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Lot: 1 H Mason R.I.' with artist's title 17 x 22in. (43 x 56cm.) framed W.A. EARP (BRITISH, 19TH/20TH-CENTURY) Two views of and glazed. ++Fine overall condition. Painting appears to be in the Isle of Wight: Arch Rock at Sunset; The Needles original frame and mount. Framed sie -- 27 x 32Â¼in. Watercolour heightened with white Signed and dated 'W.A. Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Earp 1894' (lower right) The larger 13 x 20in. (33 x 51cm.) framed and glazed; together with a late 19th-Century watercolour, heightened with white, of a beach scene with Lot: 8 fishing boats at sunset -- 9Â½ x 20Â½in. (24 x 52cm.) (3) I.F. ELCOMB (BRITISH, 19TH-CENTURY) A steam launch ++Unexamined out of frame. Both appear to be in good overall underway off a headland with fishing boats Oil on canvas condition. Signed 'I.F. Elcomb. 1889.' (lower right) 12 x 18in. (30.5 x Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 45.7cm.) ++Abrasion right of centre through rigging, ingrained dirt overall. Framed size 16Â¾ x 23in. Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 2 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 20TH-CENTURY Beream; Patriarch and Mayflower II Watercolour Inscribed in pencil on versos with Lot: 9 names, builders etc. 15Â¼ x 22Â½in. (39 x 57cm.) (3) ++Unframed;ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH-CENTURY The coaster 'Albert' good overall condition. under sail and steam off the Eddystone Lighthouse Watercolour Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 12 x 20in. (30.5 x 51cm.); together with an 18th-Century profile plan for an Admiralty yacht, published 1st March 1781 Plate size 28Â½ x 22in. (72.5 x 56cm.) (2) ++Albert: paper Lot: 3 discolouration, fading, damp stain top right. Framed size 15 x VINCENZO D'ESPOSITO (MALTESE, 1866-1946) A pair of 23in. The yacht plan: fold at centre with 2in. tear. Foxing, watercolours: Malta Watercolour heightened with white Each discolouration signed 'V. D'Esposito MALTA' (lower right and lower left Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 respectively) 4Â¼ x 9in. (11 x 23cm.) each (2) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 10 Antonio de Simone (Naples, fl. 1860-1900) The New York Lot: 4 Yacht Club's steam yacht Varuna in an offshore swell Signed AFTER WILLIAM ANDERSON (BRITISH, 19TH-CENTURY) 'De Simone 19..' (lower right) and inscribed 'S.Y. VARUNA' The departure of George IV from Greenwich en route to (lower left) Bodycolour, on paper 17Â½ x 25Â¼in. (44.5 x 64cm.) Scotland in August 1822 Watercolour heightened with white 14Â½ The Varuna was the third of three very similar steam yachts x 21Â½in. (37 x 54.5cm.) ++Fading, several paper cracks, paper designed by the great G.L. Watson of Glasgow, the others discolouration, unexamined out of frame. Framed size 18Â½ x being Mayflower and Nahma. Ordered for a wealthy American, 25Â½in. Eugene Higgins of New York, Varuna was built of steel by A. & Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 J. Inglis at Glasgow in 1897. Registered at 1,573Â½ tons gross (595 net), she measured 273 feet in length with a 35 foot beam and was rigged as a twin-screw schooner. Powered by a pair of her builder's own triple-expansion 8-cylinder engines, she could Lot: 5 make 16Â½ knots under steam and carried sails by Ratsey. TWO 18TH-CENTURY VIEWS OF MALTA: VuÃ« Nord-Ouest de Unfamiliar in American waters, as Mr. Higgins spent most of his la CitÃ©-Vallette, et de la Florianne ou Basse-Ville; and VuÃ« du time in Europe, she was wrecked on the Azores in 1909. l'EntrÃ©e du Grand-Port de Malte Watercolour on laid paper with ++Unexamined out of frame but appears to be in good overall ink titles and keys 15Â½ x 28Â½in. (39.5 x 72.5cm.) Framed and condition. glazed measurements 25Â½ x 38Â½in. (65 x 98cm.) (2) Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 ++Unexamined out of frame. Retouching. Rubbing to edges. Water damaged. Marks and abrasions. Framed size 25Â½ x 38Â½in. Estimate: £3,500.00 - £4,500.00 Lot: 11 ITALIAN SCHOOL, 19TH-CENTURY A steam yacht of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, steaming off the Bay of Naples Lot: 6 Bodycolour 16Â½ x 25Â½in. (42 x 65cm.) ++Two areas of vertical JAKOB PETERSEN (DANISH, 1774-1854) The Schooner discolouration, probably caused by backburn/damp. Foxhole of Swansea, shown in two positions off Kronberg Unexamined out of frame. Castle, Denmark Watercolour Signed 'drawn by J Petersen. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 1845' (lower right) and inscribed 'Scooner [sic]Foxhole of Swansoe [sic]. James Frazier Commander. Entering the Sound.' 19 x 25Â½in. (48 x 65cm.) The Elsinore bowl, presented to Commander Frazier, is offered as Lot 208 ++In excellent Lot: 12 overall condition with bright, fresh colours and clear paper JAMES FRANCIS DANBY (BRITISH, 1816-1875) Sunset over Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 the Royal Naval College, Greenwich Oil on Canvas Signed 'Jas. Danby / 1864' (lower right) 22 x 37in. (56 x 94cm.) ++Framed measurements - 32 x 47in.; cleaned and re-lined; unexamined out of frame or under UV lamp. Lot: 7 Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 FRANK HENRY MASON (BRITISH, 1876-1965) The Falmouth Packet Watercolour heightened with white Signed 'Frank H. Mason.' (lower right), countersigned in pencil on mount 'Frank

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Lot: 13 31in. (23.5 x 79cm.) ++Cleaned and re-framed JOHN SCOTT (FL.1844-1866) The French steamer 'Paris' off Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 the mouth of the Tyne bound for Hamburg Signed and dated 'J. Scott / 1856' (lower right) Oil on canvas 26 x 38Â¼in. (66 x 97.2cm.) The iron screw passenger/cargo steamer Paris was Lot: 20 built at Newcastle by Mitchell & Co. in 1856 for Schuller & Co. ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM CALCOTT KNELL (BRITISH, 1830- Registered at 413 tons gross (281 net), she measured 181 feet 1876) Prison Hulks Moored in the Solent with Fishing Craft in length with a 24 foot beam and this portrait of her was clearly Approaching to Land their Catch Oil on canvas 22 x 36in. (56 x commissioned by her owners or her first master (Capt. F. 91.5cm.) Vasse) to mark her completion. No further details of her career Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 are available at the time of writing. ++gallery condition Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Lot: 21 'THE WEST PROSPECT OF PORTSMOUTH IN HAMP- Lot: 14 SHIRE' After Samuel and Nathan Buck, published September ATTRIBUTED TO WILLEM VAN DER VELDE II (DUTCH, 1667- 11th 1749, London Hand-coloured engraving with title and 1709) An Admiralty yacht tacking towards a first rate of the legends 12 x 31in. (30.5 x 79cm.) Framed and glazed -- 15Â½ x Squadron of the Red Oil on canvas Indistinctly inscribed and 34Â½in. (39.5 x 88cm.) ++Faded; time-stained; water-stained; one dated 'W... 1695' (on the reverse) 15Â¾ x 21Â¾in. (40 x 55.2cm.) puncture; overall conservation required; later frame. ++Gallery condition. Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 Lot: 22 Lot: 15 EDWARD WILLIAM COOKE (BRITISH, 1811-1880) A AFTER THOMAS WHITCOMBE (BRITISH, LATE 18TH- collection of etchings, comprising: Thames Wherries, CENTURY) A merchantman in two positions Oil on canvas 35Â½ Richmond; The Stationers' Barge; The Wolf; Brig of War; x 44Â¼in. (90 x 112.3cm.) ++Three or four repaired puncturess, H.M.S. Prince (with the stern balconies as built before the craquelure, varnish yellowed, marks and abrasions. This closed sterns were introduced) in Portsmouth Harbour Jury painting is in unrestored condition and is thought not to have Rigged; a Frigate under all Sail; and A First Class West been touched for over 50 years. Indiaman (Thetis Capt. Burton) each inscribed Drawn & Etched Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 by E.W. Cooke and dated for 1828/9, Thetis with period inscription, various sizes Thetis (illustrated), plate size -- 7 x 8in. (18 x 20cm.). Framed and glazed (6) ++Unexamined out of Lot: 16 frames, all appear to be in fine overall condition AFTER NICHOLAS MATTHEW CONDY (BRITISH, 1818-1851) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 A brig of the Royal Navy exchanging fire with a pirate cutter Oil on canvas 20 x 24in. (51 x 61cm.) ++Repaired tear at centre approximately 3 x 5 in. Yellowed varnish. Some spotting. Lot: 23 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 AFTER LT L.G. HEATH, R.N. Three panoramic views of Hong Kong, published by the Hydrographic Office and retailed by R.B. Bate, London 1846-7, inscribed As seen from the Lot: 17 Anchorage. Drawn by Lieut. L.G. Heath of H.M.S. Iris, 1846 and CHINESE SCHOOL 20TH-CENTURY The 'SS Glenstrae' numbered '1696A, B & C' with named landmarks etc Plate size underway in high seas Oil on linen 12Â¼ x 16in. (31 x 41cm.) 7Â¼ x 31Â¼in. (18.5 x 79.5cm.) (3) ++Unexamined out of frame, Built by Hawthorn Leslie for the Glen Line in 1905, this vessel good overall condition and designed to be framed as one; good was torpedoed on 28th July 1917 by U62 whilst on passage margins. from Haiphong to Dunkirk carrying general cargo. ++Cleaned, Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 re-lined and varnished, new frame Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 24 ENGLISH NAVAL SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY Six pen, Lot: 18 ink and watercolour views of Portugal, including two of the PAUL VON KALCKREUTH (GERMAN, 20TH-CENTURY) Belem Tower, two topographical views from the Tagus and two Seascape Oil on canvas Signed 'P v Kalckreuth' (lower left) 23Â½ more, most approximately 5 x 8in., mounted on paper with x 35Â¾in. (60 x 91cm.) ++In new/gallery condition. manuscript titles -- mount size 10 x 12in. (25.5 x 30.5cm.) (6) Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 ++Overall condition is good, one of the Belem Tower has a 1Â½in. tear top right and is missing a section of mount; the mounts are beginning to fail and are fragile and brittle, with some spotting, dirt and wear. Lot: 19 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Jean Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (FRENCH, 1814-1879) Panorama of the British and French fleets meeting off Brest, 21st August 1865 Oil on canvas Signed J.B. Durand-Brager (lower right). Canvas stamp to reverse and old frame title Lot: 25 inscribed 21 AoÃ»t 1865 / RÃ©ception de l'Ascadre Anglaise SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (BRITISH NAVAL Entrant A Brest / par le Marquis Chasseloup Loubat, / Ministre SCHOOL, 1820-1894) Intelligence Watercolour Initialled 'E.A.I.' de la Marin et des Colonies Ã Bord de la Reine Hortense 9Â¼ x (lower left), and inscribed 'Intelligence' (lower right); with artist's

2 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com inscription to verso reading Lord Nelson's Inshore Squadron entering Portsmouth Drypoint etching Signed in pencil 'W.L. giving him the "Intelligence" that the French Fleet hath put to Wyllie' (lower left) 8Â½ x 19Â¼in. (21.5 x 49cm.). Framed and sea E.A. Inglefield; and ?owner's name, Grenville 12Â½ x 17in. glazed Provenance: with Chris Beetles, 1988 ++Unexamined (32 x 43cm.) Inglefield led one of the earliest expeditions to out of frame, good apparent condition, framed size 18 x 28in. discover the fate of the missing arctic explorer, Sir John Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Franklin, setting out in July 1852 in command of Lady Franklin's private steamer, Isabel. Upon reaching the Arctic, he took the opportunity to survey Greenland's west coast and much of Lot: 33 Baffin Island's eastern coast. He retired in 1885 and devoted William Lionel Wyllie R.A. (British, 1851-1931) Drypoint etching his time to paintings and watercolours, becoming Chairman of of H.M.S. Victory 14 x 10in. (35.5 x 25.5cm.). Framed and the Arts Section of the Chelsea Naval Exhibition of 1891, at glazed Provenance: with Chris Beetles, 1988 ++Unexamined which he also exhibited. ++Rub marks to margins, some mild out of frame, good apparent condition, framed size 23 x 17in. spotting in sky, old crease extending from top right to centre Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 left, unexamined out of frame. Framed size 20Â¾ x 24Â½in. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 34 Other Properties ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH-CENTURY Lot: 26 Captain Nelson boarding the San Josef Watercolour AFTER WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE, R.A. (1851-1931) The heightened with white 9Â¼ x 6Â¼in. (23.5 x 16cm.) Framed and Battle of Trafalgar Etching, published London June 1st 1893 for glazed overall measurements -- 17Â½ x 14Â¼in. (44.5 x 36cm.) the Fine Art Society Signed in pencil 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower left) ++Unexamined out of frame; paper is time-stained overall Plate size 15 x 35in. (38 x 89cm.). Framed and glazed, overall which would respond well to specialist restoration. size 26 x 46in. (66 x 117cm.) ++Some paper discolouration. Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Frame chipped. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 35 AFTER SIMON DE COSTA Baron Nelson of the Nile Pencil on Lot: 27 paper 8 x 7in. (20 x 18cm.). Framed and glazed Overall WILLIAM JOHN PATTON MCDOWELL (BRITISH 1888-1950) measurements 16Â¼ x 14in. (41 x 36cm.) ++Unexamined out of News of Nelson Oil on canvas laid down on board Signed frame; evidence of previous mount around edges; good overall 'William McDowell' (lower right) 19Â½ x 29Â½in. (49 x 75cm.) condition. ++Framed and glazed with title on mount, this painting appears Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 to be in untouched/gallery condition. Overall size 29Â¾ x 39Â¾in. (75.5 x 101cm.) Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 36 Property from the estate of the late Lt.Cmdr. Charles Addis M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986 NAVAL Lot: 29 19TH-CENTURY Stern view of H.M.S. Victory; and Study of an Property from the estate of the late Lt.Cmdr. Charles Addis anchor and deadeye Pencil on paper The larger 4 x 7in. (10 x M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986 William 18cm.) (2) ++Unexamined out of frame, mild paper Lionel Wyllie R.A. (British, 1851-1931) Two drypoint etchings of discolouration commensurate with age H.M.S. Victory Signed 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower left) 6 x 10in. (15 x Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 25.5cm.) (2) ++Fine overall condition Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 37 Other Properties ATTRIBUTED TO SAMUEL DRUMMOND Lot: 30 (BRITISH, 1765-1844) Captain William Rogers capturing the ROWLAND LANGMAID (BRITISH, 1897-1956) H.M.S. Victory 'Jeune Richard', 1st October 1807 Oil on panel 27Â½ x 23in. (70 x (in her last resting place) Signed etching with drypoint 6 x 7in. 58.5cm.) A larger version of this dramatic painting is contained (15 x 18cm.); together with another similar -- 6 x 8Â½in. (15 x within the National Collection at Greenwich, Reference 21.5cm.) (2) ++Unexamined out of frame, the second one with BHC0579, and was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1808, some discolouration. No. 276. The entry describes in full how the merchantman Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Windsor Castle was attacked in the Caribbean on the 1st October 1807 by the vastly superior French Privateer Jeune Richard. Not only did the Windsor Castle (under Acting Captain Lot: 31 William Rogers, depicted heroically at the centre of this picture) William Lionel Wyllie R.A. (British, 1851-1931) The Victory repulse Jeune Richard's repeated attacks, but they mounted a entering Dry Dock Drypoint etching Signed in pencil 'W.L. successful counter attack with a boarding party which Wyllie' (lower left) Plate size 8Â½ x 12Â½in. (21.5 x 32cm.). Framedoverwhelmed Jeune Richard's greater numbers and took her as and glazed Provenance: Wyllie Gallery, London. ++Fine a prize instead. It was much reported at the time and the crew condition; framed size -- 19 x 22in. of Windsor Castle were lavishly rewarded for their valour. Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 ++This painting was acquired by the vendor's grandfather circa 1920 and was hung in rooms with open fires until almost completely obscured. It was recently professionally cleaned and Lot: 32 conserved to a high standard and is in bright and fine condition William Lionel Wyllie R.A. (British, 1851-1931) The Victory overall.

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Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 reported from The Gibraltar Chronicle, incorporating the British and Spanish accounts of the action., including the lists of killed and wounded, and fate of the Spanish and French ships. (Page Lot: 38 1, Columns 1-5, and Page 2, Columns 1-2, 65" of Column 19TH-CENTURY WATERCOLOUR COLLAGE THOUGHT TO Space) all in a complete and genuine issue of THE DEPICT THE ACTION BETWEEN ALCESTE AND ACTIVE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, dated January 22nd, 1806. (2) AGAINST PERSANNE, 29TH NOVEMBER 1811 Built up in Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 layered paper with silk rigging over painted sea and sky 14Â½ x 19Â¾in. (37 x 50cm.). Framed and glazed ++Overall condition appears to be good, some fading to the sea, light areas of dirt Lot: 45 or dust. Framed size 18Â½ x 24in. (47 x 61cm.) NELSON'S FUNERAL a pair of issues relating to the state Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 funeral of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, including: 1. Ceremonial for the Public Funeral; 2. Order of the procession from Whitehall Stairs to the Admiralty; 3. Procession from Lot: 39 Admiralty to St Paul's; 4. Appropriate Hymns and Burial PETER G. POWER (BRITISH, 1938-) The capture of the Service; 5. The public crowd in mourning 6. Account of Warwick by the Minerve - the chase Oil on canvas Signed ornaments of the coffin; 7. Lying in State at Greenwich 8. 'P.G. Power. 77' (lower right) 14 x 16in. (35.5 x 40.5cm.) Advertisement for Fairburn's edition of The Death of Lord ++Fine overall condition Admiral Nelson 9.Advertisement proposing 500 guineas to any Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 British artist creating the best painting on death of Nelson; 10. Lyrics for song written for Battle of Trafalgar -- 118in. of column space, in two complete and original issues of THE NORWICH MERCURY, dated January 11th and 18th, 1806. Lot: 40 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 WILLIAM JOY (BRITISH, 1803-67) A Squadron of the Red announcing its arrival, probably off Spithead Watercolour Signed indistinctly 'W...Joy' (lower right) 13Â½ x 20in. (34.3 x 51cm.). Framed and glazed Provenance: Royal Exchange Art Lot: 46 Gallery (label to verso) ++Gallery condition Property from the estate of the late Lt.Cmdr. Charles Addis Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,500.00 M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986 NELSON, HORATIO - ARCHIBALD DUNCAN: 'THE LIFE OF THE LATE MOST NOBLE LORD HORATIO NELSON..' London: James Cundee, [n.d., but frontispiece dated 1806]. Engraved Lot: 43 frontispiece and plates, some folding [bound with the same Property from the estate of the late Lt.Cmdr. Charles Addis author's:] 'A Correct Narrative of the Funeral of Horatio Lord M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986 LORD Viscount Nelson.' London: James Cundee, 1806. Folding NELSON: AN AUTOGRAPH ORDER REGARDING INFESTED engraved plates. 2 works bound in one, 8vo (175 x 100mm). BREAD dated 14th January, 1805 and sent To the Masters of Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: Edward His Majesty's Ships Royal Sovereign, Conqueror and Canopus Cooper, 1887 (signature on front free endpaper). With 4 other advising them that, following an inspection by Captain Bayntun works of related interest in 7 volumes. (8) of the Leviathan, they were to destroy infested bread: ...there is Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 onboard the said Ships a quantity of Bread so full of Vermin as to be unfit for men to Eat... written in a secretarial hand and signed Nelson + Bronte, mounted in a reverse-glazed frame -- 7Â½ x 11Â½in. (19 x 29cm.) overall++Unexamined out of frame; Lot: 47 paper retains good colour, crease at centre, 4mm hole to left AN ENGRAVED BRASS MARKER FROM H.M.S. VICTORY margin away from Nelson's signature. RECORDING WHERE NELSON FELL engraved in opposition Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 in black-filled lettering HERE NELSON FELL 21ST OCT 1805, secured to a section of ?Victory oak -- 5Â½ x 9Â½in. (14 x 24cm.); together with the 1891 Naval Exhibition souvenir brochure for H.M.S. Victory and a small quantity of period printed ephemera Lot: 44 for the ship dated from the 1920s onwards ++Brass plaque in Other Properties THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR/DEATH OF fine overall condition; printed ephemera appears to be in good NELSON Such a battle could not be fought without sustaining a overall condition with typical time staining on the old examples. great loss of men. I have not only to lament in common with the Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 British Navy, and the British Nation, in the fall of the Commander in Chief, the loss of a Hero, whose name will be immortal... an excellent and lengthy account penned by Vice Admiral Collingwood from the Euryalus, reporting on the details Lot: 48 of the Naval Action off Cape Trafalgar, as reported to the O'BRIAN, PATRICK (1914-2000): 'MASTER & Admiralty Office, and including the death by musket ball of Vice COMMANDER..' London: Collins, 1970. 8vo. Original blue grey Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson (Back page, Columns 1-3, 44in. buckram, dust-jacket (some repairs). FIRST ENGLISH of column space) all in a complete and genuine issue of THE EDITION. With the same author's 'Master And Commander' BOSTON GAZETTE, dated December 23rd, 1805; together (New York, 1969, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, pre-dating the with The dreadful slaughter on board, and the shattered first English edition), 'Post Captain' (London, 1972), 'H.M.S. condition of all the captured ships, whilst it shews with what Surprise' (ibid., 1973), 'The Mauritius Command' (1977), obstinacy the enemy in general fought, is a convincing proof of 'Desolation Island' (1978), 'The Fortune Of War' (1979), 'The the decided superiority our seamen possess over the enemy in Surgeon's Mate' (1980), 'The Ionian Mission' (1981), 'Treason's close actionâ€¦ Further particulars of the Battle of Trafalgar as Harbour' (1983), 'The Far Side Of The World' (1984), 'The

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Reverse Of The Medal' (1986), 'The Letter Of Marque' (1988), Alexander Davison's medal for the Battle of the Nile, 1798, in 'The Thirteen-Gun Salute' (1989), 'The Nutmeg Of Consolation' bronze, as issued to all seamen (Eimer 890), traces of old glue (1991), 'Clarissa Oakes' (1992), 'The Wine-Dark Sea' (1993), residue on obverse; together with a white metal medal for the 'The Commodore' (1994), 'The Yellow Admiral' (1997), 'THE Death of the Duke of Wellington, 1852, pierced for suspension; HUNDRED DAYS' (1998, SIGNED by the author) and 'Blue At and a modern bronze medal for the 150th anniversary of the The Mizzen' (1999, SIGNED by the author). A COMPLETE battle of Waterloo, 1965, 44mm. (Eimer 2106), all good SET OF THE AUBREY/MATURIN SEQUENCE, ALL FIRST condition; together with three wreck find ?Roman coins (6) EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS. With E. A. CUNNINGHAM'S ++Mixed conditions. 'Patrick O'brian. Critical Appreciations And A Bibliography' Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 (London, 1994, NUMBER 12 OF 50 SIGNED BY PATRICK O'BRIAN, slipcase), DEAN KING'S 'A Sea Of Words. A Lexicon And Companion For Patrick O'brian's Seafaring Tales' (New Lot: 53 York, 1995) and the same author's 'Patrick O'brian. A Life A COLLECTION OF ARTEFACTS PERTAINING TO WILLIAM Revealed' (London, 2000) (38) COLLINGWOOD'S INDIAN SURVEYING EXPEDITION, 1846 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £4,000.00 comprising a passage journal kept aboard the Oriental from London to Bombay between 6th January and 30th May 1846, written over sixty-nine pages in a neat and clear hand with Lot: 49 occasional coloured ink sketches, varied content including LAIRD CLOWES, WILLIAM (AND OTHERS): 'THE ROYAL weather observations, poetry, and day-to-day commentary - NAVY. A HISTORY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE March 31st 1846 Tuesday: A large shoal of porpoises playing PRESENT..' London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, about the bows the mate went out on the dolphin striker to 1897-1903. 7 volumes, large 8vo (263 x 190mm). Photogravure harpoon one but was unsuccessful.. bound in red morocco with and half tone plates and illustrations (some light mainly inscribed cover -- 7Â¼ x 4Â¾in. (18.5 x 12cm.); together with a marginal staining). Original blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt presentation leather-cased 1Â½in. three-draw leather-covered (extremities lightly rubbed, some light staining). (7) surveying telescope and compass compendium signed and Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 inscribed A. Ross, London / From Comr. Selby, Surveyor in Mesopotamia to Lieut. W. Collingwood, Asst. Surveyor, in kind remembrance of Services together in Babylonia & Irak Arabia, Lot: 50 contained in leather carry case with lid enclosing a lacquered- Other Properties THE GLORIOUS 1st OF JUNE FIRST brass compass, closed length -- 11Â½in. (29cm.); three 7 x 9in. NEWS: An entire two-page issue devoted to Lord Howe's (18 x 23cm.) watercolour and ink ship profiles by Collingwood Official Report of the victory against the French Fleet off of the Tigris; Coromandel and Georgiana each inscribed, Ushant, in which six French ships were captured and one sunk: signed and dated between 1856-8 and attached to ?album The French, their force consisting of Twenty-six Ships of the leaves; a printed service record for Collingwood ('H.M., late Line, opposed to his Majesty's Fleet of Twenty-fiveâ€¦waited for I.N.); and a map printed by J & C Walker, London of a the Action, and sustained the Attack with their customary Trigonmetrical Survey of a part of Mesopotamia by Selby and resolutionâ€¦ details of the action follow, including a list of the Collingwood (7) Commander W.B. Selby, late Royal Indian captured and destroyed French ships, in a complete and Navy, began his distinguished surveying career in 1837 when, original issue of THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, as a midshipman, he embarked on the expedition first to lay dated June 11th, 1794; together with THE SECOND REPORT: navigation buoys in the mouths of the Indus River and thence A three-page issue dedicated to Lord Howe concluding his to chart some coastal areas in the 'Horn of Africa'. By 1846 he report with further details on the naval action, all in a complete was back working off the mouths of the Indus, having made his and original issue of THE LONDON GAZETTE reputation in Mesopotamia (in 1840-41), and thereafter EXTRAORDINARY, dated June 21st, 1794. (2) achieved considerable acclaim for his numerous other surveys, Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 including those during the military expedition to Persia in 1856, before returning home (to England) at the end of 1862. He was succeeded as Surveyor of Mesopotamia by his protÃ©gÃ©, Lieutenant William Collingwood (a distant cousin of the Lot: 51 Admiral), who had already done much valuable work in the A SMALL BRITISH AND FOREIGN SAILORS' SOCIETY region, including the large-scale, though surreptitious, mapping COPPER BUST OF NELSON of typical form, with inscribed of Baghdad in 1855 and described by him as follows:- "The socle mounted on turned fruitwood base -- 8in. (20cm.) high; survey of the city of Baghdad was completed entirely by myself together with a presentation aneroid barometer from H.M.S. and under very unpleasant restrictions...... The Turkish Worcester, dated July 1907, and with officer of the watch-type Government were not to know anything about it...... and I was telescope by H. Hughes & Son Ltd with leather-covered tube left to survey the town as best I could, and under such and dust cap; and a small oxidised-brass sighting compass by difficulties that at times I had to note bearings and paces all Troughton & Simms (4) ++Nelson bust with ingrained dust, but over my white shirt, where best I could get the pencil at the in good condition overall; base with two shrinkage cracks and time....." During this same expedition, Collingwood also old wear. Aneroid barometer has lost its gilt finish but appears surveyed the Shatt-ul-Arab, the city of Bussorah (also by to be in good working order. Telescope in optically good stealth) and much of the country between the Tigris and condition; leather with marks commensurate with age. Euphrates Rivers, and was undoubtedly one of the most gifted Compass has evidence of verdigris around edge of bowl and and productive R.I.N. surveyors of his day. ++Journal: spine folding sight; glass has small crack. and edged rubbed; binding good and pages in good, clear Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 conditon; telescope: optically working, leather covering rubbed, compass good overall, one leather case strap missing; watercolours: mixed condition - paper mounts with ragged Lot: 52 edges and missing upper left corners with two of three

