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August 4, 2024 Day-2 The Marine Auction includes fine art by Robert Salmon, Wm Stubbs, Wm Gay Yorke, Wm Yorke, 3 works by Derek George Montague Gardner, Frederick Roux, Wm Edward Norton, several works by Brian Coole , Barry Mason, George Marshall, Reuben Chappell, William Macy, Arthur Diehl, and 19th c. maritime etchings. Antique scrimshaw walking sticks, coconut dippers, pie crimpers, sewing implements, cribbage board, busks, antique whale teeth, rolling pins, watch stand, etc. Logbooks, Navigational books, nautical instruments, telescopes, half hulls, quarter boards, ship’s lights and lanterns, flags, Wick Ahrens whales, ship models, Sunderland lusterware and much more. 350 lots.

LIVE PREVIEW: July 30-31, Aug 1,2 from 10am to 5pm at the American Legion Hall, Byron L. Sylvaro Post #82, 21 Washington Street, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Both online auctions begin promptly August 3 & 4 at 9:30am EST.

Please note that this event has ended.

Vintage “E.C. Allen True” Nantucket Carved Wood Sternboard

Vintage “U.B. Fisk” Sternboard Carving

Ellery T. Snell New Bedford Cast Steel and Wrought Iron Double Flue Whaling Harpoon

Antique Carved Marine Anchor and Chain Themed Clock Barometer, 19th century

Antique Nautical Giant Copper Masthead Light Ships Lantern, 19th century

Antique American Sailors Souvenir Silkwork Lady Liberty Patriotic Embroidery, 19th century

Extraordinary Antique American Nautical Tramp Art Picture Frame, 19th century

Wood and Brass Telescope with Tapered Mahogany Barrel, 19th – 20th Century

“Portrait of the Schooner Sam L. Storer” Oil on Canvas in the Style of Antonio Jacobsen

Antonio Jacobsen Oil on Board “Portrait of the Steam-Sailer United States”, circa 1912

American School Oil on Canvas “Square Rigged Merchant Ship on The Open Seas”, 19th Century

American School Oil on Canvas “Schooner Jas. Satterthwaite Heading Out”

Kenneth Denton Oil on Fibreboard “Spiritsail Barges Racing to the Finish, River Medway”

William Gay Yorke Oil on Canvas “Schooner Hannah Coomer” of Plymouth

Barry Mason Oil on Canvas McKays “Staghound”

William Yorke Oil on Canvas “Black Star Line Packet Ship Winged Racer”

Derek George Montague Gardner Oil on Canvas “Four Masted Ship with Sloop and Steamer on the Open Sea”

Brian Coole Oil on Panel “Six Frigates in Boston Harbor”

Kenneth Denton Oil on Fibreboard “Sunlight and River Mist, Lower Thames”

Arthur V. Diehl Oil on Canvas “Gulls Soaring Over Ocean Waves”

William Stubbs Oil on Canvas “Three Masted Topsail Schooner”, circa 1883

Attributted to Emile Gruppe Oil on Linen “Fishing Boats Docked Gloucester”

Vintage Whalebone Whaleboat with Six Oars and Harpoon

“Great Northern Whale” Etching, circa 1793

Antique Carved Pine American Federal Eagle Plaque

Pair of Antique J. French Maritime Watercolors, 19th century

Rare Pair of Scrimshaw Whale’s Teeth, 19th century

Ulysse Dabouze Antique Carved Bust of Toussaint Louverture

Antique Model of a War of 1812 Naval Deck Gun Cannon, 19th century

Academy Book by Gideon Fournier, circa 1756

Logbook: Ship Lammerguin, Kept by Captain Samuel Coffin April 1860

Navigational Workbook By John C. Lowber, Philadelphia May 20, 1805

Holton P Haskell’s Mathematical Workbook, 1809

Navigational Workbook with Illustrations, Log, Compass and Quadrant

Logbook “The Duke of Wellington” Kept by William Gregory, 1854

Book: 1857 I”nstruction Sur La Navigation”, Par F.A.E. Keller, Published Paris, 1857

1803 First Edition Norie’s Nautical Tables, London

Logbook of the Whaling Bark Triton, 1857-1860 of New Bedford

American Walnut and Birch Covered Spice Box, mid 19th Century

Two Vintage Carved and Polychrome Arctic Terns

Prisoner of War Bone Game Box with Dominoes, circa 1810

Antique Whale Oosik with Carved Whale Portraits on Both Sides, 19th Century

A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board the Ship Globe of Nantucket

