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Sailor-made Green Covered Basket
Lot: 115Sold for: $593$500Sailor-made Green Covered Basket, 19th century, finely woven coiled cane basket with slightly domed lid, ht. 6, dia. 12 3/4 in. more ...
Carved Whalebone and Engraved Metal Walking Stick
Lot: 116Sold for: $2,133$1,800Carved Whalebone and Engraved Metal Walking Stick, c. 1840, the tapered walking stick with embossed metal top with engraved inscription "J. Diell 1840," over a shaft with facets, inlaid cube, more ...
Inlaid Mahogany Tea Caddy
Lot: 117UnsoldInlaid Mahogany Tea Caddy, 19th century, likely sailor-made, with inlaid heart, arrows, geometric and shaped devices, and decorative stringing, with hinged lid opening to two lift-out inlaid more ...
Three Scrimshaw Items
Lot: 118Sold for: $1,164$950Three Scrimshaw Items, 19th century, a whale's tooth engraved with a picture of a fashionably dressed lady, a carved tooth sperm whale figure, and a jagging wheel with turned handle, (minor age more ...
Nested Set of Twelve Contemporary Nantucket Baskets
Lot: 119Sold for: $2,963$2,500Nested Set of Twelve Contemporary Nantucket Baskets, deep round baskets with swing handles, each one signed "Azuba Scott Howland, Nantucket, Massachusetts," and numbered on the base, ht. to rim 8, more ...
Early Woven Splint Nantucket Basket
Lot: 120Sold for: $474$400Early Woven Splint Nantucket Basket, late 19th/early 20th century, deep round basket with domed center, carved hardwood swing handle, (minor breaks and losses on base edge),ht. to top of rim 6 3/4, more ...
Two "Asa Brown" Contemporary Nantucket Baskets
Lot: 121Sold for: $356$300Two "Asa Brown" Contemporary Nantucket Baskets, 1976, deep round red-stained baskets with carved hardwood handles, each with a copper penny dated 1976 inset into the bottom disk of the basket, ht. more ...
Paint-decorated Pine Chart Box
Lot: 122Sold for: $356$300Paint-decorated Pine Chart Box, America, 19th century, hinged lid on rectangular box, the top, front, and interior lid painted with stylized fruit and flowers with foliage in red and yellow on a more ...
Ebony Octant
Lot: 123Sold for: $551$450Ebony Octant, with brass sliding index arm, bone scale divided 0-105, vernier scale indexed 0-20, thumb-screw adjustment and lock, brass sighting pinnula, mirror, shades, maker's plaque marked "G. more ...
Octant in a Gray-painted Wood Box
Lot: 124Sold for: $504$425Octant in a Gray-painted Wood Box, Wilkinson & Sons, London, 19th century, ebony octant with brass sliding index arm, bone scale divided 0-99, vernier scale indexed 0-20, thumb-screw adjustment and more ...
Nickel-mounted Rosewood Veneer Cased Drawing Set
Lot: 125Sold for: $770$650Nickel-mounted Rosewood Veneer Cased Drawing Set, "W. Elliot 268 High Holborn London," 1835-49, blue velvet-lined case with three form-fitting interior trays containing numerous drawing instruments, more ...
Brass Ship's Telegraph Mounted as a Floor Lamp
Lot: 126Sold for: $948$800Brass Ship's Telegraph Mounted as a Floor Lamp, "CHAS. CORY & SON NEW YORK N.Y.," with single face and control handle, the commands read, "FULL, STOP, BACK, AHEAD, ONE THIRD, TWO THIRDS," and more ...
Three Carved Whalebone Whale Stamps in a Box, Twelve Ivory Items, and Fourteen Pieces of Related Ephemera
Lot: 127Sold for: $1,659$1,400Three Carved Whalebone Whale Stamps in a Box, Twelve Ivory Items, and Fourteen Pieces of Related Ephemera, c. 1850s, three hand-carved bone whale stamps with whale figural handles, depicting a Right more ...
Whale's Tooth Engraved with Whale Ship and Spouting Whale
Lot: 128Sold for: $1,007$850Whale's Tooth Engraved with Whale Ship and Spouting Whale, dated "1847," ht. 7 in. more ...
Large Turned Whalebone Fid
Lot: 129Sold for: $356$300Large Turned Whalebone Fid, 19th century, with incised lines around the top, (chip on top edge, minor age cracks),lg. 12 in. more ...
