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Lot: 1 1877. She was wrecked near Rhinns off Islay on 3rd June ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES GORE (HORKESTOWE, 1898. YORKSHIRE 1729-1807 WEIMAR) Study of a brig in four Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 positions Inscribed 'before the wind...on the larboard tack...in Stays...on Starboard tack' (lower centre) Pencil, white chalk and watercolour, on paper 4Â½ x 8Â¾ in. (11.4 x 22.2 cm.) Lot: 9 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 20TH CENTURY The barque 'Lawhill' sailing under reduced sail in a turbulent sea Oil on board 18 x 24in. (45.7 x 61cm.) Built by the famous firm of W.B. Lot: 2 Thompson, this near-3,000 ton steel barque was launched in CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY The Brigantine 1892 and enjoyed a long career as one of the last great Cimbri under way off a lighthouse Inscribed in later hand on windjammers able to compete against the onset of steam. Over reverse of frame A. DE CLERK 'CIMBRI' Watercolour and the years she changed hands a number of times, and when pencil heightened with white 22 x 31in. (56 x 79cm.) being advertised in 1899 was stated to have capacity for 4,474 Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00 tons coal, 22,888 bales of jute, and 118,500 cases of oil. In 1932 she sank the Polish steamer Niemen in a collision in Skagerrak but was cleared of all guilt. In 1942 she was confiscated by the South African government and thereafter Lot: 3 traded from East London. She was finally sold for breaking in NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY The harbour at 1959. Naples depicted with flags of various nations flying from Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 anchored vessels, with Vesuvius smoking beyond; and another similar with Vesuvius dramatically erupting Both inscribed with 'Il Vesuvio' (lower centre) Watercolour heightened with white 16 x 24in. (40.5 x 61cm.) (2, a pair) Lot: 10 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 ROBERT MOORE (BRITISH, 1905-1963) Stormy conditions in the Bristol Channel (off Portishead, Avon) Signed 'Rbt Moore' (lower left) Oil on board 15 x 24in. (38 x 61cm.) Lot: 4 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY The brig 'Susannah Knap' approaching Naples with Vesuvius beyond Inscribed 'Brig Susannah Knap 14 March 1867 Yvan Davis Master' Lot: 11 Watercolour heightened with white 18 x 25in. (46 x 63.5cm.) ALEX LEES, 20TH CENTURY The American stern-wheel river Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 paddle steamer 'Memphis Queen III' under way Signed 'ALEX LEES' (lower right) Oil on canvas 24 x 36in. (61 x 91.5cm.) Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 5 VINCENZO LUZZO (ITALIAN, FL. 1855-1875) The Bowser Ormston Cargo Ship 'Flamboro' under steam and sail in a calm Lot: 12 sea Signed 'Vincenzo Luzzo of Venice 1892' (lower right) DAVID JAMES (BRITISH, FL. C.1885-1900) A pair of pictures: Watercolour 17 x 26in. (43 x 66cm.) The 1,936 ton cargo ship Evening on the North Coast of Cornwall Signed 'D. James 83' 'Flamboro' was launched by Palmers of Jarrow in November (lower left); 'D. James 84' (lower right) Inscribed in later hand 1885, and wrecked on the Kem Reef on 2nd July 1896. on back with title and artist 'D. James 95' Oil on canvas 25 x Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00 50in. (63.5 x 127cm.) (2, a pair) Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00

Lot: 6 SWEDISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY The Aurora HÃ¤fverÃ¶ at Lot: 13 sea Indistinctly signed 'H.P. ... Aurora HÃ¤fverÃ¶ Kapt. W. CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A square-rigged Wickstrom' Watercolour 21Â½ x 29Â½in. (54.5 x 75cm.) three-masted ship at anchor, at dusk Oil on board 9Â½ x 13Â½in. Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00 (24 x 34.3cm.) Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 7 ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÃ‡OIS GEOFFROI ROUX (FRENCH, Lot: 14 1811-1882) Study for an early wooden paddle steamer of circa ENGLISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY A ship in a gale about to 1830 Watercolour and pencil 11Â½ x 17Â½in. (29 x 44.5cm.) be wrecked on rocks, firing signal gun of distress, with anchors Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 lowered 14 x 20in. (35.5 x 50.8cm.) Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 8 EDUOARD ADAM OF LE HAVRE (1847-1910) The S.S. Lot: 15 Blythville under way in a swell Inscribed 'S.S. Blythville of West WILLIAM CLARK (GREENOCK, 1803-1883) The 'Hanover' of Hartlepool W.C. Bacon Commander 1880' Oil on canvas 24 x Glasgow flying the House Flag of Stirling & Gordon Signed 'W. 36in. (61 x 91.5cm.) This cargo ship of 1,390 tons was built Clark 1839' (left of middle). Inscribed on contemporary label to and run by W. Gray of West Hartlepool, launched 28th July reverse 'No. 3 portrait of Hanover of Glasgow, Clark 1839' Oil on canvas 24 x 36in. (61 x 91.5cm.) Built and launched by

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Scott of Greenock in 1826, the 290 ton barque Hanover was Lot: 20 one of a small fleet of eight vessels built over the years for the NAVAL SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY 'H.M.S. Raleigh passing West Indian sugar traders Stirling & Gordon of Glasgow, Hang Klip Head Initialled 'F.G.D.B. 1894' (lower left) making many round trips to Jamaica. Hanover served her Watercolour 5Â½ x 7in. (14 x 18cm.); together with another similar original owners until 1843, when she was sold to W. Blues of entitled After sunset, Simons Bay, initialled 'F.G.D.B. 1894' Leith for their Africa trade. By 1846 she was transferred to (lower right) (2) Halket & Co. of London and was absent from Lloyd's Register Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 by 1848. An earlier painting by Clark dated for 1830 depicts Hanover arriving in the Clyde just as her consort, the Christian, departs. Literature: A.S. Davidson: Marine Art and the Clyde, Jones-Sands Publishing, 2001, page 113. Lot: 21 Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 H.L. JOHNSON (BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY) S.S. Discovery frozen in for the winter off Hut Point, McMurdo Sound Signed 'H.L. Johnson 17.7.16' Oil on panel 15Â½ x 20Â½in. (39.5 x 52cm.) Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 16 JAMES BAKER PYNE (BRITISH, 1800-1870) The Finger of Providence Signed 'J.B. Pyne 1858 No. 490' (lower right) Artist's label to reverse inscribed 'Liverpool Society of Arts J.B. Lot: 22 Pyne The Finger of Providence' Oil on canvas 25 x 30in. (63.5 ERIC TUFNELL (BRITISH, 1888-1978) Wei Hai Wei - June, x 76cm.) 1939 Signed 'E. Tufnell, Wei Hai Wei. 1939' (lower right), with Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 detailed typed notes appended to reverse 9Â½ x 14Â¼in. (24 x 36.2cm.) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 17 OLIVIER LE MAY (1734-1797) An English Squadron of the Red encountering multiple water spouts, probably off Gibraltar, Lot: 23 whilst in pursuit of a Spanish armed merchantman Signed 'O Le ERIC TUFNELL (BRITISH, 1888-1978) Two watercolours of May' (lower left on stern of principal two-decker) Oil on canvas Malta convoy interest: H.M. Ships 'Mohawk','Eagle' and 19Â½ x 29in. (49.5 x 73.7cm.) This intriguing scene undoubtedly 'Warspite. 1941'; H.M. Ships 'Royal Sovereign', 'Eagle' and records an incident which has yet to be properly identified. 'Malaya' 1940 The latter signed 'E. Tufnell..' (lower right); each Frustratingly, the artist has signed the picture where the most with detailed pasted notes to reverse Watercolour heightened obvious clue - the vessel's name - might have been put. with white Approximately 10Â¼ x 14Â½in. (26.5 x 36.5cm.); together However, the vessel apparently aground under the headland, is with another similar entitled All quiet off Crete Autumn 1940. flying a white flag with a red saltire - although Ireland was not Eagle, Ramillies, Malaya, and Kent Signed in ink 'E. Tufnell' fully part of the Union of Great Britain at that time, neither did (lower right) 10 x 15in. (25.5 x 38cm.) (3) she maintain a significant navy, merchant or otherwise; The Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 most likely candidate would seem to be the "Ragged Cross" flag. This 'Cross of Burgundy' as it is also known, was in use as the Spanish naval ensign between 1506-1701, and as a Lot: 24 Biscayan merchant ensign between 1511 and 1830. If this is H.E. FRECKER, 20TH CENTURY The Battle of Jutland Signed indeed a Spanish armed merchantman run ashore by British 'H.E. Frecker' (lower left) Pencil on paper 5Â½ x 15in. (14 x vessels intent on booty, there are several Wars which would 38cm.); together with a print after W.M Birchall of battleships in have provided them with a suitable excuse, however the convoy, published by J.F.E. Grundy, 1918, stamped and signed looming headland in the middle distance looks distinctly like the lower left -- 6 x 9in. (15 x 23cm.) (2) famous Rock of Gibraltar which has served as a notorious flash- Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 point between Great Britain and Spain ever since it was handed over in perpetuity by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 Lot: 25 THE BELL FROM THE RIVER CLASS DESTROYER H.M.S. BOYNE, 1905 with moulded rim and shoulder, inscribed in Lot: 18 black-filled lettering as per title -- 12Â½in. (32cm.) high; AFTER GILBERT STUART, LATE 19TH-CENTURY John associated clapper and knot-work pull Ordered from Hawthorn Jervis, Earl of St Vincent inscribed 'G. Stuart, 1794' (lower right) Leslie under the 1903-4 programme, Boyne was laid down in Watercolour 15Â½ x 10Â¾in. (39.4 x 27.3cm.) February 1904, launched that September and completed in Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 May 1905. Displacing 545 tons and measuring 222 x 23Â½ feet, she was initially armed with five 6-pounders, but from 1907 that became four 12-pounders and two torpedo tubes. Surviving the Lot: 19 Great War, she was sold for breaking in August 1919, but BRIAN COOLE (BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY) Full-length portrait seems to have been sunk as a target. This bell was recovered of the American Commander Stephen Decater Signed 'Brian from the wreck in 1988 and a letter from the Ministry of Defence Coole' (lower right) and inscribed 'Commander Stephen accompanies it, conferring rights to the vendor. Decater' (mid left) Oil on canvas 60Â½ x 30Â½in. (153.5 x 77.5cm.)Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Framed Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 26 AN INTERESTING PRIVATE ARCHIVE KEPT BY CAPTAIN, LATER THE REV. VICE-ADMIRAL, A.R.W. WOODS

