A few examples of appraisal values for
COMMODORE VANDERBILT

• LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM
  LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM LOCOMOTIVELionel Commodore Vanderbilt steam locomotive classic black new in original box box slightly damaged No. 6-18063. Private collection Oxford MI.
• LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM
  LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM LOCOMOTIVELionel Commodore Vanderbilt steam locomotive blue new in original box No. 6-28024. Private collection Oxford MI.
• LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM
  LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM LOCOMOTIVELionel Commodore Vanderbilt steam locomotive red new in original box No. 6-28012. Train in perfect condition damage to box Private collection Oxford MI.
• MARX COMMODORE VANDERBILT STREAM
  MARX COMMODORE VANDERBILT STREAM LINE TRAINMarx Commodore Vanderbilt Stream Line Mechanical Train with box. Competitive in-house shipping is available for this lot.
• [William H. Vanderbilt] COLLAGES OF
  [William H. Vanderbilt] COLLAGES OF MATERIAL PERTAINING TO NEW YORK RAILROADS Estimate:$100-$200
• LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT LE
  LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT LE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE United States,ContemporaryO gauge, item no. 6-28012, a very rare and limited model train, 1 of only 250 produced.
• LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM
  LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TRAIN United States,ContemporaryO gauge, item no. 6-18063.
• CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF THE HUDSON
  CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF THE HUDSON RIVER DAYLINER "C. VANDERBILT" AMERICA, CIRCA 1870 ON PAPER, 17.75" X 33" SIGHT. FRAMED 21.75" X 37.5".CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF THE HUDSON RIVER DAYLINER "C. VANDERBILT", America, Circa 1870, Depicts the dayliner C. Vanderbilt cruising down the Hudson River on a moonlit night. Dimensions: On paper, 17.75" x 33" sight. Framed 21.75" x 37.5".
• RARE LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT
  RARE LIONEL COMMODORE VANDERBILT LOCOMOTIVE United States,ContemporaryO gauge, 1 of only 250 produced, a rare and highly limited model train. Item no. 6-28024.
• George Benjamin Luks
  George Benjamin Luks (American/New York, 1867-1933) "Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion, Fifth Avenue at 57th Street, New York", ca. first quarter 20th century, charcoal and graphite drawing, unsigned, inscribed with various architectural notations including lower left "sand stone trimmings", sight 9-1/2" x 7-1/4". Glazed, handsomely matted and framed. In 1928, the luxury goods department store Bergdorf Goodman was erected on the former site of the Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion.
• Ship Compass & Memorabilia from
  Ship Compass & Memorabilia from V. Astor includes epaulettes from V. Astor's uniform and photo of him with crew compass by John Bliss & Co. & Inc. in dovetailed wooden box.
• TWO GREEN-PAINTED SHIP'S
  TWO GREEN-PAINTED SHIP'S HALF-HULL MODELS Each with a black and ochre hull on a painted green back plate one is the USS Vincennes and the other is the USS Fairfield. Note: Please see lot 98 for further information on half hulls; and see lot 94 for more information on Captain Daniel Delehanty. Commissioned in August 1826 and built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard the USS Vincennes was a 703 ton Boston class sloop of war that was named after the Revolutionary War battle of Vincennes Indiana. It had a displacement of 700 long tons and a length of 127 feet. Within the first four years of being built it was the first Navy ship to circumnavigate the world. She was decommissioned by the Navy in 1865 and one of the Navy's most widely traveled ships. The USS Fairfield was a sloop-of-war and commissioned by the US Navy and launched in June of 1828 in the New York Navy Yard. It had a displacement of 700 tons and length of 127 feet. In 1833 she was part of the Pacific Squadron and in 1837 she departed for the Brazil station. As a protector for American commerce and interest she guarded against a blockade from Argentina set by French warships. She was decommissioned in 1845. Larger 8 3/4 x 40 in.
• CORNELIUS VANDERBILT SIGNED
  CORNELIUS VANDERBILT SIGNED LETTER United States1889Signed letter on Breakers stationary designating a meeting time to the recipient.
• Half-model of steam yacht, wood
  Half-model of steam yacht, wood construction, hull painted white with green waterline, glass portholes, white decking with ink-drawn planking, deck houses with ink drawn and paper details, carved ship's figurehead of woman in a gown, mounted to a pine shelf, early 20th century, ship 7 x 78 x 4-1/2 in., shelf 9-1/2 x 83-1/8 x 7-1/2 in., possibly a model of a Vanderbilt owned ship named "The Warrior" or "The Wayfarer". Some missing elements including decking on one deckhouse, replaced bow sprit, white deckhouse, trim chipped, crackled paint, dents, scratches, grime. Purchased by consignor from great- or great-great-grandson of Commodore Pierpont Morgan who was said to have purchased the model from an estate sale of a Vanderbilt Home in New England.