5 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com watercolours also missing a section top left, some time staining, working; steel fittings partially pitted and discoloured overall; dirt and foxing, these will need to be removed from mounts and ramrod broken but complete; stock appears to be in good conserved at some point; the map is in poor overall condition overall condition with no evidence of restoration or repair; with tears, foxing, staining etc.. typical marks commensurate with age. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00

Lot: 54 Lot: 58 THREE ITEMS OF SILVER TABLEWARE FROM THE AN 1804-PATTERN CUTLASS FOR THE ROYAL NAVY with ESTATE OF JOHN PASCO, SIGNAL LIEUTENANT AT 26Â¼in. curved blade, shaped ribbed grip and double-disc guards TRAFALGAR comprising a ladle; serving spoon and a -- 31Â½in. (80cm.) overall ++Blade pitted and rusted overall; tablespoon, each engraved P to the top of the handle and with jagged edge; appears to have been coated with some black Edinburgh hallmarks for 1824/5 -- ladle 13in. (33cm.) long, t painted finish overall. 15oz. (400gms.) (3) Provenance: This lot formed part of the Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 estate of the late Beryl Pasco, who died in 1957 and left them to the present owners. The lot comes with copies of her will and written testimonies supporting the connection to John Lot: 59 Pasco of Trafalgar fame. ++Ladle: in fine overall condition with AN 1804-PATTERN ROYAL NAVY CUTLASS unsigned, with strong marks. Serving spoon: with scratched (?)rest marks on 25Â½in. steel blade, shaped, ribbed grip and double-disc guard -- the underside and strong hallmarks. Table spoon: minor dents 30Â½in. (77.5cm.) overall ++Blade and guard tarnished/spotted to bowl and bowl rim; marks rubbed or mis-struck but readable. overall but no apparent signs of rust or serious nicks to blade Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 edge. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 55 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BRASS-BOUND MAHOGANY Lot: 60 CAMPAIGN PLATE CHEST FOR CAPTAIN W.H. SHIRREFF A LATE 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL NAVAL BOARDING R.N. with fitted chamois-lined interior and top tray, the lid with CUTLASS BY WILKINSON, LONDON with 29in. steel blade owner's plate engraved Capt. SHIRREFF R.N., residual sealing stamped Wilkinson, Pall Mall, black-painted basket hilt with wax impressions and labels, securing hooks and drop-handles -- ribbed grip -- 34in. (86.5cm.) long overall; together with another, overall measurements 30Â½ x 21 x 15in. (77.5 x 53 x 38cm.) similar, unsigned (2) ++Spotted overall rust spots to hilt; the This officer enjoys a full entry in O'Byrne which describes how, unsigned example appears rust free. after entering the navy in 1796, he had a lively career for the Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 remainder of the Napoleonic Wars in which he captured enemy vessels, was taken prisoner, released, and promoted Captain in 1809. He went on to become Captain-Superintendent of Deptford and Chatham Dockyards and retired a Rear-Admiral Lot: 61 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL NAVY BOARDING PIKE of the Blue in 1846, a year before he died aged 62. ++Lining in with steel leaf-type head, secured to studded wooden shaft -- lid partially detached; old wear to fittings and tray; lock missing; 78in. (198cm.) ++Head pitted and rusty; shaft with many non- cracks; externally overall wear and losses. regulation studs and presents with a slight warp. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00

Lot: 56 AN ATTRACTIVELY PRESENTED MODEL NAVY GUN with Lot: 62 A COLLECTION OF BOSUN 'STARTERS' comprising one Â¾in. bore, four-stage brass 13Â½in. barrel with stylised dolphin example turned in walnut with leather-enclosed rope securing handles, touch hole and cascabel, secured to stepped, naval- bulbous head; together with another similar example in oak; type carriage with turn-screw elevation and metal wheels, and a twine and lead example -- the longest 15Â½in. (39.5cm.) (3) mounted on ornate oak carved display base with marine theme ++Turned walnut: glue run near connection with head suggests including dolphins, shells, compass rose etc., stamped on the that leather is weak/reattached; head has several shrinkage underside MADE OF OAK FROM H.M.S. VICTORY -- overall cracks running vertically; handle likewise has two or three measurements 8Â½ x 18 x 12in. (21.5 x 46 x 30.5cm.) ++Cannon shrinkage cracks but is in sound overall condition. Oak and base probably associated; base has typical plugged holes example: leather connecting strap is worn but intact, otherwise etc., found from recovered Victory oak; cannon barrel has a few condition overall is good. Twine example: apart from some rub small abrasions to the top, otherwise overall condition appears marks to the head, overall condition is very good. to be very good. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00

Lot: 57 Lot: 63 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY TURNED WALNUT BOSUN'S AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FLINTLOCK REGULATION SEA STARTER with ribbed handle and leather-covered rope SERVICE PISTOL the 12in. steel barrel with proof marks, lock connection to grooved head; together with another similar; and engraved GR with crown over and Government broad arrow a small leather-bound lead and wood example and a twine and mark, also with crown over, walnut stock with ramrod, brass- lead example -- the longest 16in. (40.5cm.) (4) ++First: leather mounted trigger guard and pommel -- 19in. (48cm.) overall cracked, but intact. Second: leather appears to be replaced. ++One screw missing from back of lock plate; mechanism Third: section of leather strap missing to reveal wooden handle.

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Fourth: chipping and wear around head. good overall condition with minor areas of discolouration Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 towards tip. ?re-finished. Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 64 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH HACHE DE BORD / Lot: 70 BOARDING AXE unmarked, the steel head with shaped spike Ã˜ AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN'S DIRK with 8in. behind, secured to turned wooden handle by wrap-round steel blade, brass disc guard, tapering ivory handle terminating langets -- 15in. (38cm.) high ++head with mild pitting/staining, in a gilt-brass lion's mask -- overall length 11Â½in. (29.3cm.) possibly re-polished but strong condition; handle looks as if it (lacks scabbard) ++Blade pitted on both sides and looks has some age, but is quite short for a boarding axe so may recently cleaned/polished; handle cracked with evidence of glue either be a replacement or used by a junior /younger officer. runs to this and around lion's mask. Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 65 Lot: 71 Property from the estate of the late Lt.Cmdr. Charles Addis Ã˜ AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN'S STEEL AND M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986 Ã˜ AN 1805- IVORY DIRK BY CARTER OF GOSPORT with 16in. steel PATTERN ROYAL NAVY DRESS SWORD with 28in. steel blade, gilt-brass guard and plain tapering ivory handle with gilt- blade, etched with device for George III and signed J.J. Runkel brass end cap, contained within original brass-mounted leather Sollingen, gilt-brass stirrup hilt with fouled anchor device, wire- scabbard, signed in wrigglework to top Carter Gosport, with belt bound ivory grip, lion head pommel with short mane (lacking stud and frog loops -- overall length 21in. (53.5cm.) ++Blade scabbard and quillon) ++Blade lightly spotted overall; quillon discoloured and pitted with some ragged edge overall; ivory broken and missing; lacks scabbard; handle possibly re-gilded. handle with two or three shrinkage splits near base slightly Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 loose; scabbard complete but fragile, with stitching beginning to part near tip. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 66 Other Properties Ã˜ AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAVAL OFFICER'S SWORD with 23in. steel blade, steel stirrup hilt Lot: 72 with fluted ivory handle (rust and wear overall, blade possibly AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN'S DIRK unsigned, shortened) -- 29in. (74cm.) overall ++Much wear, rust overall. with 9Â¼in. etched steel blade, oak leaf guard, turned ebony Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 handle and white metal pommel, contained within original brazed copper scabbard with etched decoration with suspension loops -- overall length 13Â¼in. (33.5cm.) ++Blade Lot: 67 dulled; two or three very small rust spots; handle cracked along A WELL-PRESENTED IRON AND WOOD MODEL OF A 32- entire length; pommel damaged on one edge. Scabbard has POUNDER CANNON with four-stage tapering 14in. barrel, minor denting; retains elements of original gilt and lacquer. mounted on stepped wooden carriages with wooden trucks, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 secured to display board and hull section with blocks and tackle as appropriate, with engraved brass plaque reading 32 pounder ship's cannon - royal navy c. 1800 -- overall measurements 8 x Lot: 73 18 x 12in. (20 x 46 x 30.5cm.) ++Some minor chipping to paint Ã˜ AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MIDSHIPMAN'S DIRK on top of cannon; brass plaque marked; overall condition unsigned, 7Â¾in. steel blade, oak leaf guard, turned ivory handle, appears fine. brass-bound leather scabbard -- overall length 12in. (30.5cm.); Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 together with another example, lacking scabbard, with plain ivory handle -- 13Â¼in. (33.5cm.) long (2) ++First: blade has small areas of rust; pitting overall; some verdigris around connection Lot: 68 to handle and handle retainer; ivory split in two places; AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 'CAT O' NINE TAILS' comprising scabbard appears generally good, possibly a later replacement. a densely-knotted handle with flexible shafts terminating in nine Second: areas of rust and spotting to blade; guard loose; flays, now mounted in a Perspex case for wall hanging -- cased verdigris either end of handle. measurements 16Â½ x 23Â¼in. (42 x 59cm.) ++Unexamined out ofEstimate: £250.00 - £350.00 case; condition appears to be fair, but flays strengthened at root to flexible shaft in two or three instances where they appear to be held on by stitching, suggesting the rope is now Lot: 74 quite fragile. Ã˜ AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY LIGNUM VITAE FID of typical Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 tapering form, stamped and dated JAMES HARTNELL 1803 -- 19Â½in. (49.5cm.) long ++Typical marks and abrasions commensurate with age, two or three scratches. The bulbous Lot: 69 end with small area of black wax filling approx. 5 x 5mm. Ã˜ A SMALL EARLY 19TH-CENTURY (?)DIRK BY READ & CO., Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 DUBLIN with 5Â½in. polished-steel blade, brass guard, turned ribbed ebony handle, brass scabbard signed Read & Co., Makers, Parliament St., Dublin, with belt stayed to reverse -- Lot: 75 overall length 10Â¼in. (26cm.) ++Blade appears to be in very A 19TH-CENTURY MODEL OF A NAVAL GUN with 13in. three-

7 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com stage tapering Â¾in. brass barrel with touch hole, cascabel and AND SAUCER with black rope bordering expedition crest, each trunnions, secured to stepped, ebonised wooden carriage with base marked DISCOVERY on the underside together with brass tackle rings and turned brass trucks and chained fouled anchor Copeland mark for 1875, (cup cracked) -- saucer elevation block -- overall measurements 8 x 16 x 8in. (20.3 x 7in. (18cm.) diameter (2) 40.6 x 20.3cm.) ++Appears to be in good structural condition Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 overall; model has not been cleaned or polished; some fittings have evidence of verdigris, dust etc. Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Lot: 82 THE FIRST FLEET a pair of papers relating to the review of the Expedition to Botany Bay in two parts, penned by Captain Lot: 76 Wilkin Tench, of the Marines: On first setting foot in the country, A DECORATIVE CAST IRON SIGNAL GUN with heavily- we were inclined to hold the spears of the natives very cheap. embossed and decorated 1in. four-stage tapering 18in. barrel, Fatal experience has, however, convinced us, that the wound mounted to stepped wooden carriage with wooden trucks -- inflicted by this weapon is not a trivial one; and that the skill of overall 8Â½ x 20Â½in. (21.5 x 52cm.) ++Areas of wear/rust to barrel,the Indians in throwing it, is far from despicableâ€¦. very lengthy which may be blocked at touch hole; truck in structurally sound and detailed descriptions of troops, governance, convicts, condition, with typical marks commensurate with age. locals, and conditions prevailing there follow. (Back page, Cols Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 1-2, 46in. of column space in total), in complete and original issues of THE MORNING CHRONICLE AND LONDON ADVERTISER, dated April 8th and 9th, 1789; together with The Lot: 77 following authentic letter from Botany Bay, comes from a very A DECORATIVE 19TH-CENTURY CAST IRON MODEL intelligent gentleman, at that quarter, on whose veracity we CANNON with cast three-stage tapering barrel secured to have to perfect a dependence, that though this account differs stepped, wooden naval-type carriage, with wooden trucks -- from most others, we can confidently deliver it to our readers as overall measurements 11Â½ x 21in. (29 x 53cm.) ++Condition a representation on which they may relyâ€¦ Here follows a overall - rusty and patination, old chips and wear. narrative on the voyage from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Bay, and the crushingly disappointing conditions upon arrival. (Back page, Columns 1-3, 27in. of column space, all in a complete and genuine issue of THE MORNING CHRONICLE AND LONDON ADVERTISER, dated April 24th, 1789. (2) Lot: 78 Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 Property from the estate of the late Lt.Cmdr. Charles Addis M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986 A PRESENTATION MINIATURE NAVAL OAK GROG CASK of typical form, with applied brass lettering inscribed THE QUEEN Lot: 83 GOD BLESS HER, the lid with acorn finial handle and plaque THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK an excellent and lengthy inscribed To Lt.Cdr. Charles Addis, Captain H.M.S. Victory with account of the life an death of the famed circumnavigator. The thanks for your support Charles Tobias April 1985, with inset cause of Captain Cook's death, is said to have arisen from a plastic tub to serve as an ice bucket -- 13in. (33cm.) high jealousy entertained by the natives of O'Why'he, the newly overall++Traces of polish around letter edges, otherwise discovered islandâ€¦ here follows the details of the appears to be in fine overall condition. circumstances leading to his death, and furthermore a Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 comprehensive list of his appointments and achievements (Page 3, Column 3, 10in. of column space), in a complete and original issue of THE EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, dated January, 17th, 1780; together with a faithful and detailed Lot: 79 account of Captain Cook's final voyage, penned by Captain A MODERN PRESENTATION MARINE STICK BAROMETER Clerke, cataloguing the anchorages, discoveries, and events BY CULPEPER INSTRUMENTS with 39in. weighted wooden along the way, (Pages 3-4, Columns 3-1, 8in. column space) in tube, with scale divided between 28 and 32 and signed as per a complete issue of THE GLASGOW MERCURY, dated title, front-mounted thermometer, gimbal-mounted to Victory January 27th, 1780. (2) oak panel inscribed and dated to C.P. Addis 1986 -- overall Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 height 44in. (112cm.); together with a Victory-oak blotter with capstan handle and set on base with copper paper weights and pen tray (2) ++Fine overall condition. Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 84 THE CAPTURE OF THE CHESAPEAKE BICENTENNIAL first news of the capture of the American frigate U.S.S. Chesapeake, by H.M.S. Shannon: a lengthy and detailed Lot: 80 description of the battle is included in the article, along with Other Properties BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1875-76: A ship's armaments, numbers, etc. as well as a list of the COPELAND CUP AND SAUCER with black rope bordering Shannon's losses (Page 2, Columns 1-3, 16in. column space) expedition crest, each base marked DISCOVERY on the in a complete and original edition of THE LONDON underside together with fouled anchor Copeland mark for 1875 - CHRONICLE, dated July 12th, 1813. A major event also - saucer 7in. (18cm.) diameter (2) ++Fine overall condition. known to history as the 'Battle for Boston Harbour', during the Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 War of 1812, a short, but very bloody encounter that left 252 killed or wounded in around 15 minutes. Captain Broke, of the Shannon, had been observing Boston Harbour for several days, Lot: 81 and had intercepted and captured a number of American ships BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1875-76: A COPELAND CUP trying to reach port. Upon sending these ships off to Halifax,

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Broke found his crew being dangerously diminished, and so four-stage tapering barrel, trunnions, cascabel and touch hole, instead decided on burning the rest of the prizes, but sent their secured to a stepped, wooden naval-type carriage with wooden boats ashore with a written challenge to the Chesapeake's trucks -- overall dimensions 9 x 20Â½in. (23 x 52cm.) ++Bore hole Captain, Lawrence, to come out and fight - something appears to have been filled and re-drilled near cascabel; some Lawrence had done earlier in the war to the British sloop Bonne pitting and scuffing commensurate with age, but generally Citoyenne. The ships engaged, and the Chesapeake was good; carriage later replacement. subsequently raided by a British boarding party. Captain Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lawrence was mortally wounded in the action, and Broke sustained severe injuries himself fighting in the forecastle Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 90 A MID 20TH-CENTURY ROYAL MARINE ENGINEER'S MODEL OF A 19TH-CENTURY NAVAL CANNON with 20in. Lot: 85 four-stage brass barrel, half-bored, with tompion, mounted on A ROYAL NAVY ADMIRAL'S DRESS COATEE tailored in blue stepped wooden carriage with wooden trucks and ramrod -- wool cloth with quilted and white buckskin lining, heavy bullion overall measurements 9 x 22 x 10in. (23 x 56 x 25.5cm.) By oak leaf collar and sleeve, full set of gilt oak-wreath buttons as repute, this model was made at Deal Barracks. ++Evidence of appropriate stamped Gieve, Matthews & Seagrove Ltd ++Minor polish in crevices, some old scratch marks near muzzle. evidence of moth attack - two or three areas across the back, Please note this barrel is only drilled to approximately half- none apparently exceeding 4mm.; lining seems intact. length. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 86 Lot: 91 Property from the estate of the late Lt.Cmdr. Charles Addis THE SKETCHBOOK OF CADET POWNOLL FLEETWOOD M.B.E., R.N., Captain of H.M.S. Victory 1982-1986 A 20TH- PELLEW R.N., 1836 comprising seventeen pages of CENTURY ROYAL NAVY OFFICER'S REGULATION DRESS watercolours and pencil drawings kept while a student at the SWORD with 31in. etched steel blade bearing monogram for Naval College at Portsmouth, including sketches of the Royal GRVI, half-basket hilt with naval device, hinged thumb piece, George, Portsmouth Harbour, and the Northumberland, bound fish skin grip, lion head pommel and bullion loop, contained between green card covers inscribed Pellew, with issue within brass-mounted leather scabbard of issue with certificate pasted inside with later pencil note stating that John suspension loops, within leather carry case -- 37in. (94cm.) Christian Schetky was his teacher -- 8Â¼ x 11in. (21 x 28cm.) overall; together with a regulation belt with frog loops (2) The Hon. Pownoll Fleetwood Pellew (1823-1851) was the third ++Blade has some spotting but no apparent rust and has not son of Pownoll Bastard, the 2nd Viscount of Exmouth, a been polished or cleaned for some time; the scabbard carry Captain in the Royal Navy, and the nephew of Admiral Sir case and belt all in good overall condition; some wear to the gilt Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount of Exmouth. Pownoll Fleetwood around the inside of the hilt. joined the navy on the 18th August 1842, after spending time at Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 the Royal Naval College in Portsmouth. He served as a mate on Cornwallis,Conway, and the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert. Promoted to Lieutenant on 30 December 1843, he returned to Lot: 87 serve on his first ship, Cornwallis, and then served on Other Properties A GEORGE VI ROYAL NAVAL OFFICER'S Collingwood, then three years later on Howe. He was then sent SWORD of regulation pattern and comprising 31in. etched steel to the Pacific on 'Particular Service'. John Christian Schetky blade, half-basket hilt with hinged thumb piece, wire-bound (1778-1874) was one of several famous marine artists who shagreen grip, lion head pommel, contained within regulation instructed cadets who were encouraged to record as much data brass-mounted leather scabbard ++Blade in fine overall as possible on their voyages and then submit the results for condition with strong etching and no sign of rust; small patch of intelligence gathering. pitting (approx. Â½cm.) towards lower 1/3 in un-engraved steel. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 92 Lot: 88 AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF QUEEN ANNE-PERIOD A GEORGE VI ROYAL NAVY REGULATION DRESS DIRK NAVAL AUTOGRAPH ORDERS twelve, composed between with 18in. etched steel blade, acorn tip, quillons, wire-bound 1706 and 1711 and written in secretarial hands, autographed fish skin grip, lion head pommel and regulation leather by relevant officers and admirals including The Earl of scabbard -- overall length 23Â½in. (59.5cm.); together with a Sunderland; George Byng; Lord Dartmouth and others, with an regulation dress sword and scabbard retailed by C Grove, array of fleet orders, many pertaining to protecting British Portsea, and an unsigned 19th-Century cutlass and scabbard trading routes with Europe: ...you are required and directed (3) ++First: blade dulled and spotted with several areas of rust. forthwith upon your receipt hereof, to give strict orders to the Second: blade very worn and rusted; scabbard partially respective Capts of her Majesty's Ships which are or shall be unstitched, all gilt fittings worn. Third: blade in good overall under your Command, to seize all shipps belonging to the condition, scabbard partially unstitched. Republick of Genoa... (29th November 1709); together with a Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 manuscript letter from 'W Collingwood' for 1698, written in a florid hand, most laid on brown archive card (13) ++Basically in good overall condition - some areas of light spotting/browning, but generally this is light and in line with age; they have all had Lot: 89 their back edges secured to mostly brown mounts allowing A 19TH-CENTURY BRASS SIGNAL GUN with 1in. bore, 17in. them still to be seen on all sides - I expect a professional could