2 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com beginning from around the outbreak of war in 1914 until 1925 Lot: 30 with some later insertions and comprising signal and cypher AN UNOFFICIAL BRASS BADGE FOR H.M.S. SPORTIVE logs liberally over-filled with a mass of ephemera including (1918) circular, depicting a billy goat and inscribed BUTT IN photographs, letters, programmes, menus, personal and official over, refinished -- 7in. (18cm.) diameter; together with a small papers, etc. from his career aboard several vessels, the first brass badge for Wizard -- 4Â½in. (11.5cm.) diameter; a naval jack volume predominantly war-related, the second volume includes staff crown; and a quantity of later copies from various ships (a several photographs of King George V aboard, the second lot) Sportive was a destroyer of 1918 broken up in 1936. inscribed with owner's name and marked 'PRIVATE' (2) Rev. Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Vice-Admiral Alexander Riall Wadham Woods, D.S.O. (1880- 1954) joined the navy in 1894. He served throughout the Great War and was present at the Battle of Jutland as flag officer to Jellicoe aboard Iron Duke, for which he was mentioned in Lot: 31 dispatches and awarded the D.S.O. Later in the War he AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING PAIR OF WORLD WAR II commanded the light cruiser Topaze. After the War he was JAPANESE NAVAL BRIDGE/CONNING TOWER 'BIG EYE' Captain of the Dockyard and the King's Harbourmaster at BINOCULARS CAPTURED BY H.M.S. EURYALUS 1943-5 Portsmouth. He retired a rear-admiral in 1931 and promoted with 3in. diameter objective lenses, folding sights, adjustable vice-admiral in 1936. He was ordained deacon in 1933 and eye-piece with individual focusing, trunnion mounts with radial priest a year later. He made his home the Red Ensign Club in quadrant and handle, finished in original grey paint and Stepney and was a familiar and popular figure there and in the contained within fitted wooden box with lid inscribed The dockland parish of Whitechapel. Superintendent / Admiralty Research Laboratory, / Teddington, Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 / Middlesex. / Via. S.N.S.O. at Ports concerned. / Case No. E.C. 4624/155 / from Capt., R. O-B. H.M.S. Euryalus. Cased measurements -- 9Â¾ x 22Â¼ x 16in. (25 x 56.5 x 40.5cm.) Provenance: Capt. Richard Oliver-Bellasis (1900-1964), Lot: 27 Commander of H.M.S. Euryalus 1943-45 and thence by A LAUNCH BOARD FOR THE FIRST CLASS BATTLESHIP descent According to family history, having captured this pair DUNCAN (1901) painted overall and inscribed Success to the of binoculars and sent them for examination, the Admiralty had "DUNCAN.", the reverse inscribed I saw this ship launched 21st no further use for them and returned them to his care. They Mar 1901 E.T. Adams -- 9Â½ x 96Â¾in. (24 x 246cm.); photographshave languished in the painted and partially-padded box he and data (a lot) Provenance: E.T. Adams (naval architect and sent them in ever since and remain in highly original condition. amateur photographer); Bernard Cheese (executor of Adams' Oliver-Bellasis was a specialist in underwater defences and in estate); Vendor (acquired from Cheese mid 1970s) The charge of experimental mine sweeping before the war. He nameship of a class of six, Duncan was built at the Thames joined Euryalus on the 15th August 1943 - just after her epic Iron Works and laid down in 1899. Displacing 15,200 tons service escorting the famous Malta convoys. On 27 August, (deep load), they were built in response to increased naval Euryalus hoisted the flag of Rear-Admiral Vian, in command of output from Russia and France. Sacrificing armour for speed, Force V, consisting of five escort carriers and three cruisers. their two-shaft four-cylinder triple-expansion engines fired by Force V provided co-ordinated air cover for the assault on twenty four Belleville boilers could generate 18,000hp, giving a Salerno on 9 September 1943. By 12 September 1943, an maximum of 19 knots, and were famously good steamers. airfield had been established ashore and the force withdrew. A Operating in the Mediterranean Squadron based at Malta from powerful German counter-offensive was mounted on 14 1904-5 and 1908-12, they were still front line vessels in the September 1943 and Euryalus, Cleopatra and Dido were early days of World War I (despite the advances made with ordered to Tripoli to embark troops and transport them at high Dreadnoughts) and formed part of the 3rd Battle Squadron at speed to Salerno, arriving on the afternoon of 16 September Scapa Flow. Transferred to the Third Detached Squadron in 1943. Italy having now dropped out of the war, Euryalus took 1916, she fought against Greek Royalists and landed Royal Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, the Allied Naval Commander- Marines in Athens on December 1st. In February 1917 she was in-Chief, to Taranto on 23 September 1943 for a meeting on put in reserve at Chatham and used as an accommodation board with the Italian Minister of Marine to settle the surrender ship. Placed on the disposal list in March 1919, Duncan was of the Italian Fleet. Her longest period at sea was in July and broken up in 1920. August 1945, when the ship was patrolling in the Pacific looking Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 for Japanese naval craft. She steamed 16,850 miles non-stop for 44 days - then an RN record (using the new technique of refuelling at sea) - and when Oliver-Bellasis presumably Lot: 28 acquired this lot. As one of the larger British ships located A 19TH-CENTURY SHAGREEN-COVERED BRASS there, Euryalus liaised with any smaller British craft in the area. BULKHEAD CLOCK unsigned, with 7in. painted dial inscribed Although she did not encounter the enemy it seems likely the behind in pencil Osborne, with black spade hands and binoculars were captured and brought aboard by one of these. subsidiary seconds, eight-day chain fusÃ©e movement, contained Oliver-Bellasis left the ship in November 1945 and, upon his within a shagreen-covered brass bulkhead case with hinged return to the Admiralty, became Director of Underwater and domed bevelled-glass port -- 9Â¼in. (23.5cm.) wide Weapons from 1947 until his retirement in 1950. Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £4,000.00

Lot: 29 Lot: 32 AN ADMIRALTY-PATTERN GROG MEASURING SET A BELL FROM H.M. SUBMARINE SARACEN, 1942 of typical comprising six copper measures between a gill and a gallon, form, the front inscribed in black-filled lettering P.247 1942, the and two half-gallon copper jugs, bearing stamps for George VI reverse with the broad arrow mark, complete with clapper and or Elizabeth II (8) sally, the bell -- 11 x 11in. (28 x 28cm.) H.M.S. Saracen was Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 built at Cammell Laird and launched on 16th February 1942.