• ''VULCAN'' LOCOMOTIVE Ives early
  ''VULCAN'' LOCOMOTIVE Ives early American tin toy hand painted in black boiler red and yellow compartment green base contains bell cast iron spoke wheels stack and clockwork mechanism. 10'' l. Repaint to reds.
• American School late 19th/early
  American School late 19th/early 20th c. "Battle of Mobile Bay August 5th 1864: Admiral Farragut's Union fleet defeating the Confederate ironclad CSS Tennessee" oil on canvas unsigned 20 1/2 in. x 29 1/4 in. in a period giltwood frame.
• Michigan Central Railroad Company
  Michigan Central Railroad Company 5000 Dollar Stock Certificate signed by Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Issued 1881, cancelled 1886
• COMMODORE DECATUR BROADSIDE,
  COMMODORE DECATUR BROADSIDE, "FREE TRADE ANDSailors Rights", ca. 1810s. Framed and glazed. "Destroyed the Frigate Philadelphia 1804, Captured and Brought in the British Frigate Macedonian 1812". Published by John Kneass, Copperplate printer. Shows water staining. Overall with frame 12" x 10 1/4".
• THEODORE VICTOR CARL VALENKAMPH
  THEODORE VICTOR CARL VALENKAMPH (AMERICAN 1868-1924) SHIP FULL SAIL AT HIGH SEA Oil on Canvas; 36 x 28 1/2 in. Framed; lower right signed ''T.V.C. Valenkamph''
• JACKSONVILLE CABINET PHOTO
  JACKSONVILLE CABINET PHOTO RIVERBOAT CAPTAINCharles Edward Garner moved to Florida from Ohio in the early 1880s. He quickly founded a Steamship Line. His ship the Port Royal carried traffic mostly on the lower St. Johns river. He is still shown as owning a steamer line in 1898. Around the turn of the century he left the water, apparently a successful businessman, and by 1902 he was President of the Florida National Bank in Jacksonville His bank issued $5 notes at that time, signed by him. This cabinet photo is in fine condition, and was taken by S. P. (Samuel Peter) Burgert at Burgert's studio in Jax. His name is at the bottom of the photo mounting card.This is the same Burgert who then went to the Tampa Bay area setting up a huge studio run by his family, taking thousands of early photos of the area.
• MR. VANDERBILT'S HOUSE AND
  MR. VANDERBILT'S HOUSE AND COLLECTIONdescribed by Edward Strahan (pseudonym of Earl Shinn), Boston: Published by George Barrie, 1883-4, four volumes bound in three quarter leather over blue ribbed cloth, with five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, one of 500 copies, unnumbered, the "Japan Edition," each volume is illustrated throughout with black and white text illustrations, plates of photogravures, chromolithographs, color photochromes with captioned tissue guards and mounted on hard stock, a record of Vanderbilt's New York home and his collections Provenance: Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina Condition: light wear, slight loss at the extremities, and on the frontispiece of Volume IV there is residual paper on the plate where the tissue guard had once stuck to the plate, some tissue guards with creases, one color plate in Volume I with crease/small tear to hard stock, otherwise near fine condition
• WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT AND EDWARD
  WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT AND EDWARD STRAHAN (B. EARL SHINN 1837-1886) MR. VANDERBILT'S HOUSE AND COLLECTION William H. Vanderbilt (1821-1885) and Edward Strahan (b. Earl Shinn 1837-1886) Mr. Vanderbilt's House and Collection. The Holland Edition. New York, Boston and Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1883-84, 10 volumes, numbered 780/1000, this edition number for Amalia Von Platen Grossman, blue paper-covered boards, 19-1/4" x 13-3/4
• "COMMODORE" SHIP'S TAFFRAIL LOG
  "COMMODORE" SHIP'S TAFFRAIL LOG BY THOMAS WALKER & SON, LTD. BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, CIRCA 1910 SPINNER LENGTH 14" AND DIAMETER 6.5" (NOT INCLUDING ROPE TAILS). SHIPPING CRATE HEIGHT 10". LENGTH 20.75". WIDTH 14"."COMMODORE" SHIP'S TAFFRAIL LOG BY THOMAS WALKER & SON, LTD., Birmingham, England, Circa 1910, Includes a metal four-bladed spinner, signed on each fin with the "anchor" mark, "TW" and "T. Walker & Son Ltd., Birmingham. England."; a rope tail and leader weight, finished with a brummel hook; six-spoke hand wheel with rope tail and brummel hook; gray-painted mounting socket with two attachment points and spring-loaded socket cover marked "Walker's Commodore Log"; and an electric knot meter, with electric cable, hinged face and white enamel dial, signed "Walker's "Commodore Electric Log". Within the original shipping crate, the exterior marked with various labels including one for "The Union-Castle Line General Store Southampton". Dimensions: Spinner length 14" and diameter 6.5" (not including rope tails). Shipping crate height 10". Length 20.75". Width 14". Provenance: Christie's, London, Maritime Sale, 1988.The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.Notes:Thomas Walker's firm in Birmingham, England, was a leading maker of logs. Thomas Walker (1805-73) was a nephew of Edward Massey, the London nautical instrument maker whose patent mechanical logs enjoyed wide use in the 19th Century. Walker's firm and Massey's merged at the end of the 19th Century.