Incised Whalebone Fid and a Whalebone Walking Stick
Lot: 130Sold for: $1,185$1,000Incised Whalebone Fid and a Whalebone Walking Stick, 19th century, fid with geometric border heightened with red sealing wax, the top inscribed "HL," lg. 10 1/4; faceted tapered walking stick, lg. more ...
Engraved Whale's Tooth with Naive Whaling Scene
Lot: 131Sold for: $1,067$900Engraved Whale's Tooth with Naive Whaling Scene, 19th century, depicting a whaleman poised to harpoon a spouting whale, ht. 7 in. more ...
Carved Whalebone Flying Fairlead
Lot: 132Sold for: $474$400Carved Whalebone Flying Fairlead, 19th century, likely sailor-made, 5 x 2 in. more ...
Coin Silver Presentation Pitcher
Lot: 133Sold for: $9,480$8,000Coin Silver Presentation Pitcher, William Thompson, New York, early 19th century, the pitcher with hinged cover embossed with a detailed water scene of a shipwreck with a figure hanging on to a more ...
Face-carved Coconut Container
Lot: 134Sold for: $83$70Face-carved Coconut Container, 19th century, the coconut with smoothed surface and hollowed interior, ornamented with a relief-carved face, the initials "RM" incised twice, topped with a carved wood more ...
Napoleonic Prisoner-of-war-made Model of a Frigate
Lot: 135Sold for: $2,726$2,300Napoleonic Prisoner-of-war-made Model of a Frigate, late 18th century, plank-constructed ivory, baleen, and bone 32-gun frigate with carved female bust figurehead, anchors, and ship's wheel pierced more ...
Ship Diorama
Lot: 136Sold for: $1,659$1,400Ship Diorama, England or America, late 19th century, depicting a ship carrying a British flag and a small schooner, with painted putty sea and background, in a deep glazed and painted molded wood more ...
Cased Wooden Model of the Ship Alice
Lot: 137UnsoldCased Wooden Model of the Ship Alice, America, probably early 20th century, square-rigged, three-masted vessel identified on the stern, with carved wood sails and deck details, case ht. 25 1/2, wd. more ...
Painted Wooden Model of a Merchant Ship
Lot: 138Sold for: $356$300Painted Wooden Model of a Merchant Ship, America, late 19th century, square-rigged three-masted vessel with gold-painted scrolled foliate figurehead, bone and brass ship's wheel, and cast iron more ...
Large Painted Wooden Model of a Two-masted Schooner
Lot: 139UnsoldLarge Painted Wooden Model of a Two-masted Schooner, late 19th/early 20th century, with coiled rope and two anchors, embossed gilt-brass eagle mounted on the stern, the hull with later red and green more ...
Mounted Mahogany Half-hull Model of the Clipper Ship YOUNG AMERICA
Lot: 140UnsoldMounted Mahogany Half-hull Model of the Clipper Ship YOUNG AMERICA, the carved vessel identified in a label on a molded walnut plaque, 5 3/4 x 18 in. overall. more ...
Wood and Bone Model of the Three-masted Clipper Ship Red Jacket
Lot: 141Sold for: $1,541$1,300Wood and Bone Model of the Three-masted Clipper Ship Red Jacket, late 19th/early 20th century, the vessel identified on the stern, with stained wood hull, scribed planking, rigging, and deck details more ...
Painted Wooden Model of the Bark GOLDEN GULL
Lot: 142UnsoldPainted Wooden Model of the Bark GOLDEN GULL, America, early to mid-20th century, the three-masted vessel identified on the bow, with carved wood and metal deck details, painted black with white more ...
Painted Wood Model of an 18th Century British Royal Navy Frigate
Lot: 143Sold for: $770$650Painted Wood Model of an 18th Century British Royal Navy Frigate, late 19th/early 20th century, rigged vessel with forty-two brass guns, the deck outfitted with ship's wheel, coiled ropes, and more ...
Wooden Model of a Three-masted Merchant Ship
Lot: 144Sold for: $652$550Wooden Model of a Three-masted Merchant Ship, late 19th/early 20th century, stained wood hull with rigging and deck details including lifeboats and anchor, a gilt brass eagle mounted on the stern, more ...