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Cased Wooden Model of the British Merchant Ship Nailsea Court
Lot: 131Sold for: $4,406$3,750Cased Wooden Model of the British Merchant Ship Nailsea Court, 20th century, the ship identified on the bow and stern with carved wood and brass details, red and gray painted hull, total ht. 19 1/4, more ...
Fitz Hugh Lane (American, 1804-65) View of Newburyport. (From Salisbury.)
Lot: 132Sold for: $2,585$2,200Fitz Hugh Lane (American, 1804-65)View of Newburyport. (From Salisbury.) Identified in inscriptions in the matrix. Lithograph with hand-coloring on paper, sheet size 18 1/2 x 26 3/4 in., in a more ...
American School, 19th Century Riverboat.
Lot: 133Sold for: $823$700American School, 19th CenturyRiverboat. Unsigned. Oil on panel, 19 1/4 x 22 1/4 in., in a birds-eye maple frame. Condition: A few small areas of paint loss in the more ...
American School, 19th Century Portrait of the Clipper Ship Nightingale.
Lot: 134Sold for: $2,468$2,100American School, 19th CenturyPortrait of the Clipper Ship Nightingale. Ink inscription on the mat reads, "by Samuel Hanscom Jr. Built 1851 Portsmouth, N.H." Watercolor and gouache on paper, more ...
American School, 19th Century Wreck off a Rocky Coast.
Lot: 134ASold for: $823$700American School, 19th CenturyWreck off a Rocky Coast. Signed and dated "William Holmes 1875," l.l. Oil on canvas, 12 x 20 in., in a molded giltwood frame. Condition: more ...
Captain Ebenezer Andrew's Camphorwood Chest and Ship's Invoice Book
Lot: 135Sold for: $764$650Captain Ebenezer Andrew's Camphorwood Chest and Ship's Invoice Book, China and America, 1834, the leather covered trunk with brass fittings engraved "E Andrews No 3," invoice book of more ...
Walnut Figure-Eight Wall Timepiece
Lot: 136Sold for: $7,638$6,500Walnut Figure-Eight Wall Timepiece, E. Howard and Co., Boston, c. 1870, with No. 5 brass weight-driven movement and black, maroon and gold eglomise tablets, (very minor imperfections),lg. 34 more ...
Carved and Painted Wooden Penguin
Lot: 137Sold for: $9,988$8,500Carved and Painted Wooden Penguin, attributed to Charles Hart, Gloucester, Massachusetts, c. 1930, the figure with inset wooden eyes and beak, applied flippers, painted black and white, mounted on a more ...
Engraved Powder Horn
Lot: 138Sold for: $646$550Engraved Powder Horn, America, late 19th century, large horn with several engraved whaling motifs and inscriptions including a whaling vessel, "A Dead Whale or a Stove Boat," "Whale more ...
Engraved Powder Horn
Lot: 139Sold for: $441$375Engraved Powder Horn, "Peleg E. Bryant," early 19th century, the powder horn engraved with a three-masted ship, a forlorn woman leaning on an anchor, a monument with a weeping willow, an more ...
Engraved Whale's Tooth
Lot: 140Sold for: $1,528$1,300Engraved Whale's Tooth, America, early 19th century, depicting two and three-masted vessels flying American flags, three five-point stars, a flowering vine and a cloud in the background more ...
Engraved Whale's Tooth
Lot: 141Sold for: $1,763$1,500Engraved Whale's Tooth, early 19th century, the obverse with a whaleship and two whale boats with stricken whale, the reverse showing three sailing vessels one of which is on fire, with flames more ...
Engraved Whale's Tooth
Lot: 142Sold for: $1,058$900Engraved Whale's Tooth, 19th century, depicting two sailing vessels with a large rock formation in the foreground of a turbulent sea, the initials "E.E." inscribed in the interior, (age more ...
Benjamin Franklin Burl Snuff Box
Lot: 143Sold for: $411$350Benjamin Franklin Burl Snuff Box, America, late 18th/early 19th century, round turned burlwood box, the cover with inset brass disk with profile bust of Benjamin Franklin in relief, more ...
Engraved Whale's Tooth
Lot: 144Sold for: $823$700Engraved Whale's Tooth, America, 19th century, the tooth engraved with the image of a fashionable lady standing next to a fountain, (minor cracks),ht. 6 1/4 more ...
American School, 19th Century Miniature Portrait of a Child.
