Australian & Historical (#457) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 940. Previous|12345678910|Next Lot 1 Two scrimshaw whale's teeth, 19th century, 14cm high. PROVENANCE: The Erik Dare Collection, Christie's, lot 229, 13th November 1995. View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 2 A scrimshaw whale's tooth on stand, 15cm high View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 3 Two whale's teeth, one with polished surface, 19th century, 13cm and 14cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 4 Two whale's teeth, one carved into the form of a seal, mid 20th century, the seal 11cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 5 A scrimshaw rib bone engraved "The Farewell, 1857", 32cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 6 A scrimshaw scapula bone engraved "Bringing In The Body Of A Whale, Hawaii, 1879", 15cm across View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 7 A sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, 17cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 8 A walrus tusk and sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, 21cm and 13cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 9 A whalebone box with scrimshaw whaling scene top, 15.5cm across View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 10 A 19th century ship's masthead figure of Don Francisco Assis de Bourbon, carved wood with remains of painted finish, circa 1850, 135cm high View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Price Realized$10,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 11 A ship's masthead lantern, Japanese, early 20th century, 35cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 12 A ship's lantern, copper and brass with glass lens (electrified), 20th century, 40cm high View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 13 A ship's lantern, brass and copper, 19th century, 44cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 14 A ship's binnacle compass in original box by BAKER LYMAN & CO, 30cm diameter View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 15 Tall ship model in display cabinet titled "MAFEKING", late 19th century, cabinet 66cm high, 95cm wide, 34cm deep View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 16 HMCS VICTORIA and THE RIP diorama, 19th century, showing the Queenscliff light house, fort and pilots shack located at the site of the present day Pilots Station. The Victoria was the first ship of war built to order by a British Colony, she was built at the Limehouse yard of Young Son & Magnay at a cost of £38,000. View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 17 CHARLES LINCOLN English brass telescope on mahogany stand, circa 1800, 174cm high View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold Lot 18 "THE SOMERSETSHIRE" marquetry workbox with ship portrait inlaid on the lid, interior fitted with tray and compartments, circa 1870, The Somersetshire was built by Money Wigram & Sons and launched in 1867 and played a significant role in the story of immigration to Australia travelling from England to the antipodes especially Melbourne for over 30 years and was captained by J.S. Atwood for most of that period. 16cm high, 32cm wide, 25cm deep View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 19 THE SOBRAON workbox with silver plaque "Constructed Of Timber From SOBRAON, Built In 1866 (Renamed HMAS TINGIRA in 1911)". The Sobraon a fine large clipper played a significant role in the story of migration to Australia in the post convict 19th century era. 12.5cm high, 30.5cm wide, 22cm deep View details Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 20 A China trade ship model in glass case with crown of thorns mount and contemporaneous photograph, 19th century, 32cm high, 46cm wide, 24cm deep View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusCLOSED! Lot 21 A folk art pond yacht on stand, early 20th century, 56cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $240Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 22 An antique pond yacht with huon pine hull, late 19th early 20th century, 156cm high View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 23 Nautical light, solid brass and ruby glass, converted to electric, early 20th century, 82cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 24 HMS VICTORY model tall ship in glass cabinet with additional cut away cross section model, 20th century, cabinet 80cm high, 127cm wide, 41cm deep View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$2,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 25 FRED ROE (Britain, 1864-1947), I.) Good-Bye My Lads, II.) Taking Aim, chromolithographs, published by G. Whitehead and Company, London for The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Printer, circa 1905, 54 x 81cm View details Quantity2Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 26 "GLENGARRY" model three mast ship in case with hand-painted Scottish scene diorama, 19th century, 76cm high, 117cm wide, 49cm deep View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 27 An antique model tallship with two masts in Australian cedar and pine cabinet, signed "C.W. 1879" on the top, 76cm high, 84cm wide, 31cm deep View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 28 A clinker model boat made from huon pine boards with copper rivets, signed "C.E. DAVIES, Lochsport, Vic. Australia", late 19th early 20th century, 77cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 29 A model tallship made from tortoiseshell resting on a blue silk covered board, late 19th century, the ship 30cm high, 46cm long View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot 30 Two glass fishing buoys, 20th century, 29cm diameter View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 31 H.M.S. HERO Australian woolwork tapestry, 19th century, 59 x 72cm overall View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 32 An Australian woolwork tapestry of a three masted tallship, 19th century, housed in a birdseye maple frame, 40 x 50cm View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 33 ORONTES sailor's folk art hand-painted pearl shell on timber stand, 19th century, 19cm high overall View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 34 GILBERT & SONS London, brass sundial compass in timber case, 20th century, 19cm diameter View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 35 An antique sextant