9 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com remove these if desired. OF THE 4TH SUBMARINE FLOTILLA, SEPTEMBER 21ST Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 1915 engraved with twenty-one autographs around inscription reading PRESENTED TO / LIEUTENANT COMMANDER F.E.H. FEILMANN R.N. / BY THE CAPTAIN AND OFFICERS Lot: 93 OF H.M.S. "ARROGANT" / AND / 4th SUBMARINE FLOTILLA / [BRASSEY'S] NAVAL ANNUALS seventeen volumes, SEPTEMBER 21st 1915, cedar lined, London hallmarks for comprising 1886, the rare first year of issue, 1890, 1895, 1897, 1907-8 -- 2Â¾ x 8 x 5in. (7 x 20.3 x 12.7cm.); together with an 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1919, 1920-1, 1927, 1932, autographed cabinet photograph of Feilmann in mess kit; 1940, 1952, 1956 and 1966, generally good condition, in Feilmann's Great War Medal and 1914 Star medal; and a original bindings as issued (one in dust jacket), a useful run for quantity of items connected to Feilmann's pre-War success in the researcher, especially the Great War issues of 1914-19 (17) amateur fencing and comprising three silver and four plated Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 trophies circa 1905-08, Olympic pass cards for Stockholm, 1912; and a quantity of service and personal documents including commissions, promotions etc. (a lot) Lt Cmdr "Bertie" Feilmann (1883-1965) was a highly experienced submariner. Lot: 94 Commander of E7 in August 1914, he was appointed to E31 a A FRENCH MARINE ALBUM, 1864 possibly kept by a French year later and enjoyed a fully active wartime career in which he naval officer, written in French and mostly containing short duelled with a German submarine and, perhaps most famously, naval stories liberally illustrated with sketches and watercolours fought and destroyed the wounded Zeppelin L7, collecting together with topographical pictures of port scenes, the final seven survivors from it - the only submarine-Zeppelin action of section entitled English Remembrances, approximately 75 the War. She was nearly sunk in a so-called friendly fire pages, the title page inscribed BORPA, bound between quarter incident in May 1916 when a shell from H.M.S. Rostock lodged calf marbled boards -- 8Â¾ x 12Â¼in. (22.2 x 31.2cm.) in her superstructure but failed to explode. Latterly he Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 commanded one of the notorious steam-electric K-Class (K14) submarines, but was moved on to organising convoys soon after. He represented GB in Fencing at the 1908 and 1912 Lot: 95 Olympic Games and married a fellow submariner's sister, FRANK HENRY MASON (BRITISH, 1876-1965) H.M.S. commemorated by this box. 'Victory' firing a signal observed from the Deck of a Passing Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Destroyer Pen and ink Signed 'Frank H Mason' (lower middle in deck railing) 10 x 16in. (25.5 x 40.5cm.) ++Fine overall condition. Lot: 99 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 A CHINESE SILKWORK OF H.M.S. YARMOUTH, CIRCA 1913 depicted in profile and entitled H.M.S. YARMOUTH / CHINA STATION 1913 -- 10 x 16in. (25.5 x 40.5cm.) H.M.S. Lot: 96 Yarmouth, a Weymouth class light cruiser built by London and AFTER ALEX KIRCHER The Battle of Lissa 1866 Glasgow Co. was launched on 12 April 1911 and immediately Chromolithograph, published by Kunstanstalt Vienna Image commissioned in the 4th Battle Squadron of the Mediterranean size -- 23 x 30Â½in. (58.5 x 77.5cm.) Framed and glazed, overall Fleet until 1913, when she was sent to the China Station for a size -- 33Â¾ x 39in. (86 x 99cm.) Part of the Third Italian War of year. At the outbreak of War in 1914 Yarmouth joined the hunt Independence, this was the first fleet action between ironclads for Emden, during which she sank two Axis merchantmen. (and the last to deploy deliberate ramming) and was a decisive Yarmouth was present at Jutland and afterwards refitted with victory for an outnumbered Austrian fleet. Despite their Italian an aircraft platform. In 1922 Yarmouth was at the Signals foe firing nearly 1500 shells, little damage was caused and, School in Portsmouth and, finally, she became the flagship of combined with internal Italian rivalries, Admiral Tegetthoff was the Rear Admiral, Submarines at Falmouth in 1928 but was able to divide and destroy his numerous opponents. sold for breaking a year later. ++Unexamined out of frame; appears to be in fine overall Estimate: £40.00 - £50.00 condition with little evidence of foxing etc. Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 100 A FIRST WORLD WAR SUBMARINER'S SWEETHEART Lot: 97 BROOCH modelled in 9ct. gold in the form of a B-Class William Minshall Birchall (AMERICAN, 1884-1941) The Victors - submarine, the reverse stamped with registration number Ad. Beatty's ships Watercolour heightened with white Signed '643143', pin and safety chain -- 2in. (5cm.) diameter Built by 'W.M. Birchall 1915' (Lower left) and inscribed as per title with Vickers between 1904 and 1906, the class was almost obsolete ?artists title in pencil verso and original retail label 8Â½ x 18Â½in. by the time war started, however B11 managed to sink the (21.5 x 47cm.); together with 'Our torpedo boats'; and 'The 1st Turkish Messudieh at her moorings in late 1914 and five more Battle Cruiser Squadron', signed 'W.M. Birchall' for 1914 and were sent to the Meditteranean in 1915 where, for lack of 1915 respectively both -- 8Â½ x 12Â½in. (21.5 x 32cm.) with artist'sspares, they were converted by the Italian navy yard at Venice titles in pencil verso and original retail labels (3) ++Unexamined to surface patrol boats (one sinking before completion) and out of frames, fading, dust. were sold at Malta in 1919. ++good overall condition Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 98 Lot: 101 AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING AUTOGRAPHED SILVER A COLLECTION OF UNOFFICIAL-PATTERN R.N. BOAT CIGAR BOX, PRESENTED TO LT.CMDR. F.E.H. FEILMANN BADGES cast in bronze and including Princess Royal (1911);

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Mary Rose (1915); Canterbury (1915); Severn (1914); Carysfort Lot: 108 (1914); Haida (1943); Neptune (1909); Dominion (1903); AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING NAVAL ENSIGN Vernon (1904); Glorious (1916) and St. Vincent (1908); RECOVERED FROM THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER H.M.S. together with an example for the Chatham Dockyard (12) EAGLE PRIOR TO HER SINKING OFF MALTA AS A RESULT Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 OF ENEMY ACTION 11TH AUGUST, 1942 stitched in strips of red, white and blue bunting attached to cotton sleeve with three brass rings -- 108 x 52in. (274 x 132cm.) Provenance: Able Lot: 102 Seaman Hugh Wilson (1920-2001) aboard Eagle during the A COLLECTION OF OFFICIAL-PATTERN R.N. BADGES cast action snatched this souvenir as he abandoned the ship, and in bronze and including Albion (1947); Eastbourne (1955); thence by descent. In August 1942, Eagle was one of four Inconstant (1942); Bee (1924); Recruit (1943); Nelson (1925); aircraft carriers operating in the Mediterranean under command together with an alloy badge for Mariner (1945); an engineer- of Rear-Admiral Lyster and formed part of Operation Pedestal - made plaque for a petty officer's cap badge mounted on circuit the hugely important operation to supply Malta. A fleet of board, the largest -- 7in. (18cm.) diameter (8) seventy-seven vessels guarding fourteen merchantmen had to Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 pass through the Sicilian Narrows in the face of determined opposition from enemy submarines, dive bombers and torpedo boats. Eagle was hit on the 11th August by several torpedoes Lot: 103 and sank quite quickly. Her usual complement of 748 had been A COLLECTION OF OFFICIAL-PATTERN R.N. BADGES cast increased to 930, of these two officers and 161 ratings were in bronze and comprising Vernon (1923); Dolphin (1924); Triad lost. ++Ragged edge, small area of loss top right and bottom (1939); Dainty (1932); Pincher (1943); Constance (1944); right, six or seven small moth holes in red bunting, otherwise Vidette (1918); Norfolk (1928) and Berwick (1926), the largest -- flag in remarkably strong, fresh and original condition. 7in. (18cm.) (9) Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 109 Lot: 104 A 6IN.-GUN TOMPION PLATE FROM H.M.S. AJAX (1934) A COLLECTION OF UNOFFICIAL ROYAL NAVAL BADGES embossed with the Corinthian helmet of a Greek warrior with cast in bronze and including Taurus (1917); Sturgeon (1917); motto inscribed NEC QUISQUAM NISI AJAX ("None but Ajax Renown (1916); Bryony (1917); together with six presently- can overcome Ajax"), rope border with Naval Crown to top and unidentified examples, the largest -- 9in. (23cm.) diameter (10) two thread-holes to the reverse -- 8in. (20.5cm.) diameter In Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 December 1939, three British cruisers - Ajax, Achilles and Exeter, under the command of Commodore Henry Harwood - formed one of various task forces searching the South Atlantic Lot: 105 for the German pocket-battleship Graf Spee which had been preying on the Allied merchant shipping since soon after the WILLIAM JOHN PATTON MCDOWELL (BRITISH, 1888-1950) War began. Harwood believed Graf Spee would be attracted to The King's Ships (H.M.S. Hood in company with destroyers and the busy shipping lanes off the estuary of the River Plate and aircraft) Watercolour heightened with white Signed W. his intuition proved uncannily accurate when he sighted his McDowell (lower left) 12Â½ x 18Â¼in. (32 x 46.5cm.) ++Picture in adversary on 13 December. Splitting his force to sail either side fine overall condition, contained within original mount and frame of Graf Spee, Harwood went into action immediately. Within with artist's title, the mount now starting to fox. Overall framed half an-hour, all three of his cruisers had been damaged, with measurements: 19Â¾ x 27Â¼in. (50.2 x 69.2cm.) Exeter and Ajax so severely mauled that Harwood was forced Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 to retire. Instead of pursuing his quarry when he was in a position either to defeat them or to escape, Captain Langsdorff took Graf Spee into the neutral port of Montevideo where he Lot: 106 was allowed to remain for a few days. Believing that he was The following two lots comprise original artwork from the boxed in by a superior force which was growing by the day, "Encyclopaedia of World Battleships and Battle Cruisers from Langsdorff took his ship out into the Plate estuary on 17 1860 to the Present Day" by A.F. Gibbons published by December and scuttled her. A somewhat hollow victory for the Salamander Books in 1982 A.F. GIBBONS (BRITISH, 20TH- Royal Navy, the three cruisers had nevertheless fought valiantly CENTURY) Original artwork for British vessels comprising: against a much more powerful enemy whose sinking provided a Illustrious, Furious and Cossack Watercolour laid on board, cut sorely-needed boost to British morale as the War gathered out and mounted, framed and glazed The largest -- 27Â¾ x 36Â½in.momentum. Ajax was decomissioned in February 1948 and (70.5 x 93cm.) (4) Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, broken at Newport November 1949. ++Despite being 2nd November 1995 unpolished at present, crown and inscriptions show signs of Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 wear from routine polishing. Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 107 A.F. GIBBONS (BRITISH, 20TH-CENTURY) Original artwork Lot: 110 for German Vessels comprising: Admiral Graf Spee; Seydlitz; A GANGWAY LIFEBUOY FOR THE SURVEY SHIP H.M.S. KÃ¶nig; Scharnhorst & Gneisenau and a Schnellboot HECLA painted in white with ship's name and crest and Watercolour laid on board, cut out and mounted, framed and mounted on a cruciform display stand with ship's crest applied glazed The largest -- 25Â½ x 42Â½in. (65 x 108cm.) (5) to centre -- 57 x 30in. (145 x 76cm.); together with a loose Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 2nd November 1995 lifebuoy of similar pattern (2) ++Scuffs and abrasions evident; Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 some paint loose to each over left-hand painted badge.

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Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 unrestored condition with minor perishing to the edges of the rubber caps; optically fine condition. Estimate: £900.00 - £1,100.00 Lot: 111 A RUM BARREL BELIEVED TO BE FROM H.M.S. EXETER of typical form, with red-painted iron hoops, the top inscribed both Lot: 117 sides H.M.S. EXETER together with a later label claiming Battle A PAIR OF ADMIRALTY PATTERN BRIDGE BINOCULARS of Jutland provenance -- 25Â½in. (65cm.) high H.M.S. Exeter BY ROSS LONDON, CIRCA 1938 with 3in. diameter objective most famously fought at the Battle of the River Plate in lenses, brass spray cuffs, tapering black textured tubes with September 1939 where, in company with Ajax and Achilles, broad arrow mark, prismatic stage with filters, brass indicator they presided over the destruction of the German packet ship for width adjustment, stamped with maker's name on back plate Admiral Graf Spee. However, there is no record of an Exeter and inscribed power 10 field 59 -- 13Â½in. (34.5cm.) long ++In serving at the Jutland. ++Red paint now greatly worn away; good optical and mechanical condition; brass cuffs have lost upper and lower securing hoops loose. their lacquer; one or two small areas of chipping to paint work. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 112 Lot: 118 A SCREEN BADGE FROM H.M. DESTROYER VOLAGE A SET OF D-DAY LANDING INTELLIGENCE BLACK AND (1941) cast in brass and secured to a wooden mount -- 17Â½in. WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FRENCH COAST (44.5cm.) high comprising twenty-one conjoined 8 x 11in. plates, each in turn Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 representing three to four annotated images showing landmarks, contained within cloth-bound covers and typewritten label inscribed FRANCE NORTH COAST Admiralty Charts: Lot: 113 2613,F.1016.G.S.G.S.4250 Sheet 7F/2. Coastal silhouette from WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE/CAPTAIN R.A. HOPWOOD: AN VAUX (945863) to 803675 taken at zero feet and at right ILLUSTRATED POEM in four plates, the first entitled 'Our angles to the coast: distance off-shore about 1,000 to 1,500 Fathers / to the Memory of the nameless Killed and Wounded,' yards... and dated March 1944 to accompany Chartlet F.1016A. each plate signed in pencil 'W.L. Wyllie' (lower left), plate size -- -- approximately 6 metres in total ++Cloth covers a little spotted 13 x 8Â½in. (33 x 21.5cm.) framed and glazed (4) ++Unexamined with mildew, photo edges generally good but bear guillotine out of frames, discolouration around mounts, framed size 17Â¾ x marks along top edge, joints appear strong but are a little 13Â½in. (45 x 34.3cm.) rubbed. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00

Lot: 114 Lot: 120 AN UNOFFICIAL-PATTERN R.N. BADGE FROM H.M.S. AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING WATERLINE CONCEPT LONDON (1899, CONVERTED 1918) cast in bronze and MODEL BY JOHN BROWN & CO. FOR THE 'Q3' PROJECT, mounted on wood -- 8in. (20cm.) diameter; together with LATTERLY THE QE2, CIRCA 1961 with laminated and carved nineteen painted alloy official-pattern examples (20) hull, painted in Cunard livery of black, red below the waterline, Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 white superstructure with lavender grey decks, simplified fittings including carved lifeboats in davits, two carved funnels and applied paper windows set on a painted waterline display base with maker's label inscribed MODEL BY CHARLES N Lot: 115 LONGBOTOM LONDON within associated period case with A RARE PAIR OF 7 X 50 ZEISS U-BOAT BINOCULARS with hinged end panel and silvered plaque engraved Q3 Cunard crackle-finish green tubes, rubber end caps and backplate (later) -- overall measurements 11Â½ x 43Â½ x 10Â¼in. (29 x 110.5 x covers, impressed 7 X 50 54214 blc, complete with Bakelite 26cm.) As Cunard's great-but-ageing Queen Elizabeth and 'Benutzer' eye-piece plate -- 8in. (20cm.) high Three-letter Queen Mary approached retirement, plans were set in hand to factory codes for German optical instruments were introduced organise their replacement. The "Q3" project was initiated in in 1940, in an attempt to hide the names of the factory still in December 1960 when Cunard's Chairman, Sir John production from the Allies. blc is registered as equating to Carl Brocklebank, invited six builders to suggest tenders. The Zeiss Militarabteilung, Jena, Germany. ++In original and original idea was to replace the two retiring liners with one unrestored condition with minor perishing to the edges of the superliner and the model offered here represents John Brown's rubber caps; optically fine condition. offering. However, with the emergence of cheap transatlantic Estimate: £900.00 - £1,100.00 flights, it soon became apparent that the age of massive liners was at an end and the project was shelved in October 1961. Much had been learnt and, out of the ashes of the "Q3" project Lot: 116 was born the "Q4" project in August 1964 with builders now A RARE PAIR OF 7 X 50 ZEISS U-BOAT BINOCULARS with instructed to design a smaller, faster, more versatile and "top crackle-finish green tubes, rubber end caps and backplate flight" cruise ship - a project that was ultimately won by John covers, impressed 7 X 50 47749 blc, complete with Bakelite Brown and which became the famous QE2 - many of whose 'Benutzer' eye-piece plate -- 8in. (20cm.) high Three-letter design attributes are recognisable from this rare model, such as factory codes for German optical instruments were introduced her iconic bow, funnel and superstructure. ++Model appears to in 1940, in an attempt to hide the names of the factory still in be in largely original condition overall, with some craquelure to production from the Allies. blc is registered as equating to Carl the paintwork, notably the funnels and along some of the Zeiss Militarabteilung, Jena, Germany. ++In original and lamination joints around bridge; one or two areas of paint loss

12 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com on metal fittings; the white has mellowed and is slightly dusty tragedy. Released from trooping duties in 1946, she was overall, but structurally appears to be in good overall condition. reconditioned and resumed her peacetime sailings in July 1947. Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Showing her age under growing competition from air travel, she was finally retired in 1967 and sold to the city of Long Beach, California, for $3,450,000. Arriving there on 9th December Lot: 121 1967, she was given a permanent mooring and converted into a A GANGWAY LIFEBUOY FOR R.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH of floating hotel after 31 years of service at sea during which she typical form, the white-painted canvas covering with Cunard steamed 3,795,000 miles and carried 2,115,000 fare-paying emblems flanking inscription and grab ropes to edge -- 30in. passengers. (76cm.) diameter R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth was designed as the Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 running mate for Cunard's extremely successful Queen Mary but was not ready for sea by the time the Second World War began in September 1939. Laid down in John Brown's yards on Lot: 123 Clydebank in December 1936, her huge hull - weighing 40,000 A TRAVEL AGENT'S PRESSED TIN PRINTED SIGN, THE tons - was launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (wife of CUNARD LINE, CIRCA 1920 depicting AQUITANIA under way, King George VI) in September 1938, although her completion signed Burns lower left, within simulated wooden frame with was delayed by the worsening international situation. Sent Cunard banner title -- overall measurements 31 x 41in. (79 x secretly to New York when almost finished in March 1940, she 104cm.) ++Surface dirt, some mild spotting to image; frame has was laid up there for eight months and then sent to Singapore some scratches, marks and scuffs; image remains surprisingly where she was converted into a troopship. After a distinguished intact for an example of this age and fragility. wartime career, she returned to Southampton in June 1946 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 where she finally received the luxurious fittings and furniture which had been stored throughout the War pending her return. Sailing from Southampton on her maiden commercial voyage in Lot: 124 October 1946, she was soon joined by the reconditioned A 25 FOOT:1 IN. WATERLINE MODEL OF THE UNION Queen Mary and together they began a spectacularly profitable CASTLE LINER HAWARDEN CASTLE [1883] modelled by North Atlantic service which lasted for fifteen years. Only then R.A. Wilson, with laminated carved and paper-plated hull did airline popularity affect profits and she was eventually finished in lavender grey, planked decks and superstructure withdrawn from passenger operations in October 1968. An with fittings including davits, capstan, deck lights, American venture to preserve her in Florida came to nothing companionways, deck rails, ventilators etc., stayed funnel with and, in 1970, she was sold to the Taiwanese shipping tycoon safety valve extension pipes and whistle, rigged masts with suit C.Y. Tung who planned to turn her into a floating university. In of lined paper sails, mounted in a painted moulded sea within January 1972, whilst undergoing conversion for her new role in glazed wooden case with title -- overall measurements 8Â¼ x 21 x Hong Kong, she mysteriously caught fire under still unexplained 6Â¾in. (21 x 53 x 17cm.) ++Overall condition is good; the aft circumstances, capsized due to the weight of water pumped standing rigging appears a little slack and one section of aft into her by fireboats and became a total loss. deck rail approx. 1in. is folded out of position; glass cover is Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 loose. Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Lot: 122 The following two lots were given to the vendor by the Master of Lot: 125 Arms when he was present at the Farewell Balls for both liners R. ANGELL (BRITISH 20TH-CENTURY) R.M.S. Titanic in Southampton. A GANGWAY LIFEBUOY FOR R.M.S. underway Oil on panel Signed 'R. Angell 1912' (lower right) with QUEEN MARY of typical form, the white-painted canvas strengthened repeat under 30Â½ x 56Â¼in. (77.5 x 143cm.) covering with Cunard emblems flanking inscription and grab ++Varnish now yellowing. Area of heat damage around fourth ropes to edge -- 30in. (76cm.) diameter R.M.S. Queen Mary, funnel. Craquelure throughout. arguably the best-loved of all the great Atlantic liners, was Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 conceived as Cunard's answer to their competitors' attempts to topple them from their domination of the profitable North Atlantic passenger trade. Laid down on Clydebank in 1930, building work was suspended from December 1931-April 1934 Lot: 126 A TRAVEL AGENT'S WATERLINE STATIC DISPLAY MODEL due to the economic depression, but she was launched by Her FOR THE UNION-CASTLE LINER KENYA CASTLE BY Majesty Queen Mary on 16th September 1934. Completed in BASSETT-LOWKE LTD. the carved hull finished in lavender April 1936, she was the largest vessel in the world at 81,234 grey with white topsides, lined paper decks with wood and tons gross and measured 1,020 feet in length with a 119 foot metal fittings, rigged masts, superstructure with ten lifeboats in beam. With sumptuous 'art deco' accommodation for 1,995 davits, funnel, radio aerial, engine room lights, wood-capped passengers in three classes, her maiden voyage from deck rails, swimming pool, etc., mounted on a plain blue base Southampton to New York in late May 1936 was a huge with maker's label in gold-finished temple case, with Perspex success and she captured the Blue Riband from Normandie on panels inscribed UNION-CASTLE LINE...BIG SHIP WAY TO her sixth crossing that August. Commissioned as a troop AFRICA -- 11 x 29 x 6Â¼in. (28 x 74 x 16cm.) ++Model in transport in March 1940, she spent the War ferrying just over excellent overall condition, some paint chips to edge of case. 800,000 troops across the globe wherever they were needed. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Although never attacked herself, she was involved in a celebrated incident in October 1942 when she rammed one of her escort vessels, the British cruiser H.M.S. Curacao, with Queen Mary going at full speed, the force of the impact sliced Lot: 127 Curacao clean in half and 338 of her crew were drowned in the A TRAVEL AGENT'S DISPLAY WATERLINE STATIC MODEL

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FOR THE CUNARD LINERS SYLVANIA AND CARINTHIA BY Lot: 132 BASSETT-LOWKE LTD. the carved hull finished in red below A FLEET LEDGER FOR THE BRITISH INDIA STEAM the waterline, black with white topsides, simple fittings including NAVIGATION CO. LTD., CIRCA 1930 with manuscript entries derricks, superstructure with pierced windows and twelve listing details for approximately 115 vessels entered covered lifeboats in davits, with crow's nest etc., mounted on a alphabetically, 23 of them with additional handwritten reports, plain blue base within gold-finished temple case glazed with contained within heavy leather removable covers, the front Perspex, with red-filled Perspex titles to both sides inscribed embossed R.W. O'BEIRNE B.I.S.N. CO. LTD. --14Â½ x 20in. (37 CUNARD 22,000-TON LINERS TO U.S.A. AND CANADA x 51cm.) ++Covers spotted with some white paint; contents SYLVANIA-CARINTHIA, maker's plate to end panel -- overall remain in good condition throughout; pages slightly yellowed measurements 8Â¾ x 24 x 5in. (22 x 61 x 12.7cm.) ++Fine overall with age; overall condition is strong. condition; some chipping to edge of case paint. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 133 Lot: 128 WHITE STAR LINE: A PAIR OF OFFICER'S BRIDGE THE UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY: AN ILLUMINATED BINOCULARS FROM THE R.M.S. MEGANTIC, CIRCA 1910 PRESENTATION ALBUM comprising eight 6 x 8Â½in. panels the 2in. objective lenses with leather-covered tubes, inscribed inscribed and decorated in gold ink and watercolour, including on the draw SS MEGANTIC, with knot work lanyard and four watercolours of company ships and presented to Charles original plush-lined leather case -- cased measurements 5Â½in. Du Sautoy in May 1897, the end page signed and inscribed (14cm.) diameter The S.S. Megantic was the vessel that Designed and illuminated by John J. Leach South Kensington returned the infamous murderer Dr. Crippen back to England in Medallist, & c Southampton, bound between heavy pressed 1910 to face justice and execution for the murder of his wife. He leather covers with gilt embossed and monogrammed lock plate had fled to Canada aboard the S.S. Montrose when the -- overall measurements 9 x 12in. (23 x 30.5cm.) ++Some Captain, suspecting he was harbouring the fugitives, wired the spotting and foxing to card pages throughout; leather covers British authorities. Chief Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard caught scuffed and rubbed; spine re-attached. a faster vessel, the Megantic's sister, Laurentic, and boarding Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Megantic disguised as a pilot, arrested Crippen and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve. ++Optically in good working order; overall condition strong; some areas of rubbing where Lot: 129 binoculars have been held underneath spray cuffs and leather A PRESENTATION ALBUM COMMEMORATING THE securing strap on case has parted. LAUNCH OF THE T.S.S. ANDANIA comprising 16 gilt-edged Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 card pages with annotated black and white photographs detailing construction, fitting and launch, including full page views of internal saloons, bound between red morocco covers Lot: 134 with gilt titles -- 11 x 16Â½in. (28 x 42cm.) ++Fine overall A BELL BELIEVED TO BE FROM THE S.S. GREAT EASTERN condition internally, with no evidence of foxing etc.; images all un-named, cast in brass with moulded rim and shoulder, staple appear to be in fresh and untouched state; the cover has a little for clapper (missing) and suspension ring -- 10 x 12Â½in. (25.5 x rubbing to the corners but is also in good condition for age. 31.7cm.) on a wall-mounted oak frame with brass plaque Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 engraved BELL OF THE GREAT EASTERN -- 54 x 12in. (137 x 30.5cm.); photocopy of cover and page from 1888 sales catalogue; letter confirming provenance Provenance: Believed Lot: 130 sold by Messrs Dixon & Moore of Liverpool at the Great FREDERICK R. FITZGERALD, BRITISH (1897-1939) an Orient Eastern dispersal sale of 20th-22nd November 1888 and Line menu card from the S.S. Orion dated 4th July 1939, with purchased by James C. Farrie, great-grandfather of the vendor. litho printed cover depicting S.S. Garonne in 1889 to top, the In 1957 it was inherited by the vendor's mother and, from 1977- lower half with watercolour entitled S.S. Orion in the Fjords 2012, was on loan to the Great Britain Museum, Bristol. In 1888 1939 Fred.R. Fitzgerald -- 8 x 5Â½in. (20.3 x 14cm.); together with James C. Farrie and his son James C. Farrie Jr. were cotton a perpetual calendar with ink and watercolour decoration, brokers living and working in Liverpool and are thought to have thought to be in the same hand -- 9 x 7Â¾in. (23 x 19.7cm.) (2) bought this bell as a souvenir. It is believed that the Great ++Menu stained at top right corner and lower right corner, but Eastern had two or even three bells and that this unmarked does not affect image. Perpetual calendar - the borders foxed, example was possibly located on one of the mid-ship masts. images appear in fair condition, the lower one with two or three Her named maker's bell was recently re-discovered and resides areas of minor rubbing. in the Liverpool Maritime Museum. Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 131 Lot: 135 P & O BOAT BADGES cast in bronze for R.M. Ships AN OAK BOX MADE FROM TIMBERS OF THE GREAT Macedonia (1903) and Maloja (1923); a painted Orient Steam EASTERN of plain form with simple dovetailed joints and Navigation Co. badge; a sailor-made badge for H.M.S. Laconia silvered plaque to lid inscribed SS GT. EASTERN B.M.P., plush- (1939) and a badge, possibly from the Woolwich free ferry, lined interior with lock and associated contents including letters, bearing the arms of Woolwich (4) lace and papers (later) -- overall measurements 5Â¾ x 15 x 8in. Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 (14.5 x 38 x 20.3cm.) ++One hinge detached; ring mark to lid; plush-lining detached from inside lid; key missing. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00

