-pointed stars. Leaf tip border on foot. Turned pestle. Mortar height 2.25”. 1,000/1,500

Provenance: E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 194.

4002. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

19th Century

Obverse with a bust portrait of Neptune wearing a blue, black and red crown and grasping a “Neptune” ribbon in his mouth, and a British three-decker warship under sail, with sailors visible in the rigging. Reverse depicts a young girl wearing a floral wreath on her head and a floral print dress, playing a harp and sitting on a large green, blue and red chair with foliate arms and moldings. Portrait backed by a halo and flanked by colorful starbursts. Black, red and blue concentric triangle design around tip. Length 5.5”. 6,000/9,000

Provenance:

Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania, marked in white ink “NH120E” in hollow of tooth. E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen by E. Norman Flayderman (New Milford, Ct.: N. Flayderman & Co., Inc., 1972), p. 68.

4004. CARVED WALRUS IVORY MINIATURE NARWHAL

19th Century

Nicely detailed, including an appropriately twisted tusk. Length 7.75”. 1,000/1,500

Provenance: E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated: Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 219.

4005.

SET OF FOUR WHALEBONE CLOTHESPINS

19th Century

Three with red incised banding and one with deep blue. Lengths 5”. Displayed on a contemporary stand. 400/600

4006. FINE POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK

19th Century

Depicts red flowers, a potted flowering plant, a bird in a tree, two whaling scenes and two dolphins, the images separated by geometric borders. One whaling scene depicts a whaleboat fast to a right whale and the other depicts three sperm whales. Rich, bold coloring. Length 13”. 10,000/15,000

Provenance:

E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen by E. Norman Flayderman, p. 164. Flayderman remarks it is “a remarkable example of a fully colored tinted whalebone busk representative of the highest development of the art of scrimshaw”.

Notes:

By the same hand as a tooth sold at Eldred’s, The Marine Sale, July 22, 2011, Lot #622.

4007. BANKNOTE ENGRAVER POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW

WHALEBONE BUSK

19th Century

Highly detailed work, typical of the Banknote Engraver, depicting a pineapple over four vignettes: a spread-wing eagle grasping an “E Pluribus Unum” banner while perched on a Liberty shield backed by arrows and olive branches; a sailor resting his elbow on an anchor within a bucolic landscape; a woman holding a letter and sitting in an American saber-leg chair set within a similar landscape; and a full-rigged ship flying pennants, a red and white house flag and a red, white and blue American flag. Vignettes framed by the delicate banknote-style flourishes that earned the scrimshander his moniker. Length 12.75”. 5,000/10,000

Provenance:

Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania, marked on reverse in white ink “NH100...”.

E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 170.

4008. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH FIGURAL PORTRAITS

19th Century

Obverse depicts a figure, possibly Awilda, the female pirate, holding aloft a sword. Figure wearing a red headdress and a deep blue, black and red outfit. Reverse depicts a young girl holding a slender branch. Sawtooth design around tip and base. Length 6.25”.

4,000/6,000

4009. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH DEPICTING "THE CITY OF SALONICA"

19th Century

Obverse with a finely rendered image of the city’s waterfront surmounted by an American eagle with a Liberty shield at its breast and four American flags on poles in its talons. Panoramic view of the famed Greek city includes mountains and hillsides, houses, lighthouses and other buildings, and a harbor filled with several vessels, including two full-rigged ships in the foreground. Reverse depicts “Schooner Andr[...] 1851”, showing the schooner leaving a fortified port. Both sides titled at base. Fancy scalloped and sawtooth border encircles base. Deep rich patina. Length 5.75”.

5,000/8,000

Provenance:

Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania, marked in white ink in hollow of tooth “NH22004”.

E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 65.

Salonica, also known as Thessaloniki, located in the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea, is now the secondlargest city in Greece. Throughout its history it has been an important port of southeastern Europe and a center of culture, commerce and transportation. Alongside Constantinople, it was a co-reigning city of the Byzantine Empire and at one time had a larger population than London.

4008, obverse and reverse

4009, obverse and reverse

4010. EARLY POLYCRHOME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

19th Century

Obverse depicts “The S. Nassau Off Sunday Isl. In A Severe Squal[sic] From The WSW.”, titled in a banner above a scene of a ship with reefed sails in heavy seas and a tiny face blowing a breeze at the lower left corner. Boldly dated “1835.” above ship. Reverse depicts the “S.N.S. Off The Fegee [sic] Isls.”, titled above a scene of a ship under full sail off a South Seas coastline populated with vessels, trees and a village. Similarly boldly dated “1836.” Lower edge depicts an anchor on a long chain centering the phrase “Hope Is The [Anchor] Of the Soul”. Red and blue chevron borders around base and tip. Tip also depicts an anchor on a long chain. Nice rich patina. Length 7”.

Provenance:

10,000/15,000

Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania, numbered in white in hollow of tooth “NH300”.

E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated: Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 5.

4010, obverse and reverse

19th Century

Depicts an active whaling scene off an island, with a three-masted whaleship, four whaleboats and six whales in the foreground and a distant whaleship partially obscured by the island. One of the whales is waifed, one of the whaleboats is under sail, and the whaleship flies an “HH” house flag. Blue water with red surrounding the whales. Pierced hole at upper center. 5.25” x 11.5”. 15,000/25,000

Provenance:

E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 24.

Notes:

A similar example, from the Thomas Mittler Collection, is illustrated in Through the Eyes of a Collector by Nina Hellman (2015), fig. 111 and was sold at Eldred’s, The Marine Sale, October 15, 2016, Lot #60.

4011. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW PANBONE PANEL WITH WHALING SCENE

19th Century

Depicts a skeleton watching over two shipwrecked sailors reclining on a rocky shoreline. The skeleton, probably a personification of Death, is seated on a rock in a contemplative pose, resting his chin in his hand, while the gloomy sailors, one wearing a blue suit and the other a white shirt, reddish-brown vest, and blue and white striped pants, ponder their fate. Spars from a vessel are visible in the water lower left and a dory or other small vessel is onshore lower right. The jagged towering rocks behind the sailors, which form an abstract geometric pattern, are colored blue, reddish brown, yellowish brown and gray. Includes a copy of the colored aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson “The Dangers of the Ocean Oer, Death Wrecks the Sailors on the Shore”, published in 1816, after which the image is based. Panbone 5.75” x 10.75”. Print framed 12.5” x 15.5”. 8,000/12,000

Provenance:

Robert C. Eldred, East Dennis, Massachusetts, label verso. Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania, inscribed in white ink verso “NH20064”.

E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 216.

4012. RARE POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW PANBONE PLAQUE WITH SHIPWRECK SCENE

4012

Source image "The Dangers of the Ocean Oer.." aquatint

4013. PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TEETH ATTRIBUTED TO SAMUEL W. TENNEY

19th Century

Typical of Tenney, who is also known as the “King of the Sea” artist, the scenes on the teeth wrap around the circumference and feature an oversize figure. One tooth has a statuesque classical female figure on a hillside, as well as a lighthouse flying a flag and a jaunty figure sailing a gaff-rigged sloop. The other tooth has an ancient warrior holding a spear, as well as a three-masted ship flying an American flag. Lengths 4.75”. 7,000/10,000

Provenance: E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 61.

Notes:

Examples of Tenney teeth to come to market at Eldred’s include Lot #623 in the November 21, 2013 auction and Lots #31 and 233 in the July 25, 2019 auction, one from the collection of Paul Vardeman and the other from the collection of Sam and Donna McDowell. A similar tooth to this one is illustrated in Wandering Whalemen and Their Art: A Collection of Scrimshaw Masterpieces by Alan Granby (Hyannis Port, Mass.: 2021), p. 75-76, and another in Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 6, which was sold at Eldred’s, July 25, 2019, Lot #2.

Samuel W. Tenney’s identity was uncovered by scrimshaw historian Michael Gerstein through a tooth in the collection of Historic New England. Tenney was born in Oxford, Massachusetts and served in the Navy aboard the U.S.S. Brandywine and later on the whaleship Fenelon of New Bedford.

4013, pair obverse and reverse

19th Century

Tooth wrapped in an assortment of images and scenes including a portrait of a woman in a red dress and hair covering; a hilly coastal landscape with a threemasted ship in a harbor, a stately home and a flowering dogwood tree carved with a heart; a ribband with a musical clef, staff, notes and “Take Joy Home”; a floral medallion; a treasure chest; a floral cluster; a pair of bells; a book open to blank pages; and a tree-filled medallion titled “The Elms”. Sun mask design at tip.

4014, obverse and reverse

4014. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

Length 7.75”. 6,000/9,000

4015. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH BY THE VIGNETTE ENGRAVER

19th Century

Obverse depicts a very active whaling scene of a whaleship, six whales and four whaleboats in various stages of pursuit. Vignette at upper right depicts a two-masted schooner off a fort. Reverse depicts a whaleship cutting in and a whaleboat heading toward a stoved boat caught in the jaw of a whale, the whalemen tossed askew and in the water. Vignette at upper left depicts a fort. Framed vignettes with quarter fans at the corners, typical for the scrimshander. Rich patina. Length 5.5”.

50,000/70,000

Provenance:

Meylert Armstrong, New Hope, Pennsylvania, marked in white ink on base “NH25064”.

E. Norman Flayderman.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 71.

The Vignette Engraver’s identity is yet to be uncovered, but at least four teeth by the same hand, all with the characteristic framed vignettes and scenes of American whaleships, have come to market at Eldred’s. One, from the collection of Thomas Mittler, was sold at the Marine Sale, July 20, 2017, Lot #11, and is illustrated in Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 93 and Through the Eyes of a Collector by Nina Hellman (2015), fig. 5. The second was sold at the Marine Sale, July 22, 2011, Lot #623, and is illustrated in Wandering Whalemen and Their Art: A Collection of Scrimshaw Masterpieces by Alan Granby (Hyannis Port, Mass.: 2021), p. 115. The third was sold at The Marine Sale, August 4, 2022, Lot #3091.

4015, obverse and reverse

4016. CASED SET OF ENGRAVED WHALEBONE ALPHABET TILES

Second Half of the 19th Century Tiles with uppercase letters on one face and lowercase letters on the other face. Near-complete set includes multiple tiles for each letter, plus additional vowel tiles and blank tiles. Walnut case’s fitted interior with engraved whalebone panels to identify compartments for each letter. Case height 1.25”. Width 8”. Depth 5.5”. 1,000/2,000

4017. WHALE IVORY-HANDLED ROLLING PIN

19th Century

Figured hardwood roller. Incised handles with nice patina. Length 14”. 800/1,200

4018. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BOXED DOMINO SET

Late 19th Century

Box cover depicts a Victorian lady on the exterior and a nude lady on the interior. Exterior sides with geometric designs, maritime scenes and crossed whaling irons. Contains 25 whalebone and ebony dominoes. Box height 2”. Length 7.5”. Width 2.125”. 1,200/1,800

4019. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH CRUCIFIXION SCENE

19th Century

Obverse depicts Jesus on the cross, two mourners, an angel holding a chalice, and a mounted Roman soldier holding a lance. Length 4.5”. 500/800

Provenance: E. Norman Flayderman.

conclusion of the collection

4016

4019

4020. PAIR OF TURNED WHALEBONE CANDLESTICKS

19th Century

Simplistic circular stepped bases. Heights 3.75”. 1,000/1,500

4021. PAIR OF TURNED IVORY CANDLESTICKS

19th Century Mounted on beveled hardwood bases. Heights 4.5”. 1,000/1,500

4022. PAIR OF SAILOR-MADE CANDLESTICKS

19th Century Ivory with baleen banding. Heights 3.5”. Widths 10.5”. 1,200/1,800

4023. WHALEBONE BASKET

19th Century

Flared sides comprised of crisscrossed staves and hoops held with metal pins. Walnut base plate. Height 5”. Diameter 8.5”. 2,000/3,000

Notes:

This basket is similar in form to one from the Folk Art & Americana Collection of Carl and Sonia Schmitt sold at Eldred’s, The Marine Sale, July 25, 2019, Lot #369.

4024. WHALE IVORY PICKWICK

19th Century

Beautifully turned base with ogee feet. Coordinating turned finial on pickwick. Height 5”. 500/1,000

4025. PAIR OF WHALEBONE AND IVORY KNITTING NEEDLES

19th Century

Terminals carved as the heads and necks of graceful swans. Baleen eyes. Lengths 15”. 500/800

4026. SIZABLE WHALEBONE DOUBLE SHEAVE BLOCK

19th Century Includes rope strap and whalebone eye. Length 8”. Block width 2”. 800/1,200

4027. TWO WHALEBONE BLOCKS

19th Century

One single sheath and one double sheath. Copper pins. Lengths 2.75” and 3.25”. 500/700

4028. PAINTED WHALEBONE PANEL WITH WHALEBONE FRAME

19th Century

Colorful oil painting of an Arctic whaling scene. Beautifully carved frame. 4.25” x 7”. 1,000/1,500

4029. TWO WHALEBONE SEAM RUBBERS

19th Century

Both with faceted terminals. One with an octagonal handle. The other engraved with an anchor and “JBC”. Lengths 4.75” and 5”. 700/1,000

4026

4028

4030.

Mid-19th Century

Made to hang above a sailor’s bunk. Circular hardwood holder, probably walnut, carved with a compass rose at top and bottom and a diamond design around circumference of side. Height 1.75”. Diameter 3.75”.

Provenance: The Collection of Paul Vardeman.

1,500/2,500

Illustrated: Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 101.

4031.

19th Century

Obverse depicts an American three-masted gunship, identified as “Ship John” in script lettering near the stern. Reverse depicts an American three-masted ship. Foliate designs along the edge. Length 5.75”.

7,000/9,000

SAILOR’S WATCH HOLDER

SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH DEPICTING AMERICAN SHIPS

4031, obverse and reverse

19th Century

Four beautifully detailed portraits of vessels and an image of a lighthouse wrap around the circumference of the tooth. Length 5.75”.

19th Century

Obverse depicts an American three-masted ship with a lighthouse and keeper’s house off her bow and an American fort off her stern. Both the fort and the keeper’s house are surrounded by green trees. Reverse depicts a coastal view of a small town with houses, green trees and an American-flagged side-wheel steamship. Length 7.5”. Fitted on an old brass base. 7,000/10,000

4032. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH DEPICTING SAILING VESSELS

2,500/3,500

4033. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH COASTAL SCENES

4032, obverse and reverse

4033, obverse, edge and reverse

4034. ICONIC POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH BY EDWARD BURDETT Circa 1825-1829

The first documented piece of American scrimshaw, extensively published and thoroughly researched, providing clues that helped make important advancements in scrimshaw scholarship. Depicts a port profile of the three-masted whaleship “JAPAN - Bound to the USA”, titled below within a rope-bordered cartouche. The tooth exhibits several characteristics typical of Burdett’s workmanship: the expertly detailed rigging, the finely engraved sail seams and reef points, the delicately shaded sails, the deep intaglio-carved ship’s hull filled with sealing wax, the stylized water formed by a pattern of deeply engraved crescents, and a berry vine border at the base. Notably, the three visible whaleboats clearly show a pair of gripes holding each whaleboat in place; Burdett may be the only scrimshaw artist who chose to show gripes rather than davits as an alternative means of safely securing whaleboats to the ship. The ship is flying assorted pennants and flags from the masts and a large American flag off the stern, colored with various sealing wax. The flag is particularly boldly rendered, with a thick and deep top line, providing a wonderfully dynamic sense of movement. Length 5.75”. Includes a whalebone and wood stand. 125,000/175,000

Provenance:

The Collection of Paul Vardeman, noted scrimshaw collector and scholar.

Exhibited:

Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Massachusetts: “Scrimshaw the Whaler’s Art”, June 29- October 30, 2022. The tooth was the lead image on all exhibition literature and websites.

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pennants and flags colored with different waxes

rare depiction of gripes used to securely fasten whaleboats

billowing American flag off the stern

4034

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Illustrated: Wandering Whaleman and Their Art: A Collection of Scrimshaw Masterpieces by Alan Granby (Hyannis, Mass.: Alan Granby, 2022), on the front of the dust jacket and on p. 32-33 with description.

“The Japan: Mystery of Burdett’s ‘Missing Years’ Solved” by scrimshaw scholar Paul Vardeman, Scrimshaw Observer, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2020, p.1-3, lead photograph and states this tooth was Edward Burdett’s first work.

“The Two ‘Burdetts’ - Edward Burdett and the Britannia Engraver; Part One” by Paul Vardeman, Scrimshaw Observer, Vol. 6, No. 1, Winter 2022, p. 1-8 with images and description of this tooth.

“The Two ‘Burdetts’ - Edward Burdett and the Britannia Engraver; Part Two” by Paul Vardeman, Scrimshaw Observer, Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2002, p. 1, 6-15, with detail photos of the flag and the berry vine on this tooth p. 10 and a photo of the whole tooth p. 15.

“Waterborne Crafting”, The Wall Street Journal’s Arts in Review section, August 1, 2022, p. A13.

“Scrimshaw: The Whaler’s Art”, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, July 26, 2022, p. 30-31.

“The Whalers Art- Scrimshaw”, Incollect Magazine, Summer 2022, p. 82-86.

“Of Ink And Bone”, Cape Cod Life, July 2022, p. 47-53.

“Scrimshaw - the Whaler’s Art”, American Art Review, Summer 2022, p. 76-81.

“A Mariners Fancy”, American Fine Art Magazine, July/ August 2022, p. 48-55.

References: This tooth is very similar to one that appears on the dust jacket cover of the Stuart Frank’s book Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists (Mystic, Ct.: Mystic Seaport, 1991).

4034. ICONIC POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH BY EDWARD BURDETT Circa 1825-1829

The Japan sailed from Nantucket on voyages between 1822 and 1849, then later from Fairhaven and New Bedford. She had a different captain for each voyage. The below chart was taken from Whaling Masters and Voyages Sailing from American Ports, a Compilation of Sources by Judith Navis Lund (2001), p. 530-531: Port

The "Japan Tooth" is the first documented piece of American scrimshaw, extensively published and thoroughly researched, providing clues that helped make important advancements in scrimshaw scholarship

Paul Vardeman conducted extensive research on Edward Burdett, the ship Japan and this tooth, which was part of his collection.

Edward Burdett (1805-1833) is considered one of America’s earliest and finest scrimshanders. He was born on Nantucket, the son of a merchant sea captain, and he made his first whaling voyage at the tender age of 17 on the Nantucket whaleship Foster under Captain Shubael Chase. The Foster’s logbook lists Edward Burdett as a crew member, establishing a clear relationship between Captain Chase and Burdett. Foster returned to port December 27, 1824, and Chase’s next command was on the Nantucket whaleship Japan, which sailed December 20, 1825. While there is no written evidence at this time that Burdett joined Chase on this voyage, which lasted until March 18, 1829, it is presumed that this tooth, titled “JAPANBound to the USA” is evidence that Burdett was aboard.

Nantucket whalers were known to hunt the rich whaling grounds off Japan, as seen in four paintings depicting the whaleship Spermo, which sailed to the Pacific from Nantucket in 1820. Spermo had “greasy lucky” on its one and only whaling voyage, returning home in 1823 with 1,920 barrels of oil. The titles of the paintings, which are among the earliest works illustrating American whaling, as well as letters from crewmen, indicate the vessel was plying the Japan

whaling grounds, which had been discovered by Captain Joseph Allen of the Nantucket whaleship Maro

The discovery of this tooth, placing Burdett aboard the Japan from 1825 to 1829, solved a longtime mystery of Burdett’s whereabouts between his voyage aboard the Foster and his later documented voyages on the William Tell (1829-1833) and the Montano (1833). Published before this tooth came to light, the Kendall Whaling Museum’s 1991 monograph “Edward Burdett, 1805-1833, America’s First Master Scrimshaw Artist”, by Joshua T. Basseches and Stuart Frank, discusses the gap in Burdett’s whaling history and records his other whaling voyages and known teeth.

Because several signed examples of Burdett’s work exists, we know he scrimshawed whale's teeth and developed a very recognizable style, including deeply carved ship hulls, the use of colored sealing wax and other distinctive stylistic elements.

Burdett continued whaling until November 1833, when he was killed while serving as a first mate aboard the Nantucket whaleship Montano. Just 28 years old, he was entangled in line, dragged by a whale overboard, and drowned. In his short but prolific career as a scrimshander, he produced what are widely considered masterpieces of the genre.

4035. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH SAILOR AND HIS LADY Third Quarter of the 19th Century The young sailor holding a British ensign. Length 5.25”. 1,000/1,500

5.25”. 800/1,200

4037. RARE WHALEBONE SWING-HANDLED BASKET

19th Century

Handle and sides in a conjoined circle design. The handle is original but has an unusual silver repair on one side. Wooden base. Total height 8.75”. Length 9.5”. Width 7.25”. 4,000/6,000

Mid-19th Century

A pair of polychrome scrimshaw whale’s teeth depicting American and English vessels flank a baleen panel with aperture for a pocket watch. Serpentine walnut base raised on whale ivory feet. Height 7.5”. Width 11.75”. Depth 6”. 2,000/3,000

4038. WHALEBONE DOLL’S BED

Mid-19th Century

American Empire form with turned cannonball posts and a scrolled headboard. Height 7.25”. Length 9.25”. Width 5.5”. 500/1,000

4036. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH Second Half of the 19th Century Obverse depicts the front of a church, possibly the First Congregational Church of Nantucket. Reverse depicts a child in prayer. Length

4039. SCRIMSHAW WATCH HOLDER

4035

4037

4039

Mid-19th Century

Serpentine stand with scalloped carvings on loop handle, acanthus carvings on post, a pierced geometric gallery and scrolled feet. Includes four glass bottles. Height 10.25”. 1,200/1,800

Mid-19th Century

Lobed stand with a nicely shaped handle and turned stem. Includes five glass inserts. Height 10”. Diameter approx. 5.75”. 500/1,000

19th

Whalebone and ivory. Varied and rare forms including a looped snake, a “Naughty Nellie” and clenched fists. One with silver metal, baleen and shell inlay. Lengths from 3.5” to 6”. 1,000/1,500

Scrimshaw

Obverse depicts an eagle, an American flag and foliate designs. Reverse depicts a man dressed in a military uniform and a woman holding a fan. Foot with foliate vine. 1,000/1,500

Provenance:

Collection of Norman Flayderman. Private New York Collection.

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 199

250/350

4040. RARE WHALE IVORY CRUET SET

4041. WHALE AND WALRUS IVORY CONDIMENT SET

4042. COLLECTION OF EIGHT FINE BODKINS

Century

4043. SCRIMSHAW WHALE IVORY FOOTED VASE Mid-19th Century

4044. WHALEBONE CLOTHESPIN CARVED AS A GENTLEMAN IN A TOP HAT 19th Century

eyes, nose and beard. Length 5.25”.

4040

4041

4042, eight

19th Century

Depicts

800/1,200

19th Century

Wearing

800/1,200

19th Century

Depicts

800/1,200

19th

Obverse

300/500

19th Century

400/600

4045. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH LADIES

a three-quarter-length portrait of two women wearing bonnets and elaborate Victorian dresses, executed in red, blue and black. Length 5.25”.

4046. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH SHIP PORTRAIT

the full-rigged “Ship St. Leon Castine 1835 Joseph Wescott Master” flying an American flag and a red pennant. Length 5.75”.

4047. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH PORTRAIT OF A LADY

a comb in her hair, a doublestrand bead necklace and a sepiacolored dress, and holding a hat or fan in her right hand. Finely detailed pinpoint workmanship. Geometric emblem signature on reverse. Length 5.5”.

4048. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH FIGURAL AND SHIP PORTRAITS

Century

with portrait of a mother and her child and reverse with a full-rigged ship. Nice patina. Length 5.25”.

4049. BOXED SPELLICANS GAME SET

Walnut box with original “The Game of Spellicans” label on top. Contains numerous whalebone and ivory spellican “straws”, most with shaped terminals. Box height 1”. Width 4.75”. Depth 1.5”.

4050. SLATE WITH WHALEBONE FRAME 19th Century 10” x 7.75”. 300/400

4045

4046

4047

19th Century

Octagonal basket, each side with a scrolled top and pierced sunburst design. Corner posts with acorn finials and drops. Central turned post. Beautifully scrolled legs and feet. Height 9.5”. Width 8.25”. 3,000/4,000

Provenance:

Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Sotheby’s New York, April 29-30, 1983, Lot #469. Catalog notes the basket was “Found on Nantucket and typical of fine Nantucket work, said to have been made by a whaleship’s cooper”.

19th Century

Octagonal

1,500/2,500

19th Century

Two large whale’s teeth with polychrome scrimshaw potted flowering plants are fitted to a demilune wooden base. Shaped baleen backsplash engraved with a foliate design and verse. Whalebone panel wrapped along the front edge of the base engraved with a leafy vine. Height 8.5”. Width 14”. Depth 5”. 5,000/10,000

4051

4052

4053

4051. WHALEBONE SEWING BASKET

4052. SCRIMSHAW MANTEL GARNITURE

4053. WHALEBONE AND IVORY TWO-TIER THREAD HOLDER

tiers with scalloped edges. Center post with removable thimble finial. Octagonal foot marked on underside “DeLucia”. Total height 8.25”. Width approx. 9.75”.

Obverse depicts a starboard portrait of a ship at sea below a spread-wing eagle with arrows, olive branches, a Liberty shield and a variety of draped American flags on poles, one flag with an eagle in the canton and one pole topped with a Phrygian cap. Reverse with “A.W. Green” at center. Image above of Lady Liberty holding a scrolled parchment and a large American flag on a pole topped with a Phrygian cap, standing in front of a cannon on carriage and beside an olive tree. Image below of well-dressed figures by a footbridge on a coastal promenade, looking out toward an American-flagged schooner. Some scant polychroming. Length 9”. With wood and metal stand. Height on stand approx. 12.25”. 10,000/15,000

Obverse with a full-length portrait of a native, covered almost entirely with tattoos, holding a coconut shell basket and a staff, an image sourced from the engravings in “Voyage autour du monde sur la Nadjedjeda et la Neva, 1813”, the account of Krusenstern’s early Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe. Reverse with a full-length portrait of a woman holding a handkerchief and a flower basket. Densely inked, with some polychroming to the lower part of her skirt. Length 8.75”. With wood and metal stand. Height on stand approx. 11”. 8,000/12,000

4054. LARGE SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH MARQUESAS ISLANDER PORTRAIT

19th Century

4055. LARGE SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH PATRIOTIC AND MARITIME MOTIFS Mid-19th Century

4054, obverse and reverse

4055, obverse and reverse

Mid-19th Century

Half-length portrait of an attractive curly-haired lady resting her arms on a windowsill, framed within a tessellated and daisy arch and with a checkerboard panel at base. She is wearing a beribboned hat, a beaded necklace and a striped puffy-sleeve dress. Mounted on a wooden stand. Total height 6.5”.

1,000/2,000

Mid-19th Century

Obverse depicts an American-flagged three-masted ship, a spreadwing eagle with a “Liberty Constitution” banner, and a portrait medallion of a gentlemen backed by cornucopias and draped American flags. Reverse depicts a flower, a portrait of whaleship cutting in, and a whaling scene with two whaleships, whaleboats and a pod of whales. One edge depicts a ship on a full run and a sperm whale, and the other edge depicts a slender tree. Length 6”.

