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Session 2 The Marine Auction held August 7 features 19th century scrimshaw, walking sticks and canes, yarn swifts, 6 Clark Voorhees Jr. whale carvings, miniature Prisoner of war ship model, numerous half hulls, ship shadowboxes, figureheads, whaleman made boxes, telescopes, signal flags, whaling gear includes harpoons, killing lances, whaleman knives, blubber spades, ship wheels, several Nantucket Sea Captain portraits by Charles Delin, and much more.

Bidding available Online, by Telephone and Absentee. LIVE PREVIEW: August 2, 3, 4, 5 from 10am to 5pm at the American Legion Hall, 21 Washington Street, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Online auctions begin promptly August 6 & 7 at 9:30am EST

Please note that this event has ended.

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Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1861

Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1860-1870

American Scrimshaw and Polychrome Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, mid 19th Century

Exceptional and Unique Polychrome Scrimshaw Antique Whale Tooth, circa 1870

Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1870

Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1850

Wick Aherns Carved and Painted Sperm Whale Sculpture

Wick Aherns Carved and Painted Sperm Whale Sculpture

Antique 19th Century British Naval Oak Brass Bound Rum Cask Barrel

Antique/Vintage American Folk Ark Naval Sailor Made Port Starboard Fid Propeller Table

Antique 19th Century Sailor Made Macrame Bottle

Two Antique 19th Century Whalebone and Exotic Wood Seam Rubbers

Antique/Vintage Copper Marine Ship’s Masthead Light

Outstanding Folk Art Sperm Whale Weathervane, 19th Century

Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding Watercolor “Southampton Sunset”

Vintage 1940s World War II Sailor Made Folk Art Nautical Brass Lamp

American Homeward Bound Pennant, 19th Century, 26 Ft. 8 inches

New Bedford Steel Blubber Mincer

American Carved and Painted Ship’s Trailboard, 19th Century

Whaleman Iron Killing Lance, 19th Century

Antique French 3 Draw Captain’s Spy Glass, 19th Century

Antique Sailor Made Star Inlaid Barrel Shaped Puzzle Box

Group of 8 Sailor Made Antique Whalebone Bodkins and Instruments, 19th century

Antique American Folk Art Sailor Boy Whirligig

Important U.S. Navy U.S.S. Peacock Handwritten Manuscript Music Book

Whaleman Made Pie Crimper, circa 1850

Large Ship’s Wheel, 19th Century

Ship’s Shroud Lines, late 19th Century

McGregor Boxed Brass Telescope on Tripod Stand in Fitted Box, 19th Century

Brass Table Top Telescope

Rare Nantucket Bodkin Caddy, circa 1850

Whaleman Made Thread Spool Caddy, circa 1840-1850

Scarce Whaleman Made Pierced Panbone Basket, circa 1850

Whaleman Made Fancy Document Box, last Quarter of the 19th Century

French Prisoner of War Carved Bone 3-Figure Spinning Jenny, circa 1800

Charles Delin “Portrait of Captain David Baxter”

Oil on Canvas “Portrait of Captain Richard Gibbs of the Ship Nantucket”

Whaleman Made Antique Whale Ivory and Whalebone Swift, circa 1840

Antique Whale Ivory Clenched Fist Handled Walking Stick, circa 1850

Lady’s Antique Whale Ivory, Whalebone and Baleen Walking Stick, circa 1860

Whaleman Made Antique Whale Ivory Clenched Fist Walking Stick, circa 1860

Whaleman Carved Antique Whale Ivory Hand Grasping a Ball Walking Stick, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Antique Whalebone L-Grip Cane, circa 1860

Whaleman Made Antique Whalebone Walking Stick, circa 1860

Whaleman Made Walking Stick, mid 19th Century

 Joseph Clapp Nantucket Whalebone, and Antique Whale Ivory Birdcage, circa 1870

Nantucket Antique Whale Ivory and Whalebone Swift, circa 1850

French Prisoner of War Miniature 80 Gun Man-o-War Ship Model, circa 1800

Charles Delin Oil on Canvas “Portrait of a Ship Captain”

