61 |
AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S SILKWORK PICTURE OF EDWARD VII of oval form, depicted half-length in the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet facing right, with a union flag behind 13 x 10in. (33 x 25.5cm.), in teak frame stamped '1734', glazed £100-150 | Nil |
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100 |
| 62 | A PAIR OF LATE 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL NAVY LIEUTENANT'S EPAULETTES AND BELTING by J. Gieve & Sons, contained within plush-lined tin box of issue 6½ x 9in. (16.5 x 23cm.) £200-300 | Nil |
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180 |
| 63 | THE SURRENDER OF THE GERMAN FLEET, NOVEMBER 1918: AN ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS twenty-four 8 x 10in. aerial images of the German fleet under escort by the navies of Britain, France and America with additional airship support, mounted on card pages with captions in white ink - 9 x 12in. (23 x 30.5cm.) overall; together with a small Imperial German naval ensign, possibly from a launch, complete with lanyard and clip - 8 x 12in. (20 x 30.5cm.) £400-600 | Nil |
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400 |
| 64 | H.M.S. HAMPSHIRE: SURVIVORS' AUTOGRAPHS twelve autographs in pencil on linen, the bottom annotated These are the autograph names of the 12 men saved from H.M.S. Hampshire in the harsh sea […?…whilst on the Hospital Ship], Sunday June 5th 1916, now pasted on to card 7 x 4½in. (18 x 11.5cm.) H.M.S. Hampshire was an armoured cruiser built at Tyneside in 1908. Departing from Scapa Flow in poor weather at 4.45pm on the 5th June, she rendezvoused with escort destroyers who, in now dreadful conditions, were sent back. Aboard was Lord Kitchener and staff whom the British Government had entrusted on a secret mission to discuss the financial and material difficulties of Russia with the Tsar. At 7.40pm Hampshire hit a mine field laid by U-75 a few days before, and took less than fifteen minutes to sink. It was impossible to launch any boats and one warrant officer and thirteen men clinging to a raft were washed up on the coast of Marwick Head the next morning, of these two died almost immediately. £100-150 | Nil |
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110 |
| 65 | A COLLECTION OF FIRST WORLD WAR ARTEFACTS FROM THE MINESWEEPER H.M.Y. MEDUSA comprising approximately thirty-four 13 x 8in. manuscript tracking charts of cruises undertaken throughout 1915-1916 in the North East of England, each with outline of coast and passage marked in red ink, each numbered and dated as appropriate; together with flags including the Royal Standard; White Ensign; Union Flag; Stars and Stripes; and two lignum vitæ speaking tube mouth pieces with hoses (one damaged); a rosewood ruler made from Britannia and an R.N. belt and buckle from H.M.S. Worcester, c.1865, with cabinet photograph of its owner wearing it. The steel screw schooner Medusa was built for Alfred Farquar of Southampton by Day, Summers & Co. Ltd. and launched in 1906. Hired as a minesweeper by the Admiralty and fitted with 1-12pdr and 1-6pdr guns, she served from 12th January 1915 until released on 22nd March 1919. She was re-hired by the Navy in September 1939 and re-named Mollusc but was sunk by enemy air attack on 17th March 1941 off Blyth. (a lot) £300-500 | Nil |
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150 |
| 66 | AN OFFICER'S MESS PLATE RECOVERED FROM THE IMPERIAL GERMAN BATTLECRUISER HINDENBURG, CIRCA 1914-18 with Imperial Eagle crest to top, the rim lined with black and gold, impressed maker's marks to reverse (2in. crack and chip at 9 o'clock) 9½in. (24cm.) diameter A late product of the Wilhelmshaven yard, Hindenburg was launched in 1915 but not completed until late 1917. Scuttled with the rest of the German Fleet in 1919, she was raised in 1930 and was still of sufficient interest to merit a detailed examination by the Royal Corps of Naval Construction. £100-150 | Nil |
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100 |
| 67 | A PART SERVICE USED ABOARD THE ROYAL BARGE NORE comprising fourteen plates, ten large side plates; eleven small side plates; twenty saucers, with eight coffee cones with blue, white and gold edging with 'PLA' or crest, with maker's marks for Minton and Simpsons ; together with a quantity of EPNS flatware mostly engraved 'PLA'; and a large quantity of photographs and supporting documents. (a lot) Commissioned from Camper & Nicholson by the Port of London Authority for use by the Royal household, and launched in 1951, Nore was designated the 'Royal Barge' during the Coronation ceremonies in 1953. Removed from service in 1971, she was initially used by sea scouts, and then acquired for restoration although it is not known when this will be completed. £200-400 | Nil |
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320 |
| 68 | A PAIR OF GERMAN U-BOAT BINOCULARS stamped on the back plates for Karl-Heizon / 20 x 60 DEUTCHLAND UNTERSEEBOOT, separate eye-piece focussing, aluminium tubes with black crackle finish 9½in. (24cm.) high Provenance: Allegedly "liberated" from a U-Boat officer prior to the submarine being scuttled. Unmarked with the usual military stamps, it is thought this pair of binoculars may be rare examples from the brief period after World War One when, desperate to raise money, the peacetime German submarine fleet offered a civilian passenger/cargo service to the United States. £400-600 | Nil |
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| 69 | H.M.S. VANGUARD: OFFICIAL COMMISSIONING PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, CIRCA 1944 volumes III, IV and VIII of eight, each marked "SECRET", numbered card pages with black and white captioned images for middle deck, lower deck, platform and bridges, each approximately 10 x 12in., secured between embossed blue boards, vol. VIII with index to whole set 15 x 18in. (38 x 46cm.) Provenance: By repute from the estate of Captain John Litchfield, first Captain of Vanguard. £200-300 | Nil |
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200 |
| 70 | 'FLAGS, BADGES & ARMS OF HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS AND OF THE TERRITORIES UNDER HIS MAJESTY'S PROTECTION' H.M.S.O., 1932, full colour, bound between gilt-embossed blue boards 10 x 6¼in. (25 x 16cm.) £50-80 | 17.5% |
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55 |
| 71 | A BOAT BADGE FROM H.M.S. IROQUOIS (1918) in polished brass with name impressed on reverse 6½in. (16.5cm.) high Built by Barclay Curle & Co. and commissioned in 1919 as a minesweeper, Iroquois served as a Survey ship and was sold to Wards for breaking in 1937. £100-150 | Nil |
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90 |
| 72 | A BRASS YACHT HELM the eight spokes with teak handles 28in. (71cm.) diameter £150-250 | Nil |
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90 |
| 73 | A SET OF COPPER AND BRASS BRIDGE WING LAMPS with maker's plates for George Wilson, 20 Glasshouse St. London, facet cut glass lenses etched Halls Patent, complete with burners, reflectors and top handles 12in. (30.5cm.) high (2) £300-500 | Nil |
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250 |
| 74 | A FINE 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH incised over one side with a whaler flying the flag of Captain William Seabury with whale boats hunting in the foreground 5½in. (14cm.) high; 337g Captain William Seabury (1780-1852) a native of Little Compton, Rhode Island, moved to New Bedford in 1833 where his flag appears in the local owners private signal directory. Lit: New Bedford and Old Dartmouth, A Portrait of a Region's Past, bicentennial exhibition catalogue of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society at the Whaling Museum in New Bedford, December 4, 1975 - April 18, 1976, pages 67-69 inc. £1500-2000 | Nil |
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2100 |
| 75 | A MID 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN SAILORWORK SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH incised over both sides with a whaler and half-length picture of a fashionable lady, highlighted in red and green ink 5in. (12.5cm.) high; 203g £700-900 | Nil |
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| 76 | A MID 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH incised over one side with a full-length view of a fashionable lady holding a posy of flowers highlighted in red ink (faded) 6in. (15cm.) high; 275g £400-600 | Nil |
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400 |
| 77 | A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALEBONE STAY BUSK incised over one side with a ship, monument and young costumed man, entwined with foliate work 13¼in. (33.5cm.) £400-600 | Nil |
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550 |
| 78 | A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH incised in the round with a Red Indian shooting a creature with a bow and arrow, initialled 'G.S.' near the tip 4in. (10cm.); 100g £150-200 | Nil |
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220 |
| 79 | A FINELY CARVED SAILORWORK MARINE IVORY MODEL OF A SPERM WHALE mounted on a section of whalebone 5½in. (14cm.) long £700-900 | Nil |
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600 |
| 80 | A 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED HORN BEAKER incised overall and depicting a British whaler in profile and a bottle with HENRY engraved over, highlighted in red ink, with a baleen base 4¾in. (12cm.) high £200-400 | Nil |
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| 81 | A 19TH-CENTURY POWDER HORN inscribed BOSTON / THOMAS RANDALL / HIS HORN FEB 7 1817, with wooden plug and stopper 10in. (25.5cm.) long £500-800 | Nil |
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| 82 | A FINE 19TH-CENTURY NARWAL WALKING STICK with marine ivory carved handle and gold bands hallmarked for 1861 33in. (84cm.) high £2000-3000 | Nil |
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| 83 | A 19TH-CENTURY NARWAL [MONODON MONOCEROS] WALKING STICK SHAFT drilled for carrying loop (lacking handle and tip sheath) 36in. (91.5cm.) long £1200-1500 | Nil |
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2000 |
| 84 | 19TH-CENTURY WHALING INTEREST: a flensing knife on shaft 96in. (244cm.) long; together with a barbed harpoon head - 24in. (61cm.) long (2) £400-600 | Nil |
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300 |
| 85 | A CARVED MARINE IVORY CANE HANDLE in the form of a clenched fist holding the end of a rope entwined around the hand, mounted with a knife blade (later) 8½in. (21.5cm.) long overall £150-200 | Nil |
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220 |
| 86 | A SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WALRUSS TUSK incised over one side with a whaler flanked with harpoons, cannon, union flags with whales over and a banner inscribed GOOD LUCK TO THE BRITISH WHALER'S 25in. (63.5cm.) diameter. 1100g £700-900 | Nil |
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| 87 | A 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S PORTABLE WOODEN GAMES BOX comprising reversed chess and backgammon boards inlaid with rose, ebony and fruitwoods, each square pierced with a hole to receive an appropriate counter or piece, hinged at centre forming box containing complete sets of rosewood and fruitwood chess and backgammon pieces with securing pegs 21¼ x 18in. (54 x 46cm.) open £800-1000 | Nil |
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| 88 | A 19TH-CENTURY CARVED SAILORWORK COCOANUT SHELL BEAKER inscribed AR TUCKER / SPERM, and depicting a whaler, whaleboat, whale and serpent 5½in. (14cm.) high £150-200 | Nil |
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100 |
| 89 | A 19TH-CENTURY ENGRAVED ALE GLASS incised with a ship profile entitled Dunbar Castle of Cowes, and named opposite in a cartouche Jas. & Martha Smith March 13th 1871, with garlands of hops between, facetted tapering stem to circular foot 6½in. (16.5cm.) high £150-200 | Nil |
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300 |
| 90 | A RESTORED BERMUDAN SHELLWORK VALENTINE of typical kaleidoscopic form, within glazed octagonal case 14½in. (37cm.) diameter £1200-1500 | Nil |
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1600 |