3,000/5,000

Obverse depicts a red and blue compass rose, a three-masted ship, and two dolphins flanking a palmette. Reverse depicts a floral sprig and a foliate garland surrounding a scene of a young couple holding hands beneath a churchyard tree. Length 6.5”.

3,000/4,000

4056. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH PORTRAIT OF A LADY, IN THE MANNER OF CHANDLER

4056

4057. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH MARITIME MOTIFS

4058. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH NAUTICAL AND COURTING SCENES

19th Century

4057, obverse and reverse

4058, obverse and reverse

4059. SCRIMSHAW PANBONE PLAQUE

Second Quarter of the 19th Century

Depicts a naval engagement between one American and three British warships, each flying a long pennant off a mast and an ensign off the stern. Two of the British ships are firing their cannons. Floral vine above scene. Old hanging cord, possibly original, is threaded through holes in both top corners. 6.5” x 14.5”. 4,500/6,000

Provenance:

The Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection. Private Collection.

Reference:

Through the Eyes of a Collector by Nina Hellman (2015), fig. 108.

4060. "WHALE LOG" DOCUMENT BOX

America, Mid-19th Century

In pine under its original painted decoration. Lid and all four sides painted green with brown banding around the perimeters and quartercircles at each corner. Lid, lip and front with two aligned columns of black sperm whales that resemble whale stamps found in whaling logs, though these whales were stenciled or freehand painted. Retains its original key, brass hinges and brass bail handle on top of lid. Mellow age patina. Height 7.5”. Width 15”. Depth 9”. 6,000/8,000

4059

4060

4061. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH ATTRIBUTED TO THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT ENGRAVER

19th Century

Obverse with whaling scene of a whaleship trying down, three whaleboats and five whales, two of which are waifed. Reverse depicts a rescue scene with an American-flagged single-deck gunship racing toward a distressed ship flying an upside down flag. Sperm whale on one edge. Red and blue details. Length 6.5”. 8,000/12,000

Provenance: John F. Rinaldi Antiques, Kennebunkport, Maine.

4062. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH PERTAINING TO SOUTH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

19th Century

Obverse depicts a man on horseback with saber and shield, probably Simon Bolivar. Reverse depicts a soldier holding a saber and a “Death to the Spaniard” flag. Length 6”.

19th Century

Obverse depicts George Washington on horseback. Reverse depicts a man in elaborate garb, possibly a Pacific island king. Length 5.75”. 5,000/7,000

4,000/6,000

4063. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH FIGURAL PORTRAITS

4061, obverse and reverse

4062, obverse and reverse

4063, obverse and reverse

4064. RARE LONGBOAT WAIF

19th Century

Red flag on a hardwood pole. Length approx. 101”. 1,200/1,800

4065. SCRIMSHAW PORPOISE JAW

19th Century

One side of jaw depicts a sailing vessel. Other side depicts a Victorian lady. Length 13”. On a contemporary stand. 1,000/1,500

4066. SCRIMSHAW BLACKFISH JAW

19th Century

One side depicts a foliate vine and an unfinished panel. Length 18”. Width 12”. 800/1,200

4067. SMALL CABIN MIRROR OF WHALING INTEREST

America, 19th Century

Label verso states “This Mirror was used on the Preston. This Vessel was built at Commercial Point for the whale fishery by Elisha Preston one of the firm of Kidder Peabody and Co about 1833. Ruty Hildreth the Pilot on the Neponset River who lived at the point gave it to Andrew Hausman and I gave him 50 cents for it in 1891. From the Edward A. Huebener Collection”. Boxed mirror with eye hook and chain hanger. 5.5” x 6.25”. 300/500

4068. CARVING OF A SPERM WHALE AND CALF

20th Century

Detailed with teeth, eyes, flippers and fins. Height 7”. Length 36.25”. 800/1,200

Provenance:

Reportedly from the Union Oyster House, Boston. Private Rhode Island collection.

4069. CASED MODEL OF THE WHALER “CHARLES W. MORGAN”

20th Century

Hull with natural finish. Case height 33.25”. Length 37.5”. Width 13.75”. 1,200/1,800

4070. THREE WHALING LOGBOOK STAMPS

19th Century

Two whalebone and one wood. Heights from 1.5” to 3”. 500/1,000

4071. TWO ROBINSON & CO. WHALE OIL ADVERTISEMENTS

19th Century

Robinson labels affixed to mixed media depictions of whales. Smaller initialed “Y.R.J.”. Framed 9.75” x 11.75” and 14.5” x 11.25”. 300/500

Provenance:

Dingman Collection. Private Collection.

4072. WHALE IVORY PUZZLE BOX

19th Century

In the form of a ship’s hull. Nice patina. Some pearling. Height 1.5”. Length 5.25”. 800/1,000 4064

4073. CARVED WHALEBONE SPERM WHALE PLAQUE

Late 19th Century

Well-defined whale with an engraved eye and sharply carved teeth. Mounted on a pine board with whale ivory hearts inlaid at each corner. Housed in a darker wood frame. Framed 6.5” x 16.75”. 1,500/2,500

4074. CASED WHALEBOAT MODEL

20th Century

Plank-on-frame construction. Complete with whaling implements, sails, oars, etc. Mounted on davits within a wood and glass case. Case height 14.5”. Length 38.5”. Width 13.5”. 1,200/1,800

4075. SPERM WHALE-FORM BOX

Circa 1935

Three-dimensional whale carved from pine and painted black. Charmingly detailed with eyes, mouth, fins and a graceful tail. Form may have been copied from David Baker cast iron whale ornaments made in New Bedford in the 1840s. Small hole in the side to fit a harpoon. Top lifts open to a storage compartment. Interior of top with ink inscription “This sperm whale model was handcarved by an employee of the State Street Trust Co. It was part of the center decoration of a thirty foot long table on the back piazza at ‘Broadfields’, Westwood. Allan Forbes and Josephine Crosby Forbes, married in 1913, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary at a ‘Whaling Gam’ and this whale was accompanied by a model of a full rigged whaling ship and a whale boat. ... About 80 people sat down to dinner. I was 13 and was there.”, signed by H.A. Crosby Forbes, December 15, 1989. Forbes (1925-2012) was the grandson of a China Trade captain and a leading scholar of Asian Export art. Height 6”. Length 23”. 3,000/5,000

4073

4074

4075

4077. CASED MODEL OF A WHALEBOAT

Late 19th Century

Mostly whalebone with some metal and wooden and/or baleen components. Complete with oars, harpoons, barrels of line, a hatchet, knife, etc. Displayed on a wooden pedestal within a glass and wood case. Case height 4.75”. Length 12.25”. Width 4.25”. 1,500/2,000

4076. WHALE PLAQUE

America, Circa 1920

Four finely carved and painted whale species mounted on a red painted board. Housed in a black painted frame with a beveled interior edge painted gold. Original and nicely aged painted surfaces. Framed 22” x 14”. 1,200/1,800

4078. "LAMP OIL" CASK

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Painted chrome yellow with stenciled “Lamp Oil”, sperm whale silhouette and “Grade A Boston’s Finest”. Height 14.5”. Diameter 12.5”. 500/1,000

4076

4077

The endeared dean of ship model making, Peter Henrick Ness immigrated to Boston from Norway in 1912. He worked as a baker until he turned his ship model hobby into a full-time profession, working out of a basement shop in East Boston. His rich family history of seafaring helped him create a ship’s blueprint in his mind, allowing him to construct incredibly accurate models from scratch.

Unlike other craftsman who took artistic license, Ness fabricated models as if he was building a miniature ship. They are heavier and bulkier, and the spars, for instance, are thick and taper less at the ends. Ness hand-forged his own brass fittings, such as anchors, bells and wheels, he used chain instead of string, and he properly rigged through the deadeyes and the ratlines rather than using glue.

Ness specialized in models of Boston shipbuilder Donald McKay (1810-1880)’s vessels. Many Ness models have been exhibited at and are part of the collections of the Smithsonian, the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Boston’s Museum of Science, and a whaler he built was displayed in the White House during the Roosevelt administration.

Ness had a brother, Olaf, of Dedham, Massachusetts, who was also an accomplished model builder.

4079. IMPORTANT CASED MODEL OF THE AMERICAN WHALESHIP JAMES ARNOLD

Circa 1935

By renowned Boston ship model builder Peter Ness (1890-1976). Plank-onframe “scratch built” from mahogany, the materials and treatment consistent with the other known Peter Ness models, with each plank attached to the ribs with tiny brass nails. Incredibly detailed with a planked mahogany deck, a figurehead in the form of a whaleman poised to strike a whale with his harpoon, wood and metal anchors, an elaborately constructed anchor windlass, a raised deck house with an opening to provide light to the helmsman, ship’s wheel and steering mechanism below, an applied stern board with “James Arnold New Bedford” in gold leaf lettering above a well-carved spread-wing eagle, etc. Outfitted for whaling with a whaleboat on davits on the starboard, three whaleboats on davits on the port side, and two upside down atop a platform at the stern, the boats with a complement of whaling implements and oars. Elaborate tryworks with brick sides, copper top, pots and chimneys. A pair of hatches and a large round hand-driven sharpening stone are located behind the tryworks. Cuttingin stage at the center of the starboard side is in its working position, held by rigging and blocks. Three mahogany masts with mahogany yardarms, circular iron lookout stations near the tops of the fore and main mast, and pin rails around each mast mounted to the deck. Original red, blue and white painted “James Arnold” banner flies from the main mast. Highly detailed and accurate rat lines, standing and running rigging. Displayed in its original Peter Ness-made case on a pair of black-banded oak oil casks set into chalks atop a mahogany base with molded ebonized border. Also includes documents and ephemera; please see the complete list at www. eldreds.com. Case height 26”. Length 31.5”. Width 8.25”. 12,000/15,000

Exhibited: New Bedford Whaling Museum: “The Art of Ship Model”, February 28, 2013February 28, 2014.

4079

Depicts “Venus pleurant Adonis” (Venus mourning Adonis), a classical mythological scene after the painting by Netscher and the engraving by Claude Niquest. Venus’s mortal lover Adonis was gored and killed by a boar while hunting and she turned him into a flower. Seen here, Venus gazes upon the flower (Adonis) while seated on a rock, her hands clasped over her breasts. Very finely engraved and shadowed, and deeply scored longitudinally around the tooth, all typical of Rockerick’s work. Reverse unpolished. Includes a letter of authentication from Dr. Stuart M. Frank, director of the Scrimshaw Forensics Laboratory. Length 8”. 25,000/35,000

William

Lewis Roderick (1826-1874) served as ship’s surgeon on three London South Sea whaling voyages in the bark Adventure from 1847 to 1856. Originally believed to be Welsh, current research indicates Roderick was English and worked in London as a physician/dentist. His meticulously detailed work is considered some of the finest of British scrimshaw.

4080. LARGE SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH BY WILLIAM LEWIS RODERICK Circa 1847-1856

4081. EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TEETH, LIKELY BY A SAILOR ABOARD THE H.M.S. IRIS

Circa 1855

Superb and crisp engravings of British Empire motifs and richly inked. Obverse of one tooth with a portrait of the Iris, identified in a banner above and with an “Australian Station” banner below. Foliate design at base, probably a floral badge of the Empire with a rose for England, thistle for Scotland and shamrocks for Ireland. Other tooth with the “Honi soit qui mal y pense” and “Dieu et Mon Droit” British royal coat of arms. Both teeth with an eye, eyebrow and sunrays at tips, slightly Egyptian in style but probably an Eye of Providence, a symbol of Freemasonry. Reverse of one tooth with a two-masted schooner flying a British ensign above a large blooming iris. Other tooth with an “Ich Dien” Prince of Wales feathers crest above a detailed whaling scene of a whaleship, two whaleboats attacking a surfaced whale, and a stoved boat. A leafy vine encircles the tips of both teeth. Warm patina. Lengths 7”. Include wooden stands. 25,000/35,000

Reference:

A matched pair with similar subject matter, including the ship portrait, coat of arms and flower, is illustrated in Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 10. Flayderman writes the pair were carved by a sailor aboard the Iris and were from the collection of Wing Commander Guy Marsland. While the illustrated pair is inferior in quality to the teeth seen here, both pairs are almost certainly by the same hand.

The Iris, a 26-gun frigate, was built around 1840. She served with the West African Squadron suppressing the slave trade and with the East Indies Station in Borneo before becoming the first flagship of the Australian Squadron in 1859. In 1864 she was modified to work with the famous ship Great Republic in laying cable. She was decommissioned and sold in 1869.

4081, pair obverse and reverse

19th Century

Obverses with grandly scaled images of the King and Queen of the Sea, the Queen with a serpent and the King holding a trident and with four fish by his feet. Reverses with American three-masted two-decker gunships. Highly detailed workmanship. Lengths 6.75”. On fitted walnut bases. 10,000/15,000

First Half of the 19th Century

An intricate scene of an eagle clutching a “Liberty and Freedom” banner, Lady Liberty and a three-masted ship wraps around the circumference. Liberty is standing onshore, gazing out toward an American-flagged ship leaving port, raising a torch aloft in her right hand and holding an American shield by her side in her left hand. Her elaborate costume includes a star-decorated helmet, a long scarf draped over her right arm, cuffs at her wrists, an embellished dress and sandals. She is standing near an anchor, cannon and a monumental column backed by crossed American flags. Liberty’s torch serves as a perch for the eagle, whose banner flies over the ship and wraps around the column. Shows traces of some polychroming. Length 5.75”.

5,000/7,000

4082. PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TEETH "KING OF THE SEA" AND "QUEEN OF THE SEA" ATTRIBUTED TO SAMUEL W. TENNEY

4083, obverse and reverse

4083. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH ATTRIBUTED TO SAMUEL W. TENNEY

4082, pair obverse and reverse

4084, obverse and reverse

Circa 1850

Like on many of Hiliot’s teeth, the obverse depicts a Pacific Island scene showing two natives in grass skirts standing beneath palm trees, pointing their outstretched arms toward a whaleship and two whaleboats in active pursuit of a pod of whales. Distant mountains and a cloudy sky frame the scene. Reverse with an oval medallion containing a three-quarter-length portrait of a formally dressed woman with tightly curled hair, wearing a cross necklace and a rose tucked into the belt of her dress, and holding a folded letter in her hand. Portrait framed by red drapes and medallion surrounded by green leaves and a red rose. Vacant cartouche at base. Bright colors and warm patina. Length 7”. 15,000/20,000

Provenance:

Hyland Granby Antiques, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 2014. The Collection of Michael Gill.

Notes:

Two similar teeth by whaleman George Hiliott are illustrated in Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved by Stuart M. Frank (Boston: David R. Godine, 2012), fig. 3:13a and b. Frank writes that Hiliott engraved at least five teeth showing a native islander on one side and an elegantly clad woman on the other.

19th Century

Holes drilled at both ends. Obverse with line of nondescript punch work. Reverse with two lines of lettering. Length 6.25”. 1,000/1,500

4084. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE HILIOTT

4085. WHALE’S TOOTH TABUA

4085

4087, pair

4086

4089, obverse and reverse

4090, obverse and reverse

4088

4086. PATRIOTIC POLYCHORME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

Second Quarter of the 19th Century

Depicts an arch of sun rays above eagle grasping an “E Pluribus Unum” banner in its beak while perched on a Liberty shield surrounded by a drum, cannon and four draped American flags. Length 7”. 3,000/5,000

4087. PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TEETH WITH WARSHIPS

Second Quarter of the 19th Century

Both depict a warship flying a British ensign. Lengths 5.75”. Mounted to wooden bases. 2,000/3,000

4088. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH SHIP PORTRAIT

Second Quarter of the 19th Century

Depicts a single-deck gunship flying a long red, white and blue pennant from the main mast and a large American flag off the stern. Length 5.75”. 4,000/6,000

4089. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH STOVED BOAT SCENE

19th Century

Obverse with two scenes, one of three vessels off a lighthouse and one of a stoved boat. Reverse depicts a framed image of a perched eagle surrounded by stars, and an eagle with a streamer and shield. Scalloped border around circumference of base. Length 4.5”. 500/1,000

4090. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

19th Century

Obverse with a vine arching above a port-side portrait of the three-masted Rajah, showing the billethead, gun ports and reef points. Identified in serifed lettering below. Reverse depicts a spread-wing eagle with an “E Pluribus Unum” banner in its beak, a shield at its breast and an olive branch and arrows in its talons, and the U.S. Capitol. Faintly initialed at base “FD”. Length 7.5”. Pine base.

2,000/3,000

4091.

TOOTH

19th Century

Obverse depicts American flags, bayonets, a spread-wing eagle with banner, talons and arrows, a small cannon on carriage, a Liberty shield, two fouled anchors, and an arched panel depicting a three-masted vessel flying an American flag. Reverse depicts Liberty holding a red, white and blue American flag and a Liberty shield. Length 8.25”.

8,000/12,000

LARGE PATRIOTIC POLYCRHOME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S

4091, obverse and reverse

4093. INUIT BASKET WITH WHALING SCENE

Early 20th Century

Multicolored scene of two whales, whaleboats, harpooners and kayaks wraps around the circumference. Spread-wing eagle above one whale. Wave border at lower edge. Upper rim in a contrasting weave. Height 2.75”. Length 9.5”. Width 4.5”. 500/1,000

4092. EXTREMELY RARE INUIT CARVED WALRUS TUSK

Nunivak Island, 19th Century

In the form of a toothed animal eating a seal, the body of the seal visible on each side of the red-colored mouth. Body carved with 26 seals. Detailed with eyes, flippers and ears. Length 17.75”. 6,000/8,000

4094. ICELANDIC WHALER’S KNIFE WITH SHEATH

Dark wood handle and sheath with metal, bone and mother-of-pearl inlay. Handle with geometric designs. Sheath with geometric borders, metal banding and metal inlay shaped as whaling implements, a whale and a vessel. Knife with steel blade. Apparently unmarked. Total length of knife in sheath 13.75”. 800/1,200

Notes:

A similar example is illustrated in Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 129.

4092 4094

4095. PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW WALRUS TUSKS

Second Half of the 19th Century Both with multiple image of ladies, figures, ships, etc. Lengths 23.5”. 1,500/2,000

4096. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WALRUS TUSK WITH CIRCUS PERFORMER

Second Quarter of the 19th Century

Female circus performer holding a caduceus staff and wearing a horned helmet, shorts with a star design, and winged boots. Length 17”. 800/1,200

4095, pair

4097.

19th Century

Multi-sided

Mid-19th Century

Whalebone

Provenance:

Sotheby’s, New York. Lot sticker on reverse. The Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection.

Exhibited:

Sea Life Park Whaling Museum, Oahu, Hawaii, November 1979 to March 1997.

Illustrated: Through the Eyes of a Collector, fig. 147.

4098.

19th Century

Handle with beveled corners and ebony and metal pins. Inset blade.

4100. TURNED WHALEBONE FID

19th Century

Double knopped terminal with incised lines. Length 9.25”. 800/1,000

WHALE IVORY KNIFE

Length 8.5”. 300/400

NICELY CARVED WHALEBONE FISHING REEL

handle with faceted finial. Length 13”. Width 8.75”. 5,000/8,000

4099. WHALEBONE, EBONY AND BALEEN YARDSTICK

stick with ebony ends and incised hash marks, some marked with a baleen dot. Length 36”. 500/1,000

4097

4099

4101

4102, with detail

4101. WHALEBONE BELAYING PIN

19th Century

Beautifully turned handle with incised lines. Length 15”. 1,000/1,500

4102. WHALEBONE SERVING MALLET

19th Century Engraved with “EHO” above a diamond. Length 8.5”. 400/600

Provenance: John F. Rinaldi Antiques, Kennebunkport, Maine, 2015. The Collection of Michael Gill.

4103. LARGE WHALEBONE FID

19th Century Retains rope. Length excluding rope 14.75”. 1,000/1,500

19th Century

Whalebone stick, boldly and elegantly engraved with hash marks and numbers 25 through 48, pulls out from a wooden sleeve. Catch on stick prevents it from being completely removed from sleeve. Interestingly, the stick is numbered 27, 26 and 25 before proceeding in numerical order from 28 to 48. Engraved in script lettering on reverse “S.R. Locke”. Length collapsed in sleeve 26.5”.

19th Century

Smaller

32.75”. 500/800

1,000/1,500

19th

1,000/1,500

Provenance:

John F. Rinaldi Antiques, Kennebunkport, Maine, 2015. The

4104. SAILMAKER’S MEASURING DEVICE

4105. WHALEBONE BOOT JACK Mid-19th Century Boldly formed. Length 12.75”.

Collection of Michael Gill.

4106. TWO WOODEN BLOCKS

with oak cheeks and whalebone sheaves. Larger with four sheaves and spliced rope strap. Lengths 12.5” and

4107. HARDWOOD AND WHALEBONE SNATCH BLOCK

Century

Whalebone pin and sheave. Inset copper diamonds on both sides. Length 7”. 500/1,000

4104

4105

4108. TWO PAIRS OF WHALEBONE DOUBLE BLOCKS

Mid-19th Century

With original ropework and iron hooks and grommets. One with leather-covered rope. Nice original state. Each block approx. 3” x 1.75”. 2,000/3,000

Provenance: Paul Madden. The Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection.

Illustrated: Through the Eyes of a Collector, fig. 181.

4109. WHALEBONE DOUBLE BLOCK

19th Century

Constructed with whalebone pins. Twine-wrapped rope strap. Total length 8.5”. 500/700

4110. TWO WHALEBONE SERVING MALLETS

19th Century

One with pinpoint “HF”. Lengths 9.5” and 11”. 1,000/1,500

4111. TWO WHALEBONE UTILITARIAN ITEMS

19th Century

A gauge and an adjustable scribe. Lengths 5.25” and 7.25”. 400/600

4112. WHALEBONE-HANDLED HEARTH BRUSH WITH STAND

Nantucket, Circa 1830

Tapered handle with carved ring at base. Newer whalebone stand with ebony dot and line inlay. Brush length approx. 9”. Height on stand approx. 11.5”. 800/1,200

Provenance: Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Sotheby’s New York, December 16-17, 1983, Lot #353. Retains collection sticker.

4113. SCRIMSHAW WHALE IVORY INK BOX

19th Century

Box surmounted by a turned cup. Box top engraved with four flowers and a double line border. Turned feet. Height 2.75”. Length 2.5”. Width 1.75”. 300/500

4114. WHALEBONE AND COCONUT SHELL DIPPER

19th Century

Coconut shell carved with geometric, floral and foliate designs. Nicely turned whalebone handle. Length 12.75”. 1,000/1,500

4109 4112

4117

4115. RARE WHALEBONE FOLDING LORGNETTE SPECTACLES

Mid-19th Century

Pair of folding eyeglasses in a whalebone pendant-style case. Case length 3”. 200/400

4116. TURNED WHALEBONE FID

19th Century

Knopped terminal with deeply incised lines. Length 12.5”. 800/1,200

4117. RARE WHALEMAN-MADE BALEEN HEARTH BROOM

19th Century

Twisted baleen handle with three knotworks. Length 35.5”. 700/1,000

4118. COCONUT SHELL DIPPER

19th Century

Wooden handle with a whale ivory shield-form bowl mount and a hanging loop terminal formed as a tulip bud. Length 14”. 500/800

4119. FOUR CARVED COCONUT SHELLS

19th Century

1) Creamer with whale ivory handle and spout. Carved “To My Dearest Parents from Their Affectionate Son William Lannes Tilton” around rim.

2) Full shell with relief carvings of a face, ships, palm trees, a hut with two figures, and a cornucopia.

3-4) Two handled bowls with foliate carvings. Lengths 4.75”. 1,000/2,000

4120. CARVED WHALEBONE GAUGE

19th Century

Geometric markings on all sides. Length 32.5”. 500/1,000

4121.

19th Century

Handle with loop terminal and intermittent contrasting bands of figured exotic wood. Total length including horsehair approx. 28”. 400/600

4122.

New Bedford, 19th Century

Carved “NB Emma” around grip. Punchwork and ivory inlay on top. Length 16”. 500/800

HORSEHAIR FLY WHISK WITH WHALEBONE HANDLE

HARDWOOD FID

Provenance:

Provenance: Northeast

4123. WHALEBONE FID Mid-19th Century Handle in the shape of a belaying pin. Length 12.75”. 1,000/1,500

Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 19, 2012, Lot #853. The Collection of Michael Gill.

4124. WHALEBONE SEAM RUBBER Mid-19th Century Nicely turned handle. Length 5.25”. 600/900

The Collection of Michael Gill.

4125. LARGE WHALEBONE SEAM RUBBER 19th Century Nicely shaped pentahedral terminal, beveled handle and wide blade. Length 6”. Blade width 2.75”. 1,000/1,500

4126. WHALE IVORY SEAM RUBBER Mid-19th Century Boldly turned and incised handle. Blade deeply engraved “J + R”. Length 5”. 800/1,200

4127. CARPENTER’S WHALEBONE BLOCK PLANE

Mid-19th Century Steel blade. Length 8.5”.

Provenance:

1,000/1,500

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 19, 2012, Lot #710. The Collection of Michael Gill.

4128. CARPENTER’S WHALEBONE SQUARE

Last Half of the 19th Century Made from a single piece of whalebone. 4” x 6.25”. 500/800

Provenance:

Collection of Welles Henderson. John Rinaldi Nautical Antiques, Kennebunkport, Maine, 2011. The Collection of Michael Gill.

Illustrated:

Jack Tar: A Sailor’s Life by J. Welles Henderson and Rodney P. Carlisle, p. 119.

4129. RARE AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE CARVED AND TURNED WHALEBONE BRACE

Circa 1850

U-shaped crank with shaped handhold, made from a single piece of whalebone, ready to receive head and chuck. Length 12”. 400/600

Provenance: Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Sotheby’s New York, September 24-25, 1982, Lot #524. Catalog notes it was found on Long Island.