Thomas Willis Silk Embroidery on Painted Canvas “Two Sloops on Choppy Seas”

Polychrome Carved Pine Jenny Lind Ship’s Figurehead, mid 19th Century

Two Carved and Polychromed French Mariners, 19th Century

Barry Mason Oil on Canvas “Morning Mists Off Boston U.S. Clipper Flying Fish”

Polychrome Carved Pine Mermaid Ship’s Figurehead, 20th Century

Whaleman Made Whale Ivory and Whalebone Carved Walking Stick, 19th Century

Thaxter & Son Boston Boxed Telescope

Large British Ship Diorama of the “Maggie”

Miniature Telescope Handled Souvenir Walking Stick

Lady’s Traveling Walking Stick

Knob Handled Bamboo Walking Stick

British Mahogany Apothecary’s Box, circa 1840s

Silver Mounted Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1908

Nautical Still Life Oil on Canvas

American Scrimshaw and Polychrome Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1850

Carved Bone and Mother of Pearl Inlaid Miniature Cradle

Commemorative Danish Guinea Antique Scrimshaw Whale’s Tooth, circa 1860s

Vintage Japanese Sperm Whale Pin Cushion

Scrimshawed Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1870

Scrimshawed Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1840

Scrimshawed and Polychromed Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1850

Boxed Set of Bone and Ebony Dominoes, 19th Century

Carved Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1870

Inuit Carved Seal

Set of Four Framed Whaleman Carved Bone Pipe Tamps, 19th Century

Antique Scrimshawed Cattle Bone Plaque

Azorian Carved Bone Shark

George III Mahogany Marine Stick Barometer, Spencer Browning and Rust, London, 1st Quarter of the 19th Century

Antique Steel Whaling Blubber Mincing Knife, circa 1870

Iron and Cast Steel Killing Lance Harpoon, circa 1850

Wrought Iron Killing Lance Harpoon, circa 1850

Wrought Iron Toggle Whaling Harpoon, circa 1870

Two Pair of Ship’s Schematic Blueprints of the U.S.S. Nantucket

British Naval “Long Glass” Telescope with Dodecagonal Mahogany Tube, circa 1770

Star Brass MFG Co. Navy Brass Ship’s Siren

American Whaleman Made Multi-Wood Inlaid Folk Art Lift Top Jewelry Box, 19th Century

Antique American Bronze and Teak Nautical Yacht Wheel, circa 1920

Scrimshaw Decorated Antique Panbone Depicting “The American Whale Fishery”

Brass and Mahogany 3-Draw Spyglass with Sun Shield, 19th Century

Whaler Made Set of 42 Whalebone Jack Straws, circa 1850

Whaler Made Whale Ivory Swift, circa 1850

Vintage Brass Three-Draw Spyglass Cane

Antique Inuit Carved Seal Handled Cane, 19th Century

Antique Northwest Coast Walking Stick, 19th Century

Mariner’s Brass Binnacle Compass, 19th Century

Antique Whalebone Turned Pickwick, mid 19th Century

Antique Whalebone Fid, 19th Century

Whaleman Carved Pie Crimper, circa 1870

Scrimshawed and Polychromed Bone and Baleen Work Knife, 20th Century

Two Cast Iron Painted Old Salt Dishes or Ash Trays

Fall River Line Oil on Canvas, Operating from 1847 to 1937

Vintage Tyfon Brass Fog Horn

John Hastie and Co. LTD Greenlock Brass Ship’s Wheel

Tempera on Silk “Portrait of an American 3-Masted Steam-Sail Ship”

Whaleman Made Coconut Rum Dipper, 19th Century

Whaleman Crafted Coconut Dipper, 19th Century

Carved Wood Marlin Fid

Brass Bound Mahogany Humidor, 19th Century

Antique Inuit Carved Whalebone Ceremonial Mask, 19th Century

Rare Set of Antique Polychrome Bone & Ebony Southern American Playing Card Dominoes

