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The Marine Sale Wednesday 2 October 2013 at 2pm 2 October 2013 at Wednesday London Knightsbridge, The Marine Sale 20766 The Marine Sale, 2 October 2013, Knightsbridge, London The Marine Sale Wednesday 2 October 2013 at 2pm Knightsbridge, London Bonhams Enquiries Please see page 2 for bidder Montpelier Street information including after-sale Knightsbridge Pictures collection and shipment London SW7 1HH Rhyanon Demery www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 20 7393 3865 Please see back of catalogue [email protected] for important notice to bidders Viewing Sunday 29 September Veronique Scorer Illustrations 11am to 3pm + 44 (0) 20 7393 3962 Front cover: Lot 89 Monday 30 September [email protected] Back cover: Lot 7 9am to 4.30pm Inside front cover: Lot 117 Tuesday 1 October Works of Art Inside back cover: Lot 109 9am to 4.30pm Lionel Willis Opposite page: Lot 90 Wednesday 2 October + 44 (0) 20 7393 3804 Before end paper: Lot 56 9am to 12pm [email protected] Index: Lot 106 Bids Administrator +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Emma Gordon +44 (0) 20 7447 4701 fax +44 (0) 20 7393 3960 To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] www.bonhams.com Customer Services Please note that bids should be Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm submitted no later than 24 hours +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 before the sale. New bidders must also provide Sale Number: 20766 proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in Catalogue: £15 your bids not being processed. Always confirm with the bids office that faxed bids have been received. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate in excess of £400. Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. Montpelier Street, Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, Robin Hereford, London SW7 1HH Patrick Meade, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Asaph Hyman, Charles Lanning, Camilla Lombardi, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Sale Information Central Middlesex Hospital Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V Bids Collection & shipmentWest Acton Handling & HandlingHorn Lane & +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Sold lots marked with a specialStation storage charges storage payment +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax symbol W will be only retained All charges due Bonhams must be To bid via the internet please visit at Bonhams Knightsbridge until Please Note paid by the time of collection from www.bonhams.com 5pm on the day of the sale. Lots For sold lots marked with a special Bonhams’ warehouse. not collected by then will be symbol W removed to Bonhams Payments removed to Bonhams Park Royal Park Royal warehouse transfer and Payment in advance warehouse. storage charges will commence on Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Buyers Wednesday 9 October 2013. to ascertain amount due by: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 The sold lots marked with a cash, cheque with banker’s +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax special symbol W will be available The charges levied by Bonhams card, credit card, bank draft or for collection from Bonhams are as follows: traveller’s cheque. Sellers warehouse as from 9.30am on Payment of sale proceeds Friday 4 October 2013. Paintings and Frames marked Payment at time of +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 with W collection +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Lots may be released from By credit card / debit card Bonhams warehouse on Transfer per lot £20.00 production of the collection Valuations, taxation Daily storage per lot £3.40 Important Notice order obtained from cashier’s A surcharge of 2% is applicable & heritage office at Bonhams and a form of +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 All other paintings and frames when using Mastercard, Visa and photographic ID. If a third party is +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax overseas debit cards. collecting on behalf of the client, [email protected] Transfer per lot £10.00 the client must provide Bonhams Daily storage per lot £1.70 The following symbol is used to with written authority prior to denote that VAT is due on the Catalogue subscriptions collection. The third party must All the above charges are hammer price and buyer’s premium To obtain any Bonhams catalogue present a photographic form of ID or to take out an annual exclusive of VAT when collecting. † VAT 20% on hammer price subscription: and buyer’s premium Subscriptions Department All sold lots not marked W +44 (0) 1666 502200 will remain in Collections at * VAT on imported items at +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Bonhams Knightsbridge for a a preferential rate of 5% on [email protected] period of not less than 21 days hammer price and the prevailing from the sale date. Following rate on buyer’s premium Shipping that all lots will be transferred For information and estimates to our Bonhams Park Royal W These lots will be removed on domestic and international warehouse. Transfer and to Bonhams Park Royal after shipping as well as export licenses storage charges will commence the sale. Please read the sale please contact Bonhams Shipping on Wednesday 23 October 2013. information page for more details. Department on: +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 Bonhams Warehouse Y These lots are subject to CITES +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 regulations, please read the +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax Address: Unit 1, Sovereign Park information in the back of the [email protected] Coronation Road catalogue. Park Royal, London NW10 7QP Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 AR These lots are subject to the Hours of opening 9.30am to Artists Resale Right levy. Please 4.30pm Monday to Friday refer to the information in section 7 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. Marine Works of Art Lots 1 - 58 1 1 (detail) 1 A 19th century two day marine chronometer, by Henry Frodsham, Liverpool. Matte silver 3.5ins.(9cm)diam. dial with Roman numerals, inscribed Henry Frodsham Castle Street Liverpool and numbered 2150. Blued steel hands, with separate seconds and state of wind dials. Gilt movement with chain fusee and maintaining power, and an Earnshaw type detent escapement. In a three tier mahogany carrying case with brass handles and ratchet safety key. 7x7x7ins. (18x18x18cm) £2,000 - 3,000 €2,300 - 3,500 Henry Frodsham was known to have worked between 1835-56. He operated from Castle Street, Liverpool, between 1835-41. 2 A two day marine chronometer, by Thomas Mercer, St Albans. Numbered 27832 on the 4ins.(10cm)diam. silvered dial, with arabic numerals and separate seconds and state of wind dials. Fusee movement with Earnshaw type escapement. Mounted on gimbals in a mahogany deck case, with glazed top and ratchet 2 winding key. 7.5x7.5x7ins.(19x19x18cm) £600 - 800 €700 - 940 A cleaning ticket by BV Observator Rotterdam, dated June 1970, states that this instrument was employed on the MV Nordic Chieftain. 3 A W. Pye brass sextant English, early 19th century, with silver scale and vernier, magnifier, two sets of coloured filters and shaped rosewood case, 6in (15cm) radius, in original fitted case with two telescopes; together with a set of station pointers in case (2) £500 - 700 €590 - 820 4 A bronze ship’s bell, Barcelona with chased lettering and including clapper. 9x12ins.(23x31cm) £500 - 700 €590 - 820 Believed to be from the SS Barcelona built in 1882 for the Barcelona Steamship company, Liverpool, which foundered off Ushant in 1912. 4 6 | Bonhams 5 5W 6 A rare Locking (Sans Boulons) Diving Helmet A Siebe Gorman antimagnetic diver’s knife, by Piel & Petit, France. Copper dome, with screw-off faceplate, clear with stainless double blade and shaped bakelite handle, in a non- side windows and framed top window. Rear air inlet with valve, side magnetic bronze sheath. Together with a Japanese diver’s knife, stainless exhaust with internal chin relief valve, fitted with two suspension rings. double blade with serrated edge and shaped composition handle. In a Flanged brass rim stamped 14241. Copper corslet with brass rim and cast bronze sheath with leather belt. (2) locking hook and stub mechanism, suspension hooks and weight pins. £500 - 700 17x13x20ins.(43x33x51cm) €590 - 820 £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 Designed by Rene Piel and Charles Petit, this helmet featured a locking neck seal which eliminated the need for bolts to secure. Also shown in the Siebe Gorman catalogue, although not generally with the crown vibraphone connection. The Marine Sale | 7 7 7 A small ship’s figurehead, in the form of a female bust in 19th century costume, with ruffled dress and coiled hairpiece, on a carved plinth.
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