The Marine Sale I Montpelier Street, London I 17 October 2018 24654
The Marine Sale Montpelier Street, London I 17 October 2018
The Marine Sale Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 17 October 2018 at 2pm
BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Please see page 4 for bidder IMPORTANT INFORMATION Montpelier Street Pictures information including after-sale In February 2014 the United collection and shipment Knightsbridge Leo Webster States Government announced London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3865 the intention to ban the import Please see back of catalogue www.bonhams.com [email protected] of any ivory into the USA. Lots for important notice to bidders containing ivory are indicated by VIEWING Veronique Scorer the symbol Ф printed beside the ILLUSTRATIONS Sunday 14 October +44 (0) 20 7393 3962 Lot number in this catalogue. 11am to 3pm [email protected] Front cover: Lot 37 Monday 15 October Inside front cover: Lot 88 REGISTRATION 9am to 4:30pm Itziar Ramos After end paper: Lot 74 IMPORTANT NOTICE Tuesday 16 October +44 (0) 20 7393 3988 Back cover: Lot 5 Please note that all customers, 9am to 4:30pm [email protected] Inside back cover: Lot 80 irrespective of any previous activity Wednesday 17 October Before end paper: Lot 105 with Bonhams, are required to 9am to 12pm Works of Art Index: Lot 86 complete the Bidder Registration Jon Baddeley Form in advance of the sale. The BIDS [email protected] form can be found at the back of +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 +44 (0) 20 7393 3872 every catalogue and on our +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax website at www.bonhams.com [email protected] Historical Consultant and should be returned by email or To bid via the internet please visit Michael Naxton, ASFAV post to the specialist department www.bonhams.com or to the bids department at PRESS ENQUIRIES [email protected]
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Subscriptions Department handling charges apply: card. To arrange a collection time +44 (0) 1666 502200 £22.50+VAT per lot for Pictures & please send a booking email to: +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Small Objects Payment at time of collection [email protected] [email protected] £45.00 +VAT per lot for Furniture, by: or telephone call to +44 (0)800 Large Pictures & Large Objects cash, cheque with banker’s card, SHIPPING 9886100 to ensure lots are ready credit, or debit card. at time of collection. For information and estimates Loss and Damage on domestic and international Extended Liability cover for the shipping as well as export All other sold lots will remain in the collections department value of the Hammer Price will licenses please contact Alban be charged at 0.6% but will not Shipping on: at Bonhams Knightsbridge for a period of not less than 14 exceed the total value of all other +44 (0) 1582 493 099 transfer and storage charges. [email protected] calendar days from the sale date 17 October 2018. Lots not (Note: Charges apply every day collected by 5.30pm Tuesday including weekends and Public 30 October 2018 will be returned Holidays) to the department storage charges may apply. 1 Y Ф 2 3 Y Ф A CARVED WHALE BONE AND IVORY A SAIL MAKER’S WHALEBONE A WHALE BONE AND IVORY WALKING WALKING STICK, ENGLISH, MID 19TH SEAM RUBBER, ENGLISH, MID 19TH STICK, ENGLISH, MID 19TH CENTURY, CENTURY, CENTURY, with ivory handle mounted with silver badge the handle with carved ivory Turkish knot and carved and turned from a single piece of and band, the bone shaft with double twist fve rings of baleen, the bone stick carved whale bone, 4 1/4in (11cm) long carved decoration, 35 1/2in (90cm) long with diamond and spiral patterns, 34in (87cm) long £200 - 300 £800 - 1,200 €220 - 330 €890 - 1,300 £600 - 800 US$260 - 390 US$1,000 - 1,600 €670 - 890 US$780 - 1,000 Seam rubbers were part of a sail maker’s tool kit. They were used to smooth and fatten the seams of heavy canvas sailcloth, where two pieces were joined or the edges were hemmed before they were sewn. For details of the charges payable in addition to For similar seam rubber, see A Treasury of the fnal Hammer Price of each Lot please refer American Scrimshaw, McMannus (Michael), to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at Penguin Studio, N.Y., p. 116. the back of the catalogue.
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THE MARINE SALE | 5 4 A FINE PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE MODEL OF THE 100-GUN FIRST CLASS SHIP-OF-THE-LINE H.M.S. CALEDONIA, ENGLISH/FRENCH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, the pinned and planked hull with horse-shoe shaped galleried stern, three masts with standing and running rigging, deck details include skylights, belaying rails, gratings, ship’s bell under canopy, capstan, break head and carved bone warrior fgurehead, on shaped bone with horn inlay and apron painted to simulate drapes, in modern glazed display case, sold together with this lot is a letter and description supplied by the Parker Gallery, London dated 18th July 1984, the model 9 1/2 x 13 x 4in (24 x 33 x 10cm)
£10,000 - 15,000 €11,000 - 17,000 US$13,000 - 19,000
The correspondence from the Parker Gallery indicates that this model is of Admiral Lord Gambier’s fagship H.M.S. Caledonia launched at Davenport in 1808. However this impressive ship-of-the-line was designed to carry 120 guns whilst this model only displays 100.