Maritime including Scientific and Medical Instruments
Catalog Information: 275 lots | 267 with images
Lot 1: A sailor's embroidered wool work of a British ship
embroidered with a two tone blue sky, the ship with sails and flags, and a green and white sea. In a gold frame under glass.16 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (41.3 x 47.6 cm.)
Lot 2: A brass engine telegraph
J.W. Ray & Co.; Liverpoola tapered cylindrical base with a double handle, light, glass face plates with engine commands and working signal bell.44 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (113 x 45.1 cm.) height x diameter
Lot 3: An eight spoke ship's wheel on a bronze pedestal
Oregon Brass Works; Portland, Oregonthe bronze pedestal with a flared base and a tulip shaped head and bearing indicator at the top. The wheel is built up in laminates of mahogany and spruce with turned columns and spokes.51 x 42 1/2 in. (129.5 x 108 [...more]
Lot 4: Three Bristol blue glass bottles with transfers
19th centurythe first decorated with a floral pattern and inscribed 'A Friend's Gift', the second decorated with square rigged sailing ships and inscribed 'Homeward's bound' the third with a rope lanyard and remnants of transfers that depict a pair o [...more]
Lot 5: A sloop rigged pond model
the hull built up in wood and painted with a white bottom and black topsides, the deck is a veneer with the deck planking scored in and fitted with brass fittings. Rigged with a single mast, a short bowsprit, standing and running rigging, with a jib [...more]
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