Scrimshaw Antique Whale Tooth, Engraved on Both Sides, 19th Century

American Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, 19th Century

Sailor Made Antique Whalebone Watch Stand, circa 1870

Sailor Made Scrimshawed Antique Whalebone Plaque, 19th century

Sidney S. Hicks Watercolor, “California Maritime Harbor Scene”, late 19th Century

Antique Nautical Clipper Ship Relief Carved Plaque, 19th century

Antique Whalebone Scrimshaw Busk, 19th Century

Two Whaleman Made Antique Whale Ivory Carved Cane Tops, 19th Century

Maple & Co., London 1916 Military Heliograph

Complete Set of Sailor Made Miniature Antique Whalebone Dominoes, 19th Century

Vintage Brass New Bedford Moby Dick Whaler Lamp

Vintage USS Nautilus Submarine Half Hull Ship Model

Antique Brass and Oak Double Porthole Wooden Boat Window, Circa 1920

Set of Three Antique Ship Builders Half Hull Boat Models, 19th Century

Antique Sailor Made Baleen Dagger, 19th Century

Vintage “Homeward Bound” Clipper Ship Oil on Board Painting, 20th Century

Antique Copper Sailboat Weathervane, early 20th Century

Pair of Estelle Byrne Livingston Sterling Silver Sperm Whale Cuff Links, 20th century

Antique Brass Ships Binnacle Directional Compass

Vintage SS Watkins Carved and Painted Ships Quarterboard

Eleanor Bratt Artist Proof Etching “Sea Captain”, 20th Century

Vintage United States Naval Engagement Watercolor on Paper, “War of 1812”

Wick Ahrens Carved and Painted Moby Dick Sperm Whale Plaque

Antique Port Starboard Naval Ships Bow Light Lantern

Antique 6-Spoke Yacht Ships Steering Wheel, 20th century

Antique 15-Lift Ship Builders Half Hull Boat Model, circa 1920s

Complete Set of Sailor Made Antique Bone and Ebony Double Nine Dominoes, 19th Century

Vintage Solid Brass Figural Fish Door Knocker, 20th century

Vintage Art Deco Chrome Nickel Plated Sailboat Yacht Lamp, 20th century

Two Rare Antique Portside Half Hull Boat Models, 19th Century

Pair of Vintage South Coast Nickel-Chrome Yacht Sailing Block Bookends

Antique Oak Relief Carved Lighthouse Harbor Jewelry Box, 19th Century

Large Antique Narwhal Tusk, Arctic Circle, 19th Century

Sailor Made Polychrome Antique Whalebone Fid or Marlinspike, 19th century

Pair of Vintage Shaw & Tenney Boat Oars Made in Orono, Maine

Pair of Vintage Brass Ships Anchor and Chain Bookends, 20th century

Two Antique Whalebone Vertebrae Bones, 19th century

Sailor Made Antique Whalebone Seam Rubber, 19th century

Miniature Azorean Carved Bone Boat Model of a Sailboat

Sailor Made Antique Whalebone and Ebony Bodkins and Caddy, 19th century

Antique Sailor Carved Walnut Rope Turned Walking Stick, 19th century

Vintage Brass Figural Dolphin Submariners Ships Bell

Antique Naval Brass “Battle of Trafalgar” Commemorative Doorstop, circa 1920s

Pair of Antique Perko Port and Starboard Ships Light Lanterns

Pair of Vintage Brass New Bedford Moby Dick Whaler Bookends

Civil War Era Diaries of John Haynes Heiner of Kittanning, Pennsylvania

World War Two U.S. Navy Wooden 4 Inch Dummy Cartridge Deck Gun Training Shell

Vintage 1930’s Painted Wood Rutgers University Crew Rowing Oar

United States Lighthouse Service Post Lantern

Vintage 1930s United States Lighthouse Service Wool Pennant Flag

Pair of Arts & Crafts Hammered Bronze Nautical Anchor Candlesticks

19th Century Wrought Iron Harpoon Gaff

Edward Cole New Bedford Cast Steel and Wrought Iron Toggle Whaling Harpoon

Dollond Boxed Table Telescope, London, 19th Century

“The Harpooner” Whaler Made Mechanical Whale, 19th Century

Antique Scrimshawed Whalebone Straight Edge Engraved “THC 1844”

Pair of American Tramp Art Nautical Theme Picture Frames, 19th Century

Scrimshaw Steer Horn Engraved with Gentleman and Nudes, 19th Century

Mixed Lot of Eight Whaleman Made Artifacts, 19th Century

Nantucket Lady’s Sewing Ditty Box, 19th Century

Vintage Mariner’s Carved Wood Ship’s Block

Antique Three-Mast Ship Model in Case, 19th Century

Pair of Giant Antique Perkins Brass Port and Starboard Ship Light Lanterns

After T.G. Dutton Lithograph “Passenger Steamers Hindostan and China”