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Lot: 136 Ã˜ A WOODEN CHEST OF SAILMAKER'S TOOLS AND William Minshall Birchall (AMERICAN, 1884-1941) A panorama ACCESSORIES comprising ten lignum vitae serving mallets, of Liverpool Harbour with torpedo boats and the White Star six lignum vitae fids, with two more in oak and fruitwood, three Liner 'Adriatic' getting up steam with the Royal Liver Building lignum vitae deadeyes, a pair of oak and steel dividers, two beyond Watercolour heightened with white Signed and leather palm-protectors, a net repair tool, two steel fids and a inscribed 'W.M. Birchall 1915 "Under War Conditions"' (lower caulking mallet, largely contained within a metal-bound oak tool left); with original retail label for R. Jackson & Sons, Liverpool chest with drop handles, retailed by the Army & Navy, stencilled dated 17th November 1915 on verso 8Â¾ x 22in. (22 x 56cm.) inside lid Army & Navy -- chest measurements 7 x 20 x 10Â½in. ++Some fading and paper discolouration. Unexamined out of (18 x 51 x 27cm.) ++Contents: showing signs of usage and frame. Frame chipped to edges. Framed size 10Â¾ x 24in. (27.3 x wear, as appropriate for age; overall condition is fine with 61cm.) typical signs of wear and usage, some serving mallets with very Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 worn heads, one fid tip chipped. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 138 A MID 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S WOOLWORK PICTURE Lot: 143 depicting a two-deck man o' war flying the Royal Standard and TWO SMALL BERMUDAN SAILORWORK VALENTINES each dressed overall -- 14Â½ x 19Â½in. (37 x 49.5cm.). Framed and of typical geometric design, coloured shells, one example glazed ++Good overall condition for age, with strong spelling "TRUE LOVE", contained within octagonal glazed colouration present. Moth damage apparent in two small areas cases -- 8Â¼in. (21cm.) diameter (2) ++Two sections of rope of sea and sky. Rigging appears intact and unharmed. beading missing from 'True Love', and one section from the Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 other; glass probably replaced; these may once have been hinged together. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 139 A RARE TREEN CARVED SAILORWORK SHAVING BOX the lid carved in relief and depicting a 19th-Century Jack Tar in a Lot: 144 top hat, planking naval symbols with stylised Britannia and the A MID-19TH CENTURY SAILOR'S WOOLWORK PICTURE national emblems of Scotland and England in the corner, thistle with ship's profile picture entitled H.M.S. Rapid depicted and rose, the fitted interior including pewter soap dish inscribed between laurels, surrounded by the flags of all nations -- 11Â½ x on the underside JAMES BROWN ARBROATH 1826 and 14Â½in. (29 x 37cm.). Framed and glazed ++Strong original depicting the profile of a two-masted warship and a thistle, colours, some dust and dirt, one or two small holes recesses for razor, brush etc., and two bone knives -- 10Â¼in. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 (26cm.) wide ++Lid a little faded, otherwise in good overall condition. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 145 Ã˜ A FINE MID 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH decorated on both sides, the vertical with a Lot: 140 profile of a British warship; the horizontal depicting a British AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING, EARLY 19TH-CENTURY whaler and boats harpooning whales, the root with foliate BUGBEAR COCONUT COMMEMORATING H.M.S. SPEEDY border -- 8in. (20.3cm.), 884g. ++Appears to be in excellent attractively carved and polished overall, with profile of a two- condition, with a pleasant mellowing of the surface and very masted brig flying Royal Navy ensign inscribed BRIG JOHN little evidence of splitting around the root, and no chips to tip. AND ELIZABETH CULLEN BLESS BE THE WISDOM AND Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 THE POWER THE JUSTICE AND THE GRACE OF GOD, one end hollowed with sealing wax-filled eyes and open mouth -- 4in. (10cm.) overall Speedy's most celebrated commander was Lot: 146 Thomas Cochrane who famously captured the hugely-superior Ã˜ A LATE 19TH-CENTURY PAIR OF INUIT CARVED Spanish Gamo in 1801 using a series of ruses and bravado; WHALE'S TEETH carved in relief over one side and depicting both Speedy and Cochrane provided Patrick O'Brian with penguins, with red-filled eyes, and icebergs behind -- 5in. templates for Master and Commander which repeats several (12.7cm.) high, 780g. (combined) (2) ++Typical shrinkage real-life exploits. ++Condition overall is very good; sealing wax cracks near tip, otherwise fine overall condition, with both teeth now remnant within sockets. mellowed to a pleasant hue. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00

Lot: 141 Lot: 147 AN ATTRACTIVE 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK NEEDLE Ã˜ AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY INUIT CARVED WHALE'S CASE IN THE FORM OF A FISH carved from yellow pine and TOOTH carved over one side with relief of a penguin looking realistically modelled with scales, fins, gills, tail etc., open skyward, the head, back and wings coloured in black ink, mouth to hollow recess, finished in light green paint with mounted on an oval section of insulation board -- 5in. (13cm.) shaded detail -- 11Â¼in. (28.5cm.) ++Overall condition very good; high ++Two or three small shrinkage splits to tip and root, some areas of rubbing to the paint but has kept most of its otherwise in good overall condition. original finish and now retains an attractive mellow hue. Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 142

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Lot: 148 Lot: 154 Ã˜ A FINE 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE AND MARINE IVORY WHALE'S TOOTH DEPICTING THE BATTLE OF NAVARINO WALKING STICK with plain tapering shaft, rosewood cuff and inscribed over both sides and depicting ships firing broadsides marine ivory geometric knob handle -- 34Â¾in. (88.3cm.) high amidst billows of smoke, with red and blue ink highlighting, ++Mile warp to shaft, otherwise fine overall condition. inscribed underneath Th. Adl., ASIA, Ad. Cod:, EN.Ad. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 (NAVARIN); the reverse depicting a ship sailing in a heavy swell and entitled Storm at sea -- 8in. (20.3cm.), 650g. ++Find condition overall; shrinkage cracks to root extending 1Â½in. on Lot: 155 both sides. Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE, ROSEWOOD AND Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 MARINE IVORY WALKING STICK the tapering and fluted shaft terminating with L-shaped handle inset with contrasting rosewood bands -- 35Â½in. (90cm.) high ++Good overall Lot: 149 condition, with wear commensurate with age. Ã˜ THREE SMALL 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW- Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 DECORATED WHALES' TEETH inscribed in the round with subjects including a whaler and Queen Victoria's head, a songbird and young lady's head, and a whale being harpooned Lot: 156 with an anchor inscribed THE KILL -- the largest 4in. (10cm.), Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE AND MARINE IVORY combined weight 180g. (3) ++Victoria: tip appears to be WALKING STICK with plain to fluted shaft, ebony cuff and reattached. Songbird: chip to tip. The Kill: crack, and sliver fluted marine ivory knob handle -- 35Â½in. (90cm.) high ++Shaft missing towards tip. has a mild warp; overall condition is strong, with typical marks Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 commensurate with age; both shaft and handle have aged to a pleasing mellow hue. Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 150 Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED MARINE BONE AND IVORY STANDISH comprising a 6in. whale's tooth Lot: 157 incised over one side with the profile of a warship, secured to Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE AND MARINE IVORY ham bone section base similarly engraved and with pen rest WALKING STICK the tapering shaft carved with contrasting and threaded pots attached -- overall dimensions 6Â¾ x 9 x 6Â½in.twist-barley design, white metal cuff with wriggle work (17 x 23 x 16.5cm.) ++Tooth with two or three typical small decoration and plain bone knob handle -- 35Â½in. (90cm.) high shrinkage splits near tip; ham bone base with two or three ++Mild warp to shaft; typical shrinkage cracks to handle. minor shrinkage splits to edges; right hand pot thread Estimate: £550.00 - £650.00 loose/defective. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 158 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH Lot: 151 PRISONER-OF-WAR MAGHOGANY AND STRAW WORK Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE, BALEEN AND MARINE BOX the plain polished exterior fitted with hinged lid and drop- IVORY WALKING STICK the shaft carved overall with front with straw work-covered drawers with carved bone contrasting patterns including twist-barley fluting, diamond and handles, compartments and mirrors, overall measurements -- herringbone, baleen cuff and segmented knob handle -- 32Â½in. 12Â½ x 14Â½ x 10in. (32 x 37 x 25.5cm.) closed Probably the result (82.5cm.) high ++Cane possibly lengthened or repaired of a private commission - the box appearing to be a good approximately 5in. from tip, where slightly different bone colour quality example, converted and lined by the prisoners. It is is evident in two sections. known commissions were undertaken - the Governor of Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Norman Cross near Peterborough had his telescope covered and it remains on display in the town's museum. ++typical wear and fading associated with this type of artefact, with stronger Lot: 152 colouring inside draws, several old worm holes to front, mirrors Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY WHALEBONE AND MARINE IVORY oxidised, drop front with shrinkage crack top left, the lid with WALKING STICK the shaft carved with twist-barley design to two/three scratches. baleen cuff and fluted marine ivory handle -- 37in. (94cm.) high Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 ++Mild warp to shaft; section of handle missing. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 159 A LARGE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH Lot: 153 PRISONER-OF-WAR STRAW WORK COVERED LADY'S Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY MAHOGANY AND MARINE IVORY WORK BOX with dome top lid and drop front revealing fitted WALKING STICK with plain tapering shaft, with handle in the interior with drawers and lidded compartments, pin cushion, form of a lady's stockinged foot wearing a boot with inset mirror in lid and lower mirrored keepsake recess -- overall baleen polka dot stocking and boot lace holes -- 36Â½in. measurements 11 x 14 x 9Â½in. (28 x 35.5 x 24cm.) ++External (92.5cm.) high ++Good overall condition; 1Â½in. split in wood straw with typical loss of colour and small losses towards handle, which has two or three shrinkage cracks commensurate with age; internal condition - some mild warping commensurate with age. to compartment lids; present keepsake associated; later Estimate: £450.00 - £550.00 retaining ribbons for lid and drop front.

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Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 arms and head of the character; the windmill appears disconnected. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 160 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR STRAW WORK TRINKET BOX the lid Lot: 165 decorated with a port side marine scene, with fitted interior and A 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK SCRIMSHAW- mirror in lid -- 8Â¼ x 5Â½in. (21 x 14cm.); together with prisoner DECORATED BONE PLAQUE probably beef, worked over work carved bone snuff box, the lid carved with left-facing single side depicting a three-masted ship at anchor and profile bust of the goddess Athena, back carved with a fouled initialled GP, top is bored for hanging -- 5Â½ x 8Â¼in. (14 x 21cm.) anchor -- 3Â¼in. (8.4cm.) diameter (2) ++Box: externally retains ++Structurally in good overall condition; bone marked and colouration; old losses and wear; brightly coloured interior; yellowed with age. some losses to edges of compartment lids; mirror slightly Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 oxidised. Snuff box: right end panel replaced. Estimate: £250.00 - £300.00 Lot: 166 Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S Lot: 161 TOOTH incised over one side with the profile of a sperm whale SIX QUILL AND FEATHER MINIATURE CHAIRS, THOUGHT spouting water -- 5Â¾in. (14.5cm.) ++Small chip and crack TO BE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH extending along back edge from root for Â½in.; some minor rub PRISONER-OF-WAR WORK delicately constructed as in full marks at tip, otherwise fine overall condition. size work practice with pinned components and woven feather Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 seat, comprising two carvers and four chairs -- the largest 2Â½ x 1Â¼ x 1in. (6.5 x 3 x 2.5cm.) (6) ++Whilst obviously extremely fragile, these chairs are in good overall condition; one of the Lot: 167 four (unarmed) chairs' seats is loose/untucked and the quill A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED work is generally yellow and dirty, commensurate with age. WHALE'S TOOTH incised over one side and depicting Neptune Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 in a shell 'chariot' drawn by mer-horses -- 5in. (13cm.) 242g. ++Some typical shrinkage cracks around root edge and tip. Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 162 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR CARVED BONE FOLDING KNIFE Lot: 168 POCKET COMPENDIUM with shaped and decorated sides, Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK WALRUS IVORY FID of containing six hinged tools consisting of four blades, one fork typical tapering form, drilled with two holes for suspension loop, and a pricker -- closed measurements 2Â½in. (6.5cm.) terminating in a shaped end -- 12in. (30.5cm.); together with ++Although dirty, mechanically and structurally in good two others, smaller (3) ++Typical hairline cracks, condition throughout. commensurate with age; structurally in good condition. Smaller Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 examples in good overall condition. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 163 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC Lot: 169 PRISONER-OF-WAR CARVED BONE SNUFF BOX with Ã˜ A FINE 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK WHALEBONE hinged lid, carved with ribbed and diamond design -- 3Â¼in. SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED SEAM RUBBER incised over both (8.3cm.) diameter; together with a bone character of a high sides and inscribed May 1819 PERU, the reverse with lovers' priest standing atop a plinth -- 5Â½in. (14cm.) high; and a carved heart within Star of David and a fouled anchor over initials WS, bone double-ended seal (3) ++Snuff box in good condition. with shaped sides and curved top -- 5Â¾in. (14.5cm.) high Carved character has evidence of glue to back, suggesting he ++Typical scuffs and marks commensurate with age, but in has been re-attached to his pedestal. This appears to have strong overall condition, retaining a pleasant mellowed hue. formed part of a larger object originally. Seal - Overall condition Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 is strong. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 170 Ã˜ A 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK WHALEBONE SEAM Lot: 164 RUBBER heavily constructed, with shaped handle and shaft AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH etched with simple lining and diamond pattern -- 5in. (13cm.) PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE 'SPINNING JENNY' of typical high ++Wear commensurate with usage, pleasant mellowed form, constructed of two platforms: the lower comprising crank hew with ingrained dirt etc. in crevices. handle and geared mechanism, and upper platform to drive a Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 spinning wheel, a single character automaton and a miniature windmill, supported on bone pedestal base within glazed dome cover (later) -- the model 6in. (15cm.) high; dome 9in. (23cm.) high ++Some possible restoration including replaced vertical Lot: 171 Ã˜ A FINELY-CARVED 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK support; model appears complete; the mechanism is a little stiff MARINE IVORY SEAM RUBBER probably carved from whale's and has not been forced; there is reciprocal movement to the tooth, the head in the form of a partially opened book, with

17 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com fluted handle terminating in a Turk's head knot -- 4 2/8in. black flowing hair, scroll sides and acanthus leaf support, (10.5cm.) ++Fine overall condition with attractive mellow hue. mounted on a wooden display base with engraved brass plaque Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 inscribed ENIDE figurehead from French cutter 1860-1905 mounted for - Captain J. FRANKS -- overall height 52in. (132cm.) ++Repainted overall; appears structurally sound. Lot: 172 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Ã˜ A RARE 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK WHALE'S TOOTH CORKSCREW carved in relief on both sides with profiles of sperm whale and the right whale, the top inscribed GREASY Lot: 178 LUCK, with steel corkscrew and root with wooden cap A BUST-LENGTH MERCHANTMAN'S FIGUREHEAD, CIRCA containing brush -- 5Â¾in. (14.5cm.) diameter overall including 1840 carved from the solid and depicting a gentleman wearing brush ++Good overall condition; dust in all crevices of wooden overcoat, waistcoat, high collar and stock, with cropped hair cap; brush in fragile condition. and mutton-chop whiskers, refinished in white paint -- 22in. Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 (56cm.) high ++Several areas of shrinkage cracks; typical of age; has the appearance of being kept outside for some time; some remnants of grey paint evident; this figurehead must have Lot: 173 been stripped and refinished many years ago as paint is now A 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK BONE PIE CRIMPER the starting to wear. shaped shaft terminating in double and single wheels of Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 different cutting edges -- 6Â½in. (16.5cm.) diameter ++Overall condition appears to be good, with little sign of wear. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 179 A RARE PAIR OF 17TH/18TH-CENTURY CARYATID CARVED LIMEWOOD FIGURES carved from two laminated Lot: 175 and pinned sections, the upper part depicting male and female Ã˜ AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND LARGE NARWHAL characters in finely realised Nordic-style costume, each (MONODON MONOCEROS) TUSK, PRESENTED TO supporting a scrolled top, acanthus supporting bases, now CORNELIUS FUDGE, 1881 of typical barley-twist form, secured to ebonised plinths (evidence of some original paint polished overall and of mellow butterscotch hue -- 98Â¾in. and marine crustaceans) -- each 42in. (106.5cm.) excluding (251cm.) high, mounted on a later recessed slate base through 11in. (28cm.) plinth felt-lined lignum vitÃ¦ spool bearing Government marks and with Estimate: £7,000.00 - £9,000.00 silvered plaque engraved PRESENTED TO CORNELIUS FUDGE, MASTER AT ARMS / BY HIS MESSMATES, AS A MARK OF RESPECT & ESTEEM / ON HIS LEAVING H.M.S. Lot: 180 "LONDON" AT ZANZIBAR / TO RETIRE FROM THE A LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH-CENTURY CONTINENTAL SERVICE. SEPTEMBER, 1881, overall height including base TRADE SIGN/CARVING in the form of a soldier or marine 101Â¾in. (258.5cm.) This Officer joined the Marines in 1873 and ramming a musket, gessoed and painted overall, standing on a served mainly aboard the Duke of Wellington with shorter plinth base -- 28in (71cm.) ++Evidence of woodworm to right stretches aboard Sultan and Thunderer. He joined the London leg and front; areas of wear to paint and gesso; fingers chipped on 1st September 1880 and left almost exactly a year later on on both hands; old screw holes in base. 7th September 1881 to serve one last year aboard the Duke of Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Wellington before retiring on 13th January 1882. In modern times his name has become more famously associated with the Harry Potter stories in which the Minister for Magic has the Lot: 181 same name - although probably a coincidence, it is pleasing to The loss of the East Indiaman Kent, 1825, bronze medal, by T. note that in former times narwhal tusks were believed to retain Halliday, obv. the Kent ablaze at sea, rev. 13-line inscription magical powers associated with unicorns. ++fine original giving details, 48mm. diam. (Eimer 1178), contained in original condition throughout. Comes with an Article 10 certificate. tinned 'shells' engraved with a name, presumably that of the Estimate: £15,000.00 - £20,000.00 recipient of the medal, scarce; together with an obverse bronze clichÃ© of the Chinese Junk Keying medal, 1848, 44mm. (Eimer 1425), in original box of issue; a small gilt medal celebrating Lot: 176 Captain Kane's achievement in saving H.M.S. Calliope 16th A 19TH-CENTURY CAST IRON NAVAL-THEMED STICK March 1889, rare; and a white metal medal for the adoption of STAND comprising a Jack Tar holding a cast rope stick the S.S. Maine as a hospital ship, 1899, 45mm. (Eimer 1831), retainer, standing on capstan over nautical symbols including generally good condition, an interesting group (4) Reference: anchors, chain, paddle etc., removable drip tray with acanthus British Commemorative Medals, C. Eimer, 2nd edition, 2010: leaf border -- 27Â½in. (70cm.) high ++In unrestored condition; The loss of the Kent was one of the most notable sea disasters retains elements of original painted surface to sailor's face, of its time; the Keying, the first Chinese junk to venture into anchor stock and drip tray; appears to be structurally in sound European waters, amazed Londoners when she appeared in overall condition. the Thames in March 1848; Captain Kane achieved great fame Estimate: £450.00 - £550.00 when he saved H.M.S. Calliope by taking her out of the seemingly safe harbour at Apia, Samoa, in the teeth of a severe typhoon; and Lady Randolph Churchill was responsible for the Lot: 177 fitting out of the Maine as a hospital ship during the Boer War, A 19TH-CENTURY MERCHANT FIGUREHEAD OF THE possibly as a result of her son Winston's exploits in the conflict. FRENCH CUTTER ENIDE depicted in bust-length form with Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

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Lot: 182 bracket -- 13in. (33cm.) high ++Unmarked; one possible AN EARLY 18TH-CENTURY HORN SNUFF BOX replaced globe retaining screw bracket; overall flaking and COMMEMORATING SIR FRANCIS DRAKE AND THE spotting to candle chamber. SPANISH ARMADA possibly by John Obrsuett, of oval form, Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 the lid pressed and polychromed with armorial device depicting Drake sailing towards the Armada, helmet and shield with motto SIC MAGNA PARUIS with notes about Drake family pasted Lot: 190 inside lid -- 4in. (10cm.) high ++Structurally fine overall A MARINE-THEMED GEORGE II PRESENTATION SILVER condition; polychrome probably refreshed. TANKARD by William Shaw & William Priest, London, 1759, Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 the baluster body finely engraved with a three-masted warship underway and flanked with inscription reading The Gift of Stpn. Puckinson / to Willm. Walton, hinged dome cover with thumb Lot: 183 piece attached to broad handle with leaf-shaped terminus -- AFTER M DE MACHAULT: A 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH 7Â½in. (19cm.) high; 25 t oz. ++Inscription a little worn, image FLAG TABLEAU printed on laid paper, with 99 delicately hand- remains strong, good marks, no sign of restoration/repair. coloured flags for assorted nations in existence circa 1756, with Estimate: £1,500.00 - £1,800.00 French titles to top -- 29Â¼ x 21Â½in. (74 x 54.5cm.) framed and glazed ++Overall good condition, frame with some scuffing. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 200 NORWICH SHIP CLUB: AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY GOBLET with later chasing depicting a yacht race along an estuary, Lot: 184 inscribed PRESENTED BY THE MEMBERS / of the / Ship ENGLISH NAÃ¯VE SCHOOL, EARLY 20TH-CENTURY The Club: Norwich / to their esteemed Chairman / Mr Cook Wright / Lowestoft Trawler 'Mizpah', Lt214 Oil on board 18Â½ x 22Â¾in. (47July 1st 1851, on circular plugged foot, marks worn -- 8in. x 58cm.) ++Fading marks and scuffing overall. (20.4cm.) high ++marks almost completely polished away, fair Estimate: £40.00 - £80.00 overall condition with well-preserved relief work. Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 185 A PAIR OF LATE 19TH-CENTURY BRASS SIGNAL GUNS Lot: 201 with 1in. bore, four-stage, 16Â½in. heavily cast barrels with AN ATTRACTIVE AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE WALNUT AND trunnions, top hole and bored cascabel, mounted on mahogany OAK CHAIR the top rail circa 1850-60, comprising a finely- carriage with brass rings and wooden trucks -- overall carved walnut rudder yoke with opposing dolphins and floral measurements 9 x 18Â½in. (23 x 47cm.) (2) ++Typical marks and designs flank rudder topped with polished-brass edging, abrasions for age, but in strong/sound overall condition. secured to oak chair, circa 1900, back and seat modelled as Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 two yacht gratings, the plain tapering legs with splay feet -- 33Â½in. high x 16Â¼in. wide x 14Â½in. deep (85 x 41 x 37cm.) This exceptionally carved rudder yoke must, presumably, have graced an elegant yacht and, when it was time to be broken, Lot: 186 this souvenir was saved and mounted in this most original A BELL FROM THE DOVER-CALAIS FERRY CANTERBURY, fashion, to be presented to the yacht's former owner. ++Chair 1929 cast in brass with moulded rim and clapper and inscribed appears to be in excellent overall condition and has been in black-filled lettering over a decorative motif -- 12Â½in. (32cm.) polished and waxed at some point in the recent past. high Built by Denny Bros. in Dumbarton for the Southern Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Railway Co's "Golden Arrow" service, she registered nearly 3,000 tons, could carry 800 passengers, and was fitted with Parsons turbines producing 22.15 knots which helped cut the time from London to Paris to 6 hours 35 minutes. She was Lot: 202 broken up in 1965. ++Black filling to lettering partially missing, AN ATTRACTIVE MID TO LATE 19TH-CENTURY CLINKER otherwise good overall condition. BUILT, POSSIBLY APPRENTICE, MODEL DINGHY FITTED Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 AS A CRIB oak slots pinned to internal stringing, with keel secured to mahogany board with rockers -- 13 x 39 x 17Â¾in. (33 x 99 x 45cm.) ++Solid overall condition, with typical markings for age, but no structural problems; lacking evidence of a Lot: 187 rudder; two securing screws to base (later). A PAIR OF BRASS CANDLESTICKS, POSSIBLY FROM THE Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 OFFICERS' MESS OF A ROYAL YACHT each engraved with the crown V.R. and numbered 1879 and 3222 -- 8Â½in. (21.5cm.) high (2) ++Minor pitting and signs of wear commensurate with age. Lot: 203 Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 A WOODEN MODEL OF A CAPSTAN, POSSIBLY SAILORWORK, LATE 19TH-CENTURY constructed from assorted wood types including teak, mahogany and oak, mounted on a deck platform mount with turned corner supports Lot: 189 within brass ratchet ring -- 17in. (43cm.) high, 9Â¾in. (25cm.) A 19TH-CENTURY GIMBALLED CANDLE SCONCE heavily wide ++Fine overall condition; the top plate to the upper constructed in nickel-plated brass, the sprung candle socket capstan has a mild warp. shade retaining screws with weighted base, mounted in gimbal Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 rings supported by decorative 'dolphin' bulkhead mounting

