AUSTRALIAN & HISTORICAL (#497) 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 101-189 of 189. Previous|12|Next Lot 846 A whale harpoon desk ornament paperweight, cast metal and green marble, 9cm high View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 847 An antique whale blubber oil ladle, copper and iron with wooden handle, 19th century. Rare. 84cm long View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 848 An antique ship's tar bucket, 19th century, 21cm high View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 849 An antique whaling harpoon bomb head, 20th century, 38.5cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 850 A whale harpoon with explosive bomb head, 20th century, 155cm high View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 851 A whale harpoon with explosive bomb head, 20th century, 144cm high View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 852 A whaler's antique killing lance, 19th century, rare. 143.5cm long View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot 853 A whaler's antique killing lance, stamped "H. S.", 19th century, rare. 180cm long View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 854 A whaler's antique killing lance, 19th century, rare. 184cm long View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 855 An antique toggle harpoon, stamped "SCORPAR, LONDON", 19th century, 89.5cm high View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 856 A whale harpoon with bomb head, early to mid 20th century, stamped "CAUNT, PATENDER C.M.V.", an impressive 189cm high, (note: approximately 100kg+) View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500StatusCLOSED! Lot 857 Harpoon bomb head fragment, early 20th century, 22cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 858 JARMANN (model 28) Norwegian harpoon and line throwing gun, with three harpoons and original leather case. Stamped with ownership details for JOHN ANDREW TENNANT MORTLOCK of Port Lincoln in South Australia. On September 14th, 1934, Mortlock was noted in local newspapers for being the first person in Australia to kill a blue pointer shark of 12' off Thistie Island where it was attacking a 50' blue whale. 104cm long View details Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Price Realized$2,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 859 Flensing knife with timber handle from Albany, Western Australia, 19th/20th century, 128cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 860 Flensing knife with timber handle from Albany, Western Australia, 19th/20th century, 131cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 861 Flensing knife with timber handle from Albany, Western Australia, 19th/20th century, 124cm high View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 862 BOMB LANCERS selection of four brass examples, one with wings, early 20th century, the largest 45cm long View details Quantity4Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$2,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 863 HARPOON BOMB HEADS four assorted antique and vintage examples, 19th and 20th century, the largest 43.5cm long View details Quantity4Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 864 An antique ship's gaff hook, together with an antique harpoon tip, 19th century, (2 items), 57cm and 30cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 865 An antique blubber hook, together with a ship's gaff hook, 19th century, 53cm and 50.5cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 866 WHALING INTEREST group of 17 Magic Lantern black and white glass slides including "Cutting Out Whale Bone", "Making Off Walrus Skins", "Whaling - The Whale's Tongue", "A Whale is Captured", "Polar Bear Hunting" and others. A fascinating and grisly collection, inspection will reward. Accompanied by a canister of black and white celluloid slide reels depicting scenes of whaling. View details Quantity17Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 867 Seventeen assorted whale bone implements including bone saw, boot hook, bodkins etc., the largest 30cm long View details Quantity17Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 868 A replica model whaling harpoon boat, 91cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 869 "WHALEMAN'S SHIPPING LIST, AND MERCHANT'S TRANSCRIPT, New Bedford, Tuesday Morning, May 10th 1887". Two page double-sided newspaper display, attractively framed and mounted, showing fascinating pictorial advertising and news of whaling commerce of the day. 61 x 83cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 870 Small whale harpoon, bone mallet and whalebone swagger stick with silver top, 19th century, (3 items), the largest 44cm high View details Quantity3Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 871 Three whalebone cotton bobbins with scrimshaw decoration, whalebone busk carved with lizard decoration, Pacific Islander whalebone fishing hook, whale tooth toggle on keychain, antique Chinese carved ivory cigarette holder, marine ivory shoehorn and bodkin, 19th and 20th century, (9 items) View details Quantity9Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 872 DOMINOES antique set of whalebone pieces in mahogany box, pocket size, 19th century, the box 5.5cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 873 ARTIST UNKNOWN, (whaling scene, Newfoundland), oil on canvas, signed lower left "E.V.E., Newfoundland", 19 x 24cm, 31 x 36cm overall View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 874 A vintage line-throwing gun, stamped "Ratemingan", 20th century, 101cm long View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot 875 An antique Tasmanian oak boat hull with whale bone adornments, with Australian