“The Cunard Royal Mail Steam Ship Scythia” Lithograph with Handcoloring

After Joseph Walter (Bristol) Aquatint Lithograph, “The Great Western Steamship”

“Troy and New-York Steamboat Line” Lithograph

“A Packetship and Steamer Baltic” Lithograph Published By L.R. Menger, New York 1853

Lithograph “The Frigate Shannon and Frigate Chesapeake Outside Boston Harbor”, circa 1814

Unique Sailor Carved “Sea Dog” Pie Crimper, 19th century

Four Miscellaneous Antique Whalebone Cane Shafts, 19th Century

Two Pipe Tamps, 19th Century

Pair of Whaleman Engraved Scrimshaw Walrus Tusks, 19th century

American Yacht Wool Ensign, circa 1930s

Whaleman Scrimshawed Antique Whalebone Cribbage Board, circa 1818

Vintage Irving Briggs Carved Wood Sperm Whale Sculpture

Vintage Irving Briggs Carved Dolphin

Vintage Irving Briggs Carved Orca

Scrimshaw Antique Whale Tooth, Mid 19th Century

Antique Brass Three Draw Monocular Spyglass Telescope with Makers Mark “Ross London”

Rare Small English Brass Yacht Binnacle

Antique Bone Fragment Engraved with Whale ,”Brig Harlequin, 1880″

Scrimshawed Antique Bone Handled Boot Knife

American Scrimshawed Cow Bone Rib, Depicting Facing Sperm Whales “Brig Circe 1865”

American Scrimshaw Cow Bone Fragment Depicting the Bark “Quest, 1858”

Whaleman Scrimshaw Antique Whale Tooth, 19th Century

American Scrimshaw Cow Bone Plaque Engraved with the Ship “Magnus, 1876”

American Scrimshaw on Cow Bone Fragment Depicting the Bark “Petra 1872”

American Scrimshaw on Bone Fragment of the Whaling Barque “Raven, 1872”

Antique Cast Steel and Wrought Iron Toggle Whaling Harpoon

Vintage Folk Art Carved and Painted Moby Dick Sperm Whale Plaque

Vintage Full Body Carved and Painted Moby Dick Sperm Whale

Antique Nautical Round Bronze Ocean Liner Ship’s Porthole Window

Folk Art Antique Style Nautical Ship’s Chandlery Painted Advertising Sign

George de Vertury and Helen Gouache & Ink Art Deco French Sailor Pin Up Illustration

George de Vertury and Helen Gouache & Ink Art Deco French Sailor Pin Up Illustration

George de Vertury and Helen Gouache & Ink Art Deco French Sailor Pin Up Illustration

Fine 19th Century English Sailor Porcelain Toby Jug Pitcher

Inuit Fossilized Antique Walrus Ivory and Whalebone Gavel

Twelve Mathew Brady American Civil War “Brady’s Album Gallery” Photographs

Pair of Antique Brass Nautical Ship Signal Lanterns

Vintage Rutgers University Crew Sparhawk Model Rowing Oar

American Civil War Era Wooden Bullseye Canteen

Vintage 1940s World War 2 Sailor Made Folk Art Nautical Bronze Lamp

Vintage 1940s World War 2 Meteorite Ship’s Masthead Nautical Lantern

Fine Mark A. Sutherland Half Hull Model of Whaleship “Essex of Nantucket Circa 1819”

19th Century Sailor’s Embroidered Woolwork Woolie “Going Ashore” Belt

William Formby Halsall Oil on Canvas Painting “American Yachts”

Vintage Carved Mahogany Yacht Quarterboard “Sea Fever”

Vintage Abercrombie & Fitch Brass Boat Fog Horn

Full Set of 40 Vintage 1930s Nautical Ship’s Signal Flags

Six Vintage Blue Delfts Hand Painted Whale Ship Decorated Mugs

Vintage Abercrombie & Fitch Brass Nautical Oil Lantern

Vintage World War Two U.S. Navy American Flag Ship’s Ensign

1929 Charles Dixon Canadian Pacific Cruise Ship RMS Empress of Japan Poster

Vintage Irving Briggs Carved Wood Beluga Whale

Antique Scrimshaw Whalebone Wedge

Totem Lodge Antique Walrus Ivory Gavel

Carved Figural Letter Seal, 19th Century

Carved and Scrimshawed African American Figure, 19th century

Antique Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 19th Century

Whaleman Carved in Bas Relief Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, 19th century