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Lot: 204 MARINE REFERENCE BOOKS approximately thirty-one SIR THOMAS LIPTON: THREE AUTOGRAPHED including: O'Byrne's A Naval Biographical Dictionary, reprint of PHOTOGRAPHS each dedicated to Dr. Fairweather, circa 1848 ed. in two vols and slip case; Frere-Coke The Decorative 1926-28 and depicting Lipton standing next to his trophies; with Arts of the Mariner; Kemp U-Boats Destroyed; Barnaby 100 other billionaires including Thomas Edison and Henry Ford and Years of Specialised Ship Building.. the Thorneycroft History standing in a snowbound estate, together with two views of including list of yard numbers for vessels; Abrams Great some receptions, each mounted on card -- largest image 9Â¼ x Maritime Museums of the World; four vol set by Life-Time 11Â¼in. (23.5 x 28.5cm.) (3) ++The card mounts are now quite Books - The Great Liners; Fighting Sail; Men-0f-War; Explorers; fragile with time-staining, corners with ragged edges etc.; Scarth Ship Model Collection at Merseyside Maritime Museum; images generally good with strong inscriptions, small tear Grocott Ship Wrecks of the Napoleonic Wars; Conways 'Lipton's trophies' top centre; corner missing 'Lipton with Fighting Ships 1947-82; eight books on navigations, and seven billionaires' bottom left. others (a lot) Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00

Lot: 205 Lot: 211 TWO 19TH-CENTURY CHILDREN'S STRAW SAILOR HATS AN EXCEPTIONAL SAILOR'S BEADWORK SWEETHEART constructed of stitched straw, lined with white fabric and KEEPSAKE COMMEMORATING THE CRIMEAN WAR, bearing hat tallies, one inscribed Orion and apparently retaining CIRCA 1855-60 comprising five lavishly decorated red, white original retail label -- approximately 12in. (30.5cm.) diameter (2) and blue felt pockets, each depicting a symbol of the war and ++Straw is a little dirty, but structurally in very good overall including a crown, flags of France, Turkey and Great Britain, a condition. double-headed eagle, a cannon with ramrods and balls, and a Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 warship in full sail with patriotic emblems to the top and bottom - - 41 x 9in. (104 x 23cm.), framed and glazed overall measurements 47 x 14Â¾in. (119.5 x 37.5cm.) ++Keepsake has been secured with pins to felt base within case and appears to Lot: 206 be in exceptionally good overall condition with very little A 19TH-CENTURY BRASS DOLPHIN-FORM YACHT evidence of loose work; no moth; frame has section missing BINNACLE STAND comprising three stylised dolphins with from lower right edge. scaled bodies, flared tails and fins, heads bored for deck Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 attachment -- 32Â½in. (82.5cm.) high ++Solid overall condition, with surface dust and abrasions commensurate with age; lacks binnacle and compass. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 213 A 6-BOLT COPPER AND BRASS ADMIRALTY PATTERN DIVING HELMET BY C.E. HEINKE & CO LTD LONDON, NO. 287 (MATCHING) the spun bonnet with circular ports, spit cock Lot: 207 valve, weight hooks, air inlet with sprung non-return valve and A COLLECTION OF MARINE-THEMED STAFFORDSHIRE blanking nut, telephone port blanking nut, adjustable exhaust MANTELPIECE ORNAMENTS comprising Admiral Dundas; valve counter-stamped with maker's name, hinged safety valve Will Watch and two Jack Tars leaning on barrels (Dundas catch, the corselet signed as per title, stamped and counter- repaired) -- the tallest 16in. (41cm.) (4) ++Dundas has evidence stamped with number, weight hooks front and back and signed of several areas of gluing and restoration; Will Watch has wear and numbered brasses with wing nuts, fitted internally with air to areas of paint; Jack Tars have minor areas of wear to paint. ducts, wiring and telephone speaker -- 19in. (48cm.) high Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 ++Some minor denting to bonnet, as per usage and age, which retains traces of tinning; corset and internal lining appear fully tinned; helmet is in unrestored condition. Lot: 208 Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 A 19TH-CENTURY 'ELSINORE' PORCELAIN BOWL painted internally with floral decoration, the sides with ovals depicting two British Schooners, gold lining to rim -- 11in. (28cm.) Lot: 214 diameter A note, formerly attached to this bowl, was inscribed A RARE LATE 19TH-CENTURY 12-BOLT COPPER AND presented by Wright & Co 1945 to Com James Frazier for BRASS DIVER'S HELMET BY CH. PETIT, PARIS with beaten fastest trip round the Cape in Scooner [sic] Foxhole (an old and brazed bonnet with threaded circular ports, weight hooks, grain ship). A watercolour of the Foxhole by Jakob Petersen air inlet with sprung non-return valve behind, adjustable and which originally accompanied this bowl is offered as lot 6. exhaust with internal knock valve, chained safety pin and top ++Fine overall condition mounted (?)secondary air inlet valve with blanking nut; the Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 corselet with maker's label inscribed Appareils Plongeurs Denayrouze Ch. Petit Paris 9, Avenue Parmentier, with front- mounted weight studs and threaded screws (two missing) -- Lot: 209 18Â½in. (47cm.) high ++Evidence of old repair around edge of LLOYD'S REGISTER OF YACHTS four volumes, 1949, 1952, corselet; additional soldering etc.; typical small denting and 1957 and 1966, some with Supplements, each with the usual scratches, wear etc., commensurate with age; still retaining colour flag plates, all in good original condition (4) much of its internal tinning. Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00

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Lot: 215 commensurate with age and usage. A 12-BOLT COPPER AND BRASS DIVING HELMET BY Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 SIEBE GORMAN & CO LTD, NO. 11690 (MATCHING) the spun bonnet with counter-numbered face plate, spit cock valve, weight hooks, hinged safety pin, air inlet with sprung non-return Lot: 220 valve, adjustable exhaust valve, the corselet with maker's plate, AN ELECTRIC DIVING LAMP BY SIEBE GORMAN & CO LTD, front weight hooks, full set of brasses with wing nuts, fitted LONDON heavily constructed in brass with swivel fitted handle, internally with air ducts -- 19in. (49cm.) high ++Bonnet with signed as per title to the top thick cylindrical glass shade, patch of scuffing to top, exposing brass; two or three minor secured with brass rods to brass bed plate with white and grey dents commensurate with usage; retains much of its original metal shade -- 15 x 15in. (38 x 38cm.) ++Brass polished, shade tinning; corselet has area of tinning rubbed off at front; helmet repainted, no wiring or bulbs included. in unrestored condition; all fittings appear to be complete and Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 working. Estimate: £2,800.00 - £3,500.00 Lot: 221 Ã˜ A LATE 19TH-CENTURY DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE Lot: 216 GORMAN & CO with 6Â¼in. steel blade signed as per title, A 6-BOLT COPPER AND BRASS ADMIRALTY PATTERN threaded hilt to shaped lignum vitae handle, contained within DIVING HELMET BY SIEBE GORMAN & CO LTD, NO. 14671 cylindrical brass scabbard stamped for SIEBE & GORMAN -- (MATCHING) the spun bonnet with removable face plate 12Â½in. (32cm.) overall ++Blade mildly pitted over both sides; numbered 14671, and stamped AB with broad arrow mark to signature partially obscured; two or three nicks to case top, spit cock valve, weight hooks, air inlet with sprung non- commensurate with age and use. return valve, hinged safety pin, telephone port, adjustable Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 exhaust valve, mounted on corselet with maker's label, front and back weight hooks, full set of brasses with wing nuts, fitted internally with air ducts, speaker, chin buzzer and wiring -- 19in. Lot: 222 (48cm.) high ++In unrestored condition with very little denting, AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE but bonnet appears almost completely tinned; the corselet has GORMAN & CO with 7Â¾in. steel blade signed as per title, with some rubbing to the tinning front and back and with a little coated grip, internally sprung brass scabbard -- 13Â½in. (34cm.) verdigris on the back brasses and weight pins;clean fittings overall ++Blade with old scuff and scratch marks internally;all parts moving and apparently functioning. commensurate with use, but no apparent rust; scabbard, again Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 pitting and signs of wear from usage and evidence of old polish internally. Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 Lot: 217 A 6-BOLT COPPER AND BRASS ADMIRALTY PATTERN DIVING HELMET BY SIEBE GORMAN & CO LTD, NO. 15544 Lot: 223 (MATCHING) the spun bonnet with removable face plate AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY DIVER'S KNIFE, PROBABLY numbered 15544, and stamped AB with broad arrow mark to SIEBE GORMAN & CO LTD with 7Â½in. steel blade (unsigned), top, spit cock valve, weight hooks, air inlet with sprung non- brass guard with coated ribbed handle, contained within return valve, hinged safety pin, telephone port, adjustable regulation brass scabbard -- 13Â½in. (34cm.) ++Blade pitted and exhaust valve, mounted on corselet with maker's label, front dulled overall; scabbard pitted and dented overall. and back weight hooks, full set of brasses with wing nuts, fitted Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 internally with air ducts, speaker, chin buzzer and wiring -- 19in. (48cm.) high ++In unrestored condition; button with one or two dents and patch of scuffing to top which has exposed the brass; Lot: 224 fittings very stiff and gummed up but appear intact and working. DAVIS, ROBERT H.: 'DEEP DIVING AND OPERATIONS. A Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 MANUAL FOR DEEP SEA DIVERS AND COMPRESSED AIR WORKERS..' London: The Saint Catherine Press Ltd., [n.d. but "Introduction" dated 1951]. Large 8vo (248 x 170mm). Half tone Lot: 218 illustrations, folding plate, errata slips tipped in. Original green A LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH-CENTURY 12-BOLT DIVING cloth gilt. Fifth Edition. PRESENTATION COPY, the front free HELMET IN DISTRESSED CONDITION the hand-beaten and endpaper "To Richard Bennett-Levy, With Robert H. Davis's brazed bonnet with four circular ports, air inlet with sprung non- Best Wishes." ++Fine overall condition with good binding, clear return valve, exhaust with knock vale, secured to corselet with unfoxed pages. brass strapping and 12 wing nuts (has undergone major repair Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 work to the bonnet and corselet, with replaced parts, broken fittings) -- 17in. (43cm.) high This helmet was used for many years in the Greek sponge diving industry. Lot: 225 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 "A RECORD OF WAR AND PEACE" publicity brochure produced by Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd, comprising 35 pages of photographs and text relating to the Company's Lot: 219 history, contained within yellowed card covers with blue string A PAIR OF LEATHER, LEAD AND BRASS DIVER'S BOOTS binding and embossed with 6-bolt diving helmet, contained in heavily constructed with thick strapping, brass toe caps and original liveried envelope; together with correspondence from lead soles -- length 13Â½in. (34.3cm.) (2) ++Overall wear CE HEINKE & COY LTD dated 1954 The addressee for this

21 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com brochure is Theodorou Brothers, famed sponge divers active in documentation, mostly professional, including note books for Greece. ++Brochure is in fine/strong condition with two small vessel designs including three for Thompson's 40ft Hydroplane marks to cover only; envelope has rubbed edges and is parted for 1907-9; the S.Y. Varuna (1896-97); S.Y. Gunilda (1897); two across top. notebooks dating 1900-1904 connected to Thornycroft; Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 assorted pre-War sales brochures for Thornycroft; Dixon & Halliday etc.; copies of yachting publications reviewing their products; a quantity of material pertaining to Iris and HH's Lot: 226 single-handed voyage from Southampton to Gravesend in Property from the estate of the late Dennis Halliday Edmund 1905; several manuscript blue prints and some pinned loose Walter Higley Halliday (1875-1962), born in Reading, Berkshire, notes made for various small craft approx. 1900-1940; a copy was a recognised naval architect and marine motor engineer book for a number of craft dating from 1954-56; company with a prolific career that spans from 1902 until the early 1950s. deeds and documents; client correspondence; relevant He was one of the founder members of the Little Ship Club and magazines and papers containing news and reviews of the was actively involved in providing shore based training in the company or its personnel etc; and a quantity of papers and late 1920s and 1930s to members of the Royal Naval Volunteer photographs concerning the early history of Little Ship Club, Supplementary Reserve during The Second World War. He London of which HH was a founder member and lecturer (a lot - started his career at the famous Thornycroft ship building works sold not subject to return) ++Lot sold not subject to return. in Church Warf, Chiswick, with the design of the firm's 40 ft. General/overall condition is fine, however this is a large and 1904 motorboat Champak and only one year later entered into diverse archive and some images are faded/spotted; and some partnership with Geale Dickson trading as "Dickson & Halliday bindings weak with loose pages. Naval Architects & Marine Motor Engineers" in Southampton. In Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 April 1905 he designed and built the Iris for Messrs Perman & Co Ltd. and accepted a wager to run it single handed and non- stop from Southampton to London Bridge, an adventure which Lot: 227 was extensively reported in the national press. During these A WORKING PATENT MODEL FOR "HALLIDAY'S STEERING years Dickson & Halliday enjoyed some success at a APPARATUS", CIRCA 1900 representing a helm attached to a competitive level. The partnership dissolved in 1907 with turned shaft acting on a wooden rudder below a scored deck, Halliday returning to Chiswick and trading from 1909 as "Higley main and twin aluminium propellers and four assorted brass Halliday, Naval Architect & Marine Motor Engineer" where he propellers, contained within a fitted wooden box and developed a close working relationship with Frank Maynard accompanied by original line drawing and written brief signed who built many of his designs. During the First World War he by Halliday and dated 1880/1900, the box -- 10 x 10Â½ x 7in. designed cane and canvas collapsible boats for the War Office, (25.5 x 26.7 x 18cm.) (3) ++In good working order, no evidence but it was in the 1920s when he resumed his association with of wear or damage. Maynard that marked the peak of his career with a variety of Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 designs including harbour launches with fitted petrol/paraffin motors of between 20ft. and 30 ft; experimental steam patrol launches, air-propelled hydroplanes (1925), hydraulic propelled Lot: 228 launch (1923) and tug (1923) and an electric launch (1924). By A PRESENTATION SHIP'S-STRIKE BULKHEAD CLOCK the the late '20s and early '30s he was focusing much more on his 6in. silvered dial with Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, role as teacher and consultant. A founder-member of the Little S/F lever over '12', twin arbors to [unsigned] going-barrel Ship Club, he was appointed honorary instructor in seamanship movement and strike train, contained within nickel-plated in 1929, where his cheery personality and his aptitude for bulkhead case mounted on stained oak mantel stand, the dial dealing thoroughly and in an easily understood manner with and rim both inscribed Presented to / HIGLEY HALLIDAY / any branch of the subject led him to lecturing to sometimes up M.I.N.A. M.1.A.F. M.MECH.E / by the Little Ship Club 1938 / in to 120 people - including a strong female following, whilst his appreciation of his work / as Honorary Seamanship Instructor -- interest in motor boats, made him very popular among the 9Â¼ x 8in. (23.5 x 20.3cm.); together with a white-cased aneroid younger members of the Club. During this same period, his barometer by H. Hughes & Son mounted on similar stand (2) designs also shifted from bespoke to smaller standardised ++Clock running and striking at time of writing; barometer motor yachts, becoming a popular and affordable option for the appears in good working order. mass market and included "Nanona" (1927), "Maralia" (1927), Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 "Sport" (1928) and "Spray" (1930). Kept busy during World War II, his motor yachts Karen II and Bendor were requisitioned as 'Little Ships' in Operation Dynamo, Halliday became a central figure as an instructor to the amateur yachtsmen who formed Lot: 229 A MAGAZINE OF DRAWING INSTRUMENTS the top tray with the Royal Naval Volunteer Supplementary Reserve apparently complete complement of compass, divider etc., the (subsequently the London Flotilla) at the Little Ship Club. He lower section with rules, watercolours and other accessories, was appointed Lieutenant and a "Four Striper" in the R.N.V.R. contained in a mahogany box with retail label for J. & W.E. Sea Cadet Corps and club members presented him with an Archbutt, Lambeth and inset name plate for Halliday; together onyx cigarette box by way of thanks for his services to the club with a large two-tier case of yacht curves, rules, stencils, (see lot 230). After the war he retired from an active role accessories, catalogues etc. -- 31in. (79cm.) diameter (2, a lot) although he remained a member of the Thames Ship-lover's ++This lot contains a very large collection of instruments and Society and The World Ship Society. He died on 27 December associated accessories - condition is commensurate with a 1962 aged 87. THE HIGLEY & DENNIS HALLIDAY 'ARCHIVE' used set put aside for the past 80 years and most of the comprising approximately 650 assorted photographs spanning contents are in fine overall order, some watercolours have been approximately 1895-1965, including private and professional used for instance. The veneer of the larger box is cracked and images, some annotated or in albums, marked envelopes, lifting on the left hand side. others loose, some duplicates; together with a large amount of Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00

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Lot: 230 Lot: 235 HIGLEY HALLIDAY: A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED SCALE MODEL OF ITEMS comprising a silver cigarette box engraved 'EH/DH'; THE ?HALLIDAY-DESIGNED AUXILIARY CRUISING YACHT onyx cigarette box with burgee of the Little Ship Club and MERLIN, CIRCA 1940 modelled by Dennis Halliday, with presentation plaque from pupils inside lid dated '1942'; stop carved and painted hull, lined decks with varnished fittings, watch and lanyard; fountain pen; cased monocle; small club glazed superstructure, dinghy and pram in davits, masts with burgees; car badge for the 'British Motor Boat Club'; burning rigging and other details, contained in a glazed wooden case. lens; printing plates for business cards; carved bugbear nut; Overall measurements -- 7Â½ x 10Â¼in. (19 x 26cm.) ++Fine overall helmet shell inscribed with a prayer; a mast hoop from a gaff- condition rigged yacht and a swordfish rostrum (a lot) ++watch not Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 running and probably needs a clean; other items generally good but should be viewed or specifically enquired about if any one item is sought. Lot: 238 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Other Properties The following lots are from the private library of Christopher St J. H. Daniel and are sold not subject to return. BERTHOUD, FERDINAND (1727-1807): 'L' ART DE Lot: 231 CONDUIRE ET DE REGLER LES PENDULES ET LES A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH-CENTURY PROBABLY MONTRES â€¦ QUATRIEME EDITION..' Paris: Chez Courcier, BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR AN AUXILIARY 1811. 8vo (185 x 106mm). Half title, 5 folding engraved plates LAUNCH the 12in. hull modelled in contrasting woods and (small stain on half title). Modern old style calf (modern mounted on a dark green plush-lined board with burr-walnut endpapers). Provenance: The Franklin Institute Library. Rare frame and suspension loops -- 20in. (51cm.) diameter overall Book Collection. Gift of Hamilton Watch Co. (bookplate, no ++Wood faded to the middle; old dent in the bilge amidships. cancellation stamp). Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 232 Lot: 239 AN INTERESTING AND FINELY MADE COPPER AND BLAGRAVE, JOHN (CIRCA 1558-1611): 'THE ART OF BRASS CARVEL-BUILT YACHT HULL FORM, PROBABLY DYALLING IN TWO PARTS..' London: Printed for LATE 19TH-CENTURY the internal framing planked and pinned N[icholas]O[kes] for Simon Waterson, 1609. 4to (187 x with brass top sides and keel, the remainder in copper with 145mm). Woodcut diagrams, some full page (a few marginal brass pins and rudder, polished to a smooth surface -- 13Â½in. wormtracks without loss, some very light staining). (34.5cm.) long overall ++Good overall condition Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 (extremities rubbed, later endpapers, upper inner hinges reinforced). FIRST EDITION. STC 3116. Provenance: The Right Honble. Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, Lot: 233 & Baron Capell of Hadham, 1701 (armorial bookplate on verso A FINELY REALISED SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF A of title). THAMES BARGE UNDERWAY, MODELLED CIRCA 1952 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 modelled by Dennis Halliday with black-painted carved hull, lee boards, scored deck with detailed fittings, stern davits with fitted dinghy, helm with helmsman, tapering main and spanker masts Lot: 240 with full suit of lined red sails with standing and running rigging, [?D'EPAGNE, P]: 'REGLE DES HORLOGES, ET mounted on a green glazed river base within wooden glazed EXPLICATION DES DEUX MERIDIENNES DU TEMS-VRAI ET case. Cased measurements -- 10Â½ x 13Â½in. (26.5 x 34.3cm.); DU TEMS-MOYEN..' Blois: Chez P.-J. Masson, 1757. 8vo (160 Letter and photographs from Model Engineer magazine x 95mm). Engraved plate, tables (hole in title with loss of a few Exhibited: Model Engineer Exhibition, 1952. ++Good overall letters, modern card laid down opposite title). Finely bound in condition contemporary mottled calf gilt. Provenance: old illegible Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 signature on title and on a preliminary leaf. Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 234 A WELL-PRESENTED AND FINELY DETAILED SCALE Lot: 241 WATERLINE MODEL OF H.M.S. M.T.B. 45, MODELLED DE LA PRISE, JACQUES GERVAIS: 'METHODE NOUVELLE CIRCA 1943 by Dennis Halliday, with carved hull finished in ET GENERALE POUR TRACER FACILEMENT DES grey with red bilges and black deck, detailed fittings including CADRANS SOLAIRES..' Caens: Chez Pierre le Baron, 1781. grab lines, coiled ropes, ventilators, fitted carley floats, glazed Half title, engraved frontispiece, 23 folding engraved plates superstructure with signal masts, flag locker, controls etc., twin [bound with:] GOUBERT: Description et Usage des torpedo tubes, quick-firing guns, depth charges etc., mounted Barometres, Thermometres et Autres Instrumens on a green glazed 'sea' within wood-bound case. Cased Meteorologiques â€¦ Seconde edition. Dijon: Chez J. B. Capel, measurements -- 5Â¼ x 11Â¾in. (13.5 x 30cm.) Review page from1785. Folding tables. 2 works bound in one, 8vo (183 x The Motor Boat and Yachting magazine from December 1943 115mm). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards and photographs used in that item (2) ++Good overall condition (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: some early annotation. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00

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Lot: 242 Instrument. Or the Description and Use of the Theories of the DEPARCIEUX, ANTOINE (1703-68): 'NOUVEAUX TRAITES Planets. [No place: no publisher, n.d.] 6-pages. [And:] SAMUEL DE TRIGONOMETRIE RECTILIGNE ET SPHERIQUE..' Paris: FOSTER: The Description and Use of the Nocturnal. [No Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1741. 2 parts place: no publisher, n.d.]. 8-pages, table. 4 works bound in one, in one volume, 4to (255 x 190mm). 17 folding engraved plates, 4to (190 x 145mm). Contemporary panelled calf (rubbed and tables (a few spots and light stains). Contemporary mottled calf, scuffed, joints splitting). spine gilt in compartments with red morocco lettering-piece Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 (rubbed, joints split). Provenance: ?Monye (old signature on title). Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 248 NICHOLSON, PETER: 'A POPULAR COURSE OF PURE AND MIXED MATHEMATICS, FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND Lot: 243 STUDENTS..' London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1835. DOM BEDOS DE CELLES (1709-79): 'LA GNOMIQUE 8vo (210 x 131mm). "Dialling" section only [ie. pp. [591]-[608]], PRATIQUE, OU L' ART DE TRACER LES CADRANS 3 engraved plates only. Modern red morocco gilt. SOLAIRES AVEC LA PLUS GRANDE PRECISION..' Paris: Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Chez Briasson (and others), 1760. 8vo (205 x 125mm). Engraved frontispiece, 34 folding engraved plates, tables (title spotted, some very light spotting elsewhere, ?lacking map). Lot: 249 Contemporary calf-backed boards (rubbed and scuffed). RIVARD, DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS (1697-1778): 'LA Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 GNOMIQUE OU L' ART DE FAIRE DES CADRANS â€¦ TROISIEME EDITION REVUE PAR L' AUTEUR..' Paris: Chez Jean Desaint, 1767. 8vo (198 x 122mm). Folding engraved Lot: 244 plates, tables (some light mainly marginal spotting and FLAMSTEED, JOHN (1646-1719): 'AN ACCOMPT [SIC] OF staining). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments. SUCH OF THE MORE NOTABLE CELESTIAL PHAENOMENA Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 OF THE YEAR 1670, AS WILL BE CONSPICUOUS IN THE ENGLISH HORIZON..' [London: The Royal Society], January 17, 1670. 4to (235 x 170mm). 14-pages. Modern wrappers. Lot: 250 Extracted from Philosophical Transactions, Number 55 (pp. SELLER, JOHN (FL. 1658-98): 'ATLAS COELESTIS 1099-1112). CONTAINING THE SYSTEMS AND THEORYES [SIC] OF THE Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 PLANETS AND CONSTELLATIONS OF THE STARS..' [London: no publisher, circa 1690]. 8vo (138 x 90mm). Engraved allegorical title, engraved plates, charts and tables, of Lot: 245 which 46 double-page (a few stains, ?lacking printed title). IMBARD, ETIENNE F: 'DE LA MESURE DU TEMPS, ET Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed). cf. Wing S2463 (with DESCRIPTION DE LA MERIDIENNE VERTICALE variant spelling of title); cf. Shirley C.SELL 1a. PORTATIVE..' Versailles: "chez les principaux Libraires et Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Horlogers," 1828. 12mo (145 x 90mm). Half title, tables, folding engraved plate (mainly marginal spotting and staining throughout). Contemporary wrappers, titled in early manuscript. Lot: 251 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 STIRRUP, THOMAS: 'HOROMETRIA: OR THE COMPLEAT DIALLIST â€¦ WHEREUNTO IS ADDED AN APPENDIX..' London: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas Pierrepont, Lot: 246 1652. Small 4to (166 x 122mm). Woodcut diagrams (a few LALANDE, J.-J: A 4-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER, leaves laid down or reinforced at edges, a few leaves re- ADDRESSED ON VERSO TO "MONSIEUR DUC DE LA hinged, some staining and browning, occasional cropping of CHAPELLE, ASTRONOME" Dated "a Paris le 6 Juillet, 1792", running title). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, on astronomical matters. A full transcript of the letter, with extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Wing S5688. translation, is available on request. JÃ©rÃ´me Lalande (1732- Provenance: John Tomlinson, 1807 (signature on verso of final 1807) was a well known and highly respected French leaf); an earlier illegible signature; some early annotation. astronomer. Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 252 Lot: 247 WAKELY, ANDREW (FL. 1631-65): 'THE MARINER'S MOLYNEUX, WILLIAM (1656-98): 'SCIOTHERICUM COMPASS RECTIFIED â€¦ ENLARGED WITH MANY USEFUL TELESCOPICUM; OR, A NEW CONTRIVANCE OF ADDITIONS BY J. ATKINSON..' London: Printed for J. Mount ADAPTING A TELESCOPE TO AN HORIZONTAL DIAL FOR and T. Page, 1774. 8vo (168 x 110mm). Half title with OBSERVING THE MOMENT OF TIME BY DAY OR NIGHT..' publisher's advertisement on verso, woodcut illustrations, tables Dublin: Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, 1686. (occasional light staining and spotting). Contemporary calf Large folding engraved plate, tables (plate torn without loss). (rubbed, upper joints split). Provenance: James Patience (early Wing M2406 [bound with:] JOHN TWYSDEN: The Use of the signature on front pastedown). General and Universal Planisphere, called the Analemma, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 London: Printed for Phillip Lea, 1700. 4 folding engraved plates, tables. Not in Wing. [And:] JOHN PALMER: The Planetary