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Her original designation was to have been P213 but there was Lot: 36 resistance against having an unlucky '13' in the number, so she A CREW PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FROM H.M.S. POWERFUL, became P247 - which still added up to 13. She was named TAKEN BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 1905-1911 comprising Saracen in January 1943 and was issued with a named bell approximately 150 largely 4 x 5in. black and white views of life (this lot, which has many strike marks, becoming redundant). and activities aboard and on excursions; the latter part the Her short career started auspiciously when she sank U335 in album composed of family views and souvenir ephemera, the the North Sea on 3rd August 1942 - one of the two survivors album -- 15 x 11in. (38 x 28cm.) (a lot) The identity of the died when he refused to be rescued. Latterly she sank the photographer is not certain, but there are two or three Italian submarine Granito, the sub-chaser Maria Angelette and suggestive images that could identify him; Powerful is most several axis merchantmen and convoys. Her end came on 14th famously associated with the Siege of Ladysmith, where she August 1943 when, cruising off Bastia, Italy, she was spotted by served in 1899. The views in this album provide a fascinating the Italian corvettes Minerva and Euterpe who promptly depth- close-up look at her just after that action, from rarely-seen charged her. Forced to the surface, her crew evacuated and angles and vantage points. scuttled her to prevent capture. More recently in September Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 2008 the families of crewmen from Saracen were invited to Corsica to witness the unveiling of a memorial to British secret agents who helped establish the Corsican Resistance, and to the submarine that landed them, Saracen. A plaque Lot: 37 commemorating her already existed in the fortress at Bastia, A 14TH/15TH-CENTURY MING DYNASTY CLOISONNÃ‰ VASE where the crew were taken after her sinking. HANDLE AND SILK BANNER LOOTED AT THE SACK OF Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 THE OLD SUMMER PALACE, PEKING, 1860 the 7in. handle with brass dragon's head and terminating in scroll foot; the red silk banner with applied characters reading SI CHUAN / DU ZHONG / TOU QI -- 110 x 78in. (279.5 x 198cm.); together with Lot: 33 autograph card inscribed a handle torn from a large vase at the A NINE CARAT GOLD SOUVENIR BROOCH FOR H.M. 'sack' of the Imperial Summer Palace at Pekin 1860 - curious SUBMARINE K5 modelled in a waterline starboard profile, the metal work inlaid with lapis-lazuli / Dr. Clarke A. Ducket, RN. (3) superstructure enamelled 'K5', impressed '9C' behind hinge -- Provenance: Dr. C.A. Duckett, RN, to family friends and thence 2Â½in. (6.4cm.) diameter; 6.6gr. Built in 1917, the K5 was one of by descent. The Old Summer Palace was a vast complex of a class of seventeen steam-driven submarines designed to gardens and palaces founded in 1707 and which was under cruise at 24 knots to keep up with the Grand Fleet. The constant expansion until the mid-19th Century and is several challenge of steam propulsion in such craft was never fully miles from the Summer Palace, also in Peking (now Beijing). mastered and the whole class was bedevilled by a litany of During the Second Opium War of 1860, two British Envoys problems until they were scrapped in 1931. K5 disappeared, (Henry Loch and Harry Parkes) accompanied by a Times with all 51 hands, on exercise in the Bay of Biscay on 20th journalist and a small escort met the Prince on September 29th January 1920. From wreckage floating at the scene, it was to negotiate peace under a flag of truce. After a day of talks assumed she had exceeded her maximum depth and was they were imprisoned and tortured, resulting in about twenty crushed. deaths - the bodies almost unrecognisable. To deter the Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Chinese from using kidnap as a bargaining tool again, Lord Elgin, the British High Commissioner to China, reacted by ordering the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, which was Lot: 34 carried out on October 18th by 3,500 British and French troops A PRESENTATION SILVER LAUNCHING SALVER FOR and took three days to set the whole complex ablaze. Dr. H.M.S. PLUCKY, 1943 with pie-crust border, engraved to Duckett was aboard one of the ships carrying marines which centre H.M.S. "Plucky" / Built by / Harland and Wolff Limited / assisted and where he acquired this lot. Charles Gordon, a Belfast / named by Mrs. F. Quin / 29th September 1943, contemporary officer in the Royal Engineers, gives a flavour of Chester hallmarks for 1919-20 -- 11in. (28cm.) diameter A the episode: We went out, and, after pillaging it, burned the minesweeper of 850 tons, Plucky served at Normandy and in whole place, destroying in a vandal-like manner most valuable Burma in the War, and survived until 1962. property which [could] not be replaced for four millions. We got Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 upward of Â£48 apiece prize money...I have done well. The [local] people are very civil, but I think the grandees hate us, as they must after what we did the Palace. You can scarcely Lot: 35 imagine the beauty and magnificence of the places we burnt. It A MIDSHIPMAN'S LOG FROM H.M. SHIPS MARLBOROUGH made one's heart sore to burn them; in fact, these places were & VETERAN completed in official-issue volume by A.B. Ford so large, and we were so pressed for time, that we could not and commenced aboard Marlborough at Malta, February 18th plunder them carefully. Quantities of gold ornaments were 1922, and from Veteran September 7th 1923 to November 30th burnt, considered as brass. It was wretchedly demoralising 1923, with service completed in and around the Mediterranean, work for an army. The banner removed/acquired by Duckett the text written in a fair, clear hand and accompanied by was the personal banner for a visiting official from one of the numerous maps, diagrams, sketches and some photographs, provinces. indices pasted inside front cover bound between hard boards -- Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 13Â½ x 8Â½in. (34 x 21.5cm.) The battleship Marlborough, a veteran of Jutland, was launched in 1912 and broken up in 1932; the Veteran was a destroyer of 1919 which saw service Lot: 38 at Norway in 1940 and was on convoy escort duty when A REMARKABLE ARCHIVE OF NAVAL DIARIES, KEPT BY torpedoed and sunk in September 1942. CAPTAIN GEORGE JAMES TOMLIN R.N. BETWEEN 1861 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 AND 1905 comprising forty-six volumes of 150+ pages each in mixed bindings, the covers with sequentially-numbered labels

4 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com and periods spanned, and with long descriptive passages the British from Corunna Bay: By private letter of the 6th from including voyages to the Pacific West Coast in 1862 and 1867; Beresford he says the division he was in was much harassed. Honolulu; Tahiti; the Society Islands and Pitcairn Island Many without shoes or stockings and some of the officers not amongst numerous others; together with a cabinet photograph better off..., signed off Yours most faithfully Sam' L Hood in of Tomlin; his mahogany writing slope; bicorn hat and a three- haste'. Written on single folded sheet of official laid paper with draw leather-covered telescope by Gregory & Co Ltd, London watermark, folded size -- 9Â¼ x 7Â¼in. (23.5 x 18.5cm.); modern (a lot) Captain George James Tomlin (1837-1906); seldom is a transcript and biographical detail sheet for Hood contained in a complete run of diaries spanning a whole naval career seen, plastic wallet (3) covering the period from sail to steam when the Victorian Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 navy's supremacy remained unchallenged throughout the world. Estimate: £5,000.00 - £8,000.00 Lot: 41 AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM ADMIRAL LOUIS-THOMAS DE VILLARET-JOYEUSE written aboard his ship in the harbour Lot: 39 at Brest and dated in the revolutionary calendar for 1er A PRIVATE AUTOGRAPH JOURNAL KEPT BY ADMIRAL Messidor (19th/20th June) and addressed to Au Conseiller LORD COLLINGWOOD (1750-1810) WHILST COMMANDING d'etat prÃ©fet Maritime a Brest (the maritime prefect), Caffarelli, THE BRITISH FLEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN DECEMBER reporting that the Spanish frigate La Solidad is not at full force 1807-JUNE 1810 approximately 45 pages of laid paper written and requests that the prise anglaise of nine carronades be in a hasty hand and comprising a sporadic sequence of allocated to it etc., on an official printed sheet of laid paper memoranda and remarks describing operations, movement of signed Villeret, folded measurements -- 9Â¾ x 7Â¼in. (25 x 18.5cm.) ships, allies, enemies, navigational conditions etc.: Russian Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 manoeuvres cause alarm: ..a letter from Capt. Harvey informing me that all the Russian vessels of war - Viz 4 Ships of the line, 3 frigates, 3 Corvettes etc. - had sailed from Corfu up the Lot: 42 Adriatic on the 26th last - they passed near the English ships - A NAVY OFFICE ARCHITECT'S SHEER PROFILE DRAUGHT had Russian colours up but showed no disposition to chase FOR THE CONVERSION OF H.M.S. CEYLON TO A them. I suspect the French frigates have been escorted by the TROOPSHIP, C.1811 ink on paper with re-fit outlined in red, Russians.. ...No account yet of the French fleet - I shall annotated on the reverse Ceylon of 38 guns as fitted for a therefore proceed of cape Sapienza for a few days and getting Troop Ship -- 20 x 50in. (51 x 127cm.) framed and glazed; to advise of them return to the coast of Sicily.. (2/1/1808); later together with a Georgian land-pattern sword in scabbard (poor that year: A Portuguese boat from the Nilia Real, and brot.[sic] condition) (2) Built by Pitcher of Northfleet for the East India information that on the 13th July a numerous Body of Company and launched as Bombay 27th April, 1803, she was Portuguese 7 Spaniards attacked the French at Lisbon - they re-named Ceylon in 1808. Captured by the French frigates continued the assault for 6 days.. (3/8/1808); continuing with Bellone, Minerve and Victor in July 1810 and taken to Mauritius similar content and ending with an interesting account of the and used as a prison ship, she was re-captured when the Battle of the Roses: ..the Enemy is in possession of some of British took Mauritius in December 1810 and sold to the Royal the end works - in this town is a Military company of women - of Navy in 1811, which refitted her for use as a troop transport, in 260 called the Company of St. Barbara - armed and doing duty which capacity she was employed between 1813 and 1815. on the Garrison - they are Commanded by a Lady of fashion, She was laid up between 1816 and 1832 when she was hulked the officers are women of quality - this [illegible] Corps is at Malta and used as a receiving ship until sold from the service distinguished for its gallantry -- (10/12/1809), bound between in 1857. original vellum boards inscribed on cover -- 7Â½ x 6Â½in. (19 x Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 16.5cm.) Manuscripts by Collingwood are comparatively rare when considered in light of his great friend Nelson's phenomenal output. He was a succinct man who rarely used two words when one would do, which means that this little Lot: 43 'A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE GRAND FUNERAL CAR volume is packed with interesting detail and shows just what a WHICH CARRIED THE BODY OF THE MUCH LAMENTED fraught place the Mediterranean was at this date. Little wonder LORD NELSON...' hand-coloured engraving after N. Heideloff, that Collingwood never set foot in Britain again after the Battle London, Jan 14th 1806 -- 14Â½ x 9in. (37 x 23cm.) of Trafalgar - there was simply no let-up in the various intrigues Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 arising from the continuing Wars with France and Spain, and Collingwood was occupied in important political and diplomatic transactions in the Mediterranean, in which he displayed tact and judgement. His health began to decline alarmingly in 1809 Lot: 44 and he repeatedly requested the Admiralty to allow him to 'MEMOIRS OF THE PROFESSIONAL LINE OF THE RIGHT return home, which was finally granted. Collingwood died on HONOURABLE HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT NELSON..' board the Ville de Paris, off Port Mahon as he sailed for Joshua White, second edition published by James Cundee, England, on 7 March 1810. He was laid to rest next to Nelson in London, 1806, bound with original quarter-calf marbled boards the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral. with marbled edging -- 6Â¾ x 4Â¼in. (17 x 10.8cm.) Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00