4130. SIX WHALEBONE HOOKS 19th Century Crudely carved. Lengths 3.75”. Widths 3”. 500/700

4127

4128

4129

19th Century

Inlaid whale ivory sperm whale on lid and stars and diamonds throughout. Three sides of box with raised wooden stars. One side with deeply carved “HT”. Height 3.5”. Width 9.75”. Depth 5.25”. 1,000/1,500

19th Century

In walnut. Dovetail and canted construction. Top with an inlaid whalebone heart surrounded by four mother-of-pearl diamonds. One side with ropework handle. Height 4.25”. Width 10”. Depth 6”. 2,000/3,000

19th Century

Scalloped rim. Hardwood base. Height 7.25”. Length 8.25”. Width 5.75”. 1,200/1,800

4131. WHALEMAN-MADE BOX

4132. WHALEBONE SWING-HANDLED BASKET

4133. MINIATURE SEA CHEST

4131

4132

4133

19th Century Wood top and bottom, the top mounted with a diamond-shaped plaque, possibly baleen or horn. Swag and tassel-like design on lip of lid and lower border of box. Sides of box with finely rendered images of a rooster, ship, flower, eagle and fylfot. Height

Circa 1860

Modest but elegant example of whaleman craftsmanship. Pine top and base, the top with an inlaid whale ivory star surrounded by eight diamonds. Whalebone lip and sides joined with lollipop-style fingers pinned with metal rivets. Nicely mottled whalebone. Pine base. Height 3”. Length 7”. Width 4.75”. 2,500/3,500

4134. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE DITTY BOX

3.5”. Length 8”. Width 6.25”. 2,000/3,000

4135. OVAL WHALEBONE DITTY BOX 19th Century Hardwood top. Beautifully carved fingers. Height 2.25”. Length 7”. Width 6”. 1,500/2,000

4136. OVAL WHALEBONE DITTY BOX

4134

4135

4136

Mid-19th Century

Circa 1850

Engraved baleen top, lip and sides, the top surmounted by two fancycarved whale ivory strips engraved with a red sawtooth and green vine design. Top depicts a whaling scene of a whaleship, a whale in a flurry, and two whaleboats, one of which is stoved. Scene framed by a leafy vine. Harlequin pattern along the perimeter. Lip with diamond banding around the circumference. Box with a spread-wing eagle grasping a banner in its beak on one side and two undulating leafy vines wrapping around the circumference. Lip and sides joined with shaped and pinned fingers. Pine base. Interior of lid and base lined in dark brown silk. Contains a note indicating the interior of the box is marked “William H. Hobb”, “Nathan Clay Olney” and “Ship Mary & Martha of New Bedford”. Height 2.75”. Length 6”. Width 3.75”. 1,200/1,800

19th Century

Wooden top and base. Top’s lip depicts whales and a whaleboat. Box sides depict an active whaling scene with two whaleships and six whaleboats. Height 3.5”. Length 8”. Width 6”. 1,000/1,500

4137. OVAL WHALEBONE DITTY BOX

Multiwood parquetry top. Whalebone lip and box with serrated seam. Height 2.25”. Width 7”. Depth 5.5”. 500/800

4138. SCRIMSHAW BALEEN DITTY BOX

4139. OVAL SCRIMSHAW BALEEN AND WHALE IVORY DITTY BOX

4137

4138

4139

Lift top inlaid with hearts, stars, a Masonic compass and square and other geometric inlay. Front with two drawers and shield-form escutcheons. Inscribed in pencil on underside “John Giffon”. Height 6”. Width 10.75”. Depth 7.5”. 800/1,200

4140. INLAID LAP DESK 19th Century Whale ivory and multicolored wood inlay in geometric designs. Height 6”. Width 14.5”. Depth 9.25”. 1,000/1,500

4141. INLAID SEWING BOX WITH SWING HANDLE Second Half of the 19th Century Hardwood box with whalebone and baleen geometric and star inlay and alternating wood banding. Hinged top lifts and extends outward. Height 12.5”. Length 14.75”. Width 8.5”. 1,000/1,500

4142. MAHOGANY BOX WITH WHALE IVORY INLAY 19th Century

4140

4141

4142

4143. RARE WHALEMAN-MADE KITCHEN KNIFE BOX

19th Century

Canted dovetail pine box with shaped whale ivory handle. Single drawer at side with unusual whale ivory locking mechanism and whalebone braces on interior front edge. Includes handwritten note “This was made By Captain John M. Tinkham while on the C.W. Morgan 1871-1875”. John Maxfield Tinkham (1839-1895) was master of the Charles W. Morgan on two voyages, 1871-1874 and 1875-1878.

Height 6”. Length 12.5”. Width 10”. 7,000/12,000

4143A. RARE AND DESIRABLE DAVID BAKER CAST IRON SPERM WHALE SIGN

New Bedford, Circa 1840

Probably made as a shop sign for a whaling outfitter. Two tabs at the base allow for mounting the whale to a flat surface. Stamped verso in large raised letters “D. Baker New Bedford”. Height 5.5”. Length 22”. 2,000/3,000

David Baker was born in 1795 and worked between circa 1836 and 1859. He was a “Mathematical Instrument Maker” and purveyor of navigational Instruments at 44 North Water Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts. Examples of this same casting are in the collection of The Smithsonian Institute, Mystic Seaport and the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

4144. INLAID CRIBBAGE BOARD GAME BOX

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Hardwood box with various wood and whalebone inlay. Single drawer at side. Height 2.25”. Length 14.25”. Width 5.25”. 500/700

4145. MINIATURE THREE-DRAWER CHEST

19th Century

In oak with whale ivory escutcheons, knobs and ogee bracket feet. Height 6.75”. Width 8”. Depth 4”. 500/800

4146. SAILOR-MADE DRESSER BOX

19th Century

In mahogany. Top with a whalebone ring handle. Fruitwood star, diamond and sunburst inlay throughout. Height 3”. Width 9.5”. Depth 7.5”. 300/500

4147. SAILOR-MADE DRESSER BOX

19th Century

In mahogany. Top inlaid with whalebone diamonds and stars. Height 4”. Width 11”. Depth 6”. 250/350

4143

4143A

4148.

19th Century

In mahogany. Lift top inlaid with a whale ivory plaque. Compartmented interior. Front with an inlaid whale ivory diamond flanked by whale ivory thread dispensers, two half drawers, and a full-width drawer with central inlaid whale ivory oval. Both sides with a single drawer. Ivory drawer knobs. Height 5.75”. Width 10.25”. Depth 7”. 1,000/1,500

4149. MAHOGANY AND WHALE IVORY SEWING STAND

19th Century

One-drawer base with whale ivory floriform drawer pull, button adornments at top corners, and ball feet. Base surmounted by a spinning three-tier thread holder topped with a whale ivory yarn cup/pincushion. Matching button adornments on lower two tiers of thread holder. Height 11.5”. 400/600

Mid-19th Century

In mahogany with inlaid marine ivory diamonds and vacant plaques, and exotic wood quarter-fan and line inlay. Hinged top with fold-out mirror on interior. Base of interior with lift-out fitted tray. Height 4.75”. Width 14”. Depth 7.5”. 2,500/3,500

SEWING BOX

4150. INLAID DRESSER BOX

4148

4149

4150

19th Century

Obverse with images of a vine; a ship underway; a tree; clasped hands; a patriotic montage of an eagle, shield, flags and cannons; a young couple; and a sailor holding a saber and standing near a bell. Images separated by geometric and vine borders. Reverse with a flowering vine and a partial image of stage curtains. Length 14.5”. Width 1.75”.

2,000/3,000

19th Century

Depicts four darkly inked vignettes, each set atop a running bond pattern. Includes two port-view ship portraits; a woman wearing a tri-pointed hat holding aloft a vine garland and standing on a small knoll; and a portrait of a knight in full armor. Reverse with a crude engraving of a sloop done by a different hand. Lobed top. Length 13.5”.

3,000/5,000

Provenance:

The Collection of Michael Gill.

Notes:

The woman’s tri-pointed hat as seen here is nearly identical to one on another tooth attributed to a Ceres Artisan sold at Eldred’s, The Marine Sale, August 13, 2020, Lot #48. Her vine garland is similar to the garlands that often form the proscenium arches commonly seen on Ceres Artisan teeth.

4151. FINE SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK

4152. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK ATTRIBUTED TO A CERES ARTISAN

19th Century

Two octagonal vignettes, each with a three-masted ship, flank a central floral wreath. Lyre-form floral garlands at each end. Length 14.5”.

19th Century

1,500/2,000

Central panel depicts an active whaling scene with a whaleship, three whaleboats and whales, some of which are waifed. End panels both depict a lighthouse. Initialed and dated “TW 1842” at one end and “J.T.” at the other end. Length 14.5”.

3,500/5,000

Mid-19th Century

Depicts a finely detailed whaling scene of a whaleship, a large pod of spouting whales, several waifed whales, whaleboats actively involved in captures, and figures visible on deck of the whaleship and in action in the whaleboats. Scene framed within husk garlands and flanked by a sprig of forget-me-nots and a music-themed emblem of a lyre and baton amidst foliage. Length 14.5”. 3,000/5,000

Provenance:

The Collection of Michael Gill.

Notes:

A similar busk, from the Collection of Ian R. MacKenzie, also depicting a whaling scene framed by the same husk garlands and flanking emblems as seen here, was sold at Eldred’s, The Marine Sale, August 19, 2021, Lot #52. One with three scenes but the same style of husk garlands, most likely by the same artist, was sold at Eldred’s, The Marine Sale, August 4, 2022, Lot #3196. More information about the Lambeth Busk Engraver is forthcoming in a future publication by Dr. Stuart M. Frank.

19th Century

Depicts three arcaded buildings, trees, a fort flying an American flag and a ship. Length 12.75”.

1,800/2,500

19th Century

Depicts stars, opposing hearts, a house flanked by trees, and a hanging sign marked “H.S.B. 1844”. Length 14.5”.

2,000/3,000

19th Century

One side with a floral motif, a sunburst and entwined hearts pierced by Cupid’s arrow. Other side with delicately engraved leaves, initials “M.G.B. H.L.B”, and four lines of verse “Freely take this gift of mine the gift and giver both are thine although the gift is but small two loving hearts are worth them all”. Engraved in a different hand “May you be blest with all that heaven can send long life peace comfort and a loving friend through all your life most happy may you be and though far distant I will think of thee”. On a contemporary clear acrylic base.

Provenance:

Collection of Jeffrey and Francine Cohen. Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection.

1,000/1,500

4153. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK

4154. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE PANEL

4155. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK BY THE LAMBETH BUSK ENGRAVER

4156. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK

4157. SCRIMSHAW BALEEN BUSK

4158. SCRIMSHAW BALEEN BUSK

Mid-19th

Obverse depicts two hearts; a ship flying a British flag and a long “Wave” pennant; an array of flags, drums, cannonballs and a “the Trophies of War” banner; a basket of flowers; a ship flying two British flags and a long pennant; a cornucopia; and two entwined hearts. Images separated by geometric and foliate borders. Reverse depicts a whale flanked by verses contained within cartouches. Left verse: “In Many a Gale has Been This Whale Wherein this Bone Did Rest, But Now its Caught For to Support A Lovely Fair Maids Breast”. Right verse: “Health to the Sick Honour to the Brave Success to the true Lovers and Freedom to the Slave”. Length 15.5”.

Provenance: Barbara Johnson Collection. Paul Madden. The Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection.

Exhibited: Fulton Ferry Museum, New York, March 1983.

Illustrated: Through the Eyes of a Collector, fig. 120.

2,000/3,000

4159. FINE SCRIMSHAW BALEEN BUSK

Century

4159, obverse and reverse

4160. RELIEF-CARVED BALEEN BUSK

19th Century

Depicts crossed American flags; a Masonic compass and square; a brick building; a rooster; a sun smiling over a ship at sea; “S.R.”; and a patriotic emblem of a Liberty shield, crossed cannons, cannonballs and flowers. Reverse depicts the stern of the “Bark Peru”, probably the whaling bark Peru of New Bedford. Length 13”. 2,500/3,500

4161. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE PANEL

19th Century

Depicts Liberty holding a shield, a compass rose and an eagle holding an E. Pluribun Unum banner. 1.75" x 12.5". 500/700

4162. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK WITH FOLIATE AND OTHER DESIGNS

19th Century

Depicts eight vignettes: a medallion containing leaves and a five-pointed star with shaded points; a building, probably a customs house, flying an American flag; opposing intersecting Ds formed by vine and crosshatch patterns; a vacant cartouche; a hex sign; a potted plant; a knoll of trees; and a medallion containing a leafy sapling. Some vignettes separated by crosshatch borders and flanked by vines. Reverse with a faint five-pointed star with shaded points and a small dot at the center, similar to those seen on pieces by the Star Engraver. Shaped top. Length 14”. Width 1.5”. 1,000/1,500

4163. SCRIMSHAW BALEEN BUSK

19th Century

With vignettes of sailing ships, geometric designs, a church, a house and trees. Length 13”. 2,000/3,000

4164. SCRIMSHAW BALEEN BUSK

19th Century

Depicts eight images, including plants, ships and buildings, many with identifying banners below. Inscription engraved on reverse includes date of 1830 and name “T Reason”. Length 14.75”. 500/800

4165. SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK

19th Century

Bold geometric and plant designs. Length 14”. 500/1,000

4166. POLYCHROME WHALEBONE BUSK DEPICTING "RUSSIA"

Late 19th Century

Three vignettes of buildings exhibiting typical Russian architectural traits including domes, towers, spires, columns, etc., some topped with crosses, flags or streamers. One spire in the lower vignette appears to be topped with a large bird. Executed in sepia, black and rich black. Handwritten label verso “Russia - C.H. Brewer ...”. Length 13”. 300/500

4160 4162

Depicts a stoved boat scene with a whaleboat in the jaw of a large spouting sperm whale, other whaleboats coming to the rescue of the whalemen, and a distant whaleship and lighthouse. Rope surround. Signed center right “James Mitchell”. Height 16”. Length 41.25”.

* Per Federal Regulation, this item may only be purchased by a Massachusetts resident and will not be shipped out of state. 3,000/4,000

A well-executed copy of a Frederick Myrick “Susan’s Tooth”. Signed at lower edge “P.V.”. Length 5”. * Per Federal Regulation, this item may only be purchased by a Massachusetts resident and will not be shipped out of state 4,000/6,000

Judge Paul Vardeman of Kansas City, Missouri, often and affectionately referred to as “The Dean of Scrimshaw”, is credited with an important body of scrimshaw scholarship. Most notably he identified the work of the Britannia Engraver as separate from that of Edward Burdett’s, one of the most important revelations in the field in several decades. After his passing in October 2022, a chair was placed in his honor in the Scrimshaw Gallery at the Nantucket Whaling Museum.

20th Century

Depicts “Napoleon and the Duchess of Guiche”, as well as a lady-in-waiting, seated at a table. Titled below. Length 7.5”. * Per Federal Regulation, this item may only be purchased by a Massachusetts resident and will not be shipped out of state 800/1,200

4167. * ENGRAVED WHALE’S TOOTH BY PAUL VARDEMAN, "THE DEAN OF SCRIMSHAW" 20th Century

4168. * ENGRAVED SECTION OF WHALE JAW BONE Dated 2001

4169. * POLYCHROME ENGRAVED WHALE’S TOOTH ATTRIBUTED TO MANUEL CUNHA

4167, obverse, reverse and signature detail

4168

Fourteen pages of basic anatomical drawings of various whales and whaling implements. Folds out from left to right as one continuous page. No author or date noted. 11.5” x 16”. 2,500/3,500

For a voyage that commenced July 16, 1867 and ended July 5, 1871, captained by Benjamin F. Jones. Consists of short entries and approx. 84 whale stamps. Marbled boards and leather spine. 16.75” x 7.25”.

1,000/2,000

Whaling journal from the ship Chris Mitchell of New Bedford for a voyage that commenced August 16, 1856 and ended May 17, 1860, captained by Edward Manchester. Includes eight stamps and four small drawings of whale captures. Documents contained within a folder and mostly pertain to the bark Petrol of New Bedford. Includes many whalecraft receipts. 3,000/4,000

1,000/1,500

For a voyage that commenced May 27, 1867 and ended September 4, 1868, captained by James Soule. Contains approx. 15 whale stamps. Marbled boards and leather spine. 13.75” x 8.5”. 3,000/5,000

4170. JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED WHALING BOOK

Late 19th Century or Earlier

4171. CARVED HARDWOOD WHALING LOGBOOK STAMP OF A RIGHT WHALE 19th Century 2.25” x 2.25”.

4172. WHALING JOURNAL FROM THE BARK CAMILLA OF NEW BEDFORD

4173. WHALING JOURNAL AND DOCUMENTS OF NEW BEDFORD INTEREST

4174. WHALING JOURNAL FROM THE BARK PRESIDENT OF NEW BEDFORD

4170

4171

4175. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH PARLOR AND OTHER SCENES

Mid-19th Century

Obverse depicts two lovebirds grasping a vine above a scene of a woman in a parlor, sitting on a sofa, holding a flower in one hand and reaching for a dog with the other. Scene framed by drapery swags and includes two landscape paintings on the wall behind the woman and a rich floral-patterned carpet on the floor. Possibly some traces of polychroming. Reverse depicts two scenes, one of a fisherman at a river in a bucolic setting with trees and a stone bridge, and the other of Hope resting against a fouled anchor and pointing her extended arm toward a ship at sea. Delicately rendered and finely detailed throughout all three images. Length 7”. Includes wood stand. Height on stand 10.5”.

3,500/5,000

4176. PAIR OF POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TEETH WITH CHERUBS

Circa 1860

Both teeth with “ORE” at tip and “We Keat.g” above images of cherubs bordered by three frilly garlands. One tooth with “W. Mc. N” below the cherub, who is holding aloft a banner. The other cherub is holding a shield and sword and kneeling on a Liberty shieldshaped plinth. Lengths 5.5”. Include wooden bases.

3,000/4,000

4175, obverse and reverse

4176, pair

Mid-19th Century

Obverse depicts a lady playing a piano by a window. Scene nicely detailed with patterned drapes, sheet music and a fur-trimmed jacket hanging over the back of the chair. Reverse depicts a young couple in the countryside framed within a wide border formed from floral vines growing out of pots. Length 7”. 2,500/3,500

Mid-19th Century

Obverse with a framed three-quarter-length portrait “Only Daughter”, a curly-haired young woman holding flowers in her apron. Titled in script lettering below. Reverse depicts a spread-wing eagle with an “E. Pluribus Unum” banner in its beak, a red and white Liberty shield at its breast, and olive branches and arrows in its talons. Length 6.75”. 5,000/8,000

Mid-19th Century

Depicts an elegant lady wearing a magnifying glass necklace. Scalloped frame. Length 7.25”. 1,500/2,500

4177. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH FIGURAL SCENES

4178. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH ATTRIBUTED TO THE EAGLE PORTRAITIST

4179. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH IN THE MANNER OF THE EAGLE PORTRAITIST

4177, obverse and reverse

4178, obverse and reverse

4180. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH SHIP PORTRAITS

Second Quarter of the 19th Century

4185. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN

Second Half of the 19th Century

1,500/2,500

Obverse depicts an American-flagged three-masted ship flying a long pennant off the central mast. Reverse with “Ship Rodman March 30th 1833” over a starboard view of a partially dismasted vessel. Length 6.5”.

4181. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

19th Century

Depicts a tabletop flower arrangement. Length 4.25”. 400/600

4182. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH SHIP

Mid-19th Century

Full-length depiction of a woman wearing a bonnet and checkered shawl and holding a handkerchief. Drape and tassel border above and foliate garland below. Length 5.25”. 800/1,200

4186. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH EAGLE AND LADY LIBERTY

Late 19th Century

Obverse depicts an eagle perched on a flagpole with a spearpoint finial, a streamer tied in a bow just below the finial, and a loosely furled 18-star American flag. Reverse depicts Lady Liberty modeled after the Statue of Liberty, holding aloft a flaming torch in one hand and an inscribed tablet in the other, and wearing a crown, robes and sandals. Length 6”. 2,000/3,000

1,800/2,500

Obverse depicts the vessel flying a British ensign. Reverse with “EY” [?] monogram surrounded by a vine. Serrated band at tip and base wraps around the circumference; tip also with a drape and tassel band. Length 5.75”.

4183. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

Second Half of the 19th Century

Assorted images, including a topsail schooner, a pipe, a box of matches, a tobacco bag, a pocket knife, a bottle of rum, etc., wrap around the circumference.

4184. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH LADY WAVING FAREWELL

Second Quarter of the 19th Century

The lady, wearing a hat and polka-dotted dress, waves her handkerchief in farewell to several departing vessels. Length 4.5”. Mounted on a wooden base. 600/1,000

4187. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH WHALE CAPTURE SCENE

Early 20th Century

Depicts a whaleboat with a harpooner at the bow, aiming at a surfacing whale. Length 6.5”. 500/1,000

4188. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH DEPICTING A KNIGHT ON HORSEBACK

19th Century Length 6.5”. 1,000/1,500

4189. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH DEPICTING A GENT IN A TOP HAT

Second Half of the 19th Century Full-length view of a finely dressed gentleman. Length 6.25”. 600/900

4190. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH NATIVITY SCENE 19th Century

Depicts the Star of Bethlehem, Mary, Joseph, the baby Jesus, etc. within an arched panel. Length 6”. 800/1,200

Notes:

A nearly identical tooth by the same hand is illustrated in Scrimshaw on Nantucket: The Collection of the Nantucket Historical Association by Stuart M. Frank (Nantucket, Mass.: The Nantucket Historical Association, 2019), p. 247, fig. 14:29.

4191. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH 19th Century

Depicts a plant and a verse. Length 3.75”. 400/600

Illustrated: Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 72. 4180, obverse and reverse

4182, obverse and reverse

4186, obverse and reverse

4184

4188

4190

Mid-19th Century

Well-detailed standing figure of a buxom woman with her hands folded across her torso. Very thin blade, not believed to be ivory or bone, hinged to swing out from between her legs. Interesting rare form. Length 2.25”. 200/300

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Figure with a long braid and crossed arms and legs. Contained in a box with a note on lid “Capt Nye’s granddaughter 1908 Charles W. Morgan Carved by Capt. Nye”[?]. Height 3.25”. 400/600

4194.

19th Century

Inlaid with a mother-of-pearl heart and geometric shapes. Length 2.25”. Width 1.5”. 800/1,200

19th Century

Two

19th Century

In varied forms. Displayed in a tiered wooden rack. Total height of rack with bodkins 8.75”. Width 12.5”. Depth 4”. 2,000/3,000

4192. WHALEBONE "NAUGHTY NELLIE" NAIL PICK

4193. WHALE IVORY CARVING OF A SEATED FIGURE

WHALE IVORY NEEDLE CASE

4195. COLLECTION OF THIRTY-FIVE CARVED WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY BODKINS

4196. THREE PAIRS OF WOOD, IVORY AND BALEEN KNITTING NEEDLES

pairs with geometric finials and one pair with acorn finials. Lengths from 12.25” to 17.5”. 2,500/3,500

4192

4195

4196, three pairs

19th

4197. WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY SWIFT

Century

Finial, clamp, collars and screw inlaid with small silver medallions, each engraved with a star. Silver plaques on clamp, one dated 1831 and one with monogram. Length 22.5”. 2,500/3,500

4198. WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY CLENCHED FIST SWIFT

19th Century

Acorn and spire-form finial. Clamp formed as fist clenching a yarn cup. Some components with crosshatch carving. Length 21.25”. 2,000/3,000

4197

4198

4199. POLYCHROME WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY DOUBLE SWIFT

19th Century Yarn cup finial, clamp and other components with incised lines colored with red and blue sealing wax. Clamp also functions as a thread holder. Length 17.5”. Cage diameter approx. 14.5”. 2,000/3,000

Mid-19th Century Yarn cup and clamp in an elegant stepped design; clamp also with a polychrome scrimshaw eagle. Mahogany dovetailed case. Swift length 24.75”. Box height 3.25”. Length 26”. Width 3.5”. 3,000/5,000

19th Century

A sock darner, two thread winders with table clamps, and a knitting needle with island wood banding. Lengths from 4.25” to 12”. 700/1,000

4200. CASED WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY SWIFT

4201. FOUR WHALEBONE SEWING ITEMS

4199

4200

4202.

19th Century

Beautifully turned and molded tiers and turned mounts. Ball feet. Height 9.25”. Diameter approx. 4.75”.

2,000/3,000

TABLE-MOUNTED

19th Century

Elegantly constructed. Whale ivory urn-form finials and barrel-form clamps. Lengths 9.5”.

2,000/2,500

Mid-19th Century

Exceptionally long shaft topped with a chalice-form turned yarn cup and ends in a turned knop. C-shaped block clamp with circle and diamondshaped shell inlay. Shell spacers and caps on other components Yarn cup, knobs and knop with incised banding colored with red sealing wax. Swift cage is held in place by moving the clamp along the shaft and tightening a knob, rather than the traditional separate adjustment mechanism. This unusual construction may indicate a reconstruction or marriage of parts. Length 28.5”. Cage diameter approx. 15”. 500/1,000

WHALEBONE, WHALE IVORY AND EBONY THREAD HOLDER

4203. PAIR OF WHALE IVORY, WHALEBONE AND WALNUT

THREAD WINDERS

4204. WHALEBONE SWIFT WITH SHELL INLAY

4202

4203, pair

Mid-19th Century

Whale ivory clamp and yarn cup with incised lines colored red and blue. Clamp with rare scrimshaw depiction of a full-rigged American ship under sail. Hardwood dovetailed case with abalone escutcheon. Swift length 24”. Box height 3.5”. Length 25”. Width 3.75”. 5,000/8,000

Mid-19th Century

Whalebone shaft topped with a turned and incised whale ivory yarn cup. Cage with whale ivory collars, incised whalebone stays, metal rivets and old, possibly original, ropework ties. Whale ivory barrel-form clamp with whalebone screw. Simple but sturdy construction. Length 19.5”. Cage diameter approx. 19.75”. 300/500

4205. CASED WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY SWIFT

4206. WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY SWIFT

4205

4207. SCRIMSHAW WHALE IVORY PIE CRIMPER

19th Century

Serpentine handle, the terminal possibly a small whale’s tooth. Shaft formed as conjoined faceted cubes inset with contrasting dots. Contrasting band between terminal and shaft probably island wood. Stepped architectural wheel yoke. Serrated wheel. Rich patina. Length 7”.

1,000/1,500

4208. WHALE IVORY SERPENT-FORM PIE CRIMPER

19th Century

Serpent with red eyes, carved mouth and engraved features, the head supported by a brace. Looping body with medial contrasting and ivory spacers. Architectural wheel yoke. Small serrated wheel possibly whalebone. Length 6.5”.

1,200/1,800

4209. WALRUS IVORY DOUBLE-WHEEL PIE CRIMPER

19th Century

Unusually shaped handle and wheel yokes with contrasting bands, probably wood or baleen. One wheel in a ruffled flower form and the other jagged. Three-tine fork. Length 8.25”.

1,200/1,800

4210. WHALE IVORY AND WHALEBONE PIE CRIMPER

19th Century

Elliptical handle with two bands of exotic wood. Nicely fluted wheel. Three-tine fork. Length 7.5”. 700/1,000

4211. WHALE IVORY LADY’S LEG PIE CRIMPER

Mid-19th Century

Leg with incised carvings, a contrasting inset “garter” and a carved and engraved heeled boot. Faceted terminal with contrasting inset dots and swinging bail hanging loop. Lyre-style wheel yoke. Serrated wheel with four spokes. Length 7.5”. 8,000/10,000

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 187

4212. WHALEMAN-MADE WATCH HUTCH IN THE FORM OF A TALL-CASE CLOCK

Second Quarter of the 19th Century Walnut case with whale ivory finials, star inlay on bonnet and heart inlay on base, and a whale ivory panel on the pendulum door. Base also with an inlaid star, possibly baleen or exotic wood. Contains an enamel-face pocket watch. Height 13.75”. 4,000/6,000

Illustrated:

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whalemen, p. 211.

4213. WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY FOOTED THREAD HOLDER

19th Century

Polychrome incised lines throughout. Retains an old tag on underside with “Amanda Taber” inscription. The Tabers were a whaling family of New Bedford and a copy of a letter from the New Bedford Public library pertaining to Amanda accompanies the lot. Height 4.75”. Diameter 3”. 500/700

4214. POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK

19th Century Abundantly covered with hex, geometric and foliate designs augmented by multicolored pinpoints. Marked on back “Amanda G. Taber”. Lobed top. A copy of a letter from the New Bedford Public library pertaining to Amanda accompanies the lot. Length 14.25”. 500/1,000

4212

4213

4214

Excellent

18,000/22,000

4,000/7,000

400/600

500/800

4215. * NARWHAL TUSK

form and exceptional condition. Length approx 84”. Per Federal Regulation, this item may only be purchased by a Massachusetts resident and will not be shipped out of state.