Four Vintage Nantucket Edouard Stackpole Signed Hardcover Maritime Novels

Fine Antique – Vintage Model of an Adirondack Guideboat

Jane Schultz Watson Reverse Painting, “Friendship of Salem”

Benjamin Russell Watercolor, Gouache, and Ink Over Pencil Underdrawing Ship Portrait, circa 1874

Two George W Eldridge’s Harbor Chart Nautical Map Books, Copyright 1909

Vintage Carved Eagle Plaque

Antique Hand Colored Engraving “South Sea Whale Fishery, A Boat Destroyed by a Wounded Whale”

Antique English Pine Nautical Ship Decorated Chest of Drawers, 19th Century

Sailor Made Dovetailed Mahogany, Bone and Cherry Inlaid Box, 19th Century

Two Antique Pen Ink Drawings “Right Whale of the Northwest Coast”

Whaleman Made Inlaid Tropical Wood Gallery Serving Tray, circa 1850

Dobbie Son & Hutton, London Rope Carved Wall Barometer

Framed U.S. Navy Schooner USS Dolphin Handwritten Surgeons Report March 24, 1834

1908 Henry A. Martin Limited Edition Artist Proof Ship Sterns Colored Print

Vintage Relief Carved and Painted Two Masted Schooner Plaque

Antique Sailor Made Satinwood Compass Rose Sunburst Star Inlaid Box

Fine Antique Watercolor on Paper of the Harbor Tugboat, “Rescue”

George Nemethy Oil on Board, “Racing Sloop”

Antique W.L. Byers & Co Ltd. Solid Brass Salesman Sample Ship’s Anchor

Vintage Carved and Painted Wood Little Navigator Folk Art Trade Sign Figure

J.M. Mullen Oil on Canvas “Portrait of the Ship Colorado”, circa 1871

George Nemethy Oil on Artist Board “Sailing Side by Side”

Salvatore Colacicco Oil on Board “Portrait of the Side-Wheeler Nantucket Leaving Brant Point”

“A Generall Chart of the Western Ocean” Copper Engraving with Paint and Hand-Coloring

William Anderson Watercolor and Ink on Paper “Shipping off the Dutch Coast”

William Anderson Watercolor and Ink on Paper “A British Man-O-War Amid Shipping off the Dutch Coast”

John Addison, London, Mahogany Cased Compass, 19th Century

Asian Export Patriotic Eagle Embroidery, circa 1908

English Hand Colored Whaling Engraving, 18th Century

Chinese Export Oil on Canvas “Portrait of the Xiphias on the Open Seas, Master John Morris” (1857-1862)

Whaleman Scrimshawed Polychrome Antique Whalebone Busk, circa 1860

Scrimshaw and Polychromed Whalebone Busk “Harvest – J.W. Minor”, circa 1825-1862

Whaleman Made Inlaid Rolling Pin, circa 1870

Whaleman Carved Antique Whalebone Walking Stick, circa 1860

Whaleman Carved Antique Whale Ivory and Whalebone “T” Handle Cane, 19th Century

Whaleman Crafted Antique Whalebone Dip Stick, circa 1850

Antique Scrimshawed Falcon’s Head Whalebone Swagger Stick, 19th Century

Whaleman Carved Antique Whalebone “Turk’s Knot” Walking Stick, 19th Century

Rare Open-Carved Antique Whale Ivory and Whalebone Walking Stick, early 19th Century

Fine Antique Whale Ivory and Whalebone “Turk’s Knot” Walking Stick, mid 19th Century