Lot: 40 Lot: 45 AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM SAMUEL, LORD HOOD THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR/NELSON'S FUNERAL Victory written on board BARFLEUR off Bagana Island 13th Jany 1809 at Trafalgarâ€¦.The Last General Order of Lord Nelson, dated and marked Private. Letter regarding the disorganised retreat of the 21st Oct. 1805, previous to the engagement between the

5 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com continental fleets of France and Spain, consisting of 33 sail of CENTENARY Â· 1905, mounted on plush backing within oak the line, and the British Fleet of 27 sail of the line on board the frame 16 x 14Â½in. (40.5 x 37cm.) Victory at Seaâ€¦ Nelson's and Bronte's orders for tactics and Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 action are printed (page 2, Column 1, 31 cms. of column space); also Extract from the Log Book of His Majesty's Ship Victoryâ€¦ a faithful reprint from the retrospective of the battle Lot: 51 (page 2, columns 1-2, 18cm. of column space); also Lord AFTER GEORGE ROMNEY, 19TH CENTURY Emma, Lady Nelson's Coffinâ€¦The following are the principal ornaments and Hamilton Watercolour 16 x 12in. (40.5 x 30.5cm.) framed and devices on the external coffin, which has been prepared for the glazed remains of the departed heroâ€¦ (page 3, column 3, 14 cm. of Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 column space); also Lord Nelson's Funeralâ€¦. Long account describing the details of the vast funeral to take place with details of attendees, procession and service. (page 3, column 3, 26 cms of column space), all in a contemporary and Lot: 52 A LARGE 19TH-CENTURY ETCHED GLASS RUMMER complete issue of THE ENGLISH CHRONICLE AND COMMEMORATING THE FUNERAL OF LORD NELSON the WHITEHALL EVENING POST, dated December 31st, 1805; slightly tapering bowl wheel-engraved with depiction of the together with Further Particulars Of The Late Naval Victory Off funeral bier, inscribed within a wreath opposite LORD NELSON Cape Trafalgarâ€¦ A lengthy and descriptive account of the great / JAN 9 / 1806, baluster stem to circular foot -- 7Â¾in. (19.6cm.) Naval action written from information obtained from both British high and Spanish sources (front page, column 4-5, continues on Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 page 2, columns 1-2, 214 cm. in total), in a contemporary and complete issue of THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, dated January 20th, 1806. (2) Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Lot: 53 A 19TH-CENTURY ETCHED GLASS RUMMER COMMEMORATING THE FUNERAL OF LORD NELSON the Lot: 46 slightly tapering bowl wheel-engraved with depiction of the funeral bier, inscribed within a wreath opposite with owner's 'H.M.S. VICTORY, SOUTHSEA AND PORTSMOUTH...' a initials HEB and LORD NELSON / JANy. 9 / 1806, baluster promotional poster printed by Clarke & Sherwell Ltd, London, stem to circular foot --6Â¼in. (16cm.) high circa 1925, depicting H.M.S. Victory photographed by S. Cribb Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 seen through an arch at Portsmouth England -- 30 x 20in. (76 x 51cm.) Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 54 AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY STAFFORDSHIRE JUG OF Lot: 47 LORD NELSON modelled as a full-length figure standing in front of a cannon and finished in typical palette -- 11Â¾in. (30cm.) AFTER GEORGE ROMNEY, 19TH-CENTURY Emma, Lady high; together with a Royal Doulton portrait jug of Lord Nelson, Hamilton coloured mezzotint mounted in oval frame with trade the base with maker's mark and copyright date for 1951 -- 7Â½in. label for Ackerman's to reverse. Overall measurements -- 26Â¼ x (19cm.) high (2) 22in. (66.5 x 56cm.) Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 48 Lot: 55 A 19TH-CENTURY BILSTONWARE ENAMEL BOX 'A VIEW OF THE FRENCH RAFT AS SEEN AFLOAT AT ST. COMMEMORATING TRAFALGAR AND NELSON the lid MALOES, IN FEBRUARY 1798... FOR THE INVASION OF depicting two ships in the action, the side panels with similar ENGLAND' published by John Fairburn, London, 13th coastal marine scenes; the inside lid displaying portrait of February, 1798, hand-coloured engraving, plate -- 9Â½ x 16Â½in. Nelson after Abbot and the base with two crossed anchors and (24 x 42cm.), mounted, framed and glazed intialled ?'F K' -- 3Â¼in. (8.3cm.) diameter Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00

Lot: 49 A SET OF FOUR POLYCHROME WAX PROFILES OF Lot: 56 ALEXANDER DAVISON'S MEDAL FOR THE BATTLE OF THE 18TH/19TH CENTURY ADMIRALS comprising Nelson, Howe, NILE, 1798 silver gilt, engraved in sky 'HL' (Henry Lowcay), rim Duncan and St. Vincent, the first two in matched frames -- 6 x with usual dedication from Davison interrupted to top with mark 5in. (15 x 12.5cm.) (4) from a missing eye ring -- 1 7/8in. (4.7cm.) Commander Henry Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lowcay (1764-1849) enjoys a good description in O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary, published the year he died. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1791 and almost Lot: 50 immediately enjoyed a lively naval career, present at the A RARE 1905 CENTENARY COMMEMORATIVE BRONZE capture of many vessels and was also aboard the Juno when PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF LORD NELSON BY L.F. VON she effected her daring escape from Toulon in 1794, and ROSELIEB with three-quarter shoulder-length profile of Nelson served alongside Nelson at Santa Cruz and Tenerife. Aboard in full-dress hat with chelengk, uniform with decorations and the Culloden at the Nile, he was able to witness the action inscribed HORATIO NELSON / 1805 Â· THE TRAFALGAR without further involvement as this vessel was stranded on a