4216. * NARWHAL TUSK Probably 19th Century Length approx 84”. * Per Federal Regulation, this item may only be purchased by a Massachusetts resident and will not be shipped out of state. Length 64.5”.

4217. SLAB OF AMBERGRIS 19th Century Broken in two pieces. 5” x 4.5”.

4218. SCHRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH 19th Century Depicts a bust portrait of a young woman. Length 3.75”. 400/600

4219. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

19th Century Obverse depicts the bust of a man wearing a top hat. Reverse marked “Nanny”. Length 6.5”.

4220. SMALL WHALEBONE GAME BOARD

19th Century Whalebone and baleen checkerboard in a wood frame. 4.5” x 4.5”. 400/600

19th Century

Obverse

4221. LARGE SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH

depicts a three-masted three-decker flying a long pennant off the central mast and a British ensign off the stern. Lower sails with tiny detailed reef points. Reverse depicts a mountainous coastline with buildings on shore and four ships within or approaching the harbor. Ships on both sides with incised hulls. Nice patina. Length 8.5”. 6,000/8,000

4221, obverse and reverse

4222. SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TOOTH WITH FIGHTING SCENE

19th Century

Obverse depicts a bird on a branch, a medallion with a view of the Seamen’s Bethel, and two figures engaged in a fight. Reverse depicts a spouting sperm whale and a tiny stagecoach. Length 5.5”. 4,000/6,000

4223. PAIR OF SCRIMSHAW WHALE’S TEETH WITH WHALING SCENES

Mid-19th Century

Both with a whaling scene that encircles the circumference of the tooth. One tooth depicts a whaleship cutting in; the other depicts a whaleship trying down. Both scenes with whaleboats, a sperm whale and distant coast. Vacant ribbands above ships. Lengths 6.88”. 12,000/15,000

Provenance: The Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection.

Illustrated: Through the Eyes of a Collector, fig. 7.

4222, obverse and reverse

4223, pair obverse and reverse

4224

4225

4226

4227

4228

4229

4230

4224. WALKING STICK MADE FROM A SECTION OF A NARWHAL TUSK

19th Century

Fitted with a turned mahogany head and ferrule. Nice patina. Length 31.75”. 1,800/2,500

Provenance: Jeffrey and Francine Cohen Collection, Richard A. Bourne Company, Hyannis, Massachusetts, July 31, 1989, Lot #59.

4225. CANE WITH RARE CASK-FORM HANDLE

19th Century

Whale ivory handle carved as a whale oil cask. Island wood and whale ivory banded throat. Whalebone shaft. Length 36.75”. 2,000/2,500

4226. CANE WITH GOLD-PLATED HANDLE

19th Century

Handle with presentation inscription. Bold twisted baleen shaft. Nickel ferrule. Length 34.75”. 2,000/2,500

4227. CANE

19th Century

Knob handle with ivory, baleen and shell panels and a steer horn cap. Spiral-carved ebony shaft. Copper ferrule. Length 35.25”. 800/1,200

4228. CANE WITH HAND-FORM HANDLE

19th Century

Elongated handle formed as a hand holding a cane, the hand carved from whale ivory and the sleeve comprised of whale ivory, horn and island wood segments. Whale ivory ball top. Island wood throat with inlaid dots. Whalebone shaft. Length 35.25”.

4229. CLENCHED FIST CANE

19th Century

Whalebone handle in the form of a fist clenching a baton. Long turned and incised whalebone throat. Spiral-carved whalebone shaft. Married. Length 33.5”. 800/1,200

4230. BALL-HANDLED CANE

19th Century

Whale ivory handle with three incised lines colored with sealing wax. Whalebone shaft tapers from an octagon to a cylinder. Metal ferrule. Length 36.5”. 900/1,200

4231. PRESENTATION BUGGY WHIP

19th Century Ivory handle engraved “Nelson Brown So. Danvers Mass. Presented by [...] Shackley Merrill Oct. 22. 1856”. Length 43.75”. 800/1,200

4232. CARVED WHALEBONE WALKING STICK

Mid-19th Century

Turned bone knob handle, possibly steer bone, with a reliefcarved bull’s-eye at top and pierced for a wrist cord. Slender tapering whalebone shaft with sections of ribbed and rope-twist carvings separated by bands. Length 34.25”. 300/500

4233. BILLY CLUB WITH WHALE IVORY HANDLE

Third Quarter of the 19th Century Leather wrap. Length 12”. 100/200

4233

4234. CARVING OF A HUMPBACK WHALE

Contemporary Length 40”. 400/600

4235. CARVING OF A SPERM WHALE

Contemporary Painted black and white. Length 38.5”. 400/600

4236. ROGER MITCHELL CARVING OF A SPERM WHALE

Contemporary Painted white. Glass eye. Length 38”. 400/700

4237. WHALEBONE WHIRLIGIG

Second Half of the 19th Century

In the form of a standing sailor, possibly a Black man, with a cap, collar and buttons. Paddle arms in the form of sperm whales. Mounted to a wooden pedestal. Total height 22”. Width 18”. 8,000/12,000

19th Century

Purportedly made by a member of the Hussey family, who were whalers on Nantucket in the Early 19th Century before moving to Ohio. Carved and polychromed, with black hair, blue eyes, red lips and other nicely detailed facial features. Jointed arms and legs. Height 4.75”. On stand. 1,500/2,500

Provenance:

Hussey Family of Nantucket.

Jeffrey and Francine Cohen Collection, Richard A. Bourne Company, Hyannis, Massachusetts, July 31, 1989, Lot #123. Retains collection sticker on back of doll.

Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Sotheby’s New York, December 11-12, 1981, Lot #480. Retains collection sticker on stand. Private Pennsylvania Collection.

Includes a whale ivory pair with fine incised bandings. Heights approx. 2.25”. 1,000/1,500

19th

Beautifully

4238. RARE ARTICULATED WHALEBONE DOLL

4239. WHALEBONE CHILD’S CUP AND BALL TOY

Century

carved and turned. Total height 6.25”. 500/800

4240. THREE EGG CUPS

19th Century

4241. RARE SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE AND WHALE IVORY VASE

19th Century

Body of vase made from a whale’s tooth and engraved with an image of branches in a handled vase. Turned and stepped whalebone stem and foot. Height 7”. 2,000/3,000

4238

4240, three

4241

SESSION II

Friday, August 11

9:30 A.M.

The Bob and Nina Hellman Collection Lots 4501-4580

Whalecraft

Nantucket Baskets

Prisoner-of-War Crafts

Paintings

Navigational Instruments

America's Cup Memorabilia

Ship Models

More

THE HELLMAN WHALING & WHALECRAFT COLLECTION

Noted collectors and antique dealers with strong ties to Nantucket, Bob was a renowned expert in whalecraft, the harpoons, lances, spades and other gear used to hunt and process whales, while Nina specialized in scrimshaw and maritime art, helping shape the landmark Thomas Mittler Scrimshaw Collection and showcasing it in her 2015 publication Through the Eyes of the Collector.

Bob Hellman (1930-2018) devoted sixty years to collecting and researching whalecraft and whaling artifacts, and after his death, many of his items were dispersed to museums and institutions, notably the Nantucket Whaling Museum. Hundreds of remaining pieces from his collection will come to market here at Eldred’s, in a series of auctions over the next two years. Here we proudly present the first 79 lots, a wonderful group of material with impeccable provenance. We know you will enjoy these offerings and find something to improve your collection.

Most importantly, Bob Hellman’s collection will be preserved in its entirety in an online database, hellmanwhalingcollection.org The website provides a virtual exhibition and an exhaustive research library, and will prove to be an invaluable resource for current and future collectors. The website will officially launch this fall, but in the interim, you may view it using the password HellmanCollection. There you can enter a lot’s REH collection number to view additional details about the item. Please be sure to include the REH prefix with the number (i.e., “REH663”).

4501

4501. MOUNTED SPERM WHALE PLAQUE BY GUIDO OLIVA Mahwah, New Jersey, 1950s

Nina Hellman notes this $12 purchase was the first item in Bob Hellman’s whaling collection. Unsigned. 5.5” x 14.75”. REH482 250/350

Rare carved and

Well-rendered likeness with an open jaw exposing carved teeth. Signed and dated on base “Innis 1968”. Includes a glass dome display case. Whale height 6”. Length 13.75”. REH658 800/1,200

4502. CLARK G. VOORHEES, JR. Connecticut/Vermont, 1911-1980

painted wooden full-bodied humpback whale. Signed on base. Height 6.5”. Length 18”. REH680 2,500/3,500

4503. CLARK G. VOORHEES, JR. Connecticut/Vermont, 1911-1980 Carved and painted wooden killer whale plaque. Signed verso. Length 18.25”. REH476 1,200/1,800

4504. ROBERT INNIS CARVING OF A SPERM WHALE 19th Century

4502

4503

4504

Third

of

19th Century

Inset maker’s label. Nicely fitted interior with fold-out letter compartment and writing surface. Recessed brass carrying handles at sides. On a contemporary stand. Desk height 9”. Width 21”. Depth 13”. Total height 24”. Width 23”. Depth 15.25”. 1,500/2,500

4505. CHINA TRADE BRASS-BOUND CAMPHORWOOD CAPTAIN’S LAP DESK

4505

4506, pair

4506. PAIR OF GILMAN JOSLIN & SONS CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES ON STANDS

Quarter

the 19th Century Victorian cast iron stands molded with an acanthus leaf design. Heights 41.5”. Diameters approx. 11.5”. REH681 10,000/15,000

30,000/40,000

William Swain was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on December 27, 1803. He opened his first art studio in Newburyport in 1824 at the age of 21. He searched for commissions in Nantucket, New Bedford, Norfolk and New York City — places where he could find successful professionals eager to have themselves and their families portrayed in oil. He was Nantucket’s most prolific portraitist, painting more than 100 portraits of ship captains, merchants, lawyers and other professionals and their spouses. He had a studio in New York City by 1833. Swain was the grandfather of the noted Pennsylvania artist Violet Oakley. He died in Norfolk, Virginia on February 18, 1847.

4507. WILLIAM SWAIN

New York/Massachusetts, 1803-1847

Pair of half-length portraits of Captain George Harris and Mary Chase Harris. Unsigned. Both dated 1824 on stretchers. Oils on canvas, 26.5” x 22.5”. Framed 33.75” x 29.5”. REH638 and REH639

4507, pair

Captain George Harris was master of the whaleships Mayflower and Arabella of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

4508. LUSCOMB’S BREECH-LOADING DARTING GUN

19th Century

Patented 1894. Complete with bomb. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 10, 1981. Length 74.75”. REH253 2,500/3,500

4509. DARTING GUN WITH BOMB ATTRIBUTED TO FRANK BROWN

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Unmarked. Hellman notes the darting gun may be unsigned as it was an experimental type made by Frank Brown. Bomb patented by Frank Brown 1904. Hellman Collection acquisition date January 1, 1988. Length 26.25”. REH243 and REH273. 4,500/5,500

4510. CUNNINGHAM’S SECOND MODEL DARTING GUN WITH HARPOON

19th Century

Mounted on an old wooden pole. Hellman Collection acquisition date December 7, 1998. Length of gun on pole 69.75”. Harpoon length 39.5”.

4508

4509

19th Century

Every whaleboat had a double oarlock, known as the tub oarlock. Mounted on a period section of wooden guwale. Total height 16.5”. Length 41.25”. Width 4.75”. REH412 1,500/2,500

Provenance: Morgan Levine.

Stamped “Gifford & Allen New Bedford”. Hellman Collection acquisition date October 1, 2001. Total length 12.5”. Width 8.25”. REH241 300/500

BOMB LANCES

New Bedford, 19th Century

Three intact and one exploded. Period green painted storage box. Hellman Collection acquisition date November

10, 1989. Box height 5.75”. Length 21”. Width 5.75”. REH274 and REH529 1,000/1,500

1,000/2,000

Provenance: Barbara Johnson Collection. Retains sticker.

4514

4511. RARE MOUNTED DOUBLE OARLOCK (TUB OARLOCK)

4511

4512. WHALEBOAT MAST HINGE

New Bedford, 19th Century

4512

4513. BOX CONTAINING FOUR DANIEL KELLEHER HARPOON

4513

4514. BOMB LANCE BOX 19th Century Contains two Grudchos and Eggers bomb lances. Mustard yellow painted box. Box height 5”. Length 20.5”. Width 6”. REH530

4515. RARE TEMPLE-TYPE TOGGLE HARPOON

Circa 1860s

Head marked “Macy” for New Bedford smiths E.B. & F. Macy, “SB” for the captain’s starboard boat, and “BK. SBM” for the barque Sunbeam. Shows considerable contortion and twisting of the shank from having been in conflict with a whale. Hellman Collection acquisition date May 1, 1979. Length 38.75”. REH056. 2,000/2,500

4516. IMPROVED-STYLE TOGGLE HARPOON

19th Century

Marked “SBB” for starboard bow boat and faintly marked “H”, probably for the barque Andrew Hicks. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 1, 1980. Length 38.5”. REH058 1,200/1,500

4517. CUTTING SPADE ON POLE

19th Century

Blade stamped “D Gray” for Darius Gray, a New Bedford blacksmith. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 3, 1982. Length 74”. REH186 500/800

4518. CUTTING SPADE BY H.N. DEAN

19th Century

Blade stamped “H.N. Dean Cast Steel”. Hellman Collection acquisition date January 1, 1970. Length 14.75”. REH171 500/700

4519. CUTTING SPADE

19th Century

Stamped “Cole Cast Steel” for maker R. Cole of Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Hellman Collection acquisition date November 18, 1967. Length 15.25”. REH170. 600/800

4520. RARE SIGNED GREENER HARPOON BOW GUN ON STAND

Birmingham, Mid-19th Century

Signed on brass plate “W.W. Greener Birmingham 2 eclipse”. Original cast iron yoke-type swivel mount. Displayed on a stand accompanied with two lances, a cutting blade and a barbed harpoon marked “eclipse”. Gun length 53.5”. Total height 87”. REH255 20,000/28,000

Late 19th Century

The signal flag for the letter Q, with an open yellow field, flown from a ship that was under quarantine. 49.5” x 68.5”. REH650 300/500

19th Century

Fully rigged with fabric sails. Wooden hull with extensive whalebone trim. Figurehead below bowsprit. Eagles and shields on port and starboard side of stern. Stern board marked “MAR”. Case height 34.75”. Length 45”. Width 18”. REH437. 6,000/9,000

Portrait of the barque Wanderer under full sail. Executed in nicely contrasting colors. Signed lower right “CW Ashley”. Marked verso “288”. Oil on canvas, 25” x 30”. Framed 30” x 35”. REH634 5,000/7,000

The Wanderer was a whaling barque out of New Bedford and was one of the last of the whaling era. It wrecked on Cuttyhunk Island in 1924.

4521. QUARANTINE FLAG

4521

4522

4523

4522. CLIFFORD WARREN ASHLEY Massachusetts, 1881-1947

4523. CASED SAILOR-MADE MODEL OF A PACKET OR MERCHANT SHIP

4524. RALPH EUGENE CAHOON, JR.

Massachusetts, 1910-1982

“So. Pacific ... The Perils of Whaling”. Signed lower right “R Cahoon pinxt”. Titled lower margin. Oil on masonite, 23.75” x 30”. Framed 28.5” x 34.5”. REH614. 20,000/30,000

Provenance: Barbara Johnson Collection.

Notes:

The composition is a take on the sketch “A Scramble for Salt Junk” in J. Ross Browne’s 1846 book, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise (facing p. 142)

4525

England, Second Half of the 19th Century Hand-carved and painted half-length figure of a woman. Height 35”. Width 20”. Depth 22”. REH660 8,000/12,000

Provenance: A Nantucket, Massachusetts Collection.

4524

4525. SHIP’S FIGUREHEAD

These are nearly identical ship portraits, both showing figures on deck, signal flags flying off the mast, a bold waving American flag flying off the stern, and a Western ship and Chinese vessel off the stern and bow. Carl Crossman, a noted China Trade scholar, conjectured the ship’s master may have purchased the larger painting, while a lower-ranking officer of lesser means settled for the smaller version.

4526. LAI SUNG China, fl. 1850-1885

China trade portrait of the American clipper ship Endeavor entering Hong Kong harbor. Artist’s label on stretcher. Housed in a period Chinese Chippendale frame. Oil on canvas, 28” x 39.5”. Framed 34.5” x 45”. REH662 30,000/50,000

4527. LAI SUNG China, fl. 1850-1885

China trade portrait of the American clipper ship Endeavor entering Hong Kong harbor, Housed in a period Chinese Chippendale frame. Oil on canvas, 18.25” x 24.25”. Framed 22” x 28”. REH663 20,000/30,000

4526

4527

4528. WILLIAM HENRY TRIPP

Massachusetts, 1880-1959

Collection of 21 photographs taken aboard the whaling schooner John R. Manta, depicting various stages of whale capture and processing. The images were included in Tripp’s book There Goes Flukes: The Story of New Bedford’s Last Whaler (Reynolds Printing, 1938). Tripp was also a former curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Photographs housed in three frames. Images approx. 11” x 14”. Framed approx. 16” x 13.25” and 25” x 73.5”. REH525. 1,000/2,000

Provenance:

Purchased from Morgan Levine’s sister, Jane List, on Nantucket.

4529. TWO PIECES OF WHALING MEMORABILIA

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

A photograph of the whaling barque Canton and a Harper’s Weekly print depicting Arctic whaling. Framed 17.5” x 21.75” and 19.75” x 25.5”. REH576 and REH645 250/350

4530. PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BARQUE COMMODORE MORRIS

Late 19th Century

Unsigned. Notated verso “1892”. Frame purportedly made of the wreckage of the barque Wanderer, with a copper sperm whale plaque on the lower frame moulding. Framed 13.25” x 16.5”. REH592 250/350

4531. FOUR WHALING-RELATED PHOTOGRAPHS

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Framed from 9.75” x 7.75” to 11.75” to 14.75”. REH469, REH646, REH647 and REH668 300/400

4532. CASED SET OF FOUR BARBARA JOHNSON WHALING COLLECTION AUCTION CATALOGS

Parts I, II, III and IV of the Sotheby’s auctions held in New York from December 1981 through December 1983. Inscribed to Bob and Nina Hellman. Each volume includes a prices realized key. Case 9.5” x 9.25”. 300/400

4528, twenty-one

19th Century

Marked “W. Greener Maker Aston Newton Birmingham 1855”. Engraved proof marks with two crossed pikes. Original cast iron yoke-type swivel mount. Displayed on a contemporary stand. Hellman Collection acquisition date July 12, 1994. Height on stand 22”. Length on stand 53”. REH254 15,000/20,000

19th Century

Used

4533. RARE SIGNED GREENER BOW GUN

4533

4534. RARE WOODEN HARPOON CROTCH

to hold the harpoon just before striking the whale. Length 27”. REH340 500/1,000

4534

4538

4535. RARE WOODEN DOUBLE-FLUE HARPOON SHEATH

19th Century

Under old green paint. Old collection number “2166” in white paint at tip. Length 7”. Width 4.75”. Opening .875”. REH371 500/1,000

4536. THREE HARPOON SHEATHS FOR TOGGLE-HEAD HARPOONS

19th Century

Canvas-covered wood. Lengths from 9” to 12.5”. REH364, REH368 and REH369 700/1,000

4537. A.J. PETERS LANCE ON POLE

19th Century

Stamped on blade “AJP Cast Steel”. Hellman Collection acquisition date October 28, 1998. Overall length approx. 129”. REH206. 1,500/2,000

4538. SWORDFISH HARPOON ON ORIGINAL POLE

19th Century

Complete with brass swordfishing dart. Length approx. 180”. REH211 1,000/1,500

4539. TWO-PETAL LILY IRON

19th Century

Arrowhead-style head with two swivel barbs. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 18, 1997. Length 33.75”. REH106 700/900

4540. FOUR-BARB LILY IRON

Possibly Britain, 19th Century For cetaceans. Retains remains of sailor ropework and manila rope near cone. Length 42.5”. REH073 900/1,200

4541. ZENO KELLEY PATENTED SHOULDER GUN TOGGLE HARPOON

19th Century

Marked “B. GLA” from the barque Glacier of New Bedford. Zeno Kelley, a watchmaker from New Bedford, patented this gun December 3, 1867. Length 26.5”. REH115 1,500/2,500

4542. SWIVEL BARB GROMMET IRON

19th Century

For cetaceans. Hellman Collection acquisition date December 1, 1973. Length 28.5”. REH038. 500/800

4543. TOGGLE-HEAD HARPOON

19th Century

Madeiran or Azorean. Head marked “SS” or “SB”, possibly for the owner or company of the vessel. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 1, 1985. Length 32”. REH087 600/900

4544. DOUBLE-FLUE HARPOON BY W. SMITH & SONS

Reddington, England, 19th Century

Signed. Hellman Collection acquisition date November 1, 1970. Length 21.25”. REH039 700/1,000

4545. GREENER GUN HARPOON FOR A BOW-MOUNTED GREENER GUN

19th Century

Two swivel barbs with stop withers. Length 48.75”. REH527

1,000/1,500

4546. LARGE GREENER-STYLE MOVEABLE BARB HARPOON

19th Century

Likely Norwegian. With two swivel barbs. Hellman Collection acquisition date October 1, 1979. Length 49”. REH051

4547. GREENER DOUBLE-FLUE HARPOON

19th Century

1,000/1,500

Signed “W Greener”. Marked “Margaret London” for the London whaleship Margaret, which was listed in Lloyd’s 1850 register as a “prize” vessel that departed for the South Seas in 1849. Hellman Collection acquisition date April 1, 1986. Length 44”. REH080

1,400/1,800

4548. SINGLE-FLUE HARPOON FOR A BOW GUN

19th Century

Stamped “JB”, probably for James Barton, New Bedford. Hellman Collection acquisition date June 24, 1981. Length 45.25”. REH065

1,500/2,500

4549. CUTTING SPADE CONVERTED TO A GALLEY FOOD CHOPPER

19th Century

Blade stamped “FM”. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 1, 1971. Length 8”. REH172 300/400

4550. LANTERN KEG

19th Century

Used on a whaleship to store materials in case of emergency. Under old gray paint. Iron bands at top, middle and bottom. Height 18.75”. Diameter at bottom 11”. REH333. 500/1,000

Provenance: Morgan Levine Collection.

4549

4550

19th Century Height 20”. Width 11”. 500/1,000

London, 19th Century

Signed “Spencer Browning & Rust London”. Ebonized wood frame with brass mounts. Wedge-shaped wooden case with two paper labels. Includes papers suggesting the octant was owned by Edwin A. Luce, master of clipper ship Onward, 1856. Case 14” x 13.25”. REH435 700/1,000

London, 19th Century

Signed “Hughes London”. Skeletonized frame. Wedge-shaped wooden case with two labels pertaining to New Bedford chandlers. Case 11.25” x 14.25”. REH434 500/800

18th and 19th Century

“View of the Whale Fisher, &c. in Greenland” and “The Mysticetus or Common Whale”. Framed 15.25” x 11.25” and 7.75” x 9.75”. REH643 and REH591 100/200

4551. LIGNUM VITAE

OCTAGONAL PEDESTAL

4552. CASED OCTANT

4553. CASED BRASS SEXTANT

4554. TWO BOOK PRINTS

4551

4552

4554, two

20th Century

Framed 14” x 16.75”. REH644. 150/250

20th Century

Includes a copy of American Whalers in the Western Arctic (Fairhaven, Mass.: Edward J. Lefkowicz Inc., 1983), a portfolio of Gilkerson’s prints, and a triptych, one with a color remarque of a whaling scene. Triptych framed 27” x 21” and 23” x 24.25”. REH425 1,000/2,000

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Bear, constructed as a sealer, sailed with whaleships, helping to rescue whalemen in distress. Model, probably sailor-made, under standing rigging and with whaleboats on davits. Lot includes a copy of the book Track of the Bear. Case height 22”. Length 35.5”. Width 12.5”. REH500

1,500/3,000

Bear was constructed as a sealer in Dundee, Scotland in 1874. Her well-documented 89-year career included the 1884 discovery and rescue of the Greely expedition, service in Alaska as a U.S. Revenue Cutter, being caught in the ice on several occasions, participating in the U.S. Antarctic Expeditions of 1939 and 1941, and taking part in the capture of a German-outfitted Norwegian trawler spying on Allied ship movements.

4556

4557, triptych

4558

4556. REPRODUCTION PRINT OF KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI’S “WHALING OFF THE GOTO ISLAND”

4557. COLLECTION OF WILLIAM GILKERSON ITEMS

4558. CASED MODEL OF THE STEAMSHIP BEAR

19th Century Hellman Collection acquisition date July 31, 1996. Length 39.75”. REH215. 3,500/5,000

19th Century

By Cuttingham and Cogan. Breech-loading gun signed “H.W. Chapman”. Hellman Collection acquisition date October 1, 1977. Gun length 34.5”. REH217 3,500/5,000

19th Century

Used for extracting blanket pieces of blubber over 1,000 pounds. Blubber hooks of this size are rare in today’s market. Approx. length 39”. REH315. 500/1,000

4559. BRAND NO. 3 SHOULDER GUN WITH COMPATIBLE BOMB LANCE

4560. SHOULDER GUN WITH BOMB LANCE

4561. RARE CAST IRON BLUBBER HOOK

4559

4560

4561

4562. RARE DIAMOND-POINTED TOGGLE HEAD HARPOON

19th Century

Retains intact manila line. Hellman notes the diamond-point head is very rare as the design was flawed and self-defeating because the lower cutting edge allowed the iron to cut its way out of the whale. Hellman Collection acquisition date March 1, 1980. Length 34.5”. REH060

Provenance:

1,200/1,800

Purchased from a dealer who claimed to have acquired it in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

4563. DOUBLE-FLUE HARPOON

19th Century

4565. WALRUS HUNTING DOUBLE-FLUE HARPOON

19th Century

For use in a Greener-style bow-mounted gun. Hellman Collection acquisition date May 1, 1980. Length 30.5”. REH049 1,200/1,500

2,000/2,500

Signed “W. Hurst” and marked “Phoenix 1832” for the whaleship Phoenix, which operated from the northern English port of Whitby. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 14, 1993. Length 32”. REH116.

Provenance: Barbara Johnson Collection.