Silver Mounted Boar’s Tusk Handled Cane, 19th Century

Antique Whale Ivory Lady’s Pointer, 19th Century

Antique Whale Ivory Knob Handled Walking Stick, 19th Century

Group of 3 Whaleman Made Walking Sticks, 19th Century

Whaleman Carved Eagle Head Walking Stick, circa 1860

Whaleman Ebony and Whalebone Inlaid Walking Stick, circa 1850

Antique Whale Ivory Knob Walking Stick, circa 1850

Gorham Sterling Silver Collard Malacca Cane

Wild Boar Tusk Handled Cane, 19th Century

Antique Shark Vertebrae Cane, circa 1880

Leather, Wood and Brass Bound Long Scope, early 19th Century

Antique Whale Ivory Turned Ball Grip Walking Stick, 19th Century

Captain Frank W. Wells Scrimshaw Inscribed Walking Stick, 19th Century

Japanese Walking Stick with Concealed Sword, 19th Century

Vintage Hand Carved Figural Eagle Yacht License Plate Quarterboard

Vintage Truman S. Fowler Diminutive Half Hull Model of “The Rainbow”

Vintage Carved and Painted Wooden Moby Dick Sperm Whale Plaque

Group of 16 Vintage 1930s Nautical Signal Flag Pennants

Group of 8 World War II U.S. Navy Nautical Signal Flags

Antique – Vintage 4-Rung Oak Ship’s Rope Ladder

Two Antique 19th Century Sailor Made Straight Edge Rulers

Heroic Antique Whalebone Fid, circa 1840

Vintage Marine Chain & Anchor Corp Solid Brass Salesman Sample Anchor

Antique Figural Iron Anchor Door Knocker

Antique Scrimshaw Whale Tooth Depicting Jack Tar

Rare Eleven-Lift Half Hull Shipbuilder’s Model, 19th Century

Seven-Lift Half Hull Shipbuilder’s Model, 19th Century

Eight-Lift Half Hull Shipbuilder’s Model, 19th Century

Ship’s Figurehead of Lakshmi Hindu Goddess of Wealth and Abundance, 19th Century

Fourteen-Lift Half Hull Shipbuilder’s Model of the Mary L. Baker, 19th Century

Nine-Lift Half Hull Shipbuilder’s Model, 19th Century

Eight American Clear Glass Ship’s Apothecary Bottles, 19th Century

Antique J.W. Smith Bosun’s Whistle, 19th Century

Antique Whalebone Carved Pie Crimper, circa 1850

Carved and Painted Finback Whale By Captain Mike Orbe

Fine Polychrome Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1850

Polychrome Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1860

Fine American Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1850

Antique Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1860

Antique Scrimshaw Whale Tooth, 19th Century

Antique Scrimshaw Whale Tooth, 19th Century, Engraved with a Shark

Antique Scrimshaw Walrus Tip, late 19th Century

Large Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 19th Century

Antique Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 19th Century

Pair of Polychrome Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Teeth, circa 1846

Large Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 1st Quarter of the 19th Century

American Whaleman Made Inlaid Accoutrements Box, mid 19th Century

Whaleman Made Inlaid Accoutrement Box, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Personal Work Box, circa 1870

Rare Brass Bound Ship’s Salt Barrel, circa 1914

Antique John Hastie Eight-Spoke Captain’s Ship Wheel, Greenock, Scotland, 19th Century

Antique Vintage Solid Brass 7-Spoke Captain’s Yacht Wheel

Antique Eight-Spoke Suicide Knob Ship Captain’s Yacht Wheel

Carved and Painted Yacht Club Launch Boat Model, 19th Century

Elaborate Antique Sailors Macrame Decorated Frame, 19th Century

30 Whaleman Carved Antique Whalebone Bodkins, circa 1850-1870

Antique Whalebone Walrus Penis

Walrus Tusk Cribbage Board, circa 1890s

Eskimo Scrimshaw Walrus Tusk Cribbage Board, circa 1890s

Whaleman Made Turned Whalebone Billy Club, 19th Century

Shadowbox Model of a Three-Masted Ship, late 19th Century

Shadowbox Model of the British Merchant Ship “Gordon”, late 19th Century

Vintage 1984 Herman Melville Sperm Whale First Day Cover

Antique 4 Draw Ship Captain’s Spy Glass, 19th Century

Book: E. Norman Flayderman’s “Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders – Whales and Whalemen”