6 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com shoal and acted as a marker for the following ships. THE FIRST FLEET Early yesterday morning, Lieut. Maxwell, of Subsequently he was employed on blockade, and retired on the Marines, arrived at the Admiralty with dispatches for the half pay from October 1813. Governmentâ€¦. A very long and descriptive account of the Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 voyage to Botany Bay of the First Fleet including details of the conditions during the journey as well as those on arrival, the establishment of administration, and the inhabitants and nature Lot: 57 prevailing there. (pages 4-5, 95 cm. of column space) in a ALEXANDER DAVISON'S MEDAL FOR THE BATTLE OF THE contemporary and complete issue of THE LONDON NILE, 1798 in bronzed copper, by C.H. KÃ¼chler, as presented to CHRONICLE, dated March 28th, 1789 all ratings and marines, 1 7/8in. (4.7cm.), very fine Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 Lot: 64 Lot: 58 EARLY DISCOVERIES OF AUSTRALIA A Miraculous AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY PAIR OF REVERSE GLASS Maritime Expedition: An account of certain English people, who PICTURES COMMEMORATING NELSON Admiral Ld Nelson in the year 1569, making a voyage to the East Indies, were cast mortally wounded...; and Britannia lamenting the death of away, and wrecked upon an uninhabited island near the coast Admiral Lord Nelson..., published 5th of December 1805 by of Terra Australis Incognita, and all drowned except one man W.B. Walker London, contained in matching contemporary and four women. Given by Cornelius Van Sloetten, Captain of a Hogarth frames -- overall size 16 x 12in. (40.5 x 30.5cm.) (2, a Dutch Ship, which was driven there by foul weather in the year pair) 1667, who found their posterity (speaking good English) to the Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 amount of twelve thousand soulsâ€¦. an amazing and rare account of the voyage and end of the ship, the East India Merchant as related to Captain Van Sloetten by a surviving castaway's grandson (back page, columns 1-2, 68 cm.), in a Lot: 59 contemporary and complete issue of THE CALEDONIAN AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY REVERSE GLASS PRINT MERCURY, dated September 2nd, 1790; together with COMMEMORATING NELSON'S FUNERAL A correct Announcement Of The Discovery OF Australia, A New representation of the funeral car which conveyed the body of discovery of the unknown part of the Earth call'd Terra Lord Nelson..., published by W.B. Walker, 4th of February Incognita Australis, or The Southern World. By James Sadeur, 1806, contained within a period frame -- overall measurements a French-man: who being cast there by shipwreck liv'd 35 years 15Â¾ x 20in. (40 x 51cm.); together with a further two examples, in that Countreyâ€¦. (back page, column 2, 4 cm. of column now with cracked plates (3) space), in a contemporary and complete issue of THE Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 ATHENIAN MERCURY, dated June 17th, 1693. (2) Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 60 A NAVAL BOARDING AXE, 18TH/19TH-CENTURY the head Lot: 65 secured through top with fore-and-aft bracing bound to oak CAPTAIN COOK ON THE ENDEAVOUR An authentic account handle with a pinned collar, overall -- 19Â½ x 10Â½in. (49.5 x of the natives of Othaittee, or George's Island: Together with 26.5cm.) some of the particulars of the three years voyage made lately Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 by Mr Banks and Dr Solander, in the years 1768, 1769, and 1770.â€¦on board The Endeavourâ€¦. good lengthy account describing the details and occurrences of the epic voyage Lot: 61 (Front Page, Columns 1-2, 67 cm. of solumn Space), in a AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL NAVAL DIRK with curved genuine and complete issue of ARI'S BIRMINGHAM 14in. blade, acorn motif in side ring, crosshatched ebony GAZETTE, dated August 5th, 1771 handle with lion mask back, contained within brass-mounted Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 leather scabbard of issue -- overall 18Â½in. (47cm.) Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Lot: 66 THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK Our famous geographer, M. Lot: 62 De Busching, hath just received a letter from Mr Pallas, THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY First News: The rumours of professor of the Imperial Academy of Petersburgh, dated the Sunday and Monday of a disaster that had befallen the Bounty 21st of December, containing a recital of the unhappy end of Armed Ship, we were unwilling to believe; and we therefore the famous English traveller, Captain Cook, as followsâ€¦. a long suppressed all mention of an event of such calamitous and descriptive account of the voyage and details leading to the tendency; til it came in too authenticated shape to be rejected. death of the famous explorer (front page, column 3, 29 cm. of A long and detailed account of the particulars of the voyage, column space), in a contemporay complete issue of THE mutiny, and return of Captain Bligh to England (back page, EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT, dated February 2nd, 1780 column 2, 42 cm. of column space), in a contemporary and Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 complete issue of THE DIARY; or WOODFALL'S REGISTER, dated March 19th, 1790 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 67 A NAVAL BROADSIDE PERTAINING TO THE MUTINIES AT SPITHEAD AND THE NORE, 1797 addressed To the King from Lot: 63

7 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com the master, wardens, assistants, and elder brethern of the Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Corporation of Trinity House..., declaring their loyalty and offering assistance, printed on single side of laid paper -- 12Â½ x 8in. (32 x 20cm.); together with a bookplate of one of the lead Lot: 76 mutineers, Richard Parker; and his widow Ann aged 68, and a THREE MINIATURE SETS OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY short historical summary (3) FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 DOMINOES comprising a small-sized set of 26 contained in a pierced bone barrel with screw top -- 2Â½in. (6.5cm.) high; another miniature set (complete) felt-backed and contained in a Lot: 70 metal case with glass lid -- 1Â½in. (4cm.); a walnut shell with A SET OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC hinged section, containing 13 miniature dominoes -- 1Â¼in. (3cm.) PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE DOMINOES comprising 44 tiles high (3) concluding in a double '8', contained in a twin-chambered Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 wooden box with decorative bone trim and legs and sliding wooden lids -- 5Â½in. (14cm.) wide Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 77 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR STRAWWORK BOX the lid depicting a Lot: 71 man o'war sailing off a town, mirror inside lid, bright strawwork A SET OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC lidded compartments and two pin cushions -- 8Â¾in. (22cm.) PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE DOMINOES containing 49 tiles diameter contained in a wooden box with decorative bone trim around Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 strawwork panels and sliding lid with cribbage board -- 6Â¼in. (16cm.) wide Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 78 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR STRAW WORK BOX the lid depicting a Lot: 72 French man o'war sailing off a French town, mirror inside lid, A SET OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC bright strawwork-lidded compartments and two pin cushions -- PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE DOMINOES comprising 54 tiles 8Â¾in. (22cm.) diameter contained in a bone case with wooden base and compartment Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 for three dice, decorated sliding lid pierced for a cribbage board -- 5in. (13cm.) diameter Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 79 A PAIR OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR STRAWWORK PICTURES each Lot: 73 describing a similar scene with shipping off fortified coastline A SET OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC with a blazing sun in the mid horizon -- approximately 12 x 16in. PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE DOMINOES a set of 36 tiles (30.5 x 40.5cm.), framed and glazed (2) concluding with a double '7', contained in an all-bone case with Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 a repeated bull's-eye 'domino' design to sides, the sliding lid pierced for a cribbage board -- 4Â¾in. (12cm.) long Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 80 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR WATERCOLOUR in a vivid palette and Lot: 74 depicting a view entitled A VIEW OF BEAUFORT CASTLE, laid A SET OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC on original wooden panel with strawwork frame and back. PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE DOMINOES comprising 42 tiles Overall size -- 7Â½ x 12Â¾in. (19 x 32.5cm.) concluding with a double '9', contained in carved bone case Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 with wooden base and sliding lid pierced for a cribbage board -- 5Â¼in. (13.5cm.) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 81 A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE ALLEGORICAL CALVARY Lot: 75 ALTAR SCENE the crucifix decorated with French and A SET OF EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC Christian symbols including a cockerel, chalice, stone mason's PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE DOMINOES comprising a tools, lantern, spear, sponge on spear, ladder, monstrance, complete set of 28 tiles concluding with a double '6', contained pricket candles etc., the cross flanked by carved depictions of within a decorated bone box with wooden base and sliding the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, finished in polychrome bone lid with cribbage lanes flanking a pierced family of deer -- and mounted in a glazed strawwork-lined wooden case with silk 4Â½in. (11.5cm.) wide; together with a small scrimshaw- curtains to front -- 10Â¼ x 7Â½in. (26 x 19cm.) decorated whale's tooth incised with a three-quarter view of a Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 sailing ship, the reverse inscribed Ship Swale Hull --3Â¼in. (8.3cm.) high (2) The pierced hunting scene forming the lid of the first box is typical of prisoner work associated with the camp Lot: 82 at Norman Cross near Peterborough. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH

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PRISONER-OF-WAR WOOD AND BONE WATCH STAND Lot: 88 AND CASKET the hinged jewellery casket with lid supporting a A LARGE LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S small drawer with reverse-access watch stand over, with pinned WOOLWORK PICTURE OF THE THREE-MASTED STEAM and polychrome bone plates over paper-lined wooden core -- YACHT VALHALLA, R.Y.S. depicted in profile with lower sails 15Â¼in. (38.5cm.) high set and flying call sign and pennants for the Royal Yacht Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Squadron, inscribed in banners VALHALLA R.Y.S -- 27 x 43Â½in. (68.5 x 110.5cm.) framed and glazed Valhalla, 1,218 tons gross, was the only British steam yacht to have a full ship rig Lot: 83 and is believed by many to have been the finest example of a A RARE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC steam auxiliary ever built. Designed by W.C. Storey and built PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE MODEL OF A GUILLOTINE for Captain J.F. Laycock by Ramage & Ferguson in 1892, she comprising three planked and pinned platforms supporting is best known for her achievement of third place in the Kaiser's numerous model cannon, fretwork railing with warrior-form famous Trans-Atlantic Race of 1905 despite the competition masks on each corner and six polychromed guards with afforded by the much faster schooners taking part. She had muskets, hinged gate to upper platform, model guillotine with several owners, most notably the Earl of Crawford & Balcarres sliding blade, now mounted within a later glazed domed display (from 1902 to 1908 under whose tenure she featured in the case -- the guillotine 13 x 12in. (33 x 30.5cm.); overall 16Â½ x book by M.J. Nicoll Three Voyages of a Naturalist : Being an 16in. (42 x 40.5cm.) Account of Many Little-Known Islands in Three Oceans Visited Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 by the 'Valhalla' R.Y.S., published by Whitherby & Co. in 1908), and she also did War service with the Royal Navy including a period at Limnos - in the Aegean - during the Gallipoli Lot: 83A campaign. After the War she became a Spanish-owned fruit A FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE BONE CALVARY IN carrier but she was wrecked and sunk off Cape St. Vincent in BOTTLE delicately carved with the crucifix surrounded with 1922. allegorical symbols on turned bone posts, with a rotating motif Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 over operated through the stopper -- 9in. (23cm.) high Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 89 A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S WOOLWORK PICTURE Lot: 84 OF A SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY CROSS AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC CHANNEL PADDLE STEAMER with twin raked funnels and PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND WOOD CRUCIFIX depicting masts flying house flags, depicted in profile in a calm sea -- 15Â¼ the bone Christ figure and additional symbols comprising a x 21in. (39 x 53.3cm.) framed and glazed heart, the INRI plaque, a skull, bones and Magdalene figure Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 pinned to ebonised crucifix, originally for wall hanging, now mounted in an ebonised base -- overall height 19in. (48.3cm.) Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Lot: 90 A FRENCH 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK SCRIMSHAW- DECORATED GOURD possibly a powder flask or water bottle, Lot: 85 the top section with repeated portrait busts of Napoleon III, the AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC lower section with a man o'war in profile flanked by six soldiers PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SPINNING JENNY SINGLE- in differing dress uniforms, the top with a carved ivory bird CHARACTER AUTOMATON of typical form and comprising a stopper -- 11in. (28cm.) high seated lady at her spinning wheel next to a small windmill, on a Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 platform raised over a hand crank and cogs etc., on turned circular base, now secured to an ebonised display base with glass dome cover -- the automaton 5in. (13cm.) high, overall Lot: 91 measurements 6Â½in. (16.5cm.) high A MID 19TH-CENTURY SILVER-MOUNTED SAILORWORK Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 COCONUT LADLE with the polished coconut bowl secured to shaped ebonised handle with silver mount inscribed in pin-prick to reverse C. Frost. 1852 -- 17in. (43cm.) high Lot: 86 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 A DECORATIVE CARVED EMPEROR HELMET (CASSIS MADAGASCARIENSIS) SHELL one side with oval cameo of young lady with flowers in her hair -- 7in. (18cm.) diameter Lot: 92 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 A SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH OF GRACE DARLING incised with her half-length portrait and rowing a boat with her father casting a line -- 7in. (18cm.); 586g Lot: 87 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 TWO 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED HORN BEAKERS incised with similar profile ship designs, both inscribed HOPE AND PRAY, each with white metal rim -- 3Â¾in. Lot: 93 (9.5cm.) high (2) A 19TH-CENTURY SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 TOOTH incised over one side with an American sailor holding the Stars and Stripes and clutching a sword -- 7in. (18cm.); 384g

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Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 94 Lot: 103 A PAIR OF 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S SCRIMSHAW- A 19TH-CENTURY MARINE IVORY CANE HANDLE carved in DECORATED WHALE TEETH pricked-out and incised over the form of a fist clutching a serpent, with threaded cavity to both sides with historical male and female characters -- each wrist -- 2Â¼in. (5.7cm.) high 7in. (18cm.) high; 554g Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00

Lot: 104 Lot: 95 A 19TH-CENTURY NARWHAL (MONODON MONOCEROS) A SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE BONE STAY BUSK TUSK of barley-twist form, with mellow yellow patina -- 76Â½in. incised over one side depicting three whalers with spouting (194.5cm.) whales and tails between -- 11in. (28cm.) diameter Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00

Lot: 105 Lot: 96 A RARE DOUBLE NARWHAL TUSK of tapering barley-twist A LARGE CAST IRON NORWEGIAN HARPOON HEAD, form, set in fragment of skull -- the larger is 72in. (183cm.) CIRCA 1900 with threaded neck, inscribed with maker's mark overall 'CMV' on two opposing lugs -- 17Â¼in. (44cm.) high Estimate: £5,000.00 - £8,000.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 106 Lot: 97 A 19TH-CENTURY WHALE'S RIB BONE of typical curved form A SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH incised over (old wear) -- 64in. (162.5cm.) high both sides and depicting a British whaler at anchor off a Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 lighthouse; and a whaler sailing towards the horizon off a headland with a jubilant whale looking on, with banner inscribed Going home sweet home over -- 8in. (20.3cm.); 586g Lot: 107 Estimate: £350.00 - £500.00 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY The Orient Line passenger ship 'S.S. AUSTRAL' under way with four mast sails set Inscribed 'S.S. Austral' (lower left) Watercolour heightened Lot: 98 with white 23 x 19Â½in. (58.5 x 49.5cm.) A passenger ship of AN UNUSUAL SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH 5,524 tons, built at Govan by John Elder & Co., the Austral was depicting two views of narwhal -- 5Â½in. (14cm.); 244g launched on 21st December 1881 for the Orient Steam Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00 Navigation Company, better known as Orient Line, and was broken up at Genoa on 27th May 1904. Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Lot: 99 A SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE TOOTH incised over both sides with the profile of a sailing ship; the whale being Lot: 108 harpooned and upsetting a whaling boat -- 6in. (15cm.); 616g STUART BECK (BRITISH, 20TH CENTURY) A trio of Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 watercolours of Cunard liners comprising: 'R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth'; 'R.M.S. Queen Mary' and 'Queen Elizabeth II' Each signed 'STUART BECK' (lower right) Watercolour on gouache Lot: 100 Each approximately 9 x 17in. (23 x 43cm.) (3) A SCRIMSHAW-DECORATED WHALE'S TOOTH incised over Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 both sides with a profile of a whaling ship; and a whale being harpooned -- 6Â¼in. (16cm.); 645g Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 109 JOHN W. JURITZ, 20TH CENTURY R.M.N.V. 'Stirling Castle' Signed 'John W. Juritz' (lower right) and inscribed as per title Lot: 101 (lower left) Watercolour heightened with white 5Â¼ x 10Â¼in. (13.4 A 19TH-CENTURY NARWHAL WALKING STICK the polished x 26cm.) shaft set with marine ivory knob handle -- 32in. (81.3cm.) Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 110 Lot: 102 A SOUVENIR TOLEWARE TRAY FROM THE R.M.S. A FINE 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR'S CARVED WHALEBONE LUSITANIA, CIRCA 1910 with typical image of ship steaming in AND MARINE IVORY WALKING STICK with contrasting barley- a calm sea, foliate edges with corners decorated with fouled twist shaft terminating in a fluted ivory handle with baleen anchor and Cunard Line ensigns, signed along the lower edge edging under -- 34Â½in. (87.5cm.) long Industria Metalgrafica a Tintore & Oiler, Barcelona -- 14 x 19Â¼in.