4564. OLIVER ALLEN-PATENTED "CLOVER LEAF" IRON

19th Century

Patented in 1848. Designed for a 7/8-inch bore shoulder gun. Hellman Collection acquisition date March 1, 1974. Length 46.25”. REH025

700/1,200

4566. DOUBLE-FLUE GROMMET IRON ATTRIBUTED TO W. SMITH & SON

19th Century

Probably used for small cetaceans. Moveable barbs. Hellman Collection acquisition date July 1, 1977. Length 22”. REH046 500/800

4567. SWIVEL-BARBED GROMMET IRON

19th Century

For cetaceans. Hellman Collection acquisition date October 1, 1980. Length 27.25”. REH057

600/900

4568. BOMB HARPOON GUN ON POLE

19th Century

By Patrick Cunningham. Second model. Patent date on barrel “Feb 28 1882”. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 8, 1980. Total length 67.5”. REH248 1,800/2,500

4569. TWO HAND-FORGED FISHING HARPOONS

19th Century

One double-flue and one with a lance-like point. Hellman Collection acquisition dates May 1, 1977 and July 1, 1982. Lengths 10.25” and 11”. REH040 and REH042 500/700

4570. GROMMET IRON FOR SMALL CETACEANS

19th Century

Mostly used for porpoise, blackfish and pilot whales. Hellman Collection acquisition date May 1, 1985. Length 26.5”. REH089 300/500

4571. HIGHLY UNUSUAL TEMPLE-TYPE DARTING GUN TOGGLE-HEAD HARPOON

19th Century

Notable for a round whale-line loop, instead of the usual teardrop shape, and for the loop’s location 90 degrees from its typical position at the top of the shaft. Sailcloth and wooden sheath. Hellman Collection acquisition date August 4, 2007. Length 30.25”. REH268 1,000/1,500

4574. RANDALL DETACHABLE HEAD HARPOON

19th Century

Designed and patented by Charles Randall of Palmyra, Georgia, December 3, 1846. Hellman Collection acquisition date March 1, 1982. Length 34”. REH076. 1,200/1,500

4575. LOW PROFILE TOGGLE HARPOON

19th Century

Possibly Japanese, though Barbara Johnson believed it to be for Long Island shore whaling. Hellman Collection acquisition date September 25, 1982. Length 27.25”.

REH078 400/800

Provenance:

Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Sotheby’s New York, September 24-25, 1982, Lot #338.

4576. LARGE GREENER-STYLE MOVEABLE BARB IRON

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Diamond-shaped tip. Purportedly from a shore whaling station on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Hellman Collection acquisition date July 1, 1978. Length 46.75”.

REH034 1,000/1,500

4577. PORPOISE TOGGLE HARPOON

19th Century

Cone wrapped with twine and manila rope. Length 23.5”. REH431 400/600

4578. EARLY CUTTING SPADE

4572.

19th Century

Possibly used for dolphins or swordfish. Hellman Collection acquisition date July 1, 1978. Length 24.75”. REH041 600/900

Possibly Nantucket, Late 18th/Early 19th Century Stamped “RF”. Retains a section of wooden pole. Length 34.5”. REH507 400/600

4579. BOAT SPADE

19th Century

4573.

20th Century

Hellman describes this as an “exaggerated reproduction”, made in the Peters/Driggs ship’s smith shop at Mystic Seaport, 1986, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Driggs whalecraft shop. Hellman Collection acquisition date December 15, 1985. Length 32”.

REH081. 250/350

For cutting and trying out. Retains original but unusual sheath, carved from a single piece of pine. Length 19”. REH606 500/700

4580. LILY IRON

19th Century

Made for porpoise and other cetaceans or large fish. Four-flue swivel barbs. Hellman Collection acquisition date October 1, 1975. Length 35”. REH036 800/1,200

SMALL BARBED HARPOON WITH TRIANGULAR TIP

REPRODUCTION TEMPLE-TYPE TOGGLE-HEAD HARPOON

1,000/1,500

19th Century Stamped on collar “SSS”. Wooden pole. Length 78”. 2,000/3,000

Provenance: Purchased from Paul Vardeman, Kansas City, Missouri, according to the consignor. The Collection of Michael Gill.

2,000/3,000

New

Century Mounted on its original pole and complete with original harpoon and bomb lance. Harpoon made by Macy and stamped “LB” for larboard boat and with vessel markings “BK SPM” or “BK SDM”, possibly for the bark Sunbeam. Brass bomb lance marked “Pierce”. Length 84.5”. 1,800/2,500

Provenance: Maritime Antiques, Inc., York, Maine, 2010. The Collection of Michael Gill.

Provenance: The Collection of Michael Gill.

800/1,200

4581. SIGNED WHALING LANCE ON ORIGINAL POLE 19th Century Stamped with illegible maker’s mark and “Cast Steel”. Length 127”.

4582. TOGGLE HARPOON ON ORIGINAL POLE 19th Century Marked “Macy”. Head etched “HC”, probably an indication of the vessel on which it was used. Length 96.5”.

4583. DARTING HARPOON GUN

4584. RARE E. PIERCE HARPOON DARTING GUN

Bedford, Second Half of the 19th

4585. RARE BLUBBER FORK 19th Century Length 78.5”.

Provenance:

Provenance: Purportedly purchased from Clifford Ashley.

Provenance: The

4586. FIVE BRASS BOMB HARPOON LANCES AND A HEAD Late 19th/Early 20th Century Lengths from 6.75” to 19”. 1,500/2,000

The Collection of Michael Gill.

4586

4587

4591

4587. RARE WROUGHT IRON HARPOON Mid-19th Century By J. Tinkham. Stamped on head. Unusual toggle with arrow-type end. Length 34.5”. 2,000/2,500

The Collection of Michael Gill.

4588. ENGLISH DOUBLE-FLUE HARPOON 19th Century Illegible marks. Length 33.25”. 500/1,000

4589. GALVANIZED BLUBBER DIPPER 19th Century Length 42.5”. Bucket diameter 9.5”. 500/1,000

4590. TWO WHALING IMPLEMENTS 19th Century A steel lance and a blubber spade, both on partial poles. Illegibly marked. Lengths 57.5” and 57”. 300/500

4591. R. BROWN GUN HARPOON Mid-19th Century Marked on shaft “R Brown Patd 1850” for Robert Brown of New London, Connecticut. Hinged barbs. Length 33.5”. 500/1,000

Collection of Michael Gill.

1995

Round, with swing handles. Each with contrasting wooden ears and wooden bases. All with a 1995 penny inserted into the base and signed “Bill Sevrens Nantucket”. Largest height to rim 6.5”. Diameter 12”. 4,000/6,000

William “Bill” Sevrens (1916-2001) was born in Boston but had strong family connections to Nantucket, visiting the island each summer and eventually moving there as a teenager. He learned basket making from the legendary Mitchell Ray, who suggested Bill mark his basket in some way to distinguish them from Ray’s baskets. Bill glued a new penny inside his baskets, which he thought was also a nice way of dating them. He maintained the penny tradition throughout his career and it was eventually adopted by other basket makers.

4592. RARE OLIVER C. COFFIN NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP BASKET Late 19th/Early 20th Century Round, with swing handle. Retains paper label on underside. Height to rim 5.5”. Diameter 12.25”. 7,500/10,000

4593. NEST OF EIGHT WILLIAM SEVRENS NANTUCKET BASKETS Circa

4594. RARE WILLIAM APPLETON NANTUCKET BASKET Early 20th Century Oval, with swing handle. Appleton label on underside. Height to rim 5”. Length 9.25”. Width 6”. 5,000/7,000

4592

4593

4594

4595. LARGE NANTUCKET BASKET

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Round, with swing handle. Turned hardwood base plate. Height to rim 8.25”. Diameter 12.75”. 900/1,200

4596. SMALL NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP BASKET

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Oval, with swing handle. Deep rich patina. Height to rim 4”. Length 7.5”. Width 5.5”. 400/600

4597. LARGE NANTUCKET BASKET

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Oval, with swing handle. Deep, rich patina. Height to rim 6.75”. Length 15.5”. Width 12”. 600/900

NANTUCKET BASKET "FRIENDSHIP" PURSE

Circa 1965

Oval, with characteristic “square style” swing handle. Four carved whales mounted to top of hinged lid. Signed on underside “Made in Nantucket Jose Formoso Reyes”. Height 7.5”. Width 11.5”. 6,000/9,000

4599. MIKE KANE NANTUCKET BASKET PURSE

Dated 1976

Oval, with swing handle. Carved goose mounted to top of hinged lid. Owner’s plaque mounted to interior of lid. 1976 penny affixed to interior of base. Incised signature and date on underside “Made by Mike Kane 1976 Nantucket Island”. Height 7.5”. Width 10”. 1,000/1,500

4598. JOSÉ FORMOSO REYES

4595

4597

4598

4599

Early 19th Century Sliding domed cover with extensive foliate and geometric carvings. Secondary sliding lid with pierced cribbage board and coordinating carved foliate design. Contains 29 polychrome dominoes and two cribbage

Early 19th Century Geometric designs throughout accented with polychrome sealing wax. Sliding lid. Contains dominoes. Height 2”. Length 7.25”. Width 2.5”. 500/1,000

Early 19th Century Pierced top carved with hearts, clubs, crossed keys and other geometric shapes. Includes 55 dominoes.

Height 1.375”. Length 5.25”. Width 1.375”. 800/1,200

Provenance: E. Norman Flayderman. Private Rhode Island Collection.

4600. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OFWAR BONE GAMES BOX

pegs. Height 3.5”. Length 6.75”. Width 2.75”. 800/1,200

4601. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OFWAR BONE GAMES BOX

4602. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OFWAR BONE GAMES BOX

4600

4601

4602

Early 19th Century

Peaked sliding lid with inset watercolor bust portraits under glass. Additional watercolor portraits around the sides of the box, for a total of ten. Overhanging fancy-carved and piqued gallery along two sides of the top. Scalloped and opposing heart blind fretwork throughout, some sections backed by green paper. Carved corner posts with mushroom finials. Contains three dice, a teetotum, four cribbage pegs, a full deck of polychrome playing cards, and a set of dominoes with red and blue lines. Height 4.5”. Length 10”. Width 4.5”. 2,000/3,000

19th Century

Top depicts a joker flanked by face cards for the king and queen of spades. Contains polychrome bone playing cards. Height 1”. Length 4.25”. Width 2”. 500/1,000

Early 19th Century

Top and sides carved with hearts and other geometric designs backed by colored foil and paper. Skirt with swag design. Compartmented interior. Label on interior with additional information. Height 2.75”. Length 8.5”. Width 6.25”. 800/1,200

4603. BONE GAMES BOX, PROBABLY NAPOLEONIC PRISONEROF-WAR, CONTAINING A FULL COMPLEMENT OF GAMES

4603

4604

4605

4604. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE BOX

4605. POLYCHROME ENGRAVED BONE PLAYING CARD BOX

Early 19th Century

Upper tier with a woman working a spinning wheel and a windmill. Height 5.25”. 1,200/1,800

French/English, Early 19th Century

Finely carved and detailed mechanized two-tier model with traces of polychroming. Turning the crank animates the three female figures, the spinning wheel and the windmill on the upper platform. One of the women is standing with her spotted dog on a leash. The other two women, both in the typical large bonnets, are seated in high-back stools, one rocking a baby and the other working the spinning wheel. Lower platform with hand crank, three pierced wheels, etc. Platforms joined by turned columns and are raised on a turned foot. Height 5.25”. Width 3”. Depth 2”. In contemporary oval boxwood box. 2,500/3,500

Early 19th Century

Monumental form with watch aperture and a drawer. Red and green foliate and carved geometric designs throughout. Height 10.5”. Width 6.75”. Depth 3.5”. 1,000/1,500

4607. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SPINNING JENNY

4606. PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SPINNING JENNY

4608. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR POLYCHROME BONE WATCH HUTCH

4606

4607

4608

MODEL OF THE 90-GUN SHIP OF THE LINE H.M.S. OCEAN England,

built up from the solid and planked in bone with faux trunnels and mahogany bands between the gun decks. Keel running up to the stem and supporting a polychrome figurehead of Neptune at the bow. Stern fitted with quarter galleries and transom detailed with windows and balcony. Decks also planked in bone and detailed with head rails, pin and fife rails, coils of line, deck grating, stove pipe, cannons lashed to deck, an open waist supporting three rigged and detailed ship’s boats, water casks, capstan, raised poop deck, etc. Rigged with a bowsprit, three masts with trees and tops, standing and running rigging, deadeyes, turning blocks, etc. Displayed on a bone base on a pair of bone stanchions, and tied down with anchor and other lines. Model height 19”. Length 24”. Width 8.5”. 4,000/6,000

4609. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE

20th Century Attributed to Daniel Matthews. Hull

4609

4611

4610. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR DIORAMA OF THE CRUCIFIXION

Early 19th Century

Finely detailed bone carving of Jesus on the cross, two disciples, two spears, a ladder, three dice and carved gates with crosses. Straw-work box with curtains. Height 10.5”. Width 8”. Depth 5”.

1,500/2,500

4611. NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE GUILLOTINE

Early 19th Century

Polychrome executioner. Nicely detailed. Height 9.25”. Length 5”. Width 1.5”.

1,500/2,500

4612. PAPIER-MÂCHÉ SNUFF BOX

19th Century

Depicts a highly detailed scene from the Battle of Waterloo. Diameter 4.125”.

2,000/3,000

4613. ROBERT STRICKLAND THOMAS United Kingdom, 1787-1853 British warship leaving Portsmouth Harbor. Signed lower right “R.S. Thomas 1844”. Oil on canvas, 12.5” x 18.5”. Framed 14.5” x 20.5”. 800/1,200

4614. JOHN JAMES WILSON United Kingdom, 1818-1875 Ships off a rocky coast. Signed lower right “John Wilson”. Oil on canvas, 12” x 20”. Framed 17.5” x 25.5”. 1,500/2,500

4615. J. MURDAY England, 19th Century

Portrait of a British ship near Eddystone Lighthouse. Signed and dated lower left “J. Murday 1840”. Labels verso for Vose Galleries and The Parker Gallery. Oil on canvas, 22” x 36”. Framed 28” x 40”. 1,500/2,500

Rhode Island/Massachusetts, 1752-1845

Portrait of the “Brig Cruger of Salem” off Naples. Unsigned. Gouache on paper, 20” x 25”. Framed 23.5” x 28.5”.

1,500/2,000

The Netherlands/Belgium, 1799-1855

“Ellison of New Castle Capt. R. Stephenson 1846”. Signed lower right “P Weyts Antwerp”. Titled lower margin. Reverse painting on glass, 20.5” x 27.25” sight. Framed 26.25” x 33”. 2,000/2,500

Ship moored ship off a fortified coast. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 12.25” x 20”.

20” x 28”.

1,200/1,800

Ships

4616. ATTRIBUTED TO M.F. CORNE

4617. PETRUS CORNELIS WEYTS

4618. FRENCH SCHOOL 19th Century

Framed

4619. CHARLES EUPHRASIE KUWASSEG France, 1833-1904

off a coast. Signed lower right “Kuwasseg”. Oil on board, 8.25” x 16”. Framed 16” x 23”.

4620.

AND IMPORTANT VOLUME GUILIELMI GILBERTI COLCESTRENSIS, MEDICI LONDINENSIS, DE MAGNETE London: Excudebat Petrus Short, 1600. A compilation of opinions pertaining to the magnet. Also details and illustrates various experiments on attraction, orientation in relation to the earth’s poles and use in navigation. Missing the title page, preface and index, but appears to otherwise be complete. Contemporary slipcases. Accompanied by documents and research pertaining to the book. Cases 12” x 8.5” and 12.25” x 9.5”. 8,000/10,000

Gilbert was a physician to Queen Elizabeth I. This book is among the first known to employ the experimental method of science.

RARE

4621. ENGRAVED BRASS ASTROLABE 7.5” x 5.25”. 600/800

4622. ABNER HATHAWAY CASED QUADRANT 18th Century Hardwood frame with boxwood measure. Wedge-shaped wooden case. Case length 21.5”. Width 18.5”. 1,500/2,000

4620

4622

4623. RARE LATE 17TH CENTURY DANISH CROSS-STAFF BY

ABRAHAM TADE

Dated 1699

Signed and dated on the side of the ebony shaft “A Tade * 1699”, approx. 5” up from the square end. Sides with graduated scales for altitude and zenith distances. Four pearwood vanes with wing-shaped brass set screws. Smallest vane is 3.5” in length and 1.5” wide and has an elk horn sighting vane required when using the instrument as a backstaff. Two largest vanes are 15.25” and 24.125” in length and 1.5” wide. The second-smallest vane is 7.5” in length and 1.5” wide and is original to the instrument, signed in ink “D de Waay”, believed to be that of an owner. The vane has a replacement brass aperture disc fitted to one end for using the instrument as a backstaff. The brass set screw is also a replacement. Shaft .53” x 32.5”. Height on stand 24”. Length on stand 32.5”. 20,000/30,000

Provenance:

A private collection.

Antiquairs, Grijpma & Van Hoogen, Groningen, purchased from the above circa 1990. Hyland Granby Antiques, Hyannisport, Massachusetts, purchased from the above circa 1997. Purchased from the above 1998.

The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.

References:

"The Cross-Staff, History and Development of a Navigational Instrument” by Willem F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum; Zutphen, Walburg Institute, 1994. Historical information on p. 14-16, 20-30 and 53.

“Bulletin #80 of the Scientific Instrument Society” by Willem F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, March 2004.

The definitive treatise on these instruments, “The Cross-Staff, History and Development of a Navigational Instrument” by W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns, contains a list of all known instruments extant. This instrument is listed on p. 53, number 15 in oldest date order, and is the only known cross-staff by this maker. There are only four older instruments in good or very good condition and this is the only 17th Century example in private hands. Less than 100 cross-staffs exist in any condition throughout the world. Of these, only about 40 are in good to very good condition with at least one original vane. Of these, most are in institutions.

Cross-staffs were first described and probably invented around 1342 by the Catalan-born Jewish philosopher and scientist Levi Ben Gerson (12881344), then living in Avignon. It was then used only by astronomers. Its use was introduced at sea by the Portuguese around 1515, about 50 years after the quadrant and the astrolabe, probably inspired by Vasco da Gama’s observing the Arab’s use of the kamal in 1498. Initially the Portuguese used it to measure the altitude of the Pole star, preferring the mariner’s astrolabe or the nautical quadrant for sun sights. In the southern hemisphere they observed a star in the Southern Cross, although this required the application of a much larger correction than that of the North Star observation.

While the backstaff was developed by Davis in 1595, and was popular for almost 200 years, the cross-staff continued in active use. Many, especially the Dutch, considered its ease and accuracy of construction and its ability to make accurate sights preferable to the backstaff. The cross-staff was finally supplanted in the Dutch East India Company ships about 1750 by the octant and later the sextant.

4623

18th Century

Portrait of Spanish captain Don Juan de Dios Parreno Y Pardo, seated a table covered with maps and nautical instruments and with a ship visible over his shoulder. Unsigned. Old auction catalog description affixed verso. Oil on canvas, 28” x 21.5”. Framed 35.5” x 28.5”. 8,000/12,000

Provenance:

Archduke Ludwig Viktor Joseph Anton of Austria (1842-1919), youngest brother of Emperor Franz Josef I. Coleccion Rafael Garcia, Madrid. Hearst Collection.

Parke-Bernet Galleries, Hearst Corporation Sale, May 17, 1963, Lot #95.

Mrs. S.D. Preston. Doyle New York auction. Clyde Talmadge Gatlin (1930-2019) Estate, Southbury, Connecticut. Schwenke Auctioneers.

In 1566 Spanish explorer Juan Pardo led a 125-man expedition from coastal South Carolina into North Carolina's Piedmont, meeting natives, building forts and leaving garrisons to man them. On his second expedition in 1567, he and his men reached as far as eastern Tennessee. Spanish presence in the Carolinas lasted 18 months, and the forts built under Juan Pardo were the first European forts in the interior of what is now the United States. In 1569, he departed Florida and returned to Spain.

Late 18th/Early 19th Century Engraved “J.E. Hand Phila PA”. Brass dial and gimbal. Sight mounts. Dovetailed case with brass side handles. Case height 7.5”. Width 10.5”. Depth 10.5”. 300/500

18th Century

Engraved “Ramsden : London” on inset ivory plaque. Rosewood frame with brass mounts and ivory degree scale. Wedge-shaped wooden case. Case height 4.5”. Width 14.5”. Depth 16.75”. 500/1,000

4624. SPANISH SCHOOL

4625. CASED SURVEYOR’S COMPASS

4626. CASED OCTANT

4624

4625

4626

4627. DECAHEDRAL TELESCOPE

Probably England, 18th Century Walnut tube. Length extended 44”. 800/1,200

4628. RARE JOHN TROUGHTON CASED BRASS MICROSCOPE

London, Late 18th/Early 19th Century Brass tube engraved “Troughton London”. Original walnut steepletop case with a removable stand and a fitted drawer containing numerous parts for the scope (some lenses not present). Case also with maker’s label. Case height 17”. Width 7.5”. Depth 6.75”. 500/800

4629. DECAHEDRAL TELESCOPE

Late 18th/Early 19th Century Mahogany tube. Engraved on brass “Dolland London”. Length 25.5”. 800/1,200

4627

4629

London, 18th/Early 19th Century

Rosewood frame. Marked “G. Adams Fleet Street, London”. Length 20”. Width 17”. 1,000/2,000

Late 18th/Early 19th Century

Marked “Ramsden London”. Wedge-shaped wooden case. Case height 4.5”. Width 15”. Depth 13.5”. 500/1,000

Late 18th/Early 19th Century

Mahogany frame with boxwood scale. Unmarked. Length 19.5”. Width 16.5”. 500/1,000

Late 18th/Early 19th Century Wooden tube.

Length closed 38”. 500/1,000

Early 19th Century

Unmarked. Case length 7”. 300/400

4630. QUADRANT

4631. CASED BRASS T-FRAME SEXTANT

4632. QUADRANT

4633. OCTAGONAL SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE

Engraved on draw “Cole Maker. Fleet Street London”.

4634. NAVIGATIONAL SET IN A SHAGREEN CASE

4630

4631

4632

4635. CAPTAIN MOSES COLMAN’S OCTANT, BINOCULARS AND DIVIDERS

Late 18th Century ebony T-frame octant, unsigned, with an inset ivory scale calibrated from -5 - 95 and a 17” brass index arm with ivory vernier reading from right to left “0 5 10 15 20”, providing a reading with an accuracy of 1 arc minute. The index arm has a tangent screw fine adjustment feature introduced in the Late 18th Century. Fitted with dual peephole sight, three colored filters, mirrors, brass feet and other details, but it is missing the ivory name plate. The painted black box is heavily worn commensurate with use and age. Lot also includes Colman’s brass navigational dividers, length 7”, and his binoculars with shagreen-covered grips, length 7.25” and width 5”, signed on each eyepiece “LeMaire Fab - Paris”. 1,200/1,800

Provenance:

The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.

Captain Moses Rich Colman was born in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1807. He went to sea at the age of nine, held his first command circa 1842, and retired in 1864. He commanded the schooner Manson, the brig Sarah, the bark Sarah, and the medium clipper Asa Eldridge. During the Civil War he remained out of the country with his ship for 43 months, partly to avoid capture by the Confederate raider Alabama. He never lost or suffered severe damage to any ship he commanded.

4635

America, Late 18th Century

Marked “Ship Birmingham Packet of Philadelphia 6 Octr 1790” in raised lettering. Complete with clapper. Likely made to commemorate the launch of the ship. Height 14”. Diameter 14.5”.

2,500/3,500

Built and launched in 1790, the 300-ton Birmingham Packet sailed for 16 years before running aground on Christmas Day opposite the Cara Isle on the Mull of Kintyre under the command of Captain Bowden.

Portrait of a sea captain holding a telescope and with an expansive view of the ocean behind him. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 32” x 27”. Framed 36.5” x 31”. 1,000/2,000

4636

4637

4636. "BIRMINGHAM PACKET" BRONZE SHIP’S BELL

4637. AMERICAN SCHOOL

Second Quarter of the 20th Century Case’s base with quarter-fan and line inlay. Plaque on base marked “The Constitution Old Ironsides”.

Case height 27.5”. Length 39.75”.

Width 19.75”. 1,500/2,500

Engraved by Abel Bown after a drawing by William Lynn. Rare broadside depiction of “Old Ironsides”. Engraving with aquatint, 18” x 21”. Framed 24” x 28”. 1,000/3,000

Colorful Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur-style design of diamonds and stylized flowers arches around a bust portrait of “Captn Lawrence”, identified within a hexagonal medallion below a “Don’t Give Up the Ship” banner. Lawrence, who commanded the U.S.S. Chesapeake and died during its battle with the H.M.S. Shannon during the War of 1812, is portrayed in his naval jacket and epaulets, and a sinking ship is visible on the horizon. His last words were the famous cry “Don’t give up the ship!”. Watercolor and ink on paper, 10” x 8”. Framed 13.75” x 12”. 3,000/5,000

4638. ENGRAVING "U.S. FRIGATE CONSTITUTION, OF 44 GUNS" Boston, Circa 1812

4639. CASED MODEL OF THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION

4640. PORTRAIT OF SHIP CAPTAIN JAMES LAWRENCE America, Circa 1815

4638

4639

4640

20th Century Length 43”. 800/1,200

20th Century

1) Bellamy-style gold-colored eagle with a red, white and blue “Don’t Give up the Ship” banner. Length 29”.

2) Carved and gilded. Length 18”. 300/500

20th Century

Displayed

height approx. 28.75”. Length approx. 39”.

Case height 63”. Length 46”. Width 19”. 1,000/1,500

19th Century

Typical brass inset hardware and bindings. Half drawers over three full-width drawers. Bun feet. Height 42”. Width 42”. Depth 18”. 1,500/2,000

4641. TWO SPREAD-WING EAGLE PLAQUES

4642. CAMPHORWOOD CAMPAIGN CHEST

4643. WOODEN MODEL OF A THREE-MASTED BRITISH SHIP

4644. CASED MODEL OF THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION

in a table-height case. Model

4642

4644

19th Century

In mahogany. Upper section with half drawers over a full-width drawer. Lower section with two full-width drawers and turned bun feet. Height 40.5”. Width 42”. Depth 19”. 1,800/2,200

19th Century

Portrait of a ship captain seated a table with a chart and compass, and with a view of a ship sailing the Mediterranean over his shoulder. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 29.5” x 24.5”. Framed 34” x 29.5”. 1,000/2,000

19th Century

Unmarked. Includes a detachable brass and hardwood handle and three detachable lenses. Walnut case. Case height 3.75”. Width 12”. Depth 12”. 500/700

4645. AMERICAN SCHOOL

4645

4646

4646. ENGLISH TWO-PART CAMPAIGN CHEST

4647. RARE SURVEYOR’S BOW COMPASS First Half of the 19th Century Face marked “O. Hanks Troy New York”. Height 12.5”. Diameter 7”. 500/1,000

4648. CASED BRASS NAVIGATIONAL CIRCLE

4647

4648

"The

4649. STAN STOKES America, 1950“USS Wasp Capturing HMS Neptune”. Signed lower right “Stokes”. Titled on frame plaque. Oil on canvas, 16” x 20”. Framed 22” x 26”. 3,000/4,000

4650. LOUIS DODD United Kingdom, 1943-2006

U.S.S. Erie 1824". Signed lower right. Titled lower margin. Oil on board, 17.5” x 13”. Framed 22” x 17.25”. 1,500/2,000

4649

4650

4651. WILLIAM HENRY COFFIN

Massachusetts, 1812-1898

Ships in Boston Harbor. Signed and dated lower right “W.H. Coffin 90”. Oil on canvas, 18” x 26”. Framed 22.5” x 29.5”. 800/1,200

4652. ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD MORAN

Pennsylvania/New York, 1829-1901

Vessels under ominous clouds. Unsigned. Label verso for the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania. Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”. Framed 34” x 45”. 2,500/3,500

4653. AMERICAN SCHOOL

19th Century

Portrait of a schooner. Signed and dated lower left “W.M. 67”. Oil on canvas, 20” x 30”. Framed 23” x 33”. 1,500/2,000

4654. E. & G.W. BLUNT CASED SEXTANT

New York, 19th Century

Ebonized frame with brass mounts and lenses. Wedge-shaped oak case. Case length 14”. Width 12.75”. 500/1,000

4655. THREE-DRAW BRASS AND MAHOGANY TELESCOPE

London, 19th Century

Marked “Dolland London”. Length closed 16.75”. Length open 40”. 400/600

4651

4652

4653

Late 19th Century

Hand-stitched.