Lot: 145Sold for: $7,638$6,500American School, 19th CenturyMiniature Portrait of a Child. Unsigned. Watercolor, gouache, and pen and ink on paper, 2 1/2 x 2 1/8 in., in a period molded giltwood more ...
American School, 19th Century Portrait of Child.
Lot: 146Sold for: $940$800American School, 19th CenturyPortrait of Child. Unsigned. Watercolor on paper, oval format, depicting a child wearing a dark brown jacket with a lace collar holding a bunch of flowers in one hand, more ...
American School, 19th Century Miniature Profile Portrait of a Gentleman.
Lot: 146ASold for: $323$275American School, 19th CenturyMiniature Profile Portrait of a Gentleman. Signed "Prior" l.r. Watercolor on paper, 4 1/8 x 3 in., in a gilt and black oval eglomise mat, gilt chalkware frame. more ...
Three Small Paper-Covered Trinket Boxes
Lot: 147Sold for: $441$375Three Small Paper-Covered Trinket Boxes, America, early to mid 19th century, an oval box with applied thirty-six star American flag on the cover, a round floral patterned wallpaper box, a more ...
Attributed to William Athearn Holmes (American, 19th Century) Portrait of the American Screw Steamer City of Birmingham.
Lot: 148Sold for: $2,468$2,100Attributed to William Athearn Holmes (American, 19th Century)Portrait of the American Screw Steamer City of Birmingham. Unsigned, vessel identified on pennant and bow. Oil on canvas, showing the more ...
Italian/American School, 19th Century Portrait of a Shipmaster with a Telescope.
Lot: 149Sold for: $3,173$2,700Italian/American School, 19th CenturyPortrait of a Shipmaster with a Telescope. Inscribed and dated "N Mazzagatti 1810" on reverse of the canvas. Oil on canvas, a half-length portrait more ...
Chinese School, 19th Century Portrait of a Steam-powered Two-masted Sailing Vessel.
Lot: 150Sold for: $1,293$1,100Chinese School, 19th CenturyPortrait of a Steam-powered Two-masted Sailing Vessel. Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 22 3/4 in., framed. Condition: Relined, alligatored craquelure, more ...
Henry Loos, (Belgian, 1871-1904) Portrait of the British Brig PHILIA.
Lot: 151UnsoldHenry Loos, (Belgian, 1871-1904)Portrait of the British Brig PHILIA. Signed and dated "H. Loos Antwerp 1872" l.r., ship identified on a pennant. Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 30 1/2 in., in a more ...
American School, 19th Century Captain Scudder of Hyannisport.
Lot: 152Sold for: $1,528$1,300American School, 19th CenturyCaptain Scudder of Hyannisport. Unsigned, figure identified on plaque below. Oil on canvas, bust length view picturing the captain wearing a dark blue double-breasted more ...
Whaling Journal
Lot: 153Sold for: $1,880$1,600Whaling Journal, "Kept by C.D. Gibbs N. Bedford, Mass." c. 1847, a journal of a "Voyage made by the Ship Two Brothers Bound to the Pacific Ocean Sperm Whaling"; the ship Two Brothers more ...
Whaling Ship's Log
Lot: 154Sold for: $2,703$2,300Whaling Ship's Log, 1846-49, from the ship Calumet of Stonington, September 14, 1846 to May 24, 1849, a world map is included which traces the voyage, 13 x 8 more ...
Carved and Painted Whaling Boat Model
Lot: 155Sold for: $1,058$900Carved and Painted Whaling Boat Model, America, late 19th/early 20th century, the boat fitted with an assortment of whaling gear, oars, sail, ropes, and buckets, painted green with cream and black more ...
Painted Wooden Ship Diorama
Lot: 156Sold for: $411$350Painted Wooden Ship Diorama, America, late 19th/early 20th century, three-masted vessel, the hull painted black, (losses),total ht. 15 7/8, wd. 28, dp. 4 3/4 more ...
Painted Wooden Model of the Fishing Trawler Rembrandt
Lot: 157Sold for: $588$500Painted Wooden Model of the Fishing Trawler Rembrandt, 20th century, two-masted propeller driven vessel fitted with a painted tin wheelhouse, propeller, net and lifeboat, the hull painted red, more ...
Ornate Carved Coconut Shell Cup
Lot: 158Sold for: $382$325Ornate Carved Coconut Shell Cup, America, early 19th century, relief carved with the name "CADDIE A. BALDIVIN.," above panels with an urn and flowers, eagle and shield, floral and foliate more ...