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Lot: 253 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 'A VIEW OF THE OBSERVATORY IN GREENWICH PARK, BELONGING TO THE KING'S PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY' period hand-coloured engraving combined with Lot: 259 A view of Greenwich, Deptford and London, taken from A 19TH-CENTURY MAGHRIBI ASTROLABE AFTER ISA IBN Flamsteads Hill in Greenwich Park, circa 1750 -- 7 x 9Â½in. (18 x ALLAHDAD heavily constructed in brass and bearing date 24cm.); together with four later views of Greenwich Park and '1135' AH (1722/23 CE) on the shaped throne, six double-sided the Royal Observatory (5) ++Unexamined out of frames, overall planispheric plates and fret-worked rete secured with stylised condition appears to be good 'horse', the reverse etched with shadow square, calendar and Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 hour scales etc., unmarked alidade with sighting vanes, the whole suspended from a hinged joint -- 4â…•in. (11.8cm.) diameter; mater â…œin. (1cm.) thick This astrolabe appears to be Lot: 254 a near-faithful copy of the 'Isa ibn Allahdad' astrolabe of William Lionel Wyllie R.A. (British, 1851-1931) The Thames Lahore, Pakistan contained in the Adler Planetarium & looking from the Observatory at Greenwich Drypoint etching Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Inv. No. A-79 (IC 1096). This is a Signed in pencil 'W L Wyllie' (lower left) Plate size 8Â½ x 12Â½in. little larger with a 7Â¼in. (18.5cm.) diameter, 3/8in. (1cm.) thick (21.5 x 32cm.). Framed and glazed Provenance: Wyllie mater and is dated for 1013 (1605/05). ++Generally good Gallery, London. ++Fine condition; framed size -- 17Â½ x 23in. overall, some scuff/rub marks to the reverse from the alidade; Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 star plates look as if they've been lacquered and this has gone darker. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 255 BION, M.: 'THE CONSTRUCTION AND PRINCIPAL USES OF MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS..' London: Holland press, Lot: 260 1972. Folio. Plates. Original black cloth. Facsimile of a work Ã˜ A MID 19TH-CENTURY IVORY POCKET COMPASS first published in 1758. ++Pages yellowing but binding is in SUNDIAL DIAL BY SMITH, BECK & BECK with Â¾in. printed good/strong condition; a fair copy. paper compass dial, signed as per title, and set within ivory Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 base marked for solar hours, string gnomon to lid with instructions, gilt-brass support and securing hooks -- 2Â¼ x 1Â½in. (6 x 4cm.) ++missing compass needle and glass; two small (8mm.) shrinkage cracks running off hinge to top plate. Lot: 256 Estimate: £250.00 - £360.00 SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT AUCTION CATALOGUES approximately 295 catalogues comprising Sotheby's, October 1973-December 2004 (105); Christie's, December 1972-April 2001 (85); Bonham's, May 1976-November 2000 (35); Phillips, Lot: 261 September 1974-July 1993 (51); and 19 miscellaneous A LATE 18TH-CENTURY WOOD AND PAPER SHEPHERD examples, many containing results sheets and annotations: DIAL BY W. BUREICH.., NUREMBERG apparently unsigned, these catalogues are sold not subject to return (a lot) the top with pull-out folding gnomon, the base threaded, ++Generally in fine condition throughout. containing a hand painted dry card compass and original set of Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 folding instructions printed on laid paper contained within -- 5Â½in. (14cm.) high ++Wear to the varnish overall on main body; paper appears to be largely intact with few small scuffs and areas of loss; base retaining compass is much chipped around Lot: 257 the edge; compass glass cracked; rolled paper very fragile and MARITIME/SCIENTIFIC CATALOGUES approximately forty- with weak joints and jagged edges. five catalogues including: Christie's Maritime Oct 1993 - May Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 2007 (11); Phillips Scientific 1984-1989 (9); Bonham's Scientific 2004-2011 (6); Sotheby's Maritime, May 1995; Christie's Travel/Science 2010-2 (2); four Sotheby's fine clock catalogues 1997-99; and several Engineering catalogues from Christie's Lot: 262 including the Newcomen Society Sale (2001) and the Fulgarex AN 18TH-CENTURY BRASS POCKET COMPASS SUNDIAL Archive (2000) (a lot) IN THE MANNER OF ANDREAS VOGLER with 1in. dial with Estimate: £30.00 - £40.00 blued-steel needle, folding latitude arm, hinged chapter ring and gnomon, the reverse engraved with European town latitudes and erroneously signed AND VOGLER -- 2in. (5cm.) overall ++Glass replaced, blued-steel needle probably a replacement Lot: 258 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 A 19TH-CENTURY CHRONOMETER CABINET FROM THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH constructed in mahogany with ebony stringing, glazed doors with security hooks, two shelves with adjustable eyelets to sides and shaped Lot: 263 skirting -- 37Â¾ x 43Â¾ x 13Â½in. (96 x 111 x 34cm.) Provenance:A PAIR OF LATE 18TH-CENTURY 8Â½IN. DESK GLOBES BY Discarded in the Observatory's move to Herstmonceux Castle W. BARDIN the terrestrial comprising 12 gores printed on laid when large amounts of the old furniture were broken up and paper and hand-coloured, signed by Arctic calotte HED BY G. burned, this cabinet was rescued by park gardeners and used WRIGHT & W. BARDIN JANY, 1ST 1782, and including Cook's to store flower pots until acquired and restored by the vendor. tracks, Australia named New Holland and attached to Van ++Professionally polished in the early 1970s, appears to be in Diemens Land, calibrated equator and eclipse lines etc.; the strong and good overall condition. celestial signed and dated W. BARDIN APRIL THE 1ST 1785,

25 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com each mounted in polished-brass horizon rings and set within and maker's label to front, securing hooks and carry handle -- turned mahogany stands with meridian rings (losses, wear, 8in. (20cm.) square overall; together with a fragment of restoration, meridian papers replaced) -- overall measurements melt(ed???) glass recovered from the site, contained within a 13Â½ x 12in. (34.3 x 30.5cm.) (2) ++In addition to conditions lead pot (2) ++Globe is in excellent overall condition, as is the noted in cataloguing: terrestrial globe has two large gouges box which bears just a few scuffs and marks commensurate piercing through the plaster core, each approximately 1in. with age. square; it is strongly recommended both globes are inspected Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 first hand. Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 269 A MID 20TH-CENTURY 7IN. STAR GLOBE BY KELVIN & Lot: 264 HUGHES LTD with paper gores applied to a wooden core, A 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH CELESTIAL GLOBE BY J. maker's label inscribed Kelvin & Hughes Ltd Star Globe Epoch LEBÃˆGUE & CIE 12in. globe with tinted gores detailing the 1975 printed by George Philip & Son Ltd, set within brass principal star locations and formations, with maker's label meridian ring with removable star pointer frame, contained in inscribed J. LEBÃˆGUE EDITEURS-FABRICANTS 30 RUE DE mahogany box with instructions inside lid -- 11in. (28cm.) LILLE PARIS, mounted via polar axis to ornate cast iron tripod square ++Globe in fine condition overall, with trace markings of base -- 21in. (53cm.) high ++Area of restoration evident near original crayon from use; one axis pin missing from horizon North Pole approx. 4Â½ x 3in.; further 1Â½in. minor depression by ring, so globe is effectively loose; box has minor scuff marks Hercule; minor abrasions; original varnish now yellowed overall. commensurate with age. Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 265 Lot: 270 A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 12IN. TERRESTRIAL GLOBE A 'HUSON' 7IN. STAR GLOBE with printed paper gores, PUBLISHED BY HACHETTE & CIE the twelve paper gores applied to plaster core with Polar calottes and maker's label with polar calottes, gently tinted for original land masses, the inscribed THE HUSON STAR GLOBE H.D. & SON LTD oceans with direction of currents, equator divided and LONDON 1920, mounted within baize-lined wooden box with numbered with five- degree sections and other details, mounted pedestal support under globe, with lacquered-brass meridian, within calibrated brass meridian on turned ebonised base -- removable horizon indicator, countersigned and numbered 24in. (61cm.) overall ++Excellent overall condition; some minor 1124 (lid missing) -- measurements 9 x 10Â¼ x 10Â¼in. (23 x 26 x age spotting to areas of the ocean currents and some fading to 26cm.) ++Some rubbing and scuffs to globe surface colours, but very little wear apparent. commensurate with usage and age; baize faded to corners; Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 wooden box typically marked with usage. Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00

Lot: 266 AN ELECTRICAL PLANETARIUM PROJECTOR, CIRCA 1960 Lot: 271 constructed in black-painted metal frame with adjustable angle, AN 8-DAY DECK WATCH BY WALTHAM, NO. 19042150 the motor and switches on base inscribed JUPITER 2Â½in silvered dial signed below 'XII' Waltham Watch Co. with PLANETARIUM made in Japan, the perforated sphere with star Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and up/down dials, blued- names applied to red labels and the axis with detachable main steel hands and fob wind above 'XII', domed face plate, gimbal- projector -- 23 x 17in. (58.5 x 43cm.) ++Motor and electrics mounted within three-tier brass-bound box with drop handles untested. Please note this lot is sold as a decorative item only. and maker's plate -- 5in. (12.5cm.) cubed ++Movement in Wear and dust apparent; correct assembly uncertain at time of running order at time of writing, but unexamined out of bowl due writing. to complex nature of assembly; case in good overall condition Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 for age, lacks key. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 267 A RARE FRENCH GLASS OIL LAMP GLOBE signed and Lot: 272 numbered Brevet d'invention number 151621, with light blue AN 8-DAY DECK WATCH BY WALTHAM WATCH CO, NO. oceans, continents and countries outlined in different colours, 19042207, CIRCA 1913 the 2Â½in. silvered dial signed as per graduated equator, Paris meridian, St. Petersburg marked, title, with Roman numerals, blued-steel hands, up/down dial, India entitled 'Hindustan' -- 7Â½in (19cm.) high, mounted on a subsidiary seconds to 15 jewel movement, with engraved plates blue/grey oil lamp base with burner, converted to electricity -- signed and numbered and threaded counterweight, within 24in. (61cm.) high overall ++Globe in fine overall condition. gimballed two-tier brass-bound mahogany box -- 5in. (12.5cm.) Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 cubed ++Movement appears to be in excellent running order; box and fittings in fine overall condition; complete with key. Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Lot: 268 A 5Â½IN. JAPANESE STAR GLOBE RECOVERED FROM THE JAPANESE NAVAL COLLEGE, HIROSHIMA, 1945 the paper- Lot: 273 covered globe marked and inscribed in English and Japanese, A MID 20TH-CENTURY SIMMANCE PATENT CONTINUITY with aluminium meridian and horizon rings, contained within BAROGRAPH with 4-atmosphere drum, with counterweighted fitted wooden box of issue with Japanese instructions inside lid inking movement, secured above a copper roller with clockwork

26 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com motor and gravity-mounted paper guides, within front-glazed Lot: 278 wooden case with paper slit to bottom, back with plate inscribed A RARE LATE 19TH-CENTURY SIMMANCE PATENT, and the door with ivorine maker's MOUNTAINEERING/BALLOONING ALTIMETER BY roundel for Alex Wright, the lower door with plate inscribed HOTTINGER & CIE ZÃ›RICH the laminated brass case with 12INS. W.G. PRESSURE -- overall measurements 13Â¾ x 9Â¼ x revolving silver drum divided 0-45Â°, and containing the curved 7Â¾in. (35 x 23.5 x 19.5cm.) ++Motor running; overall condition tube thermometer, signed within U & Th. Usteri-Reinacher appears to be very good, with only a light settling of dust Nachfolger v. Hottinger ZÃ¼rich N1332, the side with ivorine internally. vernier with fixed magnifier secured within original black leather Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 case with owner's label inscribed Dr W. KÃ¼hne Prof In Heidelberg -- 3in. (7.6cm.) diameter ++instrument appears to be in excellent overall condition with some mild rubbing to silver Lot: 274 side of drum. The case with typical rub marks commensurate A 20TH-CENTURY MICRO BAROGRAPH BY SHORT & with age. MASON, LONDON with 14-atmosphere pressure drum Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 mounted to gilt-brass movement, signed as per title and inscribed COMPENSATED FOR TEMPERATURE, mounted on crackle-finish display base, with reservoir inking arm to 7in. high Lot: 279 barrel with clockwork motor and lid with bevelled glass glazed A LATE 19TH-CENTURY POCKET ALT-AZIMUTH BY L. cover -- overall measurements 9 x 12Â½ x 7in. (23 x 32 x CASSELLA LONDON the 2Â¾in. steel dial divided 90-0-90Â°, 17.8cm.) ++Clockwork motor running at time of writing; ink stain signed as per title and numbered 86, the reverse containing a on base and top of drum; light dust internally; good overall compass contained within oxidised-brass case with twin condition. telescopic sights and mounting arbor, contained within original Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 fitted morocco case -- 3Â½in. (9cm.) diameter ++Instrument in overall fine condition, however compass clamp is detached and loose internally, lacking clamps objective to side; case has Lot: 275 minor scuff marks and abrasions commensurate with age. AN OAK CASED 'FITZROY-PATTERN' BAROMETER of Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 typical form, with printed paper back and instructions, design registration number "367815", stamped on the top of boxwood thermometer London and Universal Supply Stores -- overall Lot: 280 height 42in. (107cm.) ++Paper generally in good overall A LATE 19TH-CENTURY MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM condition; an area of wear to the scale between 29-36 millibars THERMOMETER BY NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON signed and one or two cracks in the paper at the join, approximately as per title on front of opaque glass thermometer and half-way up. numbered D15145, alcohol tube, lacquered-brass indicator rod, Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 contained in mahogany case for wall mounting, with accessories and glazed chart inside door with mesh sides and securing hooks -- 15Â¼ x 9 x 2Â¾in. (39 x 23 x 7cm.) Lot: 276 ++Thermometer in good overall condition; rubber bulb to A 19TH-CENTURY WEATHER STATION BAROMETER dropper is perished. unsigned, contained within carved walnut case with front- Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 mounted thermometer and indicator adjusting wheels -- 40in. (101.6cm.) high ++Mercury in main tube disturbed and will need readjusting; both tubes are intact; mild fading to front of case. Lot: 281 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 A LARGE LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH-CENTURY REFRACTING TELESCOPE BY DOLLOND, LONDON the 40in. lacquered- brass tube with 3Â½in. objective lens cap star finder, signed on Lot: 277 the backplate DOLLOND LONDON, the eye-piece with rack AN ADMIRAL 'FITZROY-PATTERN' BAROMETER in carved and pinion fine focus, mounting arbour with threaded nuts to walnut case, with typical paper-lined back, mercury tube substantial folding tripod base with quadrant indicator, thermometer and atmosphere tube, with glazed front and brass telescopic stabilisers, and mahogany and brass guiding rods, indicator wheel -- 46 x 8Â½in. (117 x 21.5cm.) ++Mercury tubes contained in original box with accessories including additional intact; case and papers in good overall condition. sighting tubes, solar diagonal and dew cuff -- approximate Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 assembled height 31in., box dimensions -- 44 x 6 x 7Â½in. (112 x 15 x 19cm.) ++Overall wear to lacquered finish; telescopic rods with dents; one thread broken; one horseshoe fitting with Lot: 277A temporary screw securing; one wooden guide rod snapped at A FINE 19TH-CENTURY 'FORTIN-PATTERN' BAROMETER base of brass foot, the other lacking telescopic attachment; dew BY NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA LONDON of typical construction cuff and solar diagonal later. Please note box will not contain with lacquered-brass main tube, signed and inscribed H. the standing and dew cuff. The box has later bracing on the Negretti & Zambra, No 1 Hatton Garden & Cornhill, London. underside and is marked overall commensurate with age and 396, mounted within a glazed mahogany case with mirror back, use. with top lock and securing hook. Overall measurements -- 43 x Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 7 x 5Â½in. (109 x 18 x 14cm.) Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 282 A 19TH-CENTURY 1Â½IN. SINGLE-DRAW LIBRARY

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TELESCOPE BY WEST, LONDON with tapering brass tube, by the eye-piece as per title, with leather-covered tube signed as per title and inscribed Improv'd Day or Night and containing hand-coloured signal code for both merchant and secured to a tripod stand -- 13Â½ x 25in. (34.5 x 63.5cm.) naval service, dust slide and spray cuff -- closed length 20Â¼in. ++Optically good condition; main tube with minor denting (51.5cm.); together with a mid 19th-Century 2Â¼in. library overall; traces of original lacquer remain; dust cap missing. telescope by Andrew Ross & Co., London, with tripod base -- Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 overall length 38in. (97cm.) (2) ++Signalling telescope has been professionally recovered in navy blue leather; optically correct. Ross lacks lens cover, fine focus knob mechanism; Lot: 283 lacks retaining screw to secure to tripod stand; optics appears A 19TH-CENTURY 1Â¼IN. PORTABLE LACQUERED-BRASS to be intact. REFRACTING LIBRARY TELESCOPE unsigned, the 14in. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 main tube with rack and pinion fine focus and extended single tube, with hinged tripod mount at centre, contained in fitted wooden travel case with tripod and alternative eye-piece -- 3 x Lot: 288 17Â¾ x 4Â¾in. (7.5 x 45 x 12cm.) ++Overall wear to lacquer; one orA 19TH-CENTURY 1Â½IN. FOUR-DRAW LEATHER AND two small dents to tube; optically in good condition; case intact BRASS TELESCOPE BY W. MOODY BELL, CHELTENHAM but with marks and wear commensurate with age. with leather-covered main tube, signed by the eye-piece as per Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 title, dust slide and travel case with strapping -- 9Â¼in. (23.5cm.) cased; together with Swift monocular microscope with lacquered-brass tube and black tripod stand (2) ++optically Lot: 284 fine, lacking lens cap, leather a little shrunk but intact and with AN 'IMPROVED SEA TELESCOPE' BY GILBERT & good polished finish, marked commensurate with age and GILKERSON with 1Â¾in. objective, smooth, slightly tapering usage; outer case repaired and worn. mahogany barrel with dust cap and single draw signed and Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 inscribed by the conical eye-piece GILBERT & GILKERSON, Tower Hill, LONDON. Improved Sea Telefcope, contained within original fitted box with instructions for use with separate Lot: 289 interchangeable eye-pieces (missing), securing hooks, lock and AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NIGHTGLASS BY BERGE LATE key, the box -- 41Â½in. (105.5cm.) diameter Gilbert & Gilkerson RAMSDEN, LONDON the leather-covered mahogany tube with worked between 1793 and 1809; the label refers to alternative 2Â¾in. objective lens with brass cap, signed by the eye-piece as eye-pieces which were packed feparate for use on either hazy per title, flared eye cup with dust slide -- closed length 26Â½in. or clear days as appropriate. ++Fine overall condition, tube (67cm.) ++Optically fine condition; appears to have original retains a good colour and is optically correct although the leather covering, which has some scuffs and marks lenses would benefit from a clean. commensurate with age, with a little shrinkage near the eye Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 cup, but stitching remains intact and overall condition is very good. Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 Lot: 285 Ã˜ AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 1Â¼IN. SINGLE DRAW IVORY AND BRASS MONOCULAR BY BANCKS, LONDON the turned Lot: 290 tube part-lined in felt with stained ribbing, nickel-plated draw AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 1Â½IN. THREE-DRAW signed as per title with stained ivory eye-piece, contained in a TELESCOPE BY DOLLOND, LONDON in lacquered-brass, original red morocco-covered wooden case -- 3â…›in. (8cm.) with dust cap and slide, signed by the eye-piece as per title and cased ++optically and strucurally in good condition, no splits to contained in original red morocco-covered wooden travel case -- tube. 10in. (25.5cm.) cased ++optically fine; mild wear to lacquer, Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 case very good for age Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00

Lot: 286 A RARE EARLY 19-CENTURY 1Â¾IN. NINE-DRAW WOOD AND Lot: 291 PLATED BRASS TELESCOPE BY DUDLEY ADAMS, A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 'OFFICER OF THE WATCH'-TYPE LONDON with nickel-plated draws, mahogany tube with TELESCOPE RETAILED BY ALEX. ROSS & CO, HONG owner's inscription reading Frederick de Forer, signed and KONG with 1Â½in. objective, spray cuff, sail cloth-covered tube, inscribed by eye-piece with dust slide ADAMS'S / New Patent signed by the eye-piece with dust slide ROSS LONDON Portable Telescope / No.60 Fleet Strt. LONDON -- 7Â¼in. No.71190 / ALEX ROSS & Co HONG KONG -- 19in. (48cm.) (18.5cm.) closed Dudley Adams, son of the great George ++Optically good; tube much dented and "used", sail cloth Adams, and still advertising himself as "Maker to the King" covering has been there a long time and has worn smooth with resided at this address between 1796-1826. ++main tube use, is roughly stitched with twine and replaced original leather cracked in two places; missing lens cap; main lens cracked; covering. wear to plating, some connecting threads now becoming loose. Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 292 Lot: 287 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY Â¾IN. SIX-DRAW POCKET AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 1Â¼IN. SINGLE-DRAW MARINE TELESCOPE BY CARY, LONDON in lacquered-brass with dust SIGNAL TELESCOPE BY HARRIS & SONS, LONDON signed cap and slide, signed by the eye-piece as per title -- 3Â¾in.