• VERNON HERMAN COLEMANAmerican
  VERNON HERMAN COLEMANAmerican 1898-1978Alphabet panel depicting two children waving to each other from the bows of facing boats labeled beneath Alice'' and ''Jerry''. Harbor with boats and buildings in the background with alphabet written across the top. Signed lower right ''Vernon Coleman''.Oil on panel 35'' x 71'' sight. Framed.''
• VAN RYPER CARVED WOODEN HALF SHIP
  VAN RYPER CARVED WOODEN HALF SHIP CASED MODELOF THE HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE STEAMER "HENDRICK HUDSON". VAN RYPER WAS FROM MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MA. 3" HIGH, 19 3.4" LONG, 3 3/4" DEEP.
• CURRIER & IVES, (3) STEAMSHIP
  CURRIER & IVES, (3) STEAMSHIP LITHOGRAPHS Nathaniel Currier (American, 1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (American, 1824-1895), hand-colored lithographs, c. 1860-65, includes "New York Ferryboat", "The Great Iron Steam-ship Great Eastern", and "The Steamship Oregon of the Cunard Line", 12.75"h x 17"w (sight), 14.75"h x 19"w (frames)
• Currier & Ives, publishers URNING
  Currier & Ives, publishers URNING OF THE STEAMSHIP "GOLDEN GATE," JULY 27, 1862 Hand-colored lithograph Estimate:$300-$400
• LIONEL TRAIN GROUPING Lot includes:
  LIONEL TRAIN GROUPING Lot includes: 'O' Gauge #38 Loco in black 264E Commodore Vanderbilt Locomotive 262 & 262T Tender together with three freight cars several train lamps and sign accessories. #38 - 11'' l. #38 Restored Sold as-is (Poor-Fair Cond.)
• GORDON GRANT SAILING VESSEL
  GORDON GRANT SAILING VESSEL MARITIME ETCHING New York, California, United Kingdom,1875-1962Depicts a large sailing vessel traversing the ocean.
• Log of My Motor 1899-1908 1908-1911
  Log of My Motor 1899-1908 1908-1911 two volumes William K. Vanderbilt with numerous illustrations of exotic motor cars of the period
• TWO VAN RYPER MODELSMid-20th
  TWO VAN RYPER MODELSMid-20th CenturyWhite Star steamship models with gray hulls. One with Van Ryper stamp on underside length 9. Other length 5''. Includes a Van Ryper brochure.''
• BURRELL CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE SHIP
  BURRELL CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE SHIP PAINTINGOld oil painting on canvas of Civil War ships titled verso CSS NASHVILLE STEAMING TO RENDEZVOUS WITH BLOCKADE RUNNER FLORIDA OF HAMILTON HARBOR ANCHORAGE, BERMUDA. Signed E. Burrell. 16 x 24 inches
• After William Callcott Knell
  After William Callcott Knell (British 1830-1876) "Steamship President" published by Ackermann 1840 London hand-colored aquatint by Papprill sight 18 3/4 in. x 26 in. attractively matted and framed.
• CIRCA 1850 PORTRAIT OF A NEW YORK
  CIRCA 1850 PORTRAIT OF A NEW YORK SEA CAPTAIN A Strikingly Handsome Young Seafarer, in white cravat, having blue eyes, auburn hair with long sideburns, turned a quarter left towards his ship on the horizon; from a Brooklyn family, oil on canvas, unsigned, in what appears to be the original lemon gold molded frame, OS: 34 3/4" x 30", SS: 29 1/4" x 24 1/4", light stretcher impression, ripple upper right corner.
• [Autographs] Original signed
  [Autographs] Original signed subscription for a dinner in honor of Commodore William Bainbridge New York December 3 1813 with a printed ticket for the same dated Dec. 8 containing 45 signatures notably: Richard Varick Philip Hone Robert Fulton Washington Irving and N. G. Rutgers Estimate $ 200-300
• THE SCHOONER GEORGE
  THE SCHOONER GEORGE VIGUS(American School, late 19th century) The Captain George Vigus, New York to Dublin, signed "Lillian M. Vigus" on flag and prow of ship, with a faux tag labeled "Captain George Vigus/New York To Dublin/November 1878", watercolor on paper, 14-1/4 x 19-1/2 in.; gilt wood frame, 15-1/4 x 20-3/4 in. Provenance: Property from the John B. Schorsch Collection Condition: toning, fading; frame with wear