Two Whaleman Made Whale Stamps, 19th Century

Two Whaleman Carved Whale Stamps, 19th century

Four Napoleonic Carved Bone Chess Pieces, circa 1810

Gilliam van der Gouwen 1598 Dutch Whaling Engraving

Acrylic on Masonite “Square Rigger in a Tempest”

Lithograph “The United States Fleet Off Fort Pickens, Florida”

Whaleman Made Antique Whale Ivory and Hardwood Rolling Pin, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Hardwood Rolling Pin with Screw End, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Knob Walking Stick, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Bird Head Handled Walking Stick, 19th Century

Vintage Oil on Canvas “Whaling Scene”

Whaleman Made Antique Whale Ivory, Whalebone, Horn and Baleen Cane, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Antique Walrus Ivory Cane, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Naughty Leg Pie Crimper, 19th Century

Antique Inuit Carved Whalebone Sperm Whale

Antique Maori Whalebone Club

Whaleman Made “C” Grip Shark Vertebrae Cane, circa 1870

Whaleman Made Clenched Fist Walking Stick, circa 1850

Whaleman Made Turk’s Knot Walking Stick, circa 1860

Carved Bone Leprachaun Portrait Cane, 19th Century

Folk Art Willow Branch and Antique Whale Ivory Ball Grip Walking Stick, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Turk’s Knot Walking Stick, circa 1870

Finely Carved Wood Woman Portrait Walking Stick, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Abalone Inlaid Walking Stick, 19th Century

E. S. Ritchie and Sons, Inc. Boston Ship’s Compass

Scrimshaw Sperm Whale Tooth, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Rosewood Sewing Box Thread Dispenser, 19th Century

Ebony and Antique Ivory Sextant, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Walking Stick, 19th Century

Vintage Cased Carved Wood Model of a Whaling Longboat

Walking Stick with Approximately 260 Inlaid Cubes, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Sterling Cap Walking Stick, circa 1860

William Bradford Chromolithograph “Crushed by Icebergs”

Boston Boxed Compass Retailed by M.V. O’Neal, Baltimore, Maryland

Cased Sextant Manufactured by Charles Hutchinson, Boston, 19th Century

Collection of Four Mike Peterson Black and White Charcoal Drawings of Whales and Dolphins

Brian Coole (British b. 1939) Oil on Panel “Boston Harbor”

Whaleman Carved Whalebone Fid, 19th Century

C.R. Sherman Co. New Bedford Octant in Fitted Box, 19th Century

Brian Coole (British b. 1939) Oil on Board “Portrait of an American Clipper Ship”

Brian Coole (British b. 1939) Oil on Panel “Blockade Runner”

Reuben Chappell Oil on Canvas “Portrait of the Two-Masted Schooner Atlantic of Borden”

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

Set of Six Bristol Maritime Engravings, 19th Century

A. Cameron Carved Mahogany Bas Relief Whaling Scene Plaque, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Walking Stick, circa 1860

Whaleman Made Clenched Fist Walking Stick, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Antique Whale Bone and Baleen C-Grip Cane, circa 1860

Whaleman Made Serpent Cane, 19th Century

Submariner’s Miniature Dive Helmet Store Display, circa 1970s

Samuel & Benjamin Solomons, London Day and Astronomical Telescope, circa 1875

Antique Strip of Baleen, 19th Century

W. F. Stanley & Co. Boxed Brass Parallel Rolling Rule, S. & S. Ltd., London

Antique Ship’s Fog Horn Bellows and Brass Trumpet Construction

Hezekiah Anthony Dyer Oil on Canvas “Panoramic View Fishing Boats at Anchor”

Vintage Polychrome Carved Wood Eagle Plaque

William Lowe Oil on Canvas “Lynx and Pride Departing Nantucket Harbor”

William Lowe Oil on Canvas “Lynx Topsail Schooner Departing Nantucket Harbor”

Collection of Sunderland Lustreware Ceramics, early 19th Century

George R. Bullitt Cased Model “Crosby Cape Cod Catboat”

F. W. Lincoln Jr. & Co. Boston Boxed Sextant in Fitted Case

Wick Ahrens Green Patina Bronze Humpback Whale Plaque

Antique Diminutive Sawfish Bill on Stand

American School Oil on Artist Board “Motif No. 1 Rockport, Massachusetts”, 20th Century

R.H. Bates Watercolor “Agents Private, and Ships, Signals for the Port of New Bedford, 1846”

Frederic Cozzens Watercolor “Dory Fishing with Schooner in Middle Distance”