1,200/1,800

19th Century

Burled

Late

Composed

1,800/2,200

1,500/2,500

19th Century

Dovetail

4656. SAILOR’S WOOLWORK

Depicts an auxiliary steam/sail vessel on a port tack between two lighthouses. 10.25” x 13” sight. Framed 12” x 15.5”.

4657. EXCEPTIONAL NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA WALL BAROMETER

walnut veneer case with ebonized moldings. Porcelain degree scales. Marked above the thermometer at center. Height approx. 47”. Width 9.25”. Depth 3.75”.

4658. SAILOR’S VALENTINE

20th Century

of multicolored shells. 15” x 15”.

4659. CAMPHORWOOD SEA CHEST

construction. Cleats nicely carved with a ship’s wheel and anchor design. Height 18”. Width 37.25”. Depth 18”. 500/800

4656

4657

4658

4659

Mid-19th Century

Allover

and

Circa 1840

Traditional inset brass hardware. Upper case with a deep drawer at left, a secretary drawer at center and a stack of two narrow drawers at right, all over two half drawers. Lower case with two full-width drawers, a boldly molded base and turned feet. Drawers with inset brass hardware and ebony string inlay. Case with reeded moldings around drawer fronts. Height 43.5”. Width 40.75”. Depth 19.5”. 3,000/4,000

Provenance: Hyland Granby Antiques, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Hong Kong, 19th

A junk preparing for a storm, 1870. Signed lower right “Yo Chow Mu”. Oil on canvas, 8” x 10.5”. Framed 12.5” x 15”. 500/800

4660. UNUSUAL CARVED CAMPHORWOOD CHEST

scroll, pinwheel

foliate carvings under a dark finish. Iron locks and end cleats. Retains rope beckets. Replaced hinges. Includes a glass top. Discovered in a New Bedford residence. Height 17.5”. Width 40.5”. Depth 17”. 400/600

4661. CHINESE CAMPHORWOOD TWO-PART CAMPAIGN CHEST

4662. YO CHOW MU

Century

4661

Early 19th Century

China Trade portrait of a sea captain, circa 1810. Possibly by Tonqua the Younger. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 14” x 11”. Framed 15.75” x 13”. 1,200/1,800

Provenance: Eldred’s, 1995. The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.

China Trade painting of a woman holding a baby and a fan, with a silver and coral rattle at her feet. London label verso. Unlined. Oil on board, 11” x 9”. Framed 13” x 11”. 1,000/1,500

Portrait of a young American woman. Unsigned but skillfully painted, probably from a photograph, for the China Trade. Chinese artists often worked from daguerreotypes, or, when painting from life, followed the daguerreotype style of imagery.

Oil on canvas, 27.5” x 22.75”. Framed 32.25” x 27”. 1,200/1,800

Provenance: The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.

4663. CHINESE SCHOOL

4664. CHINESE SCHOOL

4665. ATTRIBUTED TO WOO CHEONG China, Circa 1865

4663

4665

4666. MAHOGANY AND BRASS SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE CANE

England, 19th Century

Marked “J. Bloomfield Market Avenue Ashton Under Lyne”. Length as cane 32.25”. 400/600

4667. FIVE-DRAW TELESCOPE CANE

London, Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Marked “J.H. Steward 457 Strand 7 Gracechurch St London”. Telescope handle. Length 35.5”. 400/600

4668. SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE CANE

London, 19th Century

Marked “G&W. Proctor London”. Whale ivory handle. Leather wrap. Length as cane 32.75”. 600/900

4669. SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE CANE

19th Century

Leather wrap. Brass ferrule. Unmarked. Length as cane 32.5”. 500/800

4670. POLYCHROME CARVED WOODEN TRADE FIGURE "MARY ANN"

England, Circa 1850

In the form of a ship’s figurehead of a three-quarter woman and probably mounted in a tavern or a ship’s chandlery. “Mary Ann” was named by Joshua Quiton, Esq., of Devon, England, in honor of his servant, Mary Ann, who saved his two children from drowning. The figure is in a blue-green hat with gilded ribbon and a red dress, and she holds the bottom of her dark servant’s apron in her right hand. She has well-articulated facial features and a beatific smile. Old in-service paint with a nicely crackled and aged appearance showing traces of the original gold leaf surface. On a contemporary two-part stand. Total height 45”. 3,000/5,000

Provenance:

Collection of Jacob Isbrandtsen, American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, New York.

Marine Arts Gallery, Salem, Massachusetts, 1975.

Exhibited: South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 1971.

4666

4669

4670

SAMUEL WALTERS

United Kingdom, 1811-1882

A masterful example of Walter’s work, depicting the Champlain in two positions headed into Liverpool, with the Trinity House Stack Lighthouse in the distance. In the second position, as seen from her stern, Pilot Boat 6 serves as an escort. Finely detailed deck work showing numerous figures and a figurehead of Samuel Champlain in kilt with musket. Signed and dated lower right “S. Walters 1838”. Oil on canvas, 33” x 48”. Framed 42.5” x 57.5”.

4671. “American Packet ‘Champlain’ on Approach to Liverpool”.

4671

12,000/18,000

WILLIAM HOWARD YORKE

Canada/United Kingdom, 1847-1921

When launched in November 1890, Shenandoah was the largest sailing ship in terms of cargo carrying capacity built in the United States up to that time. Carrying 33,000 square feet of sail, she was also extremely fast. For most of her career she was employed in the Cape Horn Trade to San Francisco, carrying general cargo and later bulk cargoes of wheat and coal. Shenandoah’s long and successful career was ended off the beaches of Fire Island when she was rammed by the steamship Powhattan and sank. Her wreck was blown up by the U.S. Coast Guard in March 1916.

Provenance:

Christie’s Maritime Sale, New York, 2001. The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.

4672. “Maria Magreth of Temra”

Signed lower left “W.H. Yorke”. Titled at lower margin. Oil on canvas, 20” x 30”. Framed 25.5” x 33.5”. 5,000/7,000

4672

4673

4673. The barque Shenandoah at sea

Signed and dated lower left “W.H. Yorke 1894”. Oil on canvas, 20.25” x 30”. Framed 25” x 35”. 2,500/3,500

4674. “Dashing Wave”

Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 24” x 37”. Framed 32” x 43”. 20,000/30,000

Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston.

4675. Ships at sail

Unsigned. Reverse with Christie’s label and inscription for Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 7.5” x 6.75” sight. Framed 15” x 14.5”. 1,200/1,800

4674

4675

Massachusetts/New York/Vermont/Holland, 1853-1889

“Windy Day Coast of Holland”. Signed and dated lower right “H. Chase Scheveningen 1879”. Oil on canvas, 20” x 38”. Framed 28” x 45.5”. 3,000/5,000

Massachusetts, 1850-1921

“Boating in the Bay”. Signed lower left “Marshall Johnson”. Reverse with exhibit label and label for Veerhoff Galleries, Washington, D.C. Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”.

Framed 35” x 47”. 1,000/1,500

Massachusetts/California/Maine, 1841-1914

Fishing in the fog. Signed and dated lower left “W. Weber 1876”. Oil on canvas, 16.25” x 25.25”. Framed 21” x 30”. 4,000/6,000

New York/Massachusetts, 1876-1910

Sailing at sunset. Signed lower right “Otis S. Weber”. Oil on canvas, 16” x 24”. Framed 25” x 33”. 1,500/2,500

4676. WESLEY ELBRIDGE WEBBER

4677. OTIS S. WEBER

4678. HARRY (HENRY) CHASE

4679. MARSHALL JOHNSON, JR.

4676

4677

4678

4679

4680. MARSHALL JOHNSON, JR. Massachusetts, 1850-1921

“Out of the Fog”. Signed lower left “Marshall Johnson Jr.”. Titled on gallery label verso. Oil on canvas, 28” x 48”. Framed 36” x 56”. 9,000/12,000

4680

Vessels

Provenance: Allison Gallery, New York. Ritz

6,000/8,000

Reference:

Dictionary of Sea Painters by E.H.H. Archibald (England: Antique Collectors’ Club Ltd., 1980), p. 67 describes the artist “Carl Ludwig Bille was born in Copenhagen; he was a sailor turned artist ... He developed a style which must have influenced Vilhelm Melbye (q.v.), whose work is very close. This made him popular with Scandinavian and British collectors.”

American Light by John Wilmerding (N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1980), p. 109 illustrates a similar 1853 painting by Fitz Hugh Lane, now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

4681. CARL LUDWIG BILLE Denmark, 1815-1898

in calm seas. Luminous and crisp work evocative of Fitz Henry Lane and Francis Silva, with three fishermen in a rowboat pulling in a net, a hermaphrodite brig at anchor, sandy cliffs on the horizon and a beautifully rendered sky with bands of pink and blue. Signed and dated lower left “Carl Bille 1869”. Oil on canvas, 36.5” x 53.5”. Framed 45.5” x 62.75”.

Carleton Hotel, Kauai, Hawaii.

4681

4683. PRINCE OF WALES COMMEMORATIVE SHIP’S WHEEL

Canada or America, Mid-19th Century

One of the fanciest and well-constructed ship’s wheels we have examined, commemorating Edward Prince of Wales’s trip to Canada and the United States in 1860. In mahogany and oak with brass diamond, stud and stylized floriform inlay and eight beautifully turned handles and spokes. Turned hub with a heavy brass ring around the perimeter and a central brass plate engraved “Str. Forest Queen Union Line 1848”. Two brass plaques mounted on opposite sides of the wheel, one engraved “This is the Wheel that A.E. Prince of Wales assisted in Steering the Steamer on his Excursion to Fredericton 1860”, and the other “A.E. Prince of Wales Excursion Trip on River St. John up to F’ton Aug. 4th down to St. John 7th 1860”. Plaques probably applied after the wheel was removed from the ship. Further modified with a mounting plate affixed to the back so it can be secured to a wall and 5” turned posts applied to the front at each spoke for hanging hats and coats. Beautiful age patina. Diameter 48”. Depth 7.5”. 7,000/10,000

Provenance:

The collection of Jean E. and Joseph G. Sawtelle, illustrated in their book Maritime Portsmouth: The Sawtelle Collection edited by Richard M. Candee.

Reference:

August 4, 1860 New York Times coverage of the trip indicated the prince went onboard the Forest Queen and included a “Map of the Route of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales”.

The Prince Of Wales In Canada and The United States by N.A. Woods (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1861), p. 49 notes “Here on the Kennebekasis River, a noble branch of the St. John, the royal party embarked on board the ‘Forest Queen’ and went by water up to Fredericton ...”. The volume also has a fold-out “Map of the Route of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales” at the front.

Prince Edward, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, was the first member of the Royal family to ever visit North America. Huge celebrations welcomed the 19-year-old heir to the throne wherever he went, and crowds followed him in the streets. During part of his trip, the prince traveled aboard the “Forest Queen”, a steamship that plied the St. John River between 1848 and 1867, with members of the legislature and press. Edward’s visit prompted warm diplomatic relations between Britain and the United States, which quickly ended with the onset of the Civil War.

Dated 1869

A rare and early signed and dated example. Depicts the famous and celebrated Pilot Boat No. 8 approaching a square-rigged American merchant ship in New York Harbor, with a small rowboat with oarsmen in the foreground. The pilot boat is flying an “Isaac Webb” banner off the gaff and an American flag from the main mast. The merchant ship is flying an American flag, an American merchant flag and an American pennant, and has five well-detailed sailors in merchant uniform standing on the bow. Well-constructed hulls, decks and sails made from paper and cardboard. Painted sky and water. Signed lower right “T. Sanderwick, Staten Island Sept. 22nd, 1869”. Not only is this one of the earliest signed and dated dioramas we have seen, it is of the highest quality and has a remarkable 3D effect. Housed in its original wood frame with gold liner and original glass. Height 21.5”. Width 27.5”. 2,500/3,500

William Webb was considered one of America’s leading designers and builders of merchant and sailing ships. In 1860 he designed a pilot boat for New York Harbor and named it after his father, Isaac Webb. The Isaac Webb was 95 tons, 72 feet in length, 20 feet in breadth and she drew 7 feet. See Merchant Sail 1876-1947 Volume V by William Armstrong Fairburn, p. 2803.

4684. IMPORTANT SHADOW BOX DIORAMA OF PILOT BOAT NO. 8 ESCORTING A SHIP INTO STATEN ISLAND

4684

EXCEPTIONAL BRONZE GANGWAY BOARD WITH PATRIOTIC MOTIFS America, Circa 1860

High-quality casting, possibly a unique design for a specific 19th Century American naval vessel. Depicts 13 stars backed by sun rays, draped American flags, a Liberty shield, crossed cannons and an “E Pluribus Unum” banner, all surrounded by a rope border with loops at the lower corners. Domed at top and mounting holes at sides and base. Verdigris patina. Probably one of a pair. On custom wood stand. Board height 40.25”. Width 15.75”. Total height 60.5”. Width 27.75”. Depth 15”. 4,000/6,000 4685

4685.

4686. CHART OF BOSTON HARBOR

Published 1857. Under the direction of A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States, hydrography by the party under the command of C.H. Davis of the U.S. Navy. Shows six vignettes of coastlines around Boston. Framed 32” x 39”.

1,500/2,500

19th Century

Marked “Thomas Jones Charing Cross London Object Glass by Troughton & Simms 1868”. Complete with extendable wood and brass tripod. Original walnut case with brass bail handles. Case height 5.25”. Width 33”. Depth 9.75”.

1,500/2,500

19th Century

Marked “J. Hick’s London”. Folding handle and detachable scope. Diameter 5”. Total length 9.25”. 800/1,200

4687. CASED FOUR-DRAW TELESCOPE

4688. BRASS DRUM SEXTANT

4686

4687

4688

4689. BRASS AND MAHOGANY

THREE-DRAW DAY/NIGHT TELESCOPE

19th Century

Marked “Sims London”. Length closed 12”. Length extended 32.5”. 300/500

4690. CASED DRUM SEXTANT

19th Century

Engraved “Stanley London”. Leather handled case. Includes lens. Height 2.5”. Diameter 4.25”. Case height 4.75”. Width 6”. Diameter 3.25”. 500/1,000

4691. ENGLISH TABLETOP TELESCOPE

19th Century

Brass tube, fittings and tripod base. Height approx. 19”. Tube length 27.5”. Lens diameter 2”. 500/1,000

4692. TWO BRASS DOUBLE T-FRAME SEXTANTS

19th Century

Both marked “Troughton & Simms”. Largest length 11”. Width 11.5”. 500/1,000

4693. CASED BRASS SEXTANT

19th Century

Marked “Dolland London” and “J.FD Artenay”. Brass plaque on lid engraved “Reuben Eldridge Jun Yarmouth US”. Paper label on interior of case, possibly marked “Alexander Catrn’s”. Wedgeshaped wooden case. Case height 5”. Width 16.5”. Depth 12.75”. 500/1,000

4694. CASED BRASS T-FRAME SEXTANT 19th Century Engraved “Spencer & Co. London”. Case height 6”. Width 11.75”. Depth 10.25”. 300/500

4695. CASED BRASS SKELETONIZED SEXTANT

19th Century

Marked “Allan London”. Wedge-shaped walnut case. Case height 4.75”. Width 10.25”. Depth 13”. 400/600

4696. CASED BRASS DOUBLE-FRAME SEXTANT

19th Century

Marked “Troughton London”. Wedge-shaped rosewood case. Case height 5”. Width 15”. Depth 12.5”. 600/900

4697. BRASS FOUR-DRAW DAY/NIGHT TELESCOPE

19th Century

Tube engraved “Ramsden London”. Partial mahogany cover. Length closed 10.5”. 400/600

4698. SURVEY POCKET COMPASS

19th Century

Green paper dial marked “Troughton & Simms London”. With scope. Diameter 3”. 200/300

4693

4694

4695

4696

Massachusetts/California,

“Sailing

3,500/4,500

New York/California/United

“The

32.5”

40.5”. 1,800/2,500

Ship

Portrait

4699. ANTHONY THIEME

1888-1954

the Open Sea”. Signed lower right “A. Thieme”. Oil on canvas, 28” x 40”. Framed 32.75” x 45.25”.

4700. FRANK VINING SMITH

Massachusetts, 1879-1967

with a bone in her teeth. Signed lower right “Frank Vining Smith”. Oil on canvas, 27” x 33”. Framed 30” x 36”. 3,000/5,000

4701. GORDON HOPE GRANT

Kingdom, 1875-1962

Spanish Barque”. Signed lower left “Gordon Grant”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 28.25” x 36.25”. Framed

x

4702. AMERICAN SCHOOL

of the American-flagged ship Grace. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 16” x 28”. Framed 22” x 33.5”. 1,000/2,000

19th

Circular

Probably

4703. SUBSTANTIAL PAIR OF BRASS GIMBALED OIL LAMPS WITH SMOKE BELLS

Century

lamps with brass weights, burners, wick adjustment wheels, fittings and oarlock-shaped wall mounts. Original clear glass chimneys with beaded decoration around the tops. Separate brass conical smoke bells with wall mounts. Lamp diameters approx. 4”. Heights of lamp and chimney 15”. Depths 8”. 3,000/4,000

4704. CARVED AND PAINTED WOODEN BILLETHEAD Second Half of the 19th Century

off a small sloop. Carved with geometric and foliate designs. Painted black, red and gold. Height 9.75”. Length 17”. 800/1,200

4705. SMALL CARVED WOODEN BILLETHEAD Second Half of the 19th Century Probably off a small sloop. Carved with geometric and foliate designs. Height 6.25”. Length 10.75”. 500/800

4703

4704

Maine, 1910-1990

“Red Jacket” diorama. Depicts the famous clipper ship in the ice off Cape Horn on a passage from Australia to Liverpool in 1854, after an N. Currier print. Thomas created several dioramas in the 1930s of American clipper ships based on Currier & Ives prints. Signed and dated lower right “L.H. Thomas 39”. Titled in lower margin. Bas-relief wooden sails and hull and oil on panel, 18” x 24”. Framed 19.5” x 25.75”. 400/600

The Red Jacket, the first ship of the White Star Line, was one of the largest and fastest clippers ever built, setting the speed record for an Atlantic crossing on her maiden voyage when she sailed from New York to Liverpool in 13 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes. She was designed by Samuel Hartt Pook, built by George Thomas in Rockland, Maine and launched in 1853. On her first voyage she was commanded by veteran packet ship captain Asa Eldridge of Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

She sailed on the Australian immigrant trade route for several years, notably colliding with the British merchant ship Elizabeth Walker, which sank, but Red Jacket was able to rescue the crew. In 1872, Red Jacket became a lumber carrier from Quebec to London and in 1883 was sold to Blandy Brothers, a Portuguese shipping company, who used her as a coaling hulk. She dragged her anchors in a heavy gale and was driven ashore in 1885.

4706. LLOYD H. THOMAS

4706

20th Century

Model

4708. HALF HULL MODEL

19th Century

Built

200/400

4709. MOUNTED BUILDER’S HALF HULL MODEL OF THE STEAM/SAIL

Late 19th Century

Built

15.75”

53.5”. 1,200/1,600

4710. BRASS TWO-DRAW TELESCOPE 19th Century

Mahogany tube. Includes a period heavy cardboard case. Unmarked. Length closed 10.5”. 300/400

4711. POCKET SEXTANT

19th Century

Engraved “Adams London”. Case diameter 3.5”. 200/300

4712. BRASS SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE

England, 19th Century

Marked “J.P. Cutts. Sutton &. Son Opticians to Her Majesty, Sheffield & London”. Leather wrap. Length closed 20.5”. Length extended 34.5”. 300/500

4713. CASED POCKET SEXTANT

19th Century

Engraved on lid “Lee & Son Belfast”. Leather fitted case. Includes scope. Sextant diameter 2.75”. Case height 2”. Width 3.5”. Depth 4”. 300/400

4707. MOUNTED HALF HULL MODEL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP FLYING CLOUD

with black painted hull, a red bottom, and a carved figurehead and trailboard. Vessel identification painted on backboard. Backboard 17.75” x 60”. 800/1,200

up of 13 contrasting wood lifts. Height 4”. Length 23”.

YACHT ELVIRA

up in fourteen lifts. Black hull with finished wooden bottom. Vessel identification and additional information painted on maple backboard. Backboard

x

Presentation inscription “Myles Standish from Wm F. Palmer” on bell, which is suspended from a U-shaped nickel mount above the nickel-plated case. Hinged bezel with metal clasp. Silvered dial with engraved wax-filled Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial. Two winding posts; runs for two days. Signed “Seth Thomas” on dial. Original decorative Seth Thomas paper advertising label affixed to the back. Height 10”. Depth 3.25”. Bezel diameter 6.25”. 1,000/1,500

4714. RARE AND DESIRABLE SETH THOMAS ABOVE-BELL YACHT CLOCK America, Circa 1885

4715. CASED MODEL OF THE BALTIMORE CLIPPER DETECTOR 20th Century Natural finish hull. Nicely detailed. Case height 30.5”. Length 41.25”. Width 15.25”. 1,500/2,500

4716

4717

4718

4716. JAMES GALE TYLER Connecticut/New York, 1855-1931

Ship at sea. Signed lower left “James G. Tyler”. Oil on canvas, 20” x 16”. Framed 28” x 32”. 1,000/2,000

4717. PERKO BRASS MASTHEAD LIGHT Last Quarter of the 19th Century With Fresnel lens. Retains original interior reservoir and burner, and a period chimney. Original maker’s nameplate on front. Height 20”. 400/600

4718. CASED BRASS T-FRAME SEXTANT 19th Century Marked “Troughton London”. Mahogany case with label for J.D. Potter. Case height 5”. Width 11.25”. Depth 11.25”. 400/600

19th Century

Marked on frame “Troughton & Simms London”. Dovetailed walnut case retains paper label “Geo. W. Leuffer”. Case height 7”. Width 12”. Depth 12”. 500/1,000

19th Century

Marked “Cary London”. Case with paper label for Cary Porter, Ltd. on interior and “AdmiraltyH.O. 158” painted on exterior. Case height 2.75”. Width 18.5”. Depth 7.5”. 400/600

19th Century With mounts. Scope length 22”. Case height 8”. Width 3.5”. Depth 19.25”. 300/500

Marked “Gilbert & Wright London”. Dovetailed walnut case. Case height 3”. Length 24”. Width 5.25”. 400/600

4719. CASED REFLECTING SURFACE

4720. CASED BRASS NAVIGATIONAL POINTER

4721. DOLLAND CASED IRON AND BRASS TRANSIT SCOPE

4722. CASED BRASS PANTOGRAPH

19th Century

4719

4720

4721

4722

19th Century Marked “Troughton & Simms London”. Mahogany case. Case height 9”. Width 15.25”. Depth 12.25”. 500/700

19th Century

Marked “Troughton & Simms London”. Mahogany case. Case height 1.5”. Width 7.75”. Depth 7.25”. 250/350

First Half of the 19th Century Marked “Dolland London”. Nickel-plated metal tube with leather wrap. Brass tripod. Engraved “H. Norman R.N.” on sight. Walnut dovetailed and fitted case contains additional boxwood grips for maintaining the focal point. Retains a card from the Spy Glass of Chatham, Massachusetts, identifying 40x terrestrial and 100x celestial lenses. Case height 3.5”. Length 39”. Width 6.25”. 1,000/1,500

4723. CASED BRASS PLOTTING CIRCLE

4724. CASED TRANSIT

4725. CASED TABLETOP TELESCOPE

4723

4724

4725

4726. STICK BAROMETER

London, 19th Century

Marked “J Hicks London”. Walnut case with brass gimbal. Height 37”. 1,000/1,500

4727. INCLINOMETER

19th Century

Hardwood frame with brass scale and a metal and brass acornform swing measure. Unmarked. Length 13.5”. Width 18”. 125/175

4728. CASED BRASS INSTRUMENT

19th Century

Marked “Troughton & Simms. London”. Mahogany case. Case height 1.25”. Width 9”. Depth 5.25”. 200/300

4729. CASED TRANSIT

19th Century

Engraved “J.H. Temple Maker Boston”. Case height 13.75”. Width 11.75”. Depth 8.5”. 300/500

4730. DOLLAND BRASS SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE

London, 19th Century

Marked “Dollond London 6478 Cecil Mocatta”. Leather wrap. Length closed 25.5”. Length extended 31”. 400/600

4731. CASED BRASS SEXTANT

19th Century

Marked “Troughton & Simms London” and “Hydrographic Survey No 35”. Ebonized frame. Mahogany case. Case height 6.25”. Width 13.5”. Depth 10.25”. 500/700

4732. SPENCER, BROWNING & RUST BRASS AND MAHOGANY SINGLE-DRAW DAY/NIGHT TELESCOPE

London, 19th Century

Marked on tube. Length closed 20”. Length extended 36”. 400/600

4733. SEXTANT AND A WOODEN FRAME

Sextant with an ebonized wood frame and brass mounts. Marked “Troughton London”. Other frame also ebonized wood. Both approx. 8” x 12.5”. 200/300

4734. STICK BAROMETER

England, 19th Century

Walnut case with an acanthus-carved knop and a brass gimbal. Barometer scale marked “Cairns Waterloo Rd Liverpool”. Height 37.5”. 1,200/1,800

4735. CASED BRASS PANTOGRAPH

19th Century

Marked “Troughton London”. Walnut dovetailed case. Case height 3.5”. Length 27.5”. Width 5.25”. 400/600

4736. CASED BRASS SURVEYOR’S COMPASS

19th Century

Marked “B. Pike & Sons 166 Broadway”. Mahogany case. Case height 3.5”. Width 16.5”. Depth 8.25”. 400/600

4737. BRASS AND MAHOGANY TWO-DRAW TELESCOPE

19th Century

Marked “J. Hughes London”. Length closed 12.75”. Length extended 26”. 400/600

4738. SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE

London, 19th Century

Marked “Tho. Harris & Son Opticians to the Royal Family No. 52 Opposite the British Museum London Improved Ship Telescope”. Leather wrap. Length closed 27.5”. Length extended 34.75”. 400/600

4739. BRASS DOUBLE T-FRAME SEXTANT

19th Century

Marked “Troughton London”. Length 12”. Width 13.25”. 300/500

4740. BRASS FOUR-DRAW TELESCOPE

19th Century

Sailor twinework wrap. Unmarked. Length closed 10.5”. Length extended 36”. 350/500

4741. CASED POCKET SEXTANT

19th Century

Marked “W&S Jones 50 Holborn London”. Cover engraved with angle scale. Leather case. Sextant height 1.75”. Diameter 3.75”. 250/350

4742. N. CURRIER LARGE FOLIO LITHOGRAPH “CLIPPER SHIP GREAT REPUBLIC”

19th Century

19” x 24.25” sight. Framed 26.5” x 32”. 1,000/1,500

4743. CURRIER & IVES LITHOGRAPH “THE BRIG VISION, CAPT. DONOVAN”

19th Century

9.5” x 13.5” sight. Framed 19” x 22.5”. 400/600

4744. RARE CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP COMPANY LITHOGRAPH

Early 20th Century

“Chesapeake Steamship Company Baltimore Old Point Comfort Norfolk Richmond”. By A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore. 25” x 34” sight. Framed 32” x 41.5”. 700/900

4745. PAIR OF GRIFFITHS & SON COPPER PORT AND STARBOARD LANTERNS

Late 19th/Early 20th Century With original labels. Heights 24”. 300/500

4746. HIGHLY DETAILED MODEL OF THE SIDEWHEELER CHATTERBOX

20th Century

White hull with black boot and naturally finished mahogany bottom. Displayed on a wooden cradle. Height 20.5”. Length 57.5”. Width 15”. 1,500/2,500

4747. COLLECTION OF THIRTY-SIX STEAMBOAT TICKETS

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Housed in shadow box frames. Framed 12” x 16”. 1,000/1,500

4746

4748. Port view of the side-wheel steamship Twilight, circa 1890 Superbly detailed including “Twilight” on a name board at the front of the pilot house and on the paddle box, an eagle atop a flag pole, a Union Jack at the bow, an American flag at the stern, several passengers on the two decks, a walking beam, stacks and truss work, etc. A sandy shoreline and a two-masted schooner visible off Twilight’s bow. Nicely rendered bright sky and reflection of the ship in the water. Signed lower left “Fred Pansing”. Oil on canvas, 16.25” x 28.25”. Framed 21.25” x 33.5”. 15,000/20,000

Provenance: A major international corporation.