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(35.5 x 49cm.) Lot: 116 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 TWO MID 19TH-CENTURY MERCHANT MIDSHIPMAN'S LOGS BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND ALEXANDRIA kept by Benjamin Phillips in a fine clear hand. First volume: first half Lot: 111 has a lengthy description complementing the log kept in the R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: A SOUVENIR PLATED BRASS second half for a return voyage aboard the barque Fairfield REPOUSSÃ‰ PICTURE depicted in a classic profile view with from Liverpool-Alexandria between February-August 1847 tugs and small craft attending, contained in an ebonised frame, during which the author records sighting slave ships and their overall -- 9Â½ x 15in. (24 x 38cm.) ++plating refreshed, possibly cargoes:July 9th: The Barque Clarendon came in 11A.M. from later - these may have originally been issued as coppered Sera la Own [sic] with 260 Africans on board. I went to Church panels. overall condition is good. this afternoon...; July 11th ..Sent the Holly Bush ashore she Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 brought off a cargo of blacks to the Barque Clarendon..; Second volume: autographed on fly for October 1846, the first half given over to exercises, the latter half records a voyage Lot: 112 aboard the barque Napan Belle from Liverpool to Alexandria R.M.S. QUEEN MARY: A RARE PAIR OF CHAMPAGNE ICE commencing January 1850 and the return from 17th May to 5th BUCKETS AND STANDS BY ELKINGTON PLATE, 1939 of July, the last few pages filled with poetry, each bound between 'plain pine' pattern, the bucket and stand bases marked for line marbled quarter-calf boards (partially disbound) -- 8 x 6Â¾in. (20 and maker with date letter 'D' (1939) -18Â¼in. (46.5cm.) high x 17cm.) (2) overall (2) The plain pine pattern was originally designed for Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 the Queen Mary. Latterly it was used throughout the Cunard fleet. However, the date of this example firmly establishes it as being from the Queen Mary Lot: 117 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 ALL BOOKS SOLD NOT SUBJECT TO RETURN. 'HUNTS UNIVERSAL YACHT LIST', for years 1851; 1852; 1854; 1856; 1858; 1859; 1863; 1866; 1884, bound between hard boards, Lot: 113 (mixed conditions) -- 4Â¼ x 5Â½in. (11 x 14cm.) (9) A PAIR OF ELECTRO-PLATE TOOTHPICK VASES FOR THE Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 WHITE STAR LINE signed by Elkington Plate and stamped 'K' (1922); together with a pair of White Star Line grape scissors by the Gold & Silversmiths Co. with design registration '483781' Lot: 118 (1906-7); and a White Star Line letter opener (4) JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS PUBLISHED BY SAMPSON LOW Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 for years 1934 (2), 1939, 1942, 1944-5 and 1947-8 (6) ALL BOOKS ARE SOLD SUBJECT NOT TO RETURN Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lot: 114 R.M.S. MAURETANIA: A RARE THREE-TIER ELECTROPLATE CAKE STAND BY ELKINGTON, C.1928 the Lot: 119 frame of reed and cross-band form supporting three plates (two MARINE ART REFERENCE BOOKS comprising Archibald: by Elkington dated for 1939; one by Harrison Bros, Sheffield), Dictionary of Sea Painters; Davidson: Samuel Walters...; the handle with Cunard device -- 18in. (46cm.) high Modern Art and The Clyde; Barbance: Histoire de la Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Compagnie GÃ©nÃ©rale Transatlantique..; together with three assorted marine volumes and a quantity of catalogues for maritime exhibitions held by the Omell Gallery (a lot) Lot: 115 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 LOG BOOK FOR THE AMERICAN MERCHANTMAN GOOD FRIENDS, 1805/6 kept by the master Robert Thompson between July 27th 1805 and April 8th 1806 for a voyage from Lot: 120 Leghorn to France and back to Philadelphia, written in a CHRISTIE'S MARITIME CATALOGUES South Kensington variable hand and containing the usual sightings, weather issues for May/Nov 1997; May 1998; May 1999; May/Nov 2000; reports and observations, contained within hardboards May/Nov 2001; June/Oct 2002; May/Nov 2003; May/Nov 2004; (disbound) -- 13 x 8in. (33 x 20cm.); together with a sea chart of May 2005; Trafalgar Bicentenary 2005 (King St.); Nov 2006 and the East Coast of America allegedly used aboard ship; and a May 2007 (18) quantity of associated ephemera from the Thompson and Baker Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 families (a lot) Ref: J Welles Henderson papers, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia. The Good Friends was built and owned by Stephen Girard (1750-1831), an ex-Pat Lot: 121 Frenchman who settled in America and became a Philadelphia 'THE BRITISH MARINE ALBUM (DEDICATED TO THE businessman, shipbuilder, banker and philanthropist. As a MARINERS OF ENGLAND)' a photograph album of standard former sea captain, he understood ships well and placed orders form c.1895, with thick gilt-edged card pages containing period for the construction of what was then an advanced fleet - by photographic portraits, every third page dedicated with images 1793 his business was flourishing and he became one of the connected to one of the ten principal lines including P & O; few millionaires in America. The Master, Robert Thompson, Cunard and White Star, padded covers with brass clasp -- 12 x seems to have had a daughter who married into a family called 9Â½in. (30.5 x 24cm.) Baker and this collection seems to have passed down that line. Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00

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Lot: 122 standing over a mermaid with watch cavity on his left AN INTERESTING COLLECTION OF MARITIME surmounted by a fountain, gesso covered with gilt highlighting, POSTCARDS comprising approximately 500+ annotated cards mounted on a shaped ebonised base -- 13Â½ x 9in. (34 x 23cm.) for every mercantile vessel lost in World War II, organised by Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 line [omitting Union Castle Line; some duplicates], contained in a card filing box with ten-page indices organised by line -- 15in. (38cm.) diameter Lot: 130 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 A 19TH-CENTURY WORKING DEMONSTRATION MODEL FOR A LIFE-SAVING BREECHES BUOY modelled as a midship's section with stayed mast, standing rigging, hull Lot: 123 sections with chain plates and deadeyes with life-line A COLLECTION OF 18TH/19TH-CENTURY COPPER supporting a child in special harness to a tripod -- 17Â½ x 24in. PRINTING PLATES WITH VIEWS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT (44.5 x 61cm.) comprising four marine views, two landscapes, plate of (?)local Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 crests, a letter from Thomas Worsley/John Glynn dated 1768; and a plan of Sandown Fort, some stamped on reverse for Whittow & Large -- the largest 8 x 10Â¼in. (20 x 26cm.) (9) Lot: 131 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 A BOTTLED DIORAMA depicting a sailor sitting in his cabin making his model of a ship in bottle, plaque inscribed A. Cogoni fecit -- 10in. (25cm.) diameter; together with a well-presented Lot: 124 miniature model of a Dutch sailing barge set in a turbulent sea, A RARE SET OF WORKING CARD ENGINEERING MODELS contained within a green glass bottle -- 12Â½in. (32cm.) diameter by Thomas and Gilbert Jones and comprising eight coloured (2) models for engine side valves, contained in original box of issue Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 with associated leaflets etc. -- 6Â¾in. (17cm.) diameter Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 132 A COLLECTION OF MID 19TH-CENTURY MOSTLY 'GREAT Lot: 125 EASTERN' CABLE-LAYING PRINTS by Thomas Picken, after A CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ROWING SCULL, 1923 the Robert Charles Dudley, and comprising assorted views of blade painted and decorated with crest for Caius College for a various vessels in the art of cable laying, published by Day & match against Jesus, Lady Margaret, Trinity and Peterhouse, Son, London, each bearing title, approximately 8 x 11in. (20 x May 1923, maker stamp for Norris on shaft -- 145in. (368cm.); 28cm.) framed and glazed (18) together with a boxed compass sight (unsigned) (2) Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 133 Lot: 126 A CUT GLASS AND BRASS DECKHEAD SALOON LAMP TWO LARGE 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL NAVY LIGNUM VITÃ† FROM THE S.S. ROKER (1898) the glass shade secured to FIDS with pinned steel cuffs to top, the larger one impressed balustrade top plate with central hole for electrical attachment, with the Government broad arrow mark and numbered 'RLT 87 inscribed on top rim SS ROKER -- 11in. (28cm.) high Built by [MARK] 9104596' -- 24in. (61cm.) long; together with a souvenir Short Brothers for James Westoll, the Roker was launched on pipe rack from H.M.S. Victory; and a plated tot cup inscribed for 2nd April 1898 and registered at 3,495 tons. She was broken the launch of H.M.S. Colossus in 1909 (4) up at Rosyth on 24th July 1933. Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00

Lot: 127 Lot: 134 A 19TH-CENTURY WOOD AND BRASS YACHTING TILLER AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILT-BRASS MARINE-THEMED with fluted shaft terminating in a carved hound's head -- 31in. INKWELL of capstan form with glass liner, the lid modelled as a (79cm.) overall jack tar sailor standing next to an anchor float -- 6in. (15cm.) Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 high Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 128 A 19TH-CENTURY OAK TILLER with knot-work grip -- 44in. Lot: 135 (112cm.) long; together with a standish in the form of a punt A 19TH-CENTURY BRASS TILLER YOKE in the form of two supporting two inkwells and a pen rest -- 16Â½in. (42cm.) opposed dolphins, their tails supporting the guide rope loops, diameter; and a small ivory sand glass (3) the reverse punched PRESD. BY W.R TO H.B -- 18in. (46cm.) Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 diameter Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00

Lot: 129 A LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH-CENTURY WOOD AND GESSO Lot: 136 MARINE-THEMED WATCH STAND comprising Neptune A PAIR OF LATE 19TH-CENTURY BRASS FIRE DOGS COMMEMORATING LACHLAN MCQUARIE, GOVERNOR OF