Pair of Antique Tin Port and Starboard Ship Lights, 19th Century

English Oak Brass Bound Ship’s Barrel Peat Bucket, 19th Century

Large Antique Solid Brass Ship’s Porthole Window

Antique Mahogany Nautical Painted Ship “Argonaut” Name Plaque

Antique 1920s Siebe Gorman & Co. London 6 Bolt Diving Helmet

Vintage 1940s Carved and Painted Bowhead Whale Plaque

Fine Waterline Model of the British Iron Clipper Ship “Commonwealth” in Glass Case

Vintage Maine Folk Art Flat Hull Tugboat Model

Early Clark G. Voorhees Carved and Painted Blue Whale Plaque

Clark Voorhees Jr. Carved Wood Killer Whale

Clark Voorhees Jr. Carved Wood Sperm Whale

Clark Voorhees Jr. Carved Wood Black Whale

Clark Voorhees Jr. Carved Wood Narwhal

Clark Voorhees Jr. Carved Wood Humpback Whale

Antique Trapezoidal Shadowbox of the 3-Masted Schooner H. Harvey

Folk Art Mechanical “Ahab and the Whale” Polychrome Sculpture, late 19th Century

Antique Walrus Scrimshaw Busk, late 19th Century

Wrought Iron Blubber Spade, circa 1850

Wrought Iron Blubber Knife Blade, 19th Century

Wrought Iron Single Flue Harpoon, circa 1850

19th Century Sailor Made First Mate’s Billy Club

Signed Peters Wrought Iron Killing Lance with Original Pole, 19th Century

Signed Ambrose J. Peters New Bedford Iron and Cast Steel Killing Lance Harpoon, circa 1860

Signed Wrought Iron Killing Lance with Original Pole, 19th Century

Signed “JP” Wrought Iron Toggle Harpoon, 19th Century

Wrought Iron Double Flue Harpoon, circa 1850

Macy Signed Wrought Iron Toggle Harpoon, 19th Century

Wrought Iron Double Toggle Harpoon, circa 1840-1850

Wrought Iron Double Flue Harpoon, circa 1840-1850

Signed Peters Wrought Iron Killing Lance, 19th Century

Wrought Iron Toggle Harpoon, circa 1850

Brades & Co. England Whaleman Mincing Knife, 19th Century

Whaleman’s Cast Iron Bone Spade with Flat Shaft, 19th Century

Whaleman’s Pike with Original Whale Oil Soaked Handle, 19th Century

Whaleman Boarding Knife, 19th Century

Signed Ambrose Peters Toggle Harpoon Complete with Sheath, 19th Century

Signed Macy Whaleman’s Killing Lance, 19th Century

Antique Inuit Mounted Walrus Tusk Mask

Michael Vienneau Scrimshawed Antique Whale Panbone Engraved with a Whaling Scene

David Lazarus Scrimshawed Walrus Tusk

Peter Lajoie Scrimshaw Decorated Swordfish Bill

Two Antique Sperm Whale Jaw Bones

Two Antique Whale Vertebrae Bones

Whaleman Made Antique Whalebone Ball Knob Walking Stick, circa 1870

Collection of Three Antique Vertebrae Walking Sticks, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Antique Whale Ivory Polyhedron Grip Walking Stick, circa 1850

Whaleman Carved Turk’s Knot Walking Stick, circa 1850

Charles Delin Oil on Canvas “Portrait of Captain Obed Bunker of Nantucket”

Large Antique Whale Ivory Knob Walking Stick, mid 19th Century

Charles Delin Oil on Canvas “Portrait of a Ship’s Sea Captain”

Antique Narwhal Tusk Walking Stick, mid 19th Century

Whalerman Made Abalone Dot Inlaid Polyhedron Knob Walking Stick, 19th Century

Nantucket Whale Ivory, Whalebone, Baleen and Wood Swift, circa 1860