Whaleman Made Large Pie Crimper, 19th Century

Victor Mays Watercolor “Anchor Hoy and U.S. Sloop Marion Off Boston Navy Yard, 1840s”

Exceptional Fine and Large Whaleman Made Pierced Pie Crimper, mid 19th Century

J.S. Kamp Cased Model of the Classic Flat Top Cruiser “Dunrovin” Out of Wilmington, Delaware

Carl Evers Watercolor and Gouache “Eastern Rigged Dragger in Rough Weather”

Carved and Painted Half Hull on Plank “Naval Architects Brown and Co. Ship Builders-Architect F. Dawnay”

British “Pilot Jack” Wool Flag, circa 1930s

N. Currier Lithograph “Wreck of the U.S.M. Steamship Arctic”

New York Yacht Club Burgee, circa 1930s

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

Japanese Portrait Carved Walking Stick, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Rolling Pin, circa 1850

Rare William H. Macy Watercolor and Ink View of Nantucket Whaleship

Brass Sextant in Fitted Mahogany Box

U.S. Department of Commerce Chart “Eastern Entrance to Nantucket Sound”, circa 1910

Geo. W. Eldridge’s Chart “Vineyard Sound Lightship To Chatham”, circa 1900

Vintage Boxed Horizontal Sextant Angles 

Lorieux, Lepetit Boxed French Circular Surveyor’s Instrument

Three Artificial Horizons by Ritchie & Sons – Boston and H. Hughes & Son – London

Vintage Carved and Painted Nantucket Whaleboat, Fully Fitted with Oars and Whaling Implements

Student’s Octant in Custom Leather Case, Cary, London

John Enos Hand & Sons Philadelphia Binnacle in Fitted Mahogany Box

Eugene F. Medinger New York Sextant, 19th Century

H.W. Loring Boston Brass Starrett Transit, 19th Century

W. J. Young Philadelphia Brass Surveyor’s Compass, 19th Century

Anable Artificial Horizon Manufactured W.H. Van Gaasbeck

C. Laxton & Morton, London, Instrument for Teaching Geometry, mid 19th Century

E.S. Ritchie & Sons Boxed Brass Levels

Half Plate Ambrotype of a Nantucket Sea Captain, circa 1857

Antique Sailor Made Game Box

John Stobart Limited Edition Lithograph “Straight Wharf, Nantucket, circa 1862”

Frederic Roux Watercolor on Paper “Ship J Wakefield, Robert Crocket Master, 1855”

Pair of Benjamin Russell Whaling Lithographs, circa 1859 and 1862

Vintage Model of an Eskimo Inuit Kayak, circa 1900-1920

W. Knight Carved Bas-Relief “The Pilot Boat”, circa 1934

Antique French Sailor’s Captain’s Three-Draw Spyglass

Antique Starboard Light Ships Lantern

Padilla Watercolor Portside Portrait of “Corbeta Tomasa Capitan L. Miro”, circa 1887

Inuit Carved Antique Whalebone Vertebrae Sculpture, 19th Century

Inuit Carved Antique Whalebone Figural Eskimo Sculpture, 19th century

Antique Sailor Made Folk Art Ladys Pendant, 19th century

Antique Cast Iron Ship’s Signal Salute Cannon, late 18th or early 19th Century

Vintage Copper Sperm Whale Weathervane, 20th Century

Whaleman Scrimshawed “Thieves Reward” Antique Whale Tooth, 19th Century

Don Gilman Oil on Canvas “Still Life with Binnacle” Cubist Painting, 20th century

Pair of Heroic Cast Iron Sailor Andirons, Contemporary

Whaleman Made Antique Whale Ivory Clenched Fist Pie Crimper, 19th Century

Whaleman Made Multi-Scroll Pistol Handle Pie Crimper, 19th Century

Pair of Antique – Vintage Figural Cast Iron Anchor Dolphin Andirons, circa 1920s

Scrimshaw Antique Sperm Whale Tooth, circa 1870

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

Fine Antique – Vintage Model of an Adirondack Guideboat

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

Monumental American Shadowbox of the Nantucket Whaleship “Two Brothers”, 19th Century

French Prisoner of War Polychrome Bone Table Clamp Pin Cushion, circa 1811

Whaleman Made Paneled Whalebone Knitting Basket, circa 1880

Whaleman Made Whalebone Rope Fid, circa 1850

Whaleman Made Whalebone Ditty Box, circa 1850

Whaleman Made Whalebone Bow Saw, circa 1840

American Whaleman Made Whalebone Square, circa 1850

Tramp Folk Art Inlaid Double Portrait Nautical Picture Frame, late 19th Century