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(9.5cm.) closed ++good optical condition; good external cross limb and supported on substantial pillar support with condition. adjustable tripod foot -- 16Â½in. (42cm.) high ++One telescope Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 missing lens cap; prism associated; scale unpolished; dusty. Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00

Lot: 293 A FINE 3Â½IN. REFRACTING LIBRARY TELESCOPE BY Lot: 297 MURRELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1820 with brass-bound 57in. A MID 20TH-CENTURY PAIR OF RUSSIAN "BIG-EYE" tapering mahogany main tube, signed on the backplate as per BINOCULARS with 4in. objective lenses, rubber cap, eye- title, ratchet and pinion fine focus, star-finder scope and pieces with fine focus, grey-painted housing with shade cuff, mounting threads to substantial mahogany tripod stand -- mounted on blue-painted tripod base -- binoculars 27in. unextended height opened 59in. (150cm.) ++Tube has (68.5cm.) long ++Overall condition appears to be fine; no shrinkage crack between stages 1 and 2 from the objective end apparent serious wear; these are understood to be in excellent and the replacement support for the star-finding scope, and is optical condition. reportedly in excellent and extremely powerful optical condition; Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 lacks lens cap. Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 Lot: 298 A GONIOMETER BY CARL ZEISS JENA, CIRCA 1935 heavily- Lot: 294 constructed in lacquered and black-painted brass, signed on A LARGE ASTRONOMICAL REFRACTING TELESCOPE BY the dial as per title and numbered 11808, and mounted on WRAY, & BROADHURST CLARKSON, LONDON the 69in. tapering pillar to tripod stand -- 14 x 12in. (36 x 30.5cm.) crackle-finished main tube with 5in. objective lens signed ++Overall condition seems good, with one or two small areas of WRAY LONDON, polished-brass eye-piece assembly signed paint loss to the stand and fittings. However, this instrument on the backplate Broadhurst Clarkson & Co, 63 Farringdon has not been used or handled for many years and a closer Road London, with rack and pinion fine focus and star tube, the inspection is recommended. main tube with mounting points to substantial counterweighted Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 brass and aluminium mount with electrical motor accessory and guiding rods, secured to stainless steel column with iron tripod base -- approximate height 83 x 79in. (211 x 201cm.); together Lot: 300 with an associated wooden box containing several accessories A RARE DIDACTIC MODEL OF AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY including solar diagonals and alternative eye-pieces, entire TORPEDO GYROSCOPE BY ROBERT WHITEHEAD heavily assembly was purchased from Broadhurst Clarkson in constructed in brass and steel with substantial spring approximately 1970; together with a Mark II gun sight with mechanism, stamped to the side W & C 206 and secured to the military marks dated for 1943 (a lot) **This model will be drop-front of the hinged oak box with label remnants in lid, with available for viewing at 6 Imperial Studios** ++The main lens key -- case measurements 9Â¼ x 8 x 6Â¾in. (23.5 x 20.4 x 17.1cm.) eyepiece assembly and alternative eyepieces have been kept ++Mechanism appears to be in good overall working order; in a cupboard since the instrument was last used (?about 20 case has been rubbed down and waxed externally; some years ago); the main tube has been kept in a dry shed until shrinkage to the side panels of lid. then, and counterweight assembly, and are in good but dusty Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 condition; the tube will need cleaning internally at least with a brush; the principal steel pillar remained in the garden and whilst the foot is rusted it remains in strong overall condition. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 301 A 19TH-CENTURY ARITHMOMETRE signed and numbered on the brass bed plate by Thomas Gonnar Harris, numbered 2178, with retail label inside lid inscribed CH. & J. FAVER- Lot: 295 BRANDT YOKOHAMA & OSAKA, contained within oak case A RARE LATE 19TH-CENTURY LACQUERED-BRASS with stencilled lid on mahogany stand with folding angle support SURVEYING OR ASTRONOMICAL TRANSIT TELESCOPE -- overall measurements 5 x 23Â¼ x 8in. (13 x 59 x 20.4cm.) BY L. CASELLA, LONDON the 20in. telescope with 1Â½in. ++Appears to be in mechanically good condition, with easy objective, supported on transit mount with 6in. vernier circle, action when handling the crank; case with marks and abrasions signed on the securing arm as per title and inscribed Maker to overall commensurate with usage. the Admiralty, with vernier and bubble level, the right with Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 transit optic illuminated by glass and brass lamp, mounted on a substantial black-painted metal frame with levelling screws on removable bubble level -- assembled dimensions 20Â¼ x 16 x 10in. (51.5 x 40.5 x 25.5cm.) ++Both bubble levels empty; Lot: 302 A LATE 19TH-CENTURY MIRROR GALVANOMETER BY transit limb optic correct; wear to lacquer finish. ELLIOTT BROS LONDON with 3in. printed card dial, signed as Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 per title and suspended over electrical coils with box and mahogany supports, the needle suspended over lacquered- brass frame circular base with contacts, orientation level, Lot: 296 levelling screws and glazed dome cover -- 11Â½ x 7in. (29 x A LATE 19TH-CENTURY LACQUERED-BRASS 17.8cm.) ++Glued repair at top of dome; some dust, otherwise SPECTROMETER BY ELLIOTT BROS, LONDON of typical overall condition appears to be good. form and with two 1in. telescopes with 11in. tubes, mounted to Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 divided circle, prism, inset silvered scale signed as per title on Lot: 303

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A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH-CENTURY PAINTED PAPIER box, tweezers etc -- case measurements 3 x 10Â¾ x 5Â½in. (7.5 x MACHE ANATOMICAL TEACHING AID OF A HUMAN TORSO 27.5 x 14cm.) ++Good overall condition for age, with most of of typical cutaway form, with removable organs numbered as the original lacquer remaining; space in the box for 3 or 4 appropriate, mounted on ebonised display board with hinged accessories. breast -- measurements 16Â½ x 9Â¾ x 3in. (42 x 25 x 7.6cm.) Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 ++Apparently complete with some mild paint loss to lower and upper intestines. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 309 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY SIMPLE POCKET MICROSCOPE BY THOMAS RUBERGALL, LONDON in Lot: 304 lacquered-brass, with two threaded eye-pieces to support, with AN 18TH-CENTURY ITALIAN BRONZE PESTLE AND stage and oval base, contained in red morocco-covered MORTAR of bell-shaped form, with raised mouldings and wooden case with maker's label for 27 Coventry St. in lid with circular foot, together with brass pestle with central rim -- the accessories -- 4in. (10cm.) high Thomas Rubergall worked at mortar 8in. (20cm.) diameter; pestle 13in. (33cm.) (2) ++Both 27 Coventry St., Haymarket between 1805-22. ++instrument items have pitting and wear commensurate with age; mortar and case appear to be in good overall condition - I am not has remnant polish in deeper recesses of mouldings. familiar with this model and, whilst there are several Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 accessories such as pincers, blanking plate, tweezers and probes, I don't know if these are complete. Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Lot: 305 AN UNUSUAL LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH-CENTURY GRIP- PRESSURE TESTER unsigned, of silvered metal, comprising Lot: 310 an oval-shaped spring containing a record dial divided 0-200 A RARE 19TH-CENTURY LIFEBOAT COMPASS BY DENT with cog-drive acting on principal needle, and secondary with 2in. card set within liquid-filled bowl with finely-engraved recording indicator with reset peg, contained within original rim inscribed DENT'S patent liquid compass No. 1790 61 fitted plush-lined leather case -- case diameter 5Â½in. (14cm.) Strand, London, with threaded top-up cap, gimbal-mounted with ++Instrument in excellent overall condition; the lid of case front securing catch, within white-painted copper case with scuffed. instructions pasted to the back on retail label for Dollond & Co., Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 hinged candle chamber with white-painted candle sconce, perforated chimney over bevelled glass viewing port, reverse securing hook and top carry handle -- overall measurements 9 Lot: 306 x 6Â½ x 6Â½in. (23 x 16.5 x 16.5cm.) ++Case has been polished A CASED MILITARY PATTERN SET OF SURGICAL externally and is pitted overall; compass glass dirty and inside. INSTRUMENTS BY JOHN WEISS & SON LTD containing Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 three sterilising trays retaining near-full complement of stainless steel instruments, comprising scalpel, tweezers, dilators, trepanning, saws etc., contained within original fitted brass- Lot: 311 bound mahogany box, with photo label inside lid and maker's A LATE 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN LIQUID-FILLED plaque to top, signed as per title, bearing Government mark COMPASS BY RITCHIE, BOSTON with 7Â½in. card signed dated 1905 and numbered 268 -- 3 x 17Â½ x 6Â½in. (7.5 x 44.5 x Ritchie Boston USA, contained in liquid-filled bowl with rim 16.5cm.) ++Instruments are in excellent overall condition, as is stamped SS RITCHIE BOSTON and patent dates for 1862, the case which bears typical wear for age but is in fine 1866 and 1870, mounted in a substantial brass gimbal ring structural condition. within oak travel box -- 7Â¼ x 13Â½ x 13Â½in. (18.5 x 34.3 x 34.3cm.) Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 ++Some liquid loss to compass, which remains in very good overall condition; box in strong overall condition; lacking securing rings for hooks and with a few dents lower side. Lot: 307 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 A REPLICA RARA LTD MICROSCOPE AFTER JOHN CUFF of typical Cuff-type form and constructed as in authentic practise with lacquered-brass tube and fittings, signed on the quatrefoil Lot: 312 stage J. CUFF Londini Invt @ Fecit, contained within A LATE 19TH-CENTURY MARCHING COMPASS BY CARY, mahogany pyramidal case with drawers containing apparently LONDON with 2Â¼in. green card dial, signed as per title, full set of accessories and fittings, still in original packaging, contained within lacquered-brass case with folding sights, and facsimile trade label for Cuff applied to back of case -- case contained within leather carry case ++Card presents slight warp 17in. (43cm.) high ++These instruments appear to be in at S.S.W.; lacquer finish generally good, bearing marks new/unused condition, with some minor wear to the lacquer on commensurate with age, as does leather case the nosepiece. Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00

Lot: 313 Lot: 308 A MODERN BULKHEAD CLOCK AND BAROMETER SET BY A MID 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH DRUM-TYPE SESTREL 6in. painted dial with black hands and single winding MICROSCOPE unsigned, of typical form and contained within arbor to 8-day going-barrel movement, contained within a brass fitted mahogany box with brass plaque engraved Score on lid, bulkhead case mounted on an octagonal board for wall with fittings including six nosepieces, Lieberkuhn refractor, live hanging; the barometer of similar presentation -- 11in. (28cm.)

30 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com diameter overall; together with a miniature pair by Sestrel, the STANLEY, the lower case containing a pair of proportional clock with watch-type 8-day movement with alarm, both dividers by Millikin & Lawley, folding rule by J. Rabone & Sons contained within 3Â½in. (9cm.) diameter brass cases (4) and an unsigned sector, contained within fitted oak case, plush ++Overall condition: the clocks are in fine running condition; lining to lid with maker's marks and lock -- 2 x 8 x 6Â½in. (5 x 20 x barometers appear to be in good working order. 16.5cm.); together with a 9in. radius circular protractor with Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 oxidised arms, signed Watson & Son, London -- 10Â½in. (26.6cm.) diameter (2) ++Drawing set: instruments appear to be in excellent overall condition and apparently complete; lock Lot: 314 inoperative. Protractor: good overall condition; box possibly re- AN UNUSUAL 18TH-CENTURY BRASS CHAIN MEASURE lined; lid slightly warped. constructed in 1in. links numbered alternately 2, 4, 6, 8 etc., Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 inscribed WILLIAM HODGSON LING/FIELD, the shaped end impressed with maker's mark GH under a crown -- 18in. (46cm.) long At the time of writing the identity of the maker has Lot: 319 not been discovered, nor has the precise use for this type of Ã˜ A LATE 19TH-CENTURY DRAWING SET unsigned, the top measure, although the location at Ling/Field suggests an tray complete with nickel-plated compasses, dividers etc., with equestrian connection. ++Marked and rubbed, commensurate ivory-handled pens, the base containing a set of boxwood with age; one or two links slightly bent/warped. rulers, pencil leads etc., contained within fitted rosewood case Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 with lock -- 3Â¼ x 14Â½ x 5Â¼in. (8 x 37 x 13.3cm.) ++Spotting to some of the steel points, pens with two or three areas of rust, some contents may be associated, one pen signed for Harling. Lot: 315 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 A PAIR OF LATE 18TH-CENTURY PROPORTIONAL DIVIDERS BY RAMSDEN, LONDON constructed in brass and signed as per title, with shaped polished-steel points, contained Lot: 320 within original fitted plush-lined morocco case with three Ã˜ A LATE 19TH-CENTURY CASED DRAWING SET BY securing hooks -- 7Â¼in. (18.5cm.) diameter ++Two or three small ELLIOTT BROS, LONDON the plush-lined tray complete with areas of rust to steel points; brass dulled/unpolished; rubbing to nickel-plated and steel instruments, pens with ivory handles, sides of morocco case; overall condition is strong. ivory parallel rule retailed by the Army & Navy, ivory sector, the Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 base containing boxwood rules and squares countersigned as per title, contained in fitted wooden box with securing hooks and owner's name plate inscribed Lionel B. Morris April 18th Lot: 316 1908 -- 2 x 14 x 5in. (5 x 36 x 13cm.) ++Some instruments may AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY POCKET DRAWING SET ETUI be associated; overall condition is good with no evidence of rust unsigned, with typical brass instruments comprising compass, etc.; boxwood rules have ink staining along leading edge; box pen, pencil, dividers etc. (lacking square protractor/ruler), scuffed and marked with age. contained within tapering black fish skin case inscribed around Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 edge for retail at 18/- -- 7in. (18cm.) high overall ++Case is in strong and original condition with tight-closing mechanism and firm press button lock. Instruments appear to be in good overall Lot: 321 condition. Ã˜ A LATE 19TH-CENTURY DRAWING SET unsigned, with Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 plush-lined compartments containing brass and steel instruments, the pens with ivory handles, ivory sector and rule, the base containing boxwood rules, set square and ebony Lot: 317 parallel rule, contained in mahogany box -- 2 x 14 x 5in. (5 x 36 AN UNUSUAL EARLY 20TH-CENTURY DRAWING SET BY x 13cm.); together with a brass roll rule by Halden & Co, E.O. RICHTER & CO. the plush-lined fitted interior complete London & Manchester, contained in fitted wooden case -- 16in. with polished-steel instruments, monogrammed and signed (40.6cm.) diameter (2) where possible and including mechanical line-drawing devices, Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 contained within original fitted mahogany box with owner's plate, engraved C.H. Horrdin -- 2 x 15Â½ x 9in. (5 x 39.5 x 23cm.); together with a black-painted brass instrument with vernier Lot: 322 scale, contained within original fitted black leather case -- 9in. A PAGET ANGLE SEXTANT BY H. HUGHES & SON, (23cm.) diameter (2) ++Drawing set: appears to be in fine LONDON with 4Â½in. ivorine dial, signed and inscribed as per overall condition, with the fitted interior partially adapted to suit title, with black-painted frame, threaded wooden handle, additional drawing bar; contents appear complete and in bright, contained in fitted wooden box -- 7Â¼in. (18.5cm.) diameter; clean condition Vernier instrument: wear to the black-painted together with a station pointer by the same maker, with black- limbs; label in case torn and with ragged edged; case scuffed painted brass frame, contained in fitted wooden box of issue -- along edges, corners and base. 19Â¾in. (50cm.) diameter (2) ++Sextant: good mechanical Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 condition and dial and scale in good working order; painted finish now peeling and underside of edges; station pointer fine overall condition; box lid may be replacement. Lot: 318 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Ã˜ A LATE 19TH-CENTURY DRAWING SET BY STANLEY, LONDON with single fitted plush-lined tray, complete with nickel-plated instruments, the pens with ivory handles stamped Lot: 323

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A 6IN. RADIUS MICROMETER SEXTANT BY HENRY 2182 and further inscribed for F.H.P. WILLIAMS-TRUMAN. HUGHES & SON LTD, LONDON with three-circle crackle-finish R.N., inset silvered scale divided to 160Â°, contained within fitted brass frame, the polished-brass arc signed as per title and wooden box with accessories -- 9in. (23cm.) diameter ++Arc numbered 31018, with scale divided to 130Â°, index arm with has been polished with use. The silvered scale remains in micrometer, quick-release clamp and hinged lamp, Bakelite good and readable condition. Frame is in fine overall condition handle containing battery compartment and switches, contained and appears to retain all sighting tubes and some accessories. within original fitted wooden case with test certificate for 1953 -- Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 11in. (28cm.) square ++Rubber coating to electrical wires has largely perished, one (of two) sighting tubes remains; some verdigris to edges of mirrors; box with scuffs and abrasions Lot: 328 commensurate with age. A MID 19TH-CENTURY 7Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 BY SPENCER BROWNING & CO, LONDON the oxidised- brass ladder frame with polished-brass arc, signed as per title and inscribed and numbered Made for Jo. Sempel, Blyth G531 Lot: 324 and inset silvered scale divided to 150Â°, contained within fitted A 19TH-CENTURY 7Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT wooden case complete with accessories including three unsigned, oxidised-brass ladder frame with polished-brass arc sighting tubes, detachable shade and loup lens, the lid with numbered 1704, silvered scale divided to 145Â°, contained within owner's plate for Captain T. Adams, Folkestone, 1876 -- cased fitted wooden keystone box with sighting tubes and accessories measurements 11in. (28cm.) square ++Frame in unrestored or -- 10in. (25.5cm.) diameter; together with an oxidised and cleaned condition; a little light verdigris in areas but generally lacquered-brass clinometer, Mark I by ER Watts & Son Ltd, good; the silvered scale in good original condition; box appears London, dated for 1943 and contained within fitted teak case to have complete set of accessories; lid has a horizontal with original test report (2) ++Sextant: in fair overall condition, shrinkage crack across middle. silvered scale still clearly divided, box has loose components Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 within but appears to retain full set of sighting tubes and some accessories. Clinometer: fine overall condition. Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 329 A 19TH-CENTURY 7Â½IN. FRENCH VERNIER SEXTANT BY EDMOND LORIEUX, PARIS with black-painted brass lattice Lot: 325 frame, polished-brass arc signed and inscribed E. Lorieux a AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING 20TH-CENTURY 7IN. Paris (2033) Schiaretti Bellieni a Brest, with inset silvered scale RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY KEUFFEL & ESSER CO., divided to 170Â°, vernier with hinged magnifier, shades, mirrors NEW YORK with oxidised-brass frame, polished arc with inset and mahogany handle, contained within original fitted wooden silvered scale divided to 115Âº, signed as per title on the index box with sighting tubes and accessories, securing hooks and arm and numbered 4932, contained within fitted wooden box drop handle -- 10Â¼in. (26cm.) square ++Some minor areas of with sighting tubes and trade labels within lid and inset plaque wear to painted frame; silver scale unpolished but readable; inscribed US Navy No. 4932 in lid -- 10Â½in. (26.6cm.) square three sighting tubes contained in box which is in good overall This sextant was saved from the sinking wreck of the S.S. condition. Strathallan on 21st December 1943. ++Frame finish worn Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 where instrument has been held; scale tarnished but readable; box in strong condition but scuffed and marked commensurate with age. Lot: 333 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 A FINELY-CONSTRUCTED AND DETAILED BOXWOOD MODEL FOR A 38-GUN FRIGATE OF CIRCA 1793 modelled by T. Wake, with planked and framed hull, chain plates and Lot: 326 deadeyes, carved stern and quarter lights, rudder with chains; AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY 7Â¼IN. RADIUS VERNIER the deck with head rails, catheads with sheaves, gratings, SEXTANT BY KELVIN AND JAMES WHITE LTD the brass arc belaying rails, bitts, deck rails, companionways, main and upper signed as per title and numbered J847, with inset silvered scale deck gun tackle rings, windlass, capstan, ship's helm and stern divided to 155Â°, polished-brass ladder frame, with mirrors, davits, contained in a glazed wooden case. Model -- 5 x 23Â½in. seven shades and mahogany handle, contained within original (13 x 59.5cm.); Overall -- 13Â½ x 27in. (34.5 x 68.5cm.) wooden fitted case with accessories including five sighting Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, 23rd October 1987, tubes and Error Certificate for 1912 -- 5Â¼ x 11Â¼ x 10Â¼in. (13.5lot x 421. ++Fine overall condition. 29 x 26cm.) ++Frame has been polished from original oxidised Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 finish, although this appears to have been some time ago as the frame is now dark again; scale is in good readable condition and fittings appear to have retained most of their original Lot: 334 lacquer; lid of box cracked across top left to right and through A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S MODEL FOR THE certificate. LIGHTSHIP LYNNWELL with carved hull, scored deck with Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 fittings including companionways, bitts, chimney, deck lights, winch, mushroom anchor, tiller etc and two signal/lighting masts located within circular roundhouse with cage to the top of each, Lot: 327 mounted on a banded waterline base within glazed oak case -- A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 6IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT overall measurements 16Â½ x 18Â½ x 6Â½in. (42 x 47 x 16.5cm.) BY WHITBREAD, LONDON with oxidised-brass frame, ++Running and standing rigging parted in several places; case polished-brass arc, signed and numbered G. Whitbread London scuffed overall externally.

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Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 celebrated encounter in the Yangtze Incident, bespoke preformed fibreglass hull realistically finished with rust streaks, dark grey decks with fittings including deck rails, anchor Lot: 335 winches, bitts, hose reels, ventilators, quick-firing guns, range A FINELY-RESTORED LATE 19TH-CENTURY MODEL OF finder, quick-launch dinghies, machine guns, searchlights, open THE NEWCASTLE COLLIER THOMAS AND ANN with planked bridge with binnacle, voice tubes, telegraph etc., radar, stayed and pinned mahogany hull, finished in dark brown to the chain funnels with whistle, safety valve extension pipes, gantry etc., plates with red boot top, gold filigree decoration to stern and fitted suite of launches in davits and much other fine detailing, scroll-form headpiece, the deck planked and pinned with mounted on launching block, base with Perspex cover -- case trenails and with fittings including oxidised-brass anchors with measurements 29Â¼ x 82 x 15in. (74 x 208 x 38cm.) Amethyst bound wooden stocks attached to stayed chain, rope around was laid down by Alexander Stephens & Sons on 25 March working windlass with ratchet, bitts, belaying rails and pins, 1942, launched on 7 May 1943 and commissioned on 2 planked and fitted ship's boat in chocks with oars and rudder, November 1943. Deployed mostly on anti-submarine patrols covered hatches, sail winches, bilge pump, companionway, and escort duties, on 20 February 1945 she attacked and sank saloon light, eight-spoke wooden helm, masts with standing the U-boat U-1276 with depth charges (U-1276 had just sunk and running rigging, with deadeyes and blocks, yards with foot HMS Vervain). She is most famously associated however for ropes, and full suit of stitched linen furled sails and other her gripping encounter with the Chinese People's Liberation details, secured to a cradle stand -- overall measurements 33 x Army. On 20 April 1949, Amethyst was on her way from 45 x 15in. (84 x 114.3 x 38cm.) ++Model has been cleaned and Shanghai to Nanjing (Nanking) on the Yangtze River to replace conserved overall; rigging has been largely replaced; hull HMS Consort, which was standing as guard ship for the British possibly repainted and re-varnished with refreshed gilt filigree Embassy there due to the Chinese Civil War between the work; model is uncased. Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communists. Coming Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 under sustained small arm and shell fire, she grounded and managed to transmit the signal "Under heavy fire. Am aground in approx position 31.10' North 119.50' East. Large number of casualties" before her power failed. Everyone capable of Lot: 336 swimming to the safe south bank was ordered over the side, A RARE AND WELL-PRESENTED R.N.L.I PRESENTATION the remainder (about 40 unwounded, 12 wounded and 15 LIFEBOAT MODEL OF THE BLACKPOOL LIFEBOAT, 1870 dead) were relieved when HMS Consort was sighted, flying carved from the solid and finished in blue and white livery with seven White Ensigns and three Union flags, steaming down red gunwale, with grab robes and R.N.L.I. garter insignia, full from Nanking at 29 knots. Consort came under fire from the complement of articulated crew pulling blue-painted oars on the shore batteries and returned fire with 4.5 inch (114 mm) guns, port side and white-painted oars on the starboard, the coxswain destroying the enemy shore batteries before she made a failed seated forward and wearing a cork life preserver and hat with a attempt to take Amethyst in tow. Lieutenant Geoffrey Weston gold band, mounted on a realistically modelled dray with brass- refloated Amethyst on 22 April and moved her out of range of tyred spoked wheels, gratings, red-painted pull gear and tackle the PLA's artillery. The British Naval AttachÃ© Lieutenant- and other details, contained within original mahogany glazed Commander John Simon Kerans joined the ship later that day display case -- overall measurements 10 x 21Â¾ x 13Â½in. (25.5 x and assumed command. The ship remained under PLA guard 55.5 x 34cm.) ++Model appears to be in fine overall condition, until 30 July 1949 when Amethyst slipped her chain and with modest time-staining and craquelure for age; evidence of headed downriver in the dark, beginning a 104-mile dash for old polish in areas of the wheels; top glass of case may be freedom running the gauntlet of Communist guns on both banks replacement. of the river. She followed the merchant ship Kiang Ling Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Liberation, which showed the way through the shoals and distracted the PLA. At 0500 hours of 31 July, Amethyst approached the PLA forts at Wusong (Woosung) and Par Shan Lot: 337 with their searchlights sweeping the river. The Amethyst, at full A CONTEMPORARY SCALE MODEL OF THE RACING speed, broke through the boom at the mouth of the river, made HYDROPLANE MISS ENGLAND the hull carved from the solid contact with HMS Concord and transmitted the now-famous and painted white with red lining and black underside, pinned signal: "Have rejoined the fleet off Woosung...God save the wooden gun wale, air intake, lined engine hatch with wing nuts, King." She was broken up in 1956. **This model will be fitted cockpit with seats, steering wheel, dials etc., engine available for viewing at 6 Imperial Studios** ++Fine overall compartment rudder with yoke and steering wires, mounted on condition with some mild surface dust to deck fittings; forward a single carved oak column within glazed display case, with and aft superstructure is removable allowing access to hull and ivorine plaque inscribed SIR HENRY SEAGRAVE MEMORIAL motor compartments (never fitted). TROPHY OF BARRY YACHT CLUB half-size replica presented Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 to the second winner A.R.H. Fedden at the Roath Park Lake, Cardiff 2nd June 1934... -- cased measurements 9 x 20 x 10in. (23 x 51 x 25.5cm.); together with an oil on board after Roy Lot: 339 Nockolds (1911-1979) of Miss England on a speed trial on a 32 FOOT:1IN. SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE UNION lake -- 29Â½ x 19Â½in. (75 x 49.5cm.) (2) ++Top glass missing to CASTLE LINER EDINBURGH CASTLE [1948] modelled by case; model slightly dusty; painted silk flag parted. R.A. Wilson, with laminated carved and paper-plated hull, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 finished in lilac grey, red and white, planked decks with grey and white painted fittings, including anchor, winch, derricks, deck lights, raked masts with standing and running rigging and Lot: 338 radio aerials, superstructure with wing bridge and bridge-over, A WELL-PRESENTED AND REALISTIC, NOW STATIC, with range finder, lifeboats and davits, swimming pool and after MODEL OF H.M.S. AMETHYST as depicted at the time of her bridge, displayed on a moulded and painted seascape within