Twilight was built in Delaware in 1868. Her first home port was Philadelphia.

Fred Pansing began painting in Germany. He moved to New York in 1865 to become a marine painter.

England, 19th Century

“Arden Craig Outbound”. Signed and dated lower right “John Coull April 1891”. Titled lower center. Pages from the September 18, 1891 edition of The World and April 1890 New York Herald newspapers within the original framing. Watercolor, 20.25” x 27.75” sight.

Framed 26.5” x 33”.

1,500/2,500

12.5”. Width 7.5”. Depth 6”. 500/800

in

7.5”.

4749. CASED DOUBLE TRANSIT Second Half of the 19th Century Marked “Troughton & Simms London”. Case height

4750. JOHN COULL

The Arden Craig was a British ship built

1886. She wrecked in 1911 off the Gunners, Isles of Scilly, off of the southern tip of Cornwall.

4751. HENRY HUGHES & SON CASED ARTIFICIAL HORIZON Late 19th/Early 20th Century Mahogany case. Case height 5.25”. Width

Depth 6.25”. 300/500

4749

4750

4751

4752. GEORGE GREGORY England, 1849-1938

“S.S. County of Salop Foundered Widemouthbay N. Cornwall”. Signed and dated lower left “Geo. Gregory 1892”. Titled on mat. Watercolor on paper, 20.75” x 29.75” sight. Framed 32.5” x 41”. 2,000/3,000

4753. JOHN HENRY MOHRMANN California/Canada/Belgium/Germany, 1857-1916

The steamship City of Manchester. Signed and dated lower right “Henry Mohrmann Anvers 1885”. Oil on canvas, 24” x 39.25”. Framed 28” x 43.5”. 2,500/4,500

4754. THOMAS G. PURVIS United Kingdom, 1861-1933

Portrait of a French steamship. Signed lower left “T.G. Purvis”. Oil on canvas, 19.25” x 28.5”. Framed 25” x 34.5”. 1,500/2,500

4755. ENGLISH SCHOOL 19th Century

Portrait of the S.S. Atrato, 1865, an iron-hulled steamship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Signed lower right “C. Orchard”. Oil on panel, 15.25” x 28.25”. Framed 18” x 30.5”. 400/600

4756. CASED SKELETONIZED FRAME SEXTANT

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Marked on scale “W. Callaghan 23 New Bond St. London”. Marked on side of scale “F. Willan”. Case with a brass inset plaque engraved “F. Willan”. Wedge-shaped wooden case. Case height 5”. Width 12.75”. Depth 10.75”. 300/500

4757. CASED BRASS T-FRAME SEXTANT

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Engraved “Cary, London 3358” and “Hydrographic Survey No. 8”. Retains certificate of examination card. Case height 5.25”. Width 12”. Depth 11.25”. 500/700

4758. CASED SKELETONIZED SEXTANT

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Marked “TH. Wegener Berlin No. 2099 Imported by C.L. Berger & Sons. Boston. Mafs.”. Case height 5.75”. Width 11.5”. Depth 10.75”. 300/500

4759. CASED BRASS SKELETONIZED SEXTANT

Second Half of the 19th Century

Marked “Stackpole & Brother New York”. Mahogany case. Case height 4.75”. Width 11.25”. Depth 11.25”. 300/500

4760. CASED BRASS T-FRAME SEXTANT

Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Marked “Gold & Platina Cary, London 2641”. Case with certificate of examination card. Case height 5”. Width 11.5”. Depth 10.5”. 400/600

4576

4757

4758

4759

4760

4761. EXCEPTIONAL AND RARE PAIR OF "WAR AND PEACE" SPREAD-WING EAGLE PLAQUES BY IVAH W. SPINNEY

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Late 19th/Early 20th Century

A very rare example of a pair of period carved and painted American eagles. Well-articulated heads on elegantly curved necks, detailed with pronounced beaks, carved eyes and red painted tongues. The “War” eagle’s head faces right and the “Peace” eagle’s faces left, and both clutch a green painted olive branch and three gold leaf arrows in their talons. Carved and gilded wings taper in thickness toward the tips. Feathers executed in typical Spinney style. Both signed on back of head “Ivah W. Spinney”. Heights approx. 17”. Widths 58”. 25,000/35,000

Reference:

The Bold Art & Brash Life of John Haley Bellamy by James Craig (Portsmouth, N.H.: Portsmouth Historical Society, 2014)

p. 89, 123, 124-125. A pair of “War and Peace” eagles by John Hale Bellamy that are very similar in design and size are illustrated on p. 89. Two examples of signed Ivah Spinney eagles are illustrated on p. 124 and Spinney’s signature at the top edge of an eagle’s wing is illustrated on p. 125.

According to James Craig’s The Bold Art & Brash Life of John Haley Bellamy, Ivah W. Spinney was a carver in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and was working at the same period and across the river from where John Hale Bellamy worked in Kittery, Maine. Craig writes “the carving of the feathers in Spinney eagles are generally of a softer, shallower cut” and that while Bellamy typically did not sign his eagles, Spinney usually did, in a location where the signature would not interfere with the viewing of the carving. Bellamy and Spinney eagles graced the homes in the Portsmouth and Kittery areas, including the doorway of Kittery Point resident Windam Mayo, as illustrated in a circa 1900 photograph. Craig notes it is strikingly similar to another eagle illustrated in the book, and although their heads face in different directions and one is painted and the other gilded, it hints that Spinney possibly used similar production methods as Bellamy.

ANTONIO NICOLO GASPARO JACOBSEN

New York/New Jersey/Denmark, 1850-1921

Provenance:

Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 1994, purchased by the Kelton Foundation. The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts. Eldred’s, April 29, 2021, Lot #283.

References:

Antonio Jacobsen - The Checklist: Paintings and Sketches by Antonio N.G. Jacobsen (1850-1921) by Harold S. Sniffen (N.Y.: 1984), p. 22-23, no. 31.

4762. The four-masted steam/sail schooner Alabama Signed and dated lower right “A. Jacobsen 1891 705 Palisade Av. West Hoboken, NY”. Oil on canvas, 22” x 36”. Framed 29” x 43”. 12,000/15,000

4762

The sail/steam schooner Alabama was built at Harlan & Hollingsworth at Wilmington, Delaware for W.D. Munson of New York in 1873. She went out of service in 1901.

Signed, dated and inscribed lower right “A. Jacobsen 1884 705 Palisade Ave. West Hoboken, NJ”. Oil on canvas, 22” x 36”. Framed 30” x 43.5”. 8,000/12,000

Provenance:

Parke-Bernet Galleries: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Paintings and Sculpture, October 22, 1969. Berqueman Collection, Brussels.

Signed and dated lower right “Antonio Jacobsen 1878”. Inscribed with map coordinates “257.8 v. 2.3.50” below signature. Oil on canvas, 22” x 36”. Framed 26” x 40”. 7,000/10,000

4763. The steamship Pieter de Coninck.

4764. The American sidewheeler Georiga

4763

4764

4765. The clipper ship Swordfish

Nicely detailed with an American flag off her stern.

Signed and dated lower left “Antonio Jacobsen 1919”.

Oil on artist panel, 20” x 35.5”. Framed 25.5” x 41”. 10,000/15,000

4765

4766. The steamship Apache Signed lower right “A. Jacobsen 1907”. Oil on board, 22” x 36”. Framed 27.5” x 41.5”. 7,000/9,000

4767. “The Pilot Boat New York” Signed and dated lower right “A. Jacobsen 1898 81 Palisade West Hoboken NJ”. Titled on frame plaque. Oil on canvas, 18” x 30”. Framed 23” x 35.25”. 4,000/6,000

ANTONIO NICOLO GASPARO JACOBSEN

New York/New Jersey/Denmark, 1850-1921

6,000/8,000

References:

Antonio Jacobsen – The Checklist by Harold S. Sniffen (N.Y.: Smith Galleries, Ltd. in association with the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1984), Appendix II p. 348-349 shows a graph of Jacobsen’s works by year, with five works for 1873-1874, 12 for 1895 and 125 for 1916, his most prolific year as an artist.

Flying The Colors: The Unseen Treasures of NineteenthCentury American Marine Art by Janice Hyland and Alan Granby (Mystic, Ct.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2009), p. 238239 show portraits of American yachts, both signed and dated 1875 and measuring 10” x 14”. They have similar traits, a similar size and the same early date as this work.

Antonio Jacobsen paintings dated as early as 1875 are scarce and his yachting scenes are rare and desirable, so it is exceptionally uncommon for a work like this to come to market. Although more primitive in style than Jacobsen’s later works, the yachts here are facing in different directions, making for an attractive composition. The red in the sky is typical for his paintings from the late 1870s through the early 1890s.

4768. “Three Racing Yachts” Depicts a competition between three American schooners, probably in New York Harbor. Signed and dated lower right “Antonio Jacobsen 1875”. Retailer’s blind stamp and label for W.G. Morley verso. Oil and gouache on photographic cardboard, 9.25” x 13.75”. Framed 14” x 18.5”.

4768

4769. ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO NICOLO GASPARO JACOBSEN New York/New Jersey/Denmark, 1850-1921 Racing schooner in heavy seas. Unsigned. In our opinion, the water strongly reflects Jacobsen’s work. Oil on canvas, 12.5” x 20.25”. Framed 15.75” x 23.75”. 7,000/10,000

4771. ORIGINAL LIFE RING BUOY FROM THE AMERICA’S CUP YACHT SHAMROCK

Circa 1899

Shamrock, representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, was Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenger for the 1899 America’s Cup, which lost in three races to Columbia of the New York Yacht Club. Canvas-covered buoy with “Shamrock” and “R.U.Y.C.” in gold leaf lettering outlined in green. Original rope hand grips threaded through canvas straps around the perimeter. Diameter 30.75”. 3,000/5,000

Provenance:

Collection of the Museum of Yachting, Newport, Rhode Island.

Shamrock was the first of five “Shamrocks” built for Sir Thomas Lipton, who challenged for the America’s Cup five times between 1899 and 1930 under the sponsorship of the Irish R.U.Y.C.

The 1899 race, the tenth challenge for the Cup, was held in New York Harbor. Guglielmo Marconi transmitted the event on radio, making it perhaps the first sports broadcast.

4770. ROY JENKINS MOUNTED HALF HULL MODEL OF THE AMERICA’S CUP DEFENDER MISCHIEF Wiscasset, Maine, 20th Century Model with black hull and green bottom. Mahogany backboard signed, dated 1992 and inscribed with additional information verso. Backboard 9.75” x 42.25”. 1,000/1,500

4770

4771

This model is believed to have been made by Gustav Graham, one of the principal model builders for New York Yacht Club in the Late 19th Century. The companion model is in the Club collection.

Columbia was designed and built in 1898-99 by Nathaniel Herreshoff and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for J. Pierpont Morgan and Edwin Dennison Morgan of the New York Yacht Club, and she was launched June 10, 1899. She was a fin keel sloop, with a nickel steel frame and Tobin bronze hull.

Skippered by Charlie Barr, she easily won the elimination trials against the rebuilt yacht Defender and won all three races against the British challenger, Shamrock, in the 1899 America’s Cup. Columbia was selected in 1901 to defend the Cup, again under the command of Charlie Barr, and she easily won all three races against Shamrock II. In 1903 she was refitted with the hope of being selected for a third time, but she was badly beaten in the selection trials by Reliance. She was the first vessel to win the trophy twice in a row, a record not equaled until Intrepid ‘s back-to-back wins in 1967 and 1970.

Columbia was broken up in 1915 at City Island and sold to Henry A. Hitner and Sons of Philadelphia for scrap. Today, the mast sits in the Forest Hills Gardens neighborhood of New York City in a park known as “Flagpole Green”.

4772. FULL HULL MODEL OF THE AMERICA’S CUP YACHT COLUMBIA

Circa 1899

Attributed to Gustav Graham (Sweden/America, 19th/20th Century). Hull built up from the solid, which has been hollowed. Topsides painted white and the bottom bronze. Mahogany veneer deck with a brass plaque engraved “Columbia America Cup 1899”. Displayed on a simple mahogany stand, supported at the keel with a post. Height on stand 10”. Length 49.5”. Width 9”. 8,000/12,000

Provenance:

Thomas Darling, and thence by descent. Christie’s East, New York, February 1998, purchased by Richard Kelton. The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts. The current consignor.

1,000/2,000

Includes 16 silver bromide photographs, some by the Associated Press but most by Morris Rosenfeld, bearing his stamp on the reverse and his handwritten negative numbers. The third American J-class yacht, Yankee was designed by Frank Paine and participated in the 1934 America’s Cup trials. Photographs depict assorted views of the Yankee as well as her afterguard, including owner Gerard Lambert. Housed in a red album within a custom navy blue slipcase. Slipcase 15.5” x 13.5”. 3,000/5,000

Paper cutouts of America’s Cup yachts and assorted other vessels that can be moved around a cardboard ocean. Vessels fully intact, as issued, and includes instructions for use on a card also printed with Barbour’s thread advertisements. Housed in two foam core mats. Images from 7.5” x 7” to 11” x 6.5” sight. Matted 20” x

Model

300/500

800/1,200

4773. CASED MODEL OF THE RACING SLOOP COLUMBIA 20th Century White and gold painted hull. Brass plaque mounted on base of the glass and wood case. Case height 30.5”. Length 31”. Width 10”.

4774. FRANK PAINE’S COLLECTION OF YANKEE PHOTOGRAPHS, MOST BY MORRIS ROSENFELD 1930s

4775. BARBOUR BROS. PROMOTIONAL AMERICA’S CUP GAME New York, 1895

16”.

4776. WHIMSICAL AND UNIQUE CHILD’S NAUTICAL TOY Early 20th Century

of a white and black painted dory mounted on wheels, possibly from a baby’s carriage. Length 24”.

4774, three above (sampling)

4777. SHANE MICHAEL COUCH United Kingdom, 1963The America’s Cup defender Mayflower racing America in Boston Harbor, 1886. Signed lower left “Shane Michael Couch”. Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”. Framed 26.5” x 38.5”. 5,000/7,000

4778. JAMES MILLER United Kingdom, 1962“Passing through the Waves”. Signed lower left “J. Miller”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 28” x 40”. Framed 33.5” x 45.5”. 2,000/3,000

4779. AMERICAN SCHOOL Circa 1900

Portrait of the New York pilot boat 21, the William H. Aspinwall. Unsigned. Retains old label verso for the South Street Seaport Museum. Oil on canvas, 22” x 27.5”. Framed 25.5” x 31”. 1,200/1,800

4777

4778

4779

Provenance: Descended in a New York/Connecticut family.

20th

4780. JAMES EDWARD BUTTERSWORTH

New Jersey/New York/United Kingdom, 1817-1894 Yachting in the Sound, with a view of New York. Signed lower right “J. E. Buttersworth”. Handwritten inscription verso “Yachting … on sound, View of New York”. Oil on board, 8” x 12”. Framed. 15,000/25,000

4781. AFTER JAMES E. BUTTERSWORTH

Century Puritan leading Genesta in the 1885 America’s Cup. Unsigned. Oil on panel, 7” x 9.75”. Framed 11” x 15”. 1,500/2,000

4780

4781

This is a fine example of a J.E. Buttersworth yachting scene and includes many of the elements that define the artist’s work and demonstrate his ability to create a strong sense of atmosphere and action. The race takes place at sunset, and the rolling whitecap seas and the lack of topsails on the four yachts indicate a brisk breeze. The sky, dotted with wispy clouds illuminated by the last rays of sunlight, has a wonderful luminescent quality and a subtle gradation of color. The black-hulled schooner in the foreground has a golden eagle figurehead, the Sandy Hook Lightship is flying an American flag off her stern, and all four yachts are flying colorful private signal flags from the peaks of their rear masts. As common in Buttersworth’s work, the vessels are reflected in the water, most noticeable here in the foreground yacht, the left-most yacht and the lightship.

4782. JAMES EDWARD BUTTERSWORTH New Jersey/New York/United Kingdom, 1817-1894

“Yachts Rounding Sandy Hook Lightship New York Bay”, circa 1875. Signed lower right “J E Buttersworth”. Original paper label “Prepared Mill - Board Winsor & Newton ... London” on back of board; this label appears on many Buttersworth paintings on board. Kennedy Galleries label and title plaque also affixed verso. Oil on board, 11.5” x 15.75”. Framed 16” x 20”.

20,000/30,000

Provenance:

Kennedy Galleries, New York. The gallery, established in 1874, was active in selling J.E. Buttersworth artwork until 2005.

References:

A similar Buttersworth painting, “Yacht America off Castle William”, is illustrated in Flying The Colors: The Unseen Treasures of Nineteenth-Century American Marine Art by Janice Hyland and Alan Granby (Mystic, Ct.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2009), p. 205. Both this painting and the illustrated example are on board, have the same dimensions, and have a similar treatment to the sky and reflections in the water. It is surmised both paintings were done in the same time period.

4782

ANTHONY D. (A.D.) BLAKE

New

4783. “Britannia Leading the Fleet Up the Solent”.

Signed lower right “A.D. Blake”. Titled on label verso. Oil on canvas, 24” x 40”. Framed 29.5” x 45”. 12,000/15,000

Zealand, 1951-

4783

Provenance: Phil

4784. BRASS YACHT BINNACLE AND COMPASS Late 19th Century Binnacle likely English. Compass by G. Hechelmann, Hamburg, Germany. Tripod dolphin-form base. Height 32”. Width 19.25”. 2,500/3,500

4785. CASED YACHT CHRONOMETER BY JOHN POOLE Second Half of the 19th Century Burnished steel face marked “John Poole Maker to the Admiralty”. Negus retailer label. Brass-bound wooden case. Case height 6.5”. Width 7”. Depth 6.75”. 1,000/2,000

4786. BRASS YACHT BINNACLE BY THAXTER & SON, BOSTON 19th Century Height 34”. 700/1,000

Sullivan collection.

4787. LARGE SHIP’S WHEEL MANTEL CLOCK Chicago, 20th Century Burnished bronze face marked “Spaulding & Co. Chicago”. Brass case on mahogany stand. Total height 17.25”. Bezel diameter 7.25”. 2,000/3,000

4784

4785

4786

4787

4788. MONTAGUE J. DAWSON England, 1890-1973

Yachting scene. Signed lower right “Montague Dawson”. Watercolor on paper, 28” x 19.5” sight. Framed 37” x 27.5”. 15,000/25,000

4789. MOTAGUE J. DAWSON

England, 1890-1973

“The Battle of Trafalgar”. Signed in pencil lower right “Montague Dawson”. Print, 31.5” x 37” sight. Framed 41” x 49.5”. 400/700

4788

4790. OUTSTANDING TIFFANY & CO. YACHTING TROPHY DECANTER SET WITH HUMIDOR

Circa 1873/1874

One of the most interesting trophies and Tiffany & Co. objects we have examined. Presented to the Atlantic Yacht Club by the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club for the Livingston Memorial Prize. Exotic burlwood veneer case with rounded lid, molded base, gilt-bronze hinges and fancy gilt-bronze mounts, side handles and pulls. Gilt-bronze ribbon, shield and garland plaque mounted to top engraved “From” above the SYC (Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club) monogram. Lid lifts and front doors swing open to reveal a purple velvet-lined interior fitted with an engraved gilt-bronze presentation tray and three cut glass decanters with faceted stoppers. Six gilt-bronze galleried shelves on the interior of the doors hold the original glasses (one glass missing). Humidor drawer at base with a giltbronze pull in the shape of a whale’s tail. Silver-lined humidor with three compartments, the central narrow compartment for water. Oval presentation tray engraved on both sides, the front with “Presented to the Atlantic Yacht Club by the Seawanhaka Yacht Club Won by Sloop Yacht Vixen, Capt. Livingston Oyster Bay, July 4th 1873.” and the back with “Record of Winners of the Livingston Memorial Prize Sloop Yachts” and a list of 14 winning boats and their captains for years 1875 through 1888, all famous yachts of their day. Below the list is the inscription “By resolution of Board of Trustees, A.Y.C., January 20, 1899, awarded to ExCommodore H.H. Hogins in perpetuity, he being the last winner.”. Small gilt-bronze label stamped “Tiffany and Co Union Square” on interior. Height 12.75”. Width 12.75”. Depth 9.25”. 7,000/10,000

Exhibited: Flagler Museum, Palm Beach: “Capturing the Cup: The Gilded Age”, Winter 2013.

The Yachts and Yachtsmen of America edited by Henry A. Mott (International Yacht Publishing Company, 1894), p.370, “The Season of 1873” describes “The year opened with the first anniversary dinner of the club given on January 15 at Delmonico’s in New York City. ... This year the club again accepted an invitation to spend the 4th of July with the Seawanhaka Yacht Club in Oyster Bay Harbor, and the race was sailed by the yachts in both fleets for a prize offered by the entertaining club to the visitors. In this race Vixen, Ludlow Livingston owner, was the winner. Soon after this race Mr. Ludlow Livingston died, and his heirs receiving the prize, gave it to the Atlantic Yacht Club to be known as the Livingston Memorial and to be sailed for at each Annual Regatta as a yearly prize. It was to be awarded to the first yacht belonging to the class in which Vixen would have sailed had she been present, irrespective of any time allowance. The club accepted the gift and it has been sailed-for and won at each Annual Regatta since that time”.

4790, two views

4791. MOUNTED BUILDER’S HALF HULL MODEL OF A HERRESHOFF-DESIGN SLOOP

First Half of the 20th Century Model with white hull, green bottom and yellow boot, a bowsprit and an applied trailboard. Backboard 10.75” x 43.25”.

4792. MOUNTED BUILDER’S HALF HULL MODEL OF A SLOOP

First Quarter of the 20th Century Model with black hull and copper-colored bottom, and an inlaid brass strip under the gunwale. Backboard 12.25” x 45.25”. 1,400/1,800

4793. SHADOW BOX MODEL OF A SAILBOAT

Early 20th Century Height 9”. Width 10”. Depth 2”.

4794. SHADOW BOX MODEL OF A SAILBOAT

Early 20th Century Height 9.25”. Width 12.25”. Depth 2.5”.

4795. DOLPHIN-FORM MOLDED BRASS TILLER YOKE

Late 19th Century Height 7”. Width 20”. 300/500

4796. TWO SHADOW BOX MODELS OF THE CORISANDE

Early 20th Century

Together with an advertisement. The motor yacht Corisande, which set a cruising record, was owned by Marshall Field of the New York Yacht Club, and both models show the Club’s burgee. Heights 9” and 14”. Widths 11” and 19”. 500/1,000

4797. MOUNTED HALF HULL MODEL OF A MOTOR YACHT

First Quarter of the 20th Century Model with a green and red boot, and an applied brass propeller and rudder. Mahogany backboard. Backboard 10.5” x 33.25”. 400/600

4798. RACING SHELL MODEL

20th Century

Wood and marked .900 silver. Marked “Sacchetti”. Complete with sweeps. Length 13.5”. 350/500

4791

4792

Early 20th Century

In mahogany, the hull painted yellow. Brass “Aletha” name plate at the bow and silver “Awarded Silver Medal Exhibition London 1924” plaque at the stern. Model length 62”. Case height 16.5”. Length 65.5”.

Second Quarter of the 20th Century

White hull with aqua bottom, gunwale and cockpit. Steam engine. Displayed on a cradle. Height 11”. Length 37”. Width 9”.

4799. CASED STEAM MODEL OF A RUNABOUT ATTRIBUTED TO BOUCHER

Width 11.5”. 5,000/10,000

4800. BOUCHER STEAM-OPERATED SPEEDBOAT MODEL

1,500/2,500

4799

4800

Red hull. Lead-weighted keel. Complete with mast, sails and rigging. Height 82.5”. Length 71.25”. 1,000/2,000

with red bottom. Nicely detailed deck. Beautifully toned cotton sails. Case height 23”. Length 27.5”. Width 11.75”. 1,000/2,000

Black

4801. SINGLE-DRAW TELESCOPE Probably England, Early 20th Century Mahogany tube with silver plated fittings. Unmarked. Length 27.25”. 500/800

4802. BRASS SHIP’S BELL CLOCK Seattle, 20th Century Face marked “Max Kuner Co. Seattle”. Bezel diameter 10.25”. 800/1,200

4803. POND MODEL OF AN X BOAT Circa 1940s

4804. CASED MODEL OF THE GRAND BANKS SCHOONER BLUENOSE 20th Century

hull

4805. CASED BRASS SKELETONIZED SEXTANT Early 20th Century Scale marked “Troughton & Simms”. Fitted dovetail case marked “Admiralty - H.O. 9”. Case height 5”. Width 9.5”. Depth 9”. 300/500

Massachusetts/Rhode Island, 1866/67-1951

“Luffing Up”, depicting vessels at sea. Unsigned. Quester Gallery label verso.

Charcoal on paper, 12.5” x 20”.

Framed 21.5” x 28”. 500/800

Massachusetts, 1941“Gloucester, Mass, The Coronet”. Signed lower left “Bruce Turner”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 23” x 33”.