in original mahogany case by BRYANT & BIGGS of Cardiff, 19th century, 23cm high View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 36 A portable bearing device, brass with inset silver dial, 19cm across View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 37 An antique terrestrial globe on cast iron base, 19th century, 51cm high View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 38 PORT PHILLIP BAY, circa 1860s, Artist unknown, group of 20 watercolours on card of ships and Port Phillip Bay, some with pencil captions including: "Off Williams Town", "Steam Tug Entering The Heads, Hobson's Bay", "Melbourne From St. Kilda", "Volunteer Camp", "After A Flood, Hobson's Bay", varying sizes, largest 13 x 17cm View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 39 A walking stick, stingray vertebrae with horn handle and silver collar, 19th century, 87cm high View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 40 A rare walking stick made from sections of tortoiseshell, 19th century, 89cm high View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 41 A walking stick, stingray vertebrate and baleen, 19th century, 89cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 42 A walking stick, made from baleen segments, 19th century, 86.5cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 43 A walking stick, with hound head handle, musk and fiddleback blackwood, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 81cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 44 A sailor's persuader club or cosh, carved blackwood in the form of a fist, named in metal studs "W. FISHER", Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 44.5cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 45 A baleen sailor's cosh with weighted woven thread ends, 19th century, 29cm long View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 46 Sailor's carving of a hand and rope knot, Australian cedar, 19th century, 18cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 47 MALBY'S TERRESTRIAL 10 1/2 Inch GLOBE, circa 1889, 41cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 48 Sailor's sweetheart forget-me-not folk art embroidery, 19th century, framed and glazed 33 x 26cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 49 A carved whalebone toggle in the form of a belt and buckle, 19th century, 3cm across View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 50 "WATERHEN" scratch built model boat, battery power, early 20th century, 70cm long View details Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 51 JASPER RASMUSSEN two carved whales teeth in the form of a wizard and a crocodile, the wizard signed "Jasper, Albany", Western Australia, wizard 10cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 52 PERRINA GLOBE TERRESTRE 9 1/2 inch world globe lamp in ships wheel stand, mid 20th century, 51cm high View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 53 A ship in a bottle display with two three mast tallships in lighthouse diorama, 24cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 54 A ship in a bottle with four masted tallship, 26cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 55 A pair of starboard and port side ship's lanterns, copper and brass, Hong Kong origin, early to mid 20th century, 47cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 56 A Tasmanian huon pine pond yacht, early 20th century, 154cm high, 91cm long View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 57 A giant clam shell, late 19th early 20th century, 76cm across View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 58 A giant clam shell, early 20th century, 48cm across View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 59 A giant sea turtle shell, 19th century, 95cm across View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 60 A taxidermy sea turtle, 19th/20th century, 47cm long View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 61 Balmain Bug pond yacht with Australian cedar hull, early 20th century. These boats were popular racing vessels sailed on Sydney Harbour from the late 19th to the mid 20th century, 112cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 62 W. & A. K. JOHNSTON 12 inch globe on stand, circa 1888, 44cm high including stand View details Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 63 PHILIPS' 13½ inch CHALLENGE GLOBE on black bakelite base, circa 1930, 41cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 64 PHILIPS' 12 inch Terrestrial Globe on cast iron base, 51cm high View details Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 65 H.M.A.S. SYDNEY desk set made from the timber decking boards, with blue enamel plaque, early 20th century, 39cm across View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot 66 Collection of 12 reproduction scrimshaw whale's teeth with sterling silver bases, 20th century, stamped "STG. SIL", the largest 16cm high View details Quantity12Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold Lot 67 Reproduction scrimshaw tusk, two teeth, two boxes and two pictures, 20th century, the tusk 30cm high, PROVENANCE: The Erik Dare Collection, Christie's, November 15th, 1995. View details Quantity7Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 68 A jewellery box encrusted with shells, starfish and seahorses, Queensland origin, early 20th century 7cm high, 28cm wide, 20.5cm deep View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 69 Four assorted framed antique coloured engravings of ships, 19th century, the largest 62 x 81cm overall View details Quantity4Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 70 Assorted carved whalebone chess pieces, 19th century, the tallest 6.5cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 71 H.M.V.S. CERBERUS (Breastwork Monitor) facsimile colour lithograph plans, framed and glazed, 43 x 63cm View details Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 72 Sextant in case stamped "A.M." early to mid 20th century, 17cm high View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 73 An Australian timber workbox, impressively crafted with inlaid top and serpentine profile, interior fitted with lift out tray and compartments with fine inlay work, cedar, musk, huon pine, blackwood and pine, Barossa Valley, South Australia, 19th century, 14cm high, 35cm wide, 24.5cm deep View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 74 An early Colonial Australian tea caddy, casuarina beefwood with remains of a cedar escutcheon and some pine secondaries, New South Wales origin, early 19th century. 15.5cm high, 30.5cm wide, 15.5cm deep View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 75 Rare pair of Colonial boxes, solid Tasmanian musk with myrtle secondary timbers, interior fitted with compartments, and bottles, pencil inscription on both reads "F.B. DALE, Sydney, 1844". Colonial born Dale worked as a cabinet maker in Sydney, New South Wales during the early to mid 1840s. 16cm high, 33cm wide, 22.5cm deep. Examples of his work can be found in: "Australian Furniture, Pictorial History And Dictionary 1788-1938", by Kevin Fahy and Andrew Simpson, plate 399. "Early Colonial Furnit View details Quantity2Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Price Realized$5,000StatusSold Lot 76 WEDGWOOD "Australian Flora" rare set of 6 porcelain dinner plates, circa 1880, stamped "Wedgwood, Australian Flora", 24.5cm diameter View details Quantity6Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 77 FRANZ BERGMANNFRANZ BERGMANN, Austrian cold painted bronze kookaburra, early 20th century, stamped under the tail, 13cm long, Austrian cold painted bronze kookaburra, early 20th century, stamped under the tail (illegible), 13cm long View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$2,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 78 An antique folk art leather picture frame, 19th century, 33 x 27cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 79 Quandong seed gaming counters or token, in brass bound mahogany box with lithograph kangaroo business advertising card for William Barton Coach Painting Co. York Street, Launceston. 19th century, the box 23cm wide View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 80 An antique kangaroo skin rug with felt backing, embroidered monogrammed verso "G.O.S.", late 19th century, 202cm x 142cm View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 81 A Colonial taxidermy bird display in Australian cedar case, circa 1870, 85cm high, 70cm wide, 28cm deep View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 82 A "Tramp Art" Crown of Thorns mirror frame with a carved Australian crest armorial panel, housed in original crate, 148cm high, 105cm wide View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 83 An antique taxidermy kingfisher in original glass dome display, 19th century, 39cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 84 BLANCHE B. DAVIS [Australia, 1858 - 1933] A collection of six plates and four compote stands, c1907. Hand-painted porcelain, each signed and titled verso, 21cm diameter (plates); 22cm diameter (compote stands). View details Quantity10Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 85 Artist unknown, Australian school, two hand-painted ceramic plaques, after Henry James Johnstone, 19th century, (2 items), 32cm diameter View details Quantity2Estimate$550 - $650Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 86 An Australian apprentice cabinet, finely crafted as three pieces of furniture being a mirrored wardrobe, a Duchess top and a chest of drawers, Australian cedar and pine, circa 1880, (missing mirror top), 44cm high, 29cm wide, 19cm deep View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 87 An Australian apprentice cabinet fitted with four drawers, cedar with fiddleback blackwood interior, circa 1880, 35cm high, 31cm wide, 22cm deep View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 88 CHERRY Butter churn miniature salesman's sample marked "E, CHERRY Maker, Improved Patent, GISBOURNE, VICTORIA", kauri pine with blackwood handle, 19th century, rare. 14cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 89 JAMES SHERWIN antique mahogany brass bound writing box with owner's name plate on the lid "Jas. SHERWIN, 1814". Born in 1788 in the rich pottery district of Staffordshire where he learnt his craft, Sherwin moved to St Petersburg in Russia in the early 1820's. He lost his wife and son in floods and decided to move to Van Diemen's Land. James Sherwin established one of Tasmania's earliest commercial potteries setting up in Hobart in 1831. This box is purported to have personally belonged to him an View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 90 An Australian folk art miniature chest of four drawers, cedar and pine with porcelain knobs, 1890s depression era, 35cm high, 34cm wide, 18cm deep View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 91 An Australian walking stick, fiddleback blackwood shaft with carved cedar boot handle, 19th century, 91.5cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 92 Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood and silver, late 19th century, 92cm and 90cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 93 An Australian cedar walking stick, carved fist with entwined serpent, 19th century, 90cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 94 Two Australian walking sticks carved with native flora and fauna, most likely Aboriginal mission work, late 19th century, 94cm and 87cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 95 A New Zealand sample wood walking stick, circa 1900, 91cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusCLOSED! Lot 96 Three Australian walking sticks, one made from a propeller, one fiddleback blackwood, and one cane with silver plaque "W.H. BALMAIN, BEGA, N.S.W.", 19th and 20th century, the largest 97cm high View details Quantity3Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 97 A New Zealand specimen wood turned walking stick, an Australian walking stick engraved "HEPBURN SPRINGS 1933"; together with an Aboriginal walking stick with snake motif and iron studs, 19th and 20th century, (3 items), the largest 92cm high View details Quantity3Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold Lot 98 Three Australian walking sticks, blackwood, casuarina, myrtle and sterling silver, 19th and early 20th century, the largest 85cm high View details Quantity3Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 99 Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood with Australian silver collars, 19th century, 83cm and 84.5cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 100 Four Australian walking sticks, blackwood, 19th and early 20th century, the largest 93.5cm high View details Quantity4Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678910|Next Previous 12345678910 Next Previous 12345678910 Next