33 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com glazed wooden case with legend -- overall measurements 8Â¼ x gun port lids, warrior form figurehead, carved stern and quarter 30Â¾ x 7Â½in. (21 x 78 x 19cm.); carry case ++Overall condition isgalleries, simple deck fittings including capstan, stovepipes, good; one section of standing rigging has parted from the fore bell, stern lights etc., bound masts with yards and s'tuns'l mast; the glazed cover is loose. booms, standing and running rigging, mounted on shaped bone Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 base secured within glazed dome case with gilt crown finial and pineapple feet -- overall measurements 6 x 4Â½in. (15 x 11.5cm.); travelling support stand ++Fine overall condition. Lot: 340 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 A WELL-PRESENTED 32 FOOT:1IN. SCALE MODEL OF THE CLAN LINE CARGO SHIP CLAN MACTAGGART [1949] modelled by R.A. Wilson, with carved laminated hull, paper Lot: 345 plates finished in black and red with white top sides, the black- A FRENCH, POSSIBLY DIEPPE, BONE AND WOOD MODEL painted deck with grey-finished fittings including winches, FOR A TRANSITIONAL SAIL/STEAM RAMBOW WARSHIP, derricks, covered hatches, ventilators, masts with rigging and CIRCA 1860 the planked and pinned hull with carved wales, radio aerials, planked superstructure with lifeboats, bridge and wooden gun decks with bone cannon, boarding companionway, over-bridge, funnel etc., mounted within Plexiglass display case chain plates, deadeyes, standing rigging, planked deck with with titles -- cased model measurements 6Â¼ x 22Â¼ x 6in. (16 x simple fittings including capstan, belaying rail, funnel, masts 56.5 x 15cm.); carry case ++Fine overall condition. with yards, mounted on single turned support and wooden Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 display base, within glazed brass case (restoration, replaced parts) -- overall measurements 13Â¾ x 13Â¾ x 7Â¾in. (35 x 35 x 19.5cm.) ++Model has been re-rigged and replaced parts Lot: 341 include bow sprit, funnel, barbettes, rudder and propeller. A WELL-PRESENTED 32 FOOT:1IN. SCALE STATIC Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 DISPLAY MODEL OF THE LINER CAPTAIN COOK [1925] modelled by R.A. Wilson, with laminated carved and paper- plated hull finished in red and white, planked decks with grey Lot: 345A and white painted fittings, including winches, covered hatches, A LATE 19TH-CENTURY NAÃ•VE BONE MODEL IN derricks, lifeboats with oars, stayed funnel, ventilators, deck DISTRESSED CONDITION the 9in. planked and pinned hull lights etc., mounted within glazed display case with legend -- 7Â¾ with three gun decks, applied flat bone decoration, simple x 23Â¾ x 7Â½in. (19.5 x 60 x 19cm.); carry case ++Fine overall fittings, masts and rigging, contained in glazed case (loose condition. parts, broken masts and spars), cased measurements -- 15 x Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 18Â½ x 7in. (38 x 47 x 18cm.) ++Model was bought in the U.S.A. about 6 years ago and came loose in shipping to the UK. All masts and spars are broken and caught in rigging, several Lot: 342 carved fittings and decorative carvings are loose; model has A MINIATURE BONE FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE been temporarily secured within case but only for local carriage MODEL FOR A 74-GUN SHIP with 3in. planked and pinned purposes. hull, baleen main and secondary wales, guns with red-painted Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 gun port lids, warrior form figurehead, carved stern and quarter galleries, simple deck fittings including capstan, stovepipes, bell, stern lights etc., bound masts with yards and s'tuns'l Lot: 346 booms, standing and running rigging, mounted on shaped bone A RARE AND UNUSUAL EARLY 19TH-CENTURY DIEPPE base secured within glazed brass-bound case -- overall MODEL FOR AN EARLY PADDLE STEAMER the planked and measurements 5Â½ x 6Â½ x 3in. (14 x 16.5 x 7.5cm.) ++Fine overallpinned hull with rudder, paddle boxes with paddles, carved condition. figurehead, catheads, anchors with stocks and planked deck Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 with fittings including cleats, companionway, bitts, four cannon in stepped carriages, capstan, engine room lights, stayed funnel with finely carved splay top and safety valve extension Lot: 343 pipe, covered hatches with cage tops, saloon lights, carved A MINIATURE BONE FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE helm with rope and three masts with standing and running MODEL FOR A 74-GUN SHIP with 2in. planked and pinned rigging with bone blocks, yards and spars, mounted on two hull, baleen main and secondary wales, guns with red-painted turned bone columns to inlaid display base within glazed gun port lids, warrior form figurehead, carved stern and quarter ebonised case -- overall measurements 13 x 22 x 8in. (33 x 56 galleries, simple deck fittings including capstan, stovepipes, x 20.5cm.) ++Model has been cleaned and restored with some bell, stern lights etc., bound masts with yards and s'tuns'l evidence of glue runs, rigging replaced, base and case booms, standing and running rigging, mounted on shaped bone associated. base secured within glazed dome case with bone capstan finial Estimate: £8,000.00 - £12,000.00 and ball feet -- overall measurements 6 x 4Â½in. (15 x 11.5cm.); travelling support stand ++Fine overall condition. Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Lot: 347 A RARE 18TH-CENTURY UN-RIGGED 1:32 SCALE DOCKYARD MODEL FOR A SIX-GUN ADMIRALTY YACHT Lot: 344 BELIEVED TO REPRESENT THE OLD PORTSMOUTH AS A MINIATURE BONE FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE FITTED IN 1752 with 20in. pipe hull finely carved and hollowed MODEL FOR A 74-GUN SHIP with 2in. planked and pinned from the solid, planked and pinned with treenail's over ebony hull, baleen main and secondary wales, guns with red-painted wales, chain plates with deadeyes, Venetian red bulwarks

34 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com delicately painted with swags and trophies, quarter badges with A BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE S.S. mica windows, polychrome caryatids and tafferel characters AZORIAN, DOBSON & CHARLES, GRANGEMOUTH, 1884 sounding trumpets, the paper-covered chequerboard deck with carved from laminated wood with black top sides and off-white fittings including anchor/sail winch with pawl and belaying rails, bilge, lined wooden superstructure as appropriate, mounted on hatches, cut-away mast and bowsprit, companionway with a mahogany backboard inscribed Dobson & Charles, sliding roof to observation deck with mica windows and seat Grangemouth No. 83 , overall diameter -- 55 x 10in. (140 x over, capstan and tiller, mounted on turned wooden columns to 25.5cm.) A small cargo ship of 674 tons, she was re-named walnut display base (restoration and conservation). Overall Dido in 1885 and wrecked in a collision twelve nautical miles measurements -- 12 x 23in. (30.5 x 58.5cm.) Travel case. south of Malaga on 15th October, 1889. ++Lacking cutaway Literature: Lyon, D: The Sailing Navy List, Conway, 1993, p. mast; paint has overall patination commensurate with age - 303 Winfield, R: British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714- wear, scratches, rub marks etc. 1792, Seaforth 2007, p.362 Discovered close to Salisbury, UK, Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 it's possible this model has only moved a few miles since built approximately two and a half centuries ago. Largely complete but untidy, it has been possible with careful research to present Lot: 350 the model correctly. A figurehead might have aided a firmer A BUILDER'S PLATING MODEL FOR DREDGER NO. 350, attribution, however the dimensions and number of guns BUILT BY FLEMING & FERGUSON, PAISLEY, FOR THE suggest just two or three related candidates - the Portsmouth TIMARU HARBOUR BOARD, NEW ZEALAND, 1906 carved (1702), rebuilt as Old Portsmouth (1741), which in turn was from laminated wood, marked in ink as appropriate, inscribed rebuilt as Medina (1772) and which also became the official No. 350 to top and mounted on a painted backboard (later), transport to the Governor of the Isle of Wight. Typical early 18th- overall diameter -- 62 x 8Â½in. (157.5 x 21.5cm.) Registered on Century Admiralty models use open-framed boxwood hulls, so the 8th December 1906, this dredger served for 59 years before the use of a thinly carved fully-represented hull suggests later being sold to Japanese breakers in October 1965. modelling, however the vessel has several quite old fashioned ++Lamination crack at bow with filleted repair/correction along features - the wreathed gun ports (the wreaths are missing, but edge; board later - possibly this model never had a mounting there's evidence for them), the low freeboard are features board; possibly re-varnished; overall knocks and abrasions which were dispensed with on small craft later in the century, so commensurate with age. Medina seems less likely, leaving Old Portsmouth as the likliest Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 candidate. Little is known about Old Portsmouth but it appears she was originally built in 1702/3 as the Portsmouth by master shipwright Thomas Podd for use by the Dockyard Superintendent, and her measurements of 50ft x 15ft with six 2- Lot: 351 BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR A TRAWLER, pdr guns conform to the scale of this model. With a new vessel PROBABLY GOOLE, CIRCA 1930 carved from laminated wood named Portsmouth launched for the Superintendent in 1741, with some suggested plating marks, mounted on mahogany this yacht became Old Portsmouth and in 1752 she was display board -- overall measurements 12Â½ x 57in. (32 x ordered to be fitted for the use of the young gentlemen of the 145cm.) ++Some minor marks and abrasions commensurate (naval) Academy (at Portsmouth). In 1772 she underwent a with age; faint remnants of possible plating marks visible, but "Great Repair" and was renamed Medina and fitted for use by not clear; backing board has several holes where previously the Governor of the Isle of Wight until 1832 when she was hung. finally broken up after 130 years of service. ++Model has been Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 conserved and replacements made for missing parts include part of the rudder, some deck spars (below deck supports), tiller, mast, bowsprit and anchor winch. Remnant paper deck lining still seen in the bow provided the information for the Lot: 352 distinctive chequer board design. The supports and display BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MODEL FOR THE CRUISER base are recent. YACHT OCEAN DOG, CIRCA 1975 the hull carved from Estimate: £20,000.00 - £30,000.00 laminated wood, with mahogany deck and mounted on mahogany display board inscribed OCEAN DOG / REG FREEMAN [M]ARINA -- overall measurements 16 x 42in. (40.6 Lot: 348 x 107cm.) ++Some minor marks and abrasions commensurate with age; solid overall condition. A WELL-PRESENTED AND FINELY DETAILED FRENCH Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE BONE MODEL FOR A 74-GUN SHIP the planked and pinned hull with horn main and secondary wales, protruding brass guns with red- painted port lids, chain plates and deadeyes, finely carved and Lot: 353 gilt warrior form figurehead, stern and quarter galleries, the AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING WOOD AND METAL decks with fittings including deck rings, catheads with metal MODEL OF SIR THOMAS SOPWITH'S MOTOR YACHT anchors with bound-bone stocks, belaying rails, capstan, water PHILANTE , MODELLED BY SHIPYARD WORKERS AT THE barrels, stovepipes, balustraded well deck with gratings, CAMPER & NICHOLSON YARD, GOSPORT, CIRCA 1937 the companionways and saloon lights, bound masts with yards and carved wooden hull finished in blue and white with twin s'tuns'l booms, standing and running rigging suspending two propeller shafts with brass propellers, removable deck and ship's boats between fore and main masts and other details, superstructure with fittings including deck rails, ventilators, secured to bone inlaid wooden display base, secured within companionways, deck lights, bridge with brass instruments, glazed wooden case -- overall measurements 19Â¼ x 23Â¾ x 8Â¾in.masts with radio aerial, funnel, fitted launch etc, mounted on a (49 x 60 x 22.2cm.) ++Fine overall condition. white cradle stand. Overall measurements -- 30 x 68 x 9in. (76 Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 x 173 x 23cm.) Provenance: Presented to Commander Rupert Lot: 349 James RN whilst Commanding Officer of the Controlled Mining

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School, Portsmouth, 1939-45, and thence by descent. Built by boat over, hammock rack, guns in red-painted carriages, deck Camper & Nicholson in 1937 for Sir Thomas Sopwith, the lights, stern davits and boat, the hull with chain plates and Philante was a comfortable motor yacht - and one of the world's deadeyes, carved stern and quarter galleries and rudder, largest at the time, displacing 1,600 tons, 263 feet in length with copper sheathed below the waterline, finished in black, white a 38 foot beam and draught of 15 feet 5 inches. She was and varnish and mounted on two wooden columns to display absorbed into the Royal Navy as H.M.S. Philante for the board with legend, secured within a wood-bound glazed case duration of the war, serving as an Atlantic convoy escort. Sold (restored overall) -- model 10 x 12in. (25.5 x 30.5cm.), from service in 1947 to Norway, whose government had measurements overall 13 x 17in. (33 x 43cm.) ++Fine overall organised a public fund-raising campaign to purchase her for condition. Model has been conserved and restored by the the hugely popular King Haakon. He had been promised a state Parker Gallery and remains in gallery condition. yacht on his accession in 1905, but war and economic Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00 depression had conspired against this, but his defiant and popular opposition to the Nazis combined with his pending 75th birthday had brought matters to a head. Returned to her Lot: 357 builders between October 1947 and June 1948, she was Ã˜ A MID 19TH-CENTURY IVORY DIEPPE THREE-MASTED handed over to the King under the new name of Norge -- now MODEL with carved hull, simple deck fittings, masts with one of just two Royal yachts left in the world, the other being standing and running rigging with blocks and deadeyes and full the Danish Dannebrog. **This model will be available for suit of finely-carved shaved ivory sails, mounted on ebonised viewing at 6 Imperial Studios** display base towing ivory dinghy, within glazed dome display Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 case -- 6 x 6in. (15.2 x 15.2cm.) ++Model has been sympathetically restored with some of the ivory rigging replaced by white silk thread and (?)2 sails; strengthened/repaired. Lot: 354 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 AN UNUSUAL BUILDER'S-STYLE MODEL OF WILLIAM DOXFORD & SONS S.S. SAGAMORE [1893] the laminated and carved hull finished in black with white boot top, red-lined Lot: 358 decks with wooden cargo hatches and polished metal fittings AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF- including deck rails, anchors, winches, derricks, ventilators and WAR WOODEN SHIP MODEL the carved and painted 10in. open bridge, stayed funnel, capstan etc., contained within hull with brass cannons and gun port lids, figurehead, painted glazed wooden display case with funnels and ivorine-style stern and quarter galleries with galleried paper back, scored plaque -- overall measurements 20 x 47Â¼ x 10Â½in. (51 x 120 x deck with fittings including bitts, capstan, stovepipe, water 27cm.) Built for the W. Johnston & Co., her unusual whaleback barrels, belfry with bell, fitted longboat over well deck, gratings, hull was intended to give an increased speed, however it was compass box, cannons in carriages and other details, with not a success and, despite being built under license, she was downed masts, guards with s'tuns'l booms, standing and refused entry to UK waters. She was renamed Solideo (1911) running rigging, depicted lying at anchor in a painted waterline and Ilva (1916) and was blown up by charges set by a German display base, with longboat, contained within an inlaid maple submarine off Isla Colleira, 4th May 1917. ++Fine overall display case (later) -- overall measurements 24Â½ x 21Â¼ x 12Â¼in. condition. (62 x 54 x 31.5cm.) ++Model has shrinkage crack running along Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 main gun deck; two or three wormholes; later rigging; case circa 1870. Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Lot: 355 AN INTERESTING AND WELL-PRESENTED BUILDER'S- STYLE MODEL OF THE WILLIAM DOXFORD & SONS Lot: 359 CARGO SHIP S.S. TURRET [1893] with laminated and carved A BUILDER'S BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL FOR THE hull, with polished metal fittings including deck rails, bitts, M.T. WHAMPOA, BUILT BY THE HONG KONG & WHAMPOA companionways, lined wooden decks with covered hatches, DOCK CO LTD, 1964 the carved and laminated hull finished in winches, derricks, open bridge with helm binnacle and red with black boot top and decks with painted wood and metal telegraph, stayed funnel, lifeboats in davits and other detailing, fittings and superstructure, mounted on wooden cradle within contained within glazed wooden case with finials and ivorine- baize-lined glazed wooden case with brass plaque inscribed style plaque -- overall measurements 20 x 39Â¼ x 10Â½in. ( 51 x BUILT BY HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCKYARD CO LTD, 1m. x 27cm.) The first vessel of what would become a sort-of overall measurements -- 19 x 29Â¼ x 12in. (48 x 74 x 30.5cm.) design classic synonymous with Doxford, she was a relatively This tug of 161 tons was renamed Lamma (1972); and Global small vessel of just 1,970 tons and built for Petersen, Tate & Bull (1977), no disposal date is listed, however a new Co. She was wrecked eight miles off the Villano lighthouse on Whampoa, considerably larger at 481 tons, was launched in January 27th 1900 carrying coal. ++Fine overall condition. 2011. ++good overall condition. Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 356 Lot: 360 A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED NAPOLEONIC The following two models were given to the vendor, then PRISONER-OF-WAR WOODEN MODEL OF A ROYAL NAVAL working at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, by a Director of 50-GUN FRIGATE with details including bound masts, yards the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dockyard to decorate his office in with s'tuns'l booms, standing and running rigging with wooden 1981. A BUILDER'S BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL FOR blocks, dolphin striker, boomkins, carved figurehead in the form THE M.T. KAU LUNG, BUILT BY THE HONG KONG & of a crowned lion, metal anchors with wooden stocks, head WHAMPOA DOCK CO LTD, 1972 the laminated and hull rails, belaying rails, deck rings, capstan, well deck with ship's

36 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com finished in red with black boot top, green-painted decks with M.S. VAVA BUILT BY Ã–RESUNDSVARVET AKTIEBOLAG painted wood and metal fittings and superstructure, mounted on LANDSKRONA, SWEDEN FOR AKTIEBOLGET wooden cradle within baize-lined glazed wooden case with TRANSMARIN, 1951, the laminated and carved hull finished in brass plaque inscribed BUILT BY HONGKONG & WHAMPOA red, green and light grey, with ochre coloured decks, with DOCKYARD CO LTD, overall measurements -- 20Â¾ x 31Â½ x details including anchor winches and chains, ventilators, bitts, 13in. (53 x 80 x 33cm.) This tug of 278tons was renamed silvered deck rails, companionways, lined cargo hatch covers, Kendal (1979); Vrangsund (1995) and Sea Falcon (2006) central superstructure with scored boxwood decking, the bridge ++Good overall condition. with binnacle and range finder over, in stanchions, covered Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 lifeboat in davits, liveried funnel, engine room lights, bridge masts with derricks and ladders and other details, mounted on wooden display base with engraved brass builder's plate and Lot: 361 glass cover -- overall measurements 17Â½ x 47 x 11Â½in. (44.5 x A BUILDER'S BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL FOR THE 120 x 29cm.) A cargo ship of 2306 tons, her name changed to MOTOR TUG PRESTWICK built by P.K. Harris & Sons Ltd, Vavajo (1971); and Atma Shanti (1979), and was broken up in 1955, the laminated carved hull finished in brown, green and November that year at Gadani Beach, Pakistan. ++Model black with a white boot top, red-painted deck with painted appears to be in fine overall original condition with no apparent fittings including anchor winches, engine room lights, bitts, signs of wear or damage. white-painted superstructure with glazed bridge containing Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 helm, telegraph, liveried funnel with communication mast, with navigation lights, hooter, deck rails, covered lifeboat in davits, tow hook, gratings etc., mounted on three bronze columns on Lot: 366 display base with brass-bound Plexiglass cover, maker's plate A BUILDER'S BOARDROOM MODEL FOR M.S. for I.R. AMIS LTD LONDON, and specification plate to front -- FINNFIGHTER BUILT FOR ENSO-GUTZEIT BY WARTSILA- cased measurements 18Â½ x 28Â½ x 13Â½in. (47 x 72.5 x 34cm.)KONCERNEN, 1965, the laminated and carved hull finished in ++Hull paint severely blistered in the forwards block finished red, green and black with white top sides, dark grey painted area to both sides; rigging fragile and now largely parted; three deck with light grey fittings including anchor winches with bridge windows unsecured; display base has old securing holes chains, hose reels, companionways, polished-steel deck rails, where lamp was previously secured. white-painted superstructure with rigged cranes and davits, Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 covered cargo holds, after superstructure with green decks, details including range finder, radar, liveried funnel, lifeboats in davits, engine room lights, etc., mounted to light oak display Lot: 362 board with Perspex maker's plate and glass cover -- overall TWO FRENCH WARSHIP CONCEPT MODELS, POSSIBLY measurements 15 x 40Â½ x 9in. (38 x 103 x 23cm.) A cargo ship TOULON DOCKYARD, CIRCA 1870 constructed from of 2727 tons, she was renamed Lun Shan (1976); and Wan Fu laminated wood with ram bow and finished in black above the (1986) and was deleted from the list in 2003 as her existence waterline with varnished deck, paper labels applied to sides could no longer be confirmed. ++Model appears to be in numbered '1061' and '2063' -- 37in. (94cm.) long, later stands unrestored and good overall original condition. (2) ++Structurally good condition; blemishes and marks to paint Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 commensurate with age. Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,500.00 Lot: 367 A FINELY RESTORED BUILDER'S PRESENTATION MODEL Lot: 363 FOR THE PASSENGER/CARGO SHIP S.S. OSIRIS, BUILT A WELL-PRESENTED Â¼IN.: ONE FOOT SCALE HALF-MODEL FOR KOSMOS LINE HAMBURG BY BLOHM & VOSS, 1902 OF THE RACING YACHT BRITANNIA LAID OUT 1893 the laminated and carved hull finished in red and grey with a modelled by Peter Ward, with laminated and carved mahogany yellow boot top, lined deck with gold and black finished fittings hull, black-painted top sides with gold lining, bow sprit with including anchors with chains and winches, deck rails, cleats, spreader, cutaway mast with boom, white-painted tiller, bitts, ventilators, hose reels, companionways, lined cargo companionway, capstan, lined wooden deck, mounted on hatches, masts with wire standing and running rigging and mahogany backboard with brass name plate -- 10 x 43in. (25.5 derricks, white-painted superstructure with glazed bridge with x 109cm.) ++Fine overall condition. binnacle over, awning stanchions, covered lifeboats to davits, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 stayed funnel with whistle, engine room lights and other details, mounted on two gilt-brass columns within mahogany glazed display case with detailed plaque -- overall measurements 27 x 65, 15in. (68.5 x 165 x 38cm.) Renamed Pays de Liege (1921), Lot: 364 she was broken up at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Holland, in 1926. A Â¼IN.: ONE FOOT SCALE HALF-BLOCK MODEL OF THE **This model will be available for viewing at 6 Imperial Studios** 19TH-CENTURY POOLE HARBOUR MASTER'S CUTTER ++Model has been cleaned and refurbished overall with modelled by Peter Ward, with laminated and carved yellow pine repainted hull, cleaned and polished fittings, re-rigged, new hull, with black top sides and rudder, mounted on a walnut base display case and plate. for wall hanging -- 11 x 29in. (28 x 74cm.) ++Fine overall Estimate: £5,000.00 - £8,000.00 condition. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 368 A BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACKED HALF MODEL FOR THE Lot: 365 S.S. AYLESTONE, BUILT BY J. BLUMER FOR AYLESTONE A BUILDER'S BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL FOR THE SHIPPING CO LTD, 1917 with typical laminated and carved

37 of 38 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com hull finished in light pink and black, white main decks and which will need professional attention. raised box deck with lining, superstructure with details and gold- Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 plated fittings as appropriate, mounted on a mirror with angled end-mirrors in mahogany display case (overall restoration, later mirror, lacking builder's plate) -- 23 x 80in. (58.5 x 203cm.); copy of Marine Modelling, 2002 (2) A general-purpose cargo ship of 3380 tons, Aylestone ran aground on the 9th July 1926 at Fernando do Noronha, Brazil. Her crew were saved, but the ship became a total loss. ++The restoration to this model is discussed in an article contained within Marine Modelling sold with this lot. Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00

Lot: 369 A BUILDER'S BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL FOR THE PASSENGER CARGO SHIP T.S.M.V. PORT AUCKLAND BUILT FOR THE PORT LINE LTD BY R. & W. HAWTHORN LESLIE & CO LTD, 1949 with laminated and carved hull, gold- plated propellers, rudder, lowered boarding companionway, finished in red, maroon and light grey with white topsides, red- painted and lacquered wooden decks, with fittings including oxidised-brass anchors, gold chains and anchor winch, bitts, deck rails, ventilators, ship's bell, hatches with sliding covers, derricks, winches, main mast with crow's nest, rigging and radio aerial, companionways, white-painted superstructure with silvered windows, bridge with over-bridge fitted with binnacle, telegraph and range finder, liveried funnel, engine room lights, four fitted lifeboats in davits, stanchions, crane, spare propellers and much other detailing, mounted on four silver columns on veneered display base with builder's plate, within brass glazed display case on original mahogany stand -- measurements including stand 58Â½ x 79 x 19in. (148.5 x 201 x 48.3cm.) A large vessel of over 12,000 tons (burthen), in 1976 she was converted to a livestock carrier and renamed Mashallah, and was broken up in China three years later. **This model will be available for viewing at 6 Imperial Studios** ++Model has been recently cleaned and conserved and is in excellent overall condition throughout; mahogany display stand has some scuffs and losses to the varnish and appears to be in original state. Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00

Lot: 370 A BUILDER'S BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL FOR A SINGLE-SCREW MOTOR CARGO SHIP BUILT FOR MOOR LINE LTD AND SILVER LINE LTD BY WILLIAM DOXFORD & SONS LTD, SUNDERLAND, CIRCA 1930 the laminated and carved hull finished in red and grey with white boot top and gold- plated propeller and boarding companionway, with lined and lacquered boxwood decks with gold-plated fittings including anchors with studded chain and winches, bitts, deck rails, ventilators, hose pipes, companionways, covered cargo hatches, derrick winches, masts with derricks and rigging, forward superstructure with awning stanchions, lifeboats in davits, bridge with over-bridge, fitted with binnacle helm, fire buckets, water tank, radio aerial, stayed funnel with whistle, engine room lights, and other details, mounted on four turned gilt columns with glazed mahogany case, with cast bronze builder's plates, mounted on later pediment stand -- measurements including stand 61 x 72 x 19in. (155 x 183 x 48cm.) **This model will be available for viewing at 6 Imperial Studios** End of Sale Next Sale: 30th April 2014 (Closing: 7th March 2014) ++Starboard side is in fair overall condition, some loss to the forward lining of the boot top, evidence of dust to the decks etc. The port side has been severely scorched in a window, with much distress to the upper (grey) paint work,

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