Framed 31” x 41”. 1,000/2,000

New York/Maryland, 1830-1895

An American yacht under full sail and a distant tugboat. Signed and dated lower left “Granville Perkins 1893”. Watercolor on paper, 19” x 28” sight. Framed 28” x 36”. 500/1,000

4807

4808

4806. REYNOLDS BEAL

4807. BRUCE BACKMAN TURNER

4808. GRANVILLE PERKINS

Early 20th Century

Pre-dates the U.S.L.H.S. merger with the Coast Guard in 1939. Triangular flag with a blue lighthouse on a white field with red border. Hoist with round U.S.L.H.S. and “4” stamps. Also stamped for maker “Annin & Co. N.Y.”. 28” x 50”. 300/500

4809. GRANVILLE PERKINS New York/Maryland, 1830-1895

Shipwreck, 1870. Signed lower left “G.P. 1870”. Oil on canvas, 26” x 46”. Framed 36” x 56”. 4,000/6,000

4809 4810

4810. COPPER AND BRASS LIFE SAVING SERVICE HORN

19th Century Brass label marked “Property of U.S. Life Saving Serv. Boston Dist.”. Length 24.75”. 1,000/2,000

4811. U.S. LIGHT HOUSE SERVICE WOOL PENNANT

OF DAILY EXPENDITURES

Late 19th Century

From the Fuller’s Rock light station on the Providence River, John J. Mullen, keeper. Entries dated from January 1888 to December 1891. Marbled boards with leather spine. 16.5” x 14”. 400/600

First

20th Century

300/500

Massachusetts, 1848-1921

Evacuating from a shipwreck. Signed lower right “LD Eldred”. Oil on heavy paper panel, 6” x 10”. Framed 8.5” x 12.5”. 500/1,000

Massachusetts, 1806-1889

“Eastern Point Lighthouse, Near Gloucester Harbor”. Inscribed, signed and dated verso “Eastern Point Lighthouse, Near Gloucester Harbor Norman’s Woe in the Distance by C. Drew 1880”. Oil on canvas, 18” x 30”. Framed 25” x 37”. 800/1,200

Massachusetts, 1806-1889

Steamship Nantasket in the tornado, June 16, 1879. Signed lower right "C. Drew". Inscribed verso. Oil on canvas, 14" x 22". Framed 19" x 28". 1,500/2,500

4812. UNITED STATES LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT BOOK

4813. SURFMAN AND LIGHTHOUSE TABLE LAMP

Half of the

Plaster, brass and copper. Illuminating lighthouse with Fresnel lens. Height 34.5”.

4814. LEMUEL D. ELDRED

4815. CLEMENT DREW

4816. CLEMENT DREW

4817

4817. MOUNTED BUILDER’S HALF HULL MODEL OF THE JOHN ENA

1929

Model with carved bone bowsprit and portholes. Vessel identified on brass plaque mounted to the mahogany backboard. Backboard 15.5” x 84”. 800/1,200

4818. CASED HAMILTON CHRONOMETER WATCH

Early 20th Century

Mahogany exterior case with metal instruction plaque on lid. Interior metal case engraved on back. Chronometer with Arabic numeral dial and second sweep. Watch case diameter 2.75”. Mahogany case height 2”. Width 6”. Depth 5”. 200/300

4819. DESKTOP MODEL OF A STOCKLESS ANCHOR

20th Century

Marked on sides “Port Engineering Works” and “M/A A. Yule & Co Ltd.”. Length 5.5”. 500/1,000

4820. BROWN, LENOX & CO. MODEL OF AN ANCHOR Marked “Lenox Royal Navy Anchor, 9, Martins Lane, London E.C., Patentees & Sole Makers”. Length 5”. 500/1,000

4821. MODEL OF A FELLOWS PATENT STOCKLESS ANCHOR

20th Century Possibly a salesman’s sample. Length 9”. 500/1,000

4822. CASED MODEL OF THE OCEAN-GOING TUG

JOHN J. NUGENT OF BOSTON

20th Century

Painted in traditional black, red and white. Case height 11.25”. Length 20.5”. Width 7.25”. 1,000/1,500

4823. WILLIAM HITCHCOCK CASED MODEL OF THE LIBERTY

20th Century

Brass plaque marked “The American Marine Model Gallery Salem Mass” mounted on the base of the glass and wood case. Case height 16.5”. Length 13”. Width 7.25”. 500/1,000

Massachusetts, 1919-2014

“Clipper Ship Westward Ho”. Signed lower left “Charles F. Kenney”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”. Framed 30” x 42”. 1,000/2,000

Massachusetts, 1919-2014

“Clipper Ship Belle of the West”. Signed lower left “Charles F. Kenney”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 24” x 30”. Framed 30” x 36”. 1,000/2,000

The Belle of the West was one of finest clippers built by David & Asa Shiverick of Shiverick Shipyards in Dennis, Massachusetts. An article in the May 14, 1853 issue of the Boston Daily Atlas states it was “decidedly one of the most beautiful clippers in port -- a perfect seawitch -- which would win the heart of a sailor at a glance”. The stately Greek Revival home at the front of the Eldred’s property at its Cape Cod headquarters was built by Belle of the West's captain, William F. Howes.

4824. CHARLES "FRAN" KENNEY

4825. CHARLES "FRAN" KENNEY

4826. JOHN W. SCHMIDT Massachusetts, 20th/21st Century

The Thomas H. Lawrence with a steamer passing her bow. Signed lower left “J.W. Schmidt”. Oil on canvas, 25” x 33”. Framed 31.5” x 39.5”. 500/800

4827. JOHN W. SCHMIDT Massachusetts, Late 20th Century

“The Bath Built Ship W.R. Grace”. Signed lower right “J.W. Schmidt”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 26” x 33”. Framed 31.5” x 38.5”. 500/800

4824

4825

4826 4827

4828. CASED PRESENTATION HALF HULL MODEL OF THE S.S. SCOTT

Early 20th Century

Nicely detailed. Presentation plaque marked “S.S. Scott Built By the Garson Graving Dock & Shipbuilding Company Ltd.

Gasrston Liverpool 1904”. Case height 18”. Width 62.5”. Depth 8.5”.

4829. CASED PRESENTATION HALF HULL MODEL OF THE STEAMSHIP TAMAQUA

Early 20th Century

Nicely detailed. Oak case with mirrored back. Presentation plaque marked “S.S.Tamaqua Built by Messrs Napier & Miller. Limited. Shipbuilders & Engineers Old Kilpatrick Glasgow”. Case height 19.5”. Width 65”. Depth 8.5”. 2,500/3,500

4830. MODEL OF A WELIN QUADRANT DAVIT

Early 20th Century

Made by the American Balsa Company, New York. Marked on base. Height 9”. Width 13”. 800/1,200

4831. UNUSUAL MODEL OF A SAILING SHIP’S WHEEL MECHANISM

Very well made and possibly a salesman’s sample or demonstration model. Ropes wind around the winch barrel to pass belowdecks through a series of blocks and tackles to the tiller, which turns the rudder. Height 14”. Length 12.5”. 800/1,200

4832. PATENT MODEL #148255 OF A MARINE PROPELLER

Dated 1874

Signed “Wm. D. Smith Mar. 3d, 1874”. Retains original tag. Height 7”. 800/1,200

4833. SAMPLE DISPLAY CASE FROM THE MODEL SHIPWAYS COMPANY, FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY

Case filled with dozens of model ship parts, their descriptions and prices. 500/1,000

4828

4829

Provenance: Quester Gallery, Stonington, Connecticut. Private Collection, Maryland.

4834. “The Packet Ship Margaret Evans Passing Between Fishermen on the Grand Banks” Signed and dated lower right “Stobart 67”. Oil on canvas, 30” x 40”. Framed 38” x 48”. 30,000/50,000

4835. DAVID THIMGAN California, 1955-2003

“Bark W.B. Flint Off San Francisco”, 2001. Signed lower right “D. Thimgan F/ASMA”. Oil on canvas, 18” x 30”. Framed 25” x 37”. 4,000/6,000

4836. CHELSEA SHIP’S CLOCK 20th Century Brass case. Face marked “U.S. Maritime Commission Ser. No. 4305”. Bezel diameter 7.25”. 500/800

4837. SETH THOMAS SHIP’S CLOCK AND BAROMETER SET 20th Century Wall-mounted brass cases. Bezel diameters 5.25”. 250/350

4835

Four

4838. JACK LORIMER GRAY New York/Canada, 1927-1981

“Two Men Working - James Miller’s Lads”. Signed lower left “Jack L. Gray”. Titled on framed plaque. Oil on canvas, 24” x 35.5”. Framed 32” x 43.5”. 10,000/15,000

4839. FRANK JOSEPH HENRY GARDINER United Kingdom, 1942“A Summer Evening”, depicting sail barges moored at the Hythe. Signed and dated lower right “F.J.H. Gardiner 83”. Watercolor on paper, 14” x 19” sight. Framed 22” x 28”. 400/600

4840. LEWIS VICTOR MAYS, JR. Connecticut/Maine, 1927-2015

mixed medias on paper. All signed lower left or right “Mays”. The largest 5” x 8” sight. Framed 9.5” x 12.5”. 1,000/1,500

4838

Early 20th Century

Accompanied

Provenance: Richard

Mounted together on a single base. Clock with ship’s bell movement. Presentation plaque on base marked “Vice Admiral H.V. Butler U.S.N. On Going Ashore After 50 Years Service Administrative Office Staff

Navy Department”. Height 8.5”. Width 14”. Depth 3”. 500/1,000

“The DEW Line”. Signed and dated lower right “Peterson 88”. Gouache on paper, 13” x 20” sight. Framed 21.5” x 28.5”. 1,500/2,000

The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, Alaska’s north coast and Aleutian Islands, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland.

4841. CARVED NAMEBOARD FROM THE ARCTIC EXPLORER “BEAR OF OAKLAND”

by a letter from Ryan Cooper. 9” x 85”. 3,000/5,000

Byrd III. Charles Sanderson, distant cousin of Richard Byrd. Ryan Cooper. The Collection of Michael Gill.

4842. CHARLES L. (CHICK) PETERSON Wisconsin, 1927-2022

4843. CHELSEA SHIP’S WHEEL CLOCK AND BAROMETER SET 20th Century

4841

4842

4843

4844. CARVED WOODEN SPREAD-WING EAGLE PLAQUE

20th Century

Gilt finish. Eagle clutching arrows in its talons. Height 24.5”. Width 69”. 2,000/3,000

4845. CARL EVERS

California/Germany, 1907-2000

“Ships in Swedish Waters During W.W. II, 1944”. Signed and dated lower left “C. Evers '45”. Oil on canvas, 29” x 23.75”. Framed 34” x 29”.

500/1,000

4846. CHROME SUBMARINES INSIGNIA AUTOMOBILE MASCOT

20th Century

Formed as the bow and conning tower of a surfaced submarine flanked by heraldic dolphins. Design varies slightly from the official Submarines Warfare insignia, commonly known as the submariner’s “dolphins”. Screw-mounted on a circular cap. Total height 3.75”. 400/600

4847. CASED MODEL OF THE U.S. CRUISER

SAN FRANCISCO

20th Century

Beautifully detailed. Retains documentation regarding the history of the San Francisco. Case height 14.5”. Length 43.5”. Width 10”. 500/1,000

4848. CASED MODEL OF THE WORLD WAR II-ERA

TUG U.S.S. NAVAJO

20th Century

Built by Keith T. Bender. Nicely made and superbly detailed. Case height 16”. Length 35”. Width 10”. 500/1,000

4849. SEPIA-TONE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE U.S.S. BALTIMORE WAR CRUISER

20th Century

Labeled lower left “E.H. Hart 23rd Street, New York”. 16” x 19” sight. Framed 25.5” x 27”. 400/600

4844

4845

THOMAS MACLAY HOYNE

Illinois/Massachusetts, 1924-1989

4850. “Driving to Market”

Depicts the fishing schooner Stiletto racing back to market with her catch. Signed and dated lower left “Tom Hoyne 1981”.

Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 26” x 39”. Framed 33” x 45”. 20,000/30,000

4850

Provenance: Mystic Maritime Gallery, Mystic, Connecticut.

4851. “Boston Pilot Boat Hester”. Signed lower right “Tom Hoyne”. Titled on label verso. Acrylic on canvas, 18.5” x 24.5”. Framed 25” x 31”. 18,000/22,000

4851

ROY CROSS

United Kingdom, 1924-

Signed and dated lower left “Roy Cross 1984”.

Titled verso. Gouache, 8.5” x 13.75”. Framed 18”

Signed and dated lower right “Roy Cross 1985”.

Titled verso. Gouache on paper, 9” x 13.5” sight. Framed 19.5” x 24”. 2,000/3,000

4852. “Old Baltimore Harbour Circa 1840”.

x 23”. 2,000/3,000

4853. “Constitution Passes Castle Island, Boston 1828”.

4852

4853

4854

4854. “Nantucket Whaler John Adams I”. Signed and dated lower right “Roy Cross 2006”. Oil on canvas, 24” x 36”. Framed 31.5” x 43.5”. 15,000/20,000

WILLIARM ROBERT DAVIS

Massachusetts, 1952-

The Newport was part of the Fall River Line, a combination steamboat and railroad system between New York City and Boston that ran from 1847 to 1937. For many years it was the preferred route of travel between the two cities as the line's steamboats were some of the most advanced and luxurious of their day, described as "floating palaces". The line was the subject of a popular 1913 song "On the Old Fall River Line".

The Fall River Line originated with Colonel Richard Borden, a Fall River businessman who had interests in the iron and textile industries and operated steamboats between Fall River, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island as early as 1827. He began regular steamboat service between New York and Fall River in 1847, added substantially to the fleet, and sold the line in 1863 to the Boston, Newport and New York Steamboat Company. Successive owners would continue to expand the route and add additional vessels, including the Newport in 1863.

Several U.S. presidents and the high society traveled aboard the Fall River Line, including Grant, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Vanderbilt, Astor and Rockefeller, but the middle class was also able to experience the gilded age of travel aboard the steamboats.

The affordability of the railroad, the onset of the mainstream automobiles and the creation of the Cape Cod Canal factored into the demise of the Fall River Line in 1937.

4855. “Newport”, a portrait of the sidewheeler Newport in New York Harbor, 1865

Signed lower right “William R. Davis”. Ship identified on frame plaque. Titled on label verso. Oil on canvas, 18” x 34”. Framed 24” x 40”. 12,000/18,000

Signed lower right “Willam R. Davis A.S.M.A”.

Titled on label verso. Oil on canvas, 12” x 18”.

18” x 24”. 8,000/12,000

Signed lower right “William R. Davis”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 8” x 16”. Framed 14” x 22”. 3,500/5,000

Signed lower left “William R. Davis”.

Titled verso. Oil on board, 12” x 16”. Framed 17” x 21”. 3,000/5,000

4857 4858

4856. “Two Schooners off Hyannisport”

Framed

4857. “On a Reach”

4858. “Waiting for a Breeze”

United

New York/Massachusetts, 1955-

The Clara Wheeler with a pilot boat in the distance. Signed lower right “Jerome Howes”. Oil on masonite, 20” x 30”.

4859. BARRY MASON

Kingdom, 1947“Doldrum Days”. Signed lower right “Barry Mason”. Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 26” x 32”. Framed 32” x 41.5”. 1,500/2,500

4860. JEROME HOWES

Framed 26” x 36”. 1,500/2,500

4855

4855

4861. CASED TELESCOPE

Contemporary

Plum-colored enamel tube. Includes tripod. Leather case. Case height 9.25”. Width 15”. Depth 8.5”. 600/900

4862. GORDON HOPE GRANT

New York/California/United Kingdom, 1875-1962

"The King's Ship". Signed lower left "Gordon Grant". Titled verso. Oil on canvas, 50" x 60". Framed 57.5" x 67.5". 5,000/7,000

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Authorship of Paintings and Works of Art

A. LEMUEL D. ELDRED

Massachusetts, 1848-1921

In our opinion, this is a work by the artist.

B. ATTRIBUTED TO LEMUEL D. ELDRED

Massachusetts, 1848-1921

In our opinion, probably a work by the artist based on the style of the piece, however, the work lacks a signature, marking or adequate provenance to fully ascribe it.

C. MANNER OF LEMUEL D. ELDRED

Massachusetts, 1848-1921

In our opinion, a work made in the style of the artist listed, most likely by a follower or student.

D. SCHOOL OF LEMUEL D. ELDRED

Late 19th Century

In our opinion, a work executed at the time and in the style of the artist listed.

E. AFTER LEMUEL D. ELDRED

20th Century

In our opinion, a work made in the style of the artist listed, but not by the artist. Often used to describe a direct reproduction of an original work of art.

Ascribing Date of Origin

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We require prompt payment and removal of your purchases as stated in Paragraph 12 of the Conditions of Sale. If you plan to pick up your purchases, please call ahead and we’ll make every effort to have your items ready. We provide limited shipping services directly from our gallery; our staff can determine if your items qualify for in-house shipping. Please note, shipments from our gallery may take 4-6 weeks from receipt of payment, and you will be charged for carrier fees, packing and handling, and required insurance. If we are unable to ship your items we will provide you a list of alternative shipping agents.

Bidding Increments

$0-$99: $10 I $100-$499: $25 I $500-$999: $50

$1,000-$2,999: $100 I $3,000-$4,999: $250

$5,000-$9,999: $500 I $10,000-$29,999: $1,000

$30,000-$49,999: $2,500 I $50,000-$99,999: $5,000

$100,000 and above: $10,0000 I Above $300,000: auctioneer’s discretion

CONDITIONS OF SALE

1. CORRECTNESS OF DESCRIPTION: Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Eldred’s) has exercised reasonable care to catalog and describe correctly the property to be sold, but neither Eldred’s nor its consignors warrant the correctness of description, attribution, authenticity, or condition of said property. No statements shall be deemed such a warranty or representation or an assumption of liability with respect thereto, but are to be construed as opinions only. Bidders are encouraged to personally examine all property to be sold prior to the beginning of the auction.

2. Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer at the time of sale, all bids are per lot as numbered.

3. Eldred’s reserves the right to withdraw any property before the sale.

4. DETERMINATION OF HIGHEST BIDDER: The highest bidder accepted by the auctioneer shall be the buyer. In the event of any dispute between bidders, the auctioneer may determine who is the successful bidder or the auctioneer may re-offer the article in dispute and his decision shall be final.

5. REJECTION OF BIDS: The auctioneer reserves the right to reject any nominal raise or any bid or raise which, in his opinion, is not commensurate with the value of the article being offered. At his discretion, he may also reject any nominal raise or any bid that he may determine as having a detrimental effect on the item in question or the sale as a whole. Eldred’s may refuse to issue bidding privileges to any person not in good credit standing with Eldred’s, or to any person who is deemed by Eldred’s in its sole discretion, to be disruptive of or harmful to established auction practices, either before or after the acceptance of bids or the fall of the hammer.

6. TITLE: Except as herein otherwise provided, title will pass to the highest bidder as determined by the auctioneer, and the property is thereafter at the purchaser’s sole risk and responsibility.

7. PAYMENT: On title passing to the highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer, and subject to all the conditions set forth herein, such bidder will thereupon pay the full purchase price. Payment in full is due at the time of sale. Any bills not paid in full within 25 days of the date of the sale will accrue interest at a rate of 1.5% per month. In addition, the purchaser may be subject to one or more of the following actions:

a) Any and all legal remedies available to Eldred’s and its consignors by law including without limitation the right to hold the purchaser liable for the total purchase price;

b) Immediate cancellation of the sale, with Eldred’s retaining as liquidated damages all payments made by the purchaser; c) Resale of the property at public auction, wherein the original purchaser shall be liable for any deficiency, costs, and Eldred’s commission on both sales. At Eldred’s option, payment will not be deemed to have been made in full until Eldred’s has collected funds represented by checks, or in the case of bank or cashier’s checks, their authenticity has been confirmed.

A buyer’s premium will be added to the hammer price to be paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price.

8. ORDER BIDS: Subject to these Conditions of Sale and to such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, but at no charge to the customer, Eldred’s will undertake to execute all order bids submitted to it by a customer who has established credit with said company. Requests for such bidding must be given in writing with such clearness as to leave no room for misunderstanding as to the amount to be bid and must state the catalog number and the name or title of the article to be bid on. Telephone bids must be confirmed in writing or by cable. All bids are kept in strict confidence. In the event of identical bids, the earliest received by Eldred’s will take precedence. Eldred’s shall not be held responsible for errors or failure to execute bids. A deposit of 10% of the total amount bid is required. TELEPHONE BIDS: While the sale is in progress, bidding by telephone may be allowed by the auctioneer at his discretion. A deposit of 10% of the anticipated top bid is required. Eldred’s shall not be held responsible for any failure to properly execute such a bid whether it be due to equipment failure, loss

of connection, or failure to hear or understand the bidder’s directions. Any advice or opinions provided by Eldred’s or its employees are given strictly as a courtesy and are not a warrant of condition, attribution, authenticity, or description of said property. All bidding by telephone is solely at the risk of the bidder. ONLINE BIDS: Eldred’s shall not be held responsible for any failure to properly execute bids placed online. All online bidding is solely at the risk of the bidder.

9. CONDITION: If for any cause whatsoever any article sold cannot be delivered, or cannot be delivered in as good condition as the same may have been at the time of sale, due to a failure or damage on the company’s part, the sale will be cancelled, and any amount that may have been paid on account of the sale will be returned to the purchaser. EXCEPTION: Eldred’s will not be held responsible for damage to picture frames or lampshades.

10. SALES TAX: All purchases are subject to the Massachusetts sales tax (currently 6.25%) unless the purchaser: A) possesses a Massachusetts sales tax exemption or resale number and registers that number with the company, B) is an out-of-state vendor who meets all the requirements of Massachusetts Department of Revenue GLC 64H 1(5) and Directive 89-10 and registers with the company prior to each purchase, or C) has purchases shipped out of state (with the exception of Connecticut and New York) directly from Eldred’s by a bona fide shipping agent. Connecticut residents picking items up in our Mystic branch or having purchases shipped to their Connecticut address are responsible for CT state sales tax (currently 6.35%). New York residents having purchases shipped to their New York address are responsible for NY state sales tax (currently 4.0%). Due to the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, residents of other states may be required to pay their state sales tax on purchases as we meet each state’s nexus requirements. Dealers, museums, etc. can apply for a Massachusetts number prior to the auction by contacting the Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxation, 100 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02204.

11. RESERVES: Unless advertised as an “Unreserved Auction”, all sales may have items subject to reserve (an agreed upon price between the auctioneer and the consignor, below which the article will not be sold).

12. COLLECTION OF PURCHASES: Delivery or shipping arrangements must be made within seven (7) days from the close of the auction for all purchases. All items must be removed from Eldred’s facilities within fourteen (14) days of the end of the auction. All items remaining after fourteen days may be subject to a $5/per item/perday storage fee. No items will be released unless storage fees are paid in full. Items remaining over thirty (30) days from the close of the auction may be sold for the buyer’s account minus auction and storage fees.

13. PACKING: Purchasers are advised that packing and/or handling by Eldred’s employees is undertaken solely as a courtesy for the convenience of customers. In the case of fragile articles, it will be undertaken at the sole discretion of the company. Handling and packing by Eldred’s is at the risk of the purchaser. SHIPPING: When requested, Eldred’s may arrange shipment of paid purchases. Eldred’s will not be responsible for damage or loss once the item has been received by the shipper. In the case of fragile articles, shipping will be undertaken at the sole discretion of the shipper. Please refer to our Advice to Bidders for details.

14. These Conditions of Sale cannot be altered except in writing by Eldred’s or by public announcement by the auctioneer at the time of the sale.

15. Bidding on any article(s) indicates acceptance of the terms set forth above.

16. These Conditions of Sale and any suits arising thereunder shall be construed and governed by the laws of Massachusetts.

BIDDER PRE-REGISTRATION

Thank you for your interest in bidding in our auction. If you have not been a successful bidder with Eldred’s in the past, please help us establish your bidding credentials by completing this form and selecting one of the options that follow.

CLIENT INFORMATION

Name:

Company:

Address:

City: State: ZIP:

FINANCIAL REFERENCES

Please select one of the following options:

1. DEPOSIT

Alternate Phone:

Phone: Email:

MA Resale #:

All bidders holding a valid Massachusetts or out-of-state resale number must provide their certificate or a copy thereof when registering. Failure to do so will subject the bidder to paying 6.25% Massachusetts sales tax on purchases.

Submit a deposit representing 10% of the total order, either by mailing a check to the address below or providing a credit card number. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover with domestic billing addresses in amounts up to $5,000.00.

2. LETTER OF CREDIT FROM YOUR BANK

Please have your bank fax us at 508-385-7201. Letter must be on bank letterhead.

3. AUCTION HOUSE REFERENCE

Complete the information requested below.

Advance notice is required for this option as it is often difficult to reach the appropriate contact. You may have to authorize release of information. Please be aware Christie’s and Sotheby’s will not divulge any credit information.

Auction House: Contact: Auction House Phone: Account #:

Auction House: Contact: Auction House Phone: Account #: Auction House: Contact: Auction House Phone: Account #:

SIGNATURE (required): Date:

Bids will not be accepted without your signature on this form. By signing you agree to place the above bids in the auction listed, subject to the Terms and Conditions of Sale put forth by The Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc.

1. Clearly print the lot number, the item description and the highest amount you are willing to pay. Please follow our standard bidding increments.

2. Carefully review your bid form for accuracy of lot numbers, phone numbers, shipping information, etc. Although we attempt to confirm descriptions against lot number, bids are posted by lot number.

3. Please submit your bids in a timely manner, to avoid the chance of posting error. We request all bids be received by 3 p.m. the day before the auction. In the event of identical Absentee bids, the earliest received takes precedence.

4. A 10% deposit is required. If you are successful, the amount of your deposit will be applied toward your invoice. If you are not successful, the full amount will be returned promptly to you.

5. A buyer’s premium will be added to the hammer price of each lot, to be paid as part of the purchase price. The buyer’s premium is 26% of the final bid price up to and including $500,000, and 10% of the final bid price over $500,000.

ABSENTEE/TELEPHONE BID FORM

6. At the conclusion of the sale you will be notified if you were the successful bidder. All invoices must be paid in full within ten (10) days of the close of the auction. We accept checks, cash, money orders, wire transfers and major credit cards for payment. Credit cards can only be used for up to $5,000 of the invoice total and the card must have a U.S. billing address. We reserve the right to hold goods until payment has cleared.

7. All purchases are subject to state and local sales tax unless you possess a Massachusetts or out-of-state sales tax exemption or resale number and register that number with us.

The Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc. offers this service as a convenience to its clients and will not be held responsible for errors or failure to execute bids.

Are you a new bidder with Eldred’s? No:

Yes:

If so, please also complete our Buyer Pre-Registration form.

NAME:

ADDRESS:

SALE TITLE:

SALE DATE:

Bid or “phone” for Telephone Bid

PHONE: EMAIL:

ALTERNATE PHONE:

Signature (required):

By signing you agree to place the above bids in the auction listed, subject to the Terms and Conditions of Sale put forth by The Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc. All bids are kept in strict confidence.

Date:

SHIPPING

Do you have a tax resale #?

No: Yes:

Will pick up: Ship to address above:

Or ship to:

All property must be removed from our facility within 28 days of the close of the auction or be subject to a $5 per item/per day storage fee.

26% buyer’s premium will be added to the hammer price. See Item 5 above.

Total 10% Deposit

Have you examined the items listed above?

No: Yes:

Watch hutch from a Long Island Collection sold in the 2019 Marine Sale

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