cedar base, 19th/20th century, 34.5cm long overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 876 A sawfish rostrum, holed for mounting, early to mid 20th century, 98.5cm long View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 877 Two Japanese carved and painted fish broadbills, early to mid 20th century, 87cm and 59cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$140StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 878 Horseshoe crab framed display, mid 20th century, 45 x 30cm overall View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 879 Two vintage Japanese lithograph tin whale meat advertising signs, mid 20th century, 25 x 68cm each View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 880 Two vintage Japanese baleen pictures, hand-painted with whaling and fishing vessels, mid 20th century, 96cm and 97cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 881 An Alaskan Inuit baleen busk with carved dogsled scene, together with a vintage Japanese hand-painted baleen sign, 20th century, the larger 85cm wide View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 882 An antique baleen specimen, mounted on metal stand and housed in a custom made display case, early to mid 20th century, 47cm high, 44cm wide, 32cm deep overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$6,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 883 Boxed Japanese scallop set made from baleen, sawfish rostrum (holed for mounting), timber fid with iron tip, timber fid, and a Japanese timber box, 19th/20th century, (5 items), the rostrum 37cm long View details Quantity5Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 884 An impressive fossilized fish specimen, 89cm long View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 885 "THE ENDEAVOUR ENTERING THE PIER, A TRIFLE FROM MARGATE" antique Battersea enamel patch box, 18th century, 5cm wide View details Estimate$600 - $800Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 886 ARTIST UNKNOWN, (portrait of a ship's captain), oil on canvas, housed in gilt frame, 90 x 75cm, 116 x 100cm overall View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 887 An antique ship's trunk made in teak with dove-tailed construction and brass fittings, attractively adorned with hand-painted nautical scene inside the lid, 19th century, 44cm high, 93cm wide, 41cm deep View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 888 Two pocket telescopes, one five drawer by "T. Cook of London" and the other a three drawer, both with leather mounts, 19th century, the larger 46cm when expanded View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 889 An antique coloured lithograph of a steam powered sailing ship, 19th century, 67 x 98cm overall View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 890 An antique Australian model steam powered sailing ship, housed in a period Australian cedar and glass display case, 19th century, 57cm high, 105cm wide, 30cm deep View details Estimate$12,000 - $15,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 891 Two antique whalebone bodkins, 19th century or earlier, 6.5cm and 8.5cm long View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 892 A whaler's folk art sweetheart brooch/token, carved whalebone with male profile portrait, entwined rope and flowers, 19th century. Note: No pin. 4cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 893 A whaler's folk art sweetheart brooch, carved whalebone adorned with two sperm whales, 19th century, 4cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 894 An antique whalebone chess set in cedar box, 19th century, the kings 7cm high, 2.4cm diameter View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 895 "H.M.S. HERO" Australian wool work tapestry, 19th century, 59 x 72cm overall View details Estimate$800 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 896 A pair of whale's tooth ornaments on stands adorned with folk art penguin paintings, 15cm high overall View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 897 A pair of scrimshaw whale's teeth with engraved figural decoration, 11cm high View details Estimate$1,200 - $2,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 898 "LOG OF H.M.S. GLASGOW BEARING (the English flag) OF ADMIRAL ARTHUR CUMMING C.B. COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN T. MORTON JONES KEPT BY JAMES KNOWLES, MIDSHIPMAN" View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 899 Whaler's knife with cross hatched whalebone handle, 19th century, 22cm long View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 900 M. GILLETT (?), "HMS Opal, New Hebrides 1886", watercolour, signed, titled and dated lower right and centre "M. Gillett HMS OPAL NEW HEBRIDES 1886", 22 x 38cm, 65 x 88cm overall View details Estimate$500 - $750Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 901 A sailor's seam rubber, 19th century, an impressive 22cm high, 10cm wide View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 902 A carved whalebone chess set, housed in an Australian cedar box, 19th century, 8cm high, 3cm diameter View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 903 A sailor's cabin blanket box, Baltic and celery top pine with red pine trim, 19th century, 43cm high, 93cm wide, 42cm deep View details Estimate$400 - $500Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 904 A scrimshaw whalebone toggle depicting an American ship under full sail, 19th century, 5cm high View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 905 Two sperm whale teeth, 19th/20th century, 11cm and 12cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 906 GARY TONKIN (Albany, Western Australia) scrimshaw whale's tooth titled "BLACKFISH, READY THE GREENHAND", signed "G.R. Tonkin", 16cm high View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 907 NANTUCKET basket with carved whalebone bird decoration and fittings, 19th century, 27cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 908 H.M.S. JUPITER 1897-1900: A collection of 281 annotated photographs (many dated) in a large album which belonged to Lieut. F.G. Loving, R.N. The images show scenes on board and at Plymouth, Gibraltar, Sardinia, Lisbon, Cernuschi Bay, Arosa Bay (Spain), Weymouth, Minorca & Chatham Royal Dockyard, etc. Various sizes. View details Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 909 ARTIST UNKNOWN, (Four-masted barque), oil on canvas, early 20th Century, 54 x 84cm; framed 65 x 95cm overall. View details Estimate$300 - $500Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 910 An antique Australian blackwood fid with rope binding, 19th/20th century, 30.5cm long View details Estimate$100 - $200Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 911 "SOUVENIR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA" shell ornaments with hand-painted finish, 19th/20th century, (2 items), anchor example 10cm high View details Quantity2Estimate$100 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 912 Two antique hand-painted pearl shells, Western Australian origin, 19th/20th century, 14cm and 15cm wide View details Quantity2Estimate$250 - $350StatusCLOSED! Lot 913 A ship's bulkhead lantern, displaying starboard and port side lights, 30cm high overall View details Estimate$150 - $250Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 914 GARY TONKIN scrimshaw whale's tooth titled "Nigero, 1840", signed "Tonkin", 12cm high View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 915 A scrimshaw whale's tooth depicting a whaling scene and tallship on reverse, 13.5cm long View details Estimate$600 - $1,000StatusCLOSED! Lot 916 DOMINOES antique whalebone gaming tiles with ebony backs, 19th century View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 917 "STELLING" antique bronze ship's bell, 19th/20th, an impressive size of 29cm high, 30cm diameter View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$850StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 918 A ship's lantern in copper, brass and glass, 19th/20th century, 63cm high overall View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 919 Nautical searchlight lamp, circa 1940s, on later silky oak platform base, 45cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 920 Two vintage cast brass ship's portholes, 20th century, 32cm wide View details Quantity2Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 921 THOMAS MERCER 56 hour MARINE CHRONOMETER in original timber case, from the A.D. GEOPOTES 1, (a dredger from Newcastle Australia). Bearing service plaque and timing rate certificate by R.F. WHITTEN, 403 Hunter Street, Newcastle, N.S.W, Serial Number 27550. The case 18cm high, 18.5cm wide, 19cm deep. View details Estimate$500 - $800Price Realized$2,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 922 An English brass rolling navigation rule, in timber case, 20th century, the box 48cm wide View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 923 SHIP'S BELL from the "BASS TRADER, MELBOURNE", with impressively worked rope handle, 20th century. The Bass Trader was built in Newcastle and launched in 1961 and spent her days plying the Bass Strait route from Tasmania to Melbourne, the bell 20cm high View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 924 ROYAL HOBART REGATTA ASSOCIATION 97th ANNIVERSARY REGATTA, 1935 silk program with blue tasseled edging, 93cm high, 30cm wide View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 925 "COUTA" boat model by Patrice Johnson of Melbourne, scale model, circa 1950s, with accompanying hand-written notation, 103cm high, 100cm wide View details Estimate$400 - $600Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 926 German WW2 battle cruiser GNEISENAU in the scale of 1 to 1200 by the model makers Bassett-Lowke of England, and is an RAF identification model of the 1940 period. 26cm wide overall View details Estimate$120 - $200Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 927 EXCELSIOR IV SHIP-LOG boxed nautical instrument with instructions, 20th century, 38cm wide View details Estimate$200 - $300Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 928 An Australian folk art scratch-built model ship in case, early - mid 20th century, 59cm high, 91cm wide, 18cm deep. View details Estimate$250 - $350Price Realized$200StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 929 A vintage scrimshaw whale's tooth with whale boat scene, mid 20th century, 20cm long View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot 930 After WILLIAM DUKE (1815-1853), Offshore whaling with the Aladdin and Jane, 1849, facsimile print in gilt frame, 74 x 88cm overall View details Estimate$60 - $100Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 932 A "CLOSE UP OF AMERICAS FAMOUS LIGHTNING", oil painting on board, signed lower left "Mitchell", early to mid 20th century, 41 x 57cm, 76 x 92cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 933 Two taxidermied puffer fish hanging ornaments, 20th century, the larger 28cm long View details Quantity2Estimate$120 - $200StatusCLOSED! Lot 934 BANNOCKBURN portrait of a tallship, oil on board, signed lower left "Mitchell", 76 x 89cm, 81 x 102cm overall View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 935 Assorted shells displayed in a hand-woven basket, including conch, pāua and baler shells, the basket 53cm wide View details Quantity13Estimate$150 - $250StatusCLOSED! Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next
