Australian & Historical (#457) Closed Auction Info PDF Prices Realized View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) 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$3,000StatusSold Lot #2 A scrimshaw whale's tooth on stand, 15cm high View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #3 Two whale's teeth, one with polished surface, 19th century, 13cm and 14cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold 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$160StatusSold Lot #5 A scrimshaw rib bone engraved "The Farewell, 1857", 32cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #6 A scrimshaw scapula bone engraved "Bringing In The Body Of A Whale, Hawaii, 1879", 15cm across View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #7 A sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, 17cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,000StatusSold Lot #8 A walrus tusk and sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, 21cm and 13cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #9 A whalebone box with scrimshaw whaling scene top, 15.5cm across View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$420StatusSold 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$10,000StatusSold Lot #11 A ship's masthead lantern, Japanese, early 20th century, 35cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #12 A ship's lantern, copper and brass with glass lens (electrified), 20th century, 40cm high View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #13 A ship's lantern, brass and copper, 19th century, 44cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #14 A ship's binnacle compass in original box by BAKER LYMAN & CO, 30cm diameter View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold 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$900StatusSold 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$1,600StatusSold 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$3,600StatusSold 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$600StatusSold 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$160StatusSold Lot #22 An antique pond yacht with huon pine hull, late 19th early 20th century, 156cm high View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$900StatusSold Lot #23 Nautical light, solid brass and ruby glass, converted to electric, early 20th century, 82cm high View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSold 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$2,800StatusSold 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$850StatusSold 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$600StatusSold 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$600StatusSold 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$1,700StatusSold 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$200StatusSold 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$550StatusSold 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$460StatusSold Lot #34 GILBERT & SONS London, brass sundial compass in timber case, 20th century, 19cm diameter View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #35 An antique sextant in original mahogany case by BRYANT & BIGGS of Cardiff, 19th century, 23cm high View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #36 A portable bearing device, brass with inset silver dial, 19cm across View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #37 An antique terrestrial globe on cast iron base, 19th century, 51cm high View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$420StatusSold 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$600StatusSold Lot #39 A walking stick, stingray vertebrae with horn handle and silver collar, 19th century, 87cm high View details Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSold 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$300StatusSold Lot #42 A walking stick, made from baleen segments, 19th century, 86.5cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSold 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$220StatusSold 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$650StatusSold Lot #45 A baleen sailor's cosh with weighted woven thread ends, 19th century, 29cm long View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #46 Sailor's carving of a hand and rope knot, Australian cedar, 19th century, 18cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #47 MALBY'S TERRESTRIAL 10 1/2 Inch GLOBE, circa 1889, 41cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$750StatusSold 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$260StatusSold Lot #49 A carved whalebone toggle in the form of a belt and buckle, 19th century, 3cm across View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #50 "WATERHEN" scratch built model boat, battery power, early 20th century, 70cm long View details Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$550StatusSold 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$420StatusSold 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$280StatusSold Lot #53 A ship in a bottle display with two three mast tallships in lighthouse diorama, 24cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #54 A ship in a bottle with four masted tallship, 26cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold 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$650StatusSold Lot #56 A Tasmanian huon pine pond yacht, early 20th century, 154cm high, 91cm long View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #57 A giant clam shell, late 19th early 20th century, 76cm across View details Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold 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$1,000StatusSold Lot #60 A taxidermy sea turtle, 19th/20th century, 47cm long View details Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$440StatusSold 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$800StatusSold 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$1,000StatusSold 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$700StatusSold 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$260StatusSold 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$260StatusSold Lot #69 Four assorted framed antique coloured engravings of ships, 19th century, the largest 62 x 81cm overall View details Quantity4Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #70 Assorted carved whalebone chess pieces, 19th century, the tallest 6.5cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold 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$140StatusSold Lot #72 Sextant in case stamped "A.M." early to mid 20th century, 17cm high View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold 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$2,200StatusSold 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$1,200StatusSold 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$2,800StatusSold Lot #78 An antique folk art leather picture frame, 19th century, 33 x 27cm View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold 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$280StatusSold 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$3,600StatusSold 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$360StatusSold 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$3,000StatusSold 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$440StatusSold 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$460StatusSold 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$700StatusSold 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$1,000StatusSold 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$200StatusSold 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$180StatusSold Lot #92 Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood and silver, late 19th century, 92cm and 90cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold Lot #93 An Australian cedar walking stick, carved fist with entwined serpent, 19th century, 90cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$600StatusSold 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$300StatusSold 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$220StatusSold 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$140StatusSold Lot #99 Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood with Australian silver collars, 19th century, 83cm and 84.5cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSold Lot #100 Four Australian walking sticks, blackwood, 19th and early 20th century, the largest 93.5cm high View details Quantity4Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678910|Next Previous 12345678910 Next Previous 12345678910 Next