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NEW SOUTH WALES each depicting a pair of intertwined Lot: 142 dolphins surmounted by a ship (?H.M.S. Dromedary) on plinth A PAIR OF 10 X 50 PERISCOPE BINOCULARS BY CARL inscribed McQUARIE, with brass supports behind -- 12 x 8in. ZEISS, CIRCA 1962 now finished in polished steel and (31 x 20cm.) (2) stamped with maker's mark and number 1331847 on baseplate, Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 viewing aperture with shade cowl, bubble level filters, anti-mist silica gel chamber, adjustable eyepiece, lockable 360Âº swivel action, 60Âº up angle, 20Âº down angle, mounted on adjustable Lot: 137 wood and metal tripod -- approximate height 78in. (198cm.); A RARE VENETIAN DECORATIVE BRASS CASTING FROM copy of instruction manual, spare sachets of silica gel, cleaning A GONDOLA, PROBABLY LATE 19TH-CENTURY in the usual cloth and brush form of a stylised seahorse -- 10 x 10in. (25.5cm.) high Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00

Lot: 143 Lot: 138 AN UNUSUAL 19TH-CENTURY MARINE LAMP BY MILLERS, A COMPASS AND BINNACLE BY HENRY BROWNE & SON, LONDON of cylindrical copper form with blue glass LONDON the 6Â½in. compass card signed with 'Sestrel' circumferential, maker's plate to front inscribed MILLERS SHIP trademark and numbered '1800N', mounted within double- SIGNAL LAMPS, 179 PICCADILLY LONDON, hinged top to glazed (top and bottom) liquid-filled bowl within counter-signed internal burners, lashing points top and under -- 19in. (48cm.) and numbered gimbals further stamped 'deadbeat compass', high contained within wooden binnacle with maker's plates, Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 red/green Kelvin spheres, access hatch to interior components, Flinder's bar and brass hood with hinged ports, overall -- 56in. (142.3cm.) high Lot: 144 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 A 19TH-CENTURY BRASS BINNACLE COMPASS unsigned, with 5in. aluminium compass disc with paper laid over, mounted on a hinged pin within a brass bowl with glazed aperture and Lot: 139 lamp flange to rear (card worn; missing lamp) -- 11Â½in. (29cm.) A BRASS BRIDGE TELEGRAPH BY DURKEE MARINE, NEW high; together with a brass porthole with hinged cover; and a YORK of typical form with (?)rexine white instruction plates and large three-reel wooden block (3) internal gong -- 49Â½in. (126cm.) including vertical handle Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00

Lot: 145 Lot: 140 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY SHIP'S BELL FOR THE DORSET A LATE 19TH-CENTURY PORT NAVIGATION LAMP of typical OF LIVERPOOL, 1811 with moulded rim, inscribed to front in form, with maker's plate for Wm Harvie, Glasgow, stamped with raised lettering SHIP DORSET / OF / LIVERPOOL / 1811, with repeat marks dated for 1898 and with additional stamps 'GWR', original iron-mounted wooden stock, hanging pins and pull loop complete with original burner on sliding tray -- 21Â½in. (54.5cm.) and clapper, overall -- 17 x 19in . (43 x 48cm.) The Dorset was high a single-decked sloop of 110 tons and, although built in Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Dartmouth, traded between Liverpool and Rotterdam. Manned by a crew of 10, she was owned and Captained by H. Hart. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 141 A LATE 19TH-CENTURY EMERGENCY DOCKING HELM RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF THE WHITE STAR Lot: 146 S.S. AFRIC (1899-1917) heavily constructed in brass and in A 19TH-CENTURY BRASS BULKHEAD CLOCK BY cleaned, conserved and working condition, the top plate EMANUEL, PORTSEA the 4Â¼in. enamel dial signed Emanuel / inscribed PORT/STAR.d with indicator connected to eliptical 3 The Hard Portsea, black steel hands, slow/fast lever above drive gear to helm hub -- 34Â½in. (87.5cm.) high; together with 'XII', single arbor to 8-day going barrel movement, removable two portholes recovered from the same wreck, cleaned and bevelled-glass face plate with locking loops, brass bulkhead polished, one impressed with maker's mark for 'Roby' with case with three securing points -- 5Â½in. (14cm.) overall hinged cover and retaining original, now shattered and opaque, Emanuel are recording working in Portsea between 1859-1878 glass, each now fitted with mirror -- 21in. (53.5cm.) diameter; Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 and a postcard sent from Afric (4) The S.S. Afric was a passenger/cargo ship of nearly 12,000 tons built for the White Star Line in 1899 by Harland & Wolff. Designed specifically for Lot: 147 the Australian service with four sisters (Medic; Persic; Runic TWO LIGNUM VITÃ† BLOCKS each with hinged brass spool set and Suevic) they had impressive cargo capacity including within -- 4in. (10cm.) diameter (2) refrigerated space for 100,000 carcasses and could cruise at Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 13.5 knots. Afric was torpedoed on the 12th February 1917 twelve miles s.s.w. of the Eddystone lighthouse. Five were killed outright, seventeen drowned and 145, including the Captain, survived. Title has been granted to the vendor by the Lot: 148 Receiver of Wreck, Droit No. A/2458. A SET OF 19TH-CENTURY LIGNUM VITÃ† CAMPAIGN Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 COASTERS comprising a nest of three, the largest -- 4Â¼in. (11cm.) diameter

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Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 10Â½in. (21.5 x 46 x 26.5cm.) Estimate: £2,500.00 - £4,000.00

Lot: 149 A RECONSTRUCTED ELEPHANT BIRD EGG (Ã†PYORNIS Lot: 156 MAXIMUS) of composite reconstruction, comprising parts from A 19TH-CENTURY WOODEN SIGNAL GUN TEMPLATE two or more examples -- 14in. (35.5cm.) high The elephant MODEL turned from ebonised teak and comprising a 26Â½in. five- birds were giant rarities native to Madagascar. Thought to be stage barrel, cascabel and trunnions, partially-bored muzzle extinct for about 1,000 years, it was the world's largest bird, with lead ballast and touch-hole, (ebonised finish worn) -- 29in. believed to have been up to 3m tall and weighing close to half a (73.5cm.) overall Traditional gun casting methods used unique ton. The egg volume is approximately 160 times greater than a positive (or 'male') templates which were destroyed as part of chicken, their thickness proving durable to the climate, the process. This is possibly a later template used to create the fragments are littered over desert areas of the island. more modern boxed or split mould, so that after forming the Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 hollow mould, this was split, being contained in two heavy iron boxes, to release the model or pattern for re-use. This saved time and money, since the model could be used repeatedly, Lot: 150 and allowed identical sets to be produced. The central cone, A LATE 19TH-CENTURY MARINE IVORY CARVING SET which would have been created with this model, gives a comprising two knives, two forks and a sharpener, the blades founder a starting point to bore the barrel. signed for Cooper Brothers, Sheffield, the longest -- 15in. Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 (38cm.) (5) Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 157 AN INTERESTING 19TH-CENTURY WOOD AND BRASS Lot: 151 MODEL NAVAL CANNON with four-stage tapering brass Â¾in. A 19TH-CENTURY MARQUETRY WORK/WRITING BOX the barrel with inset touch hole, mounted on stepped mahogany lid depicting an American full-rigged ship in full sail, ebony truck with sliding plate with locks operated by universal side banding, ivory lock plate, fitted interior -- 10Â¼in. (26cm.) levers via front axle, inset brass securing points, brass wheels -- diameter 6Â½ x 14in. (16.5 x 35.5cm.) The front of the sliding plate is Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 designed to be secured to the bulkhead and is shaped to allow a certain amount of lateral movement. It also does away with the traditional ropes which cannon had in order to arrest recoil. Presumably once the locks were released, the cannon could Lot: 152 simply be slid back to position. A COCO DE MER nut removed and shell skillfully re-attached, Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 some husk remaining in crevices -- 17in. (43cm.) high Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 158 A 19TH-CENTURY BRASS SIGNAL GUN with three-stage Lot: 153 17Â¼in. tapering barrel with fluted muzzle, trunnions, top hole and A 19TH-CENTURY MERCHANT SHIP'S FIGUREHEAD carved cascabel, mounted on a stepped wooden truck with wooden from the solid in the form of a lady wearing blue and red wheels (later) -- 11Â½ x 20in. (29 x 50.8cm.) This signal gun was costume and a turban topped with a sunflower, finished in recovered by recreational divers from the sea bed in 1985. polychrome (missing right arm, conservation, repainted) -- 44in. Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 (112cm.) high Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Lot: 159 A SMALL BRASS 19TH-CENTURY SIGNAL GUN with 11Â½in. Lot: 154 two-stage tapering barrel with fluted muzzle, trunnions, touch AN ATTRACTIVE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY CARVED hole and spherical cascabel, mounted on a stepped wooden FRAGMENT, POSSIBLY FROM A NAVAL WARSHIP finely truck with wooden wheels -- overall measