- PAIR OF AMERICAN SCHOOL PORTRAITS, 19TH
C, SHIP CAPTAINPair of American School Portraits, 19th c, Ship Captain & Wife with sailing ships & side-wheeler in distance. Captain wearing memorial brooch and both have...
[more like this] - 19TH CENTURY SEAFARING, 15 LETTERS BY
J RUTHERFORD 15 readable documents related to Captain John Rutherford (1762-1814). A manuscript archive of John Rutherford, he was a captured Revolutionary war soldier and...
[more like this] - NAUTICAL DAGUERREOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHNautical
daguerreotype photograph, likely a ship's captain with sailship in the background, opposing side with his wife, image - 3 1/4" x 2 5/8".
Competitive in-house shipping is...
[more like this] - AMERICAN PAINTED MECHANICAL 'A HEARTFELT
GOODBYE' WHIRLIGIG37 x 6 ft. 5 1/4 in. x 5 1/2 in.
Note accompanying this lot from the artist: "For a Captain when it was time to set sail at the wharf saying good bye to...
[more like this] - DIARY OF LT PAUL SHIRLEY, USN, USS SUSQUEHANNADiary
(log) of the steam/sail ship, U.S.S. Susquehanna written by Lt. Paul Shirley, 3/31/1856 - 5/22/1858 (approx. 168 pages total, two volumes). Paul Shirley (1820 - 1876) was...
[more like this] - WOOD, WILLIAM. WOOD’S STARTLING SENSATION
WOODITA.Newport: Donaldson Litho., ca. 1905. Half-sheet color stone lithograph picturing Wood’s illusion in which a giant butterfly woman was produced from an empty box....
[more like this] - RARE AND FINE CHINESE EXPORT MINIATURE
WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN JOHN DUKE OF SALEM CIRCA 1809 OVAL, 2.5" X 2" SIGHT. FRAMED 4.25" X 3.5". WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN JOHN DUKE OF SALEM, Circa 1809, Attributed...
[more like this] - WHALING MASTER SPENCER PRATT COLLECTION
MID-19TH CENTURY, Mid-19th Century, Includes a scrimshaw inlaid mahogany trinket box, photographs, a logbook, a brass speaking horn and two Asian reverse paintings on glass....
[more like this] - WILLIAM GAY AND MARY E. YORKE (NEW YORK/CANADA/ENGLAND,
1817-C. 1888 AND C. 1854-1893), CLIPPER SHIP DREADNOUGHT., OIL ON CANVAS, 24" X 30". FRAMED 33.75" X 40".WILLIAM GAY AND MARY E. YORKE, New York/Canada/England, 1817-c. 1888...
[more like this] - PAIR OF EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND HISTORICALLY
SIGNIFICANT SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TEETH BY JOSIAH SHEFFIELD, JR., KNOWN AS THE "LOG TEETH" CIRCA 1831-1835 LENGTHS 6" AND 6.25". INCLUDES STANDS. SIGNIFICANT SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S...
[more like this] - SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK BY JOSIAH SHEFFIELD,
JR. CIRCA 1830 LENGTH 13". JR., Circa 1830, Depicts a whaling scene of three ships, decreasing in size from left to right, and two six-man whaleboats in pursuit of a large...
[more like this] - GROUP OF BOOKS, TO INCLUDE NARRATIVE
OF A VOYAGEGroup of books, to include Narrative of a Voyage , Abby Jane Morrell, 1833, published by J. & J. Harper, Abby Morrell was the wife of Captain Benjamin Morrell jr,...
[more like this] - RARE AND UNUSUAL ENGRAVED POWDER HORN.Elaborately
engraved powder horn with images of eagles, fish, palm trees, cornucopia, a naval battle scene from The First Barbary War titled (Capt. Sterrett in the Schnr. Enterprise paying...
[more like this] - PORTRAIT OF A SHIP CAPTAIN'S WIFE, CA.
1835. OILpainting on canvas of Mrs. Francis Moore of Bristol, RI. The painting is set in a modern gilded frame. Mrs. Moore is dressed in black, wearing a lace cap, seated...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND
ARTIFACTS DOCUMENTING THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN MOSES RICH COLMAN ARTIFACTS DOCUMENTING THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN MOSES RICH COLMAN, Includes: 1) An 1859-1864 journal kept by Mrs. Polly...
[more like this] - AMERICAN NAIVE CARVED AND PAINTED MECHANICAL
'A HEARTFELT GOODBYE' WHIRLIGIG37 in. x 6 ft. 5 1/4 in. x 5 1/2 in.
Note accompanying this lot from the artist: "For a Captain when it was time to set sail at the wharf saying...
[more like this] - LARGE LOT OF MOSTLY LATE 19TH CENTURY
EPHEMERARELATED TO SHIPPING AND WHALING. APPROXIMATELY 250 PIECES TO INCLUDE NUMEROUS ITEMS FROM CAPTAIN JOHN WESLEY THOMPSON OF MAINE. HE WAS BORN IN THE 1830S AND COMMANDED...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF 1920'S-30'S PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS,
LARGELY RELATED TO AVIATORS, ESP. LINDBERGH (38) Photographs & (3) Autographs, including: Amelia Earhart on her plane 'Friendship'; Meeting for the Treaty of Versailles to...
[more like this] - Royal Doulton Bunnykins Figures from
the Ship Mate series including Seaman Ships Cook Ships Captain Pirate Boatswain Cabin Boy Captains Wife and Ship Mates Base (8)...
[more like this] - Royal Doulton Bunnykins Figurines from
the c. 2000 - 2002 Nursery Rhyme Collection including: Little Bo Peep DB220; Little Jack Horner DB221; Jack and Jill DB222; Cinderella DB231; Little Boy Blue DB239 broken...
[more like this] - Executive Officer Henry W. Washburn
USS Morning Light Civil War Archive War-date archive of five letters one partial letter and three transmittal covers. Written by ill-starred Acting Master Henry W. Washburn...
[more like this] - Large scrimshaw tusk 20th c. decorated
with a ship sea captain and wife etc. 28" l. ?...
[more like this] - William Woodward (American/New Orleans
1859-1939) "SS Atenas Moored at Old Havana Harbor" c. 1920-21 oil on canvas unsigned 30 in. x 24 in. framed. Provenance: Descended in the family of a prominent merchant...
[more like this] - Samuel Lawrence Early New York Representative
& the Lawrence Family Manuscript Archive An extensive archive of approximately 67 documents of the noted Lawrence family of New York spanning the years 1799 to 1908. Dealing...
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