Australian & Historical 06 13, 2020 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 Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 1 Two scrimshaw whale's teeth, 19th century, 14cm high. PROVENANCE: The Erik Dare Collection, Christie's, lot 229, 13th November 1995. Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$3,000StatusSold View details 2 A scrimshaw whale's tooth on stand, 15cm high Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 3 Two whale's teeth, one with polished surface, 19th century, 13cm and 14cm high Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 4 Two whale's teeth, one carved into the form of a seal, mid 20th century, the seal 11cm long 2 Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 5 A scrimshaw rib bone engraved "The Farewell, 1857", 32cm long Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSold View details 6 A scrimshaw scapula bone engraved "Bringing In The Body Of A Whale, Hawaii, 1879", 15cm across Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 7 A sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, 17cm high Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 8 A walrus tusk and sperm whale's tooth, 19th century, 21cm and 13cm high 2 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 9 A whalebone box with scrimshaw whaling scene top, 15.5cm across Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Price Realized$10,000StatusSold View details 11 A ship's masthead lantern, Japanese, early 20th century, 35cm high Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 12 A ship's lantern, copper and brass with glass lens (electrified), 20th century, 40cm high Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 13 A ship's lantern, brass and copper, 19th century, 44cm high Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 14 A ship's binnacle compass in original box by BAKER LYMAN & CO, 30cm diameter Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 15 Tall ship model in display cabinet titled "MAFEKING", late 19th century, cabinet 66cm high, 95cm wide, 34cm deep Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$900StatusSold View details 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. Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$1,600StatusSold View details 17 CHARLES LINCOLN English brass telescope on mahogany stand, circa 1800, 174cm high Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusUnsold View details 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 Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$500 - $700Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusCLOSED! View details 21 A folk art pond yacht on stand, early 20th century, 56cm overall Estimate$150 - $240Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 22 An antique pond yacht with huon pine hull, late 19th early 20th century, 156cm high Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$900StatusSold View details 23 Nautical light, solid brass and ruby glass, converted to electric, early 20th century, 82cm high Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$2,800StatusSold View details 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 2 Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$850StatusSold View details 26 "GLENGARRY" model three mast ship in case with hand-painted Scottish scene diorama, 19th century, 76cm high, 117cm wide, 49cm deep Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,700StatusSold View details 29 A model tallship made from tortoiseshell resting on a blue silk covered board, late 19th century, the ship 30cm high, 46cm long Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 30 Two glass fishing buoys, 20th century, 29cm diameter 2 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 31 H.M.S. HERO Australian woolwork tapestry, 19th century, 59 x 72cm overall Estimate$1,500 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! View details 32 An Australian woolwork tapestry of a three masted tallship, 19th century, housed in a birdseye maple frame, 40 x 50cm Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 33 ORONTES sailor's folk art hand-painted pearl shell on timber stand, 19th century, 19cm high overall Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$460StatusSold View details 34 GILBERT & SONS London, brass sundial compass in timber case, 20th century, 19cm diameter Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 35 An antique sextant in original mahogany case by BRYANT & BIGGS of Cardiff, 19th century, 23cm high Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 36 A portable bearing device, brass with inset silver dial, 19cm across Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 37 An antique terrestrial globe on cast iron base, 19th century, 51cm high Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$800 - $1,200Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 39 A walking stick, stingray vertebrae with horn handle and silver collar, 19th century, 87cm high Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 40 A rare walking stick made from sections of tortoiseshell, 19th century, 89cm high Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 41 A walking stick, stingray vertebrate and baleen, 19th century, 89cm high Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 42 A walking stick, made from baleen segments, 19th century, 86.5cm high Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 43 A walking stick, with hound head handle, musk and fiddleback blackwood, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 81cm high Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$650StatusSold View details 45 A baleen sailor's cosh with weighted woven thread ends, 19th century, 29cm long Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$400StatusSold View details 46 Sailor's carving of a hand and rope knot, Australian cedar, 19th century, 18cm high Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$1,200StatusSold View details 47 MALBY'S TERRESTRIAL 10 1/2 Inch GLOBE, circa 1889, 41cm high Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$750StatusSold View details 48 Sailor's sweetheart forget-me-not folk art embroidery, 19th century, framed and glazed 33 x 26cm overall Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 49 A carved whalebone toggle in the form of a belt and buckle, 19th century, 3cm across Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 50 "WATERHEN" scratch built model boat, battery power, early 20th century, 70cm long Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$550StatusSold View details 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 2 Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$420StatusSold View details 52 PERRINA GLOBE TERRESTRE 9 1/2 inch world globe lamp in ships wheel stand, mid 20th century, 51cm high Estimate$300 - $400Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 53 A ship in a bottle display with two three mast tallships in lighthouse diorama, 24cm long Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 54 A ship in a bottle with four masted tallship, 26cm long Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSold View details 55 A pair of starboard and port side ship's lanterns, copper and brass, Hong Kong origin, early to mid 20th century, 47cm high 2 Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$650StatusSold View details 56 A Tasmanian huon pine pond yacht, early 20th century, 154cm high, 91cm long Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSold View details 57 A giant clam shell, late 19th early 20th century, 76cm across Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 58 A giant clam shell, early 20th century, 48cm across Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 59 A giant sea turtle shell, 19th century, 95cm across Estimate$800 - $1,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 60 A taxidermy sea turtle, 19th/20th century, 47cm long Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$440StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$800StatusSold View details 62 W. & A. K. JOHNSTON 12 inch globe on stand, circa 1888, 44cm high including stand Estimate$1,200 - $1,500Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 63 PHILIPS' 13½ inch CHALLENGE GLOBE on black bakelite base, circa 1930, 41cm high Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 64 PHILIPS' 12 inch Terrestrial Globe on cast iron base, 51cm high Estimate$450 - $550Price Realized$700StatusSold View details 65 H.M.A.S. SYDNEY desk set made from the timber decking boards, with blue enamel plaque, early 20th century, 39cm across Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSold View details 66 Collection of 12 reproduction scrimshaw whale's teeth with sterling silver bases, 20th century, stamped "STG. SIL", the largest 16cm high 12 Estimate$600 - $800StatusUnsold View details 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. 7 Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 68 A jewellery box encrusted with shells, starfish and seahorses, Queensland origin, early 20th century 7cm high, 28cm wide, 20.5cm deep Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold View details 69 Four assorted framed antique coloured engravings of ships, 19th century, the largest 62 x 81cm overall 4 Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 70 Assorted carved whalebone chess pieces, 19th century, the tallest 6.5cm high Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 71 H.M.V.S. CERBERUS (Breastwork Monitor) facsimile colour lithograph plans, framed and glazed, 43 x 63cm Estimate$80 - $120Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 72 Sextant in case stamped "A.M." early to mid 20th century, 17cm high Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$2,200StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! View details 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 2 Estimate$6,000 - $8,000Price Realized$5,000StatusSold View details 76 WEDGWOOD "Australian Flora" rare set of 6 porcelain dinner plates, circa 1880, stamped "Wedgwood, Australian Flora", 24.5cm diameter 6 Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$2,800StatusSold View details 78 An antique folk art leather picture frame, 19th century, 33 x 27cm Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$280StatusSold View details 80 An antique kangaroo skin rug with felt backing, embroidered monogrammed verso "G.O.S.", late 19th century, 202cm x 142cm Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusCLOSED! View details 81 A Colonial taxidermy bird display in Australian cedar case, circa 1870, 85cm high, 70cm wide, 28cm deep Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Price Realized$3,600StatusSold View details 82 A "Tramp Art" Crown of Thorns mirror frame with a carved Australian crest armorial panel, housed in original crate, 148cm high, 105cm wide Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusCLOSED! View details 83 An antique taxidermy kingfisher in original glass dome display, 19th century, 39cm high Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$360StatusSold View details 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). 10 Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$3,000StatusSold View details 85 Artist unknown, Australian school, two hand-painted ceramic plaques, after Henry James Johnstone, 19th century, (2 items), 32cm diameter 2 Estimate$550 - $650Price Realized$440StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSold View details 87 An Australian apprentice cabinet fitted with four drawers, cedar with fiddleback blackwood interior, circa 1880, 35cm high, 31cm wide, 22cm deep Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$460StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$700StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSold View details 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 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSold View details 91 An Australian walking stick, fiddleback blackwood shaft with carved cedar boot handle, 19th century, 91.5cm high Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$180StatusSold View details 92 Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood and silver, late 19th century, 92cm and 90cm high 2 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$340StatusSold View details 93 An Australian cedar walking stick, carved fist with entwined serpent, 19th century, 90cm high Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$600StatusSold View details 94 Two Australian walking sticks carved with native flora and fauna, most likely Aboriginal mission work, late 19th century, 94cm and 87cm high 2 Estimate$350 - $450Price Realized$300StatusSold View details 95 A New Zealand sample wood walking stick, circa 1900, 91cm high Estimate$150 - $250StatusCLOSED! View details 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 3 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 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 3 Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSold View details 98 Three Australian walking sticks, blackwood, casuarina, myrtle and sterling silver, 19th and early 20th century, the largest 85cm high 3 Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$140StatusSold View details 99 Two walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood with Australian silver collars, 19th century, 83cm and 84.5cm high 2 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$220StatusSold View details 100 Four Australian walking sticks, blackwood, 19th and early 20th century, the largest 93.5cm high 4 Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|12345678910|Next Previous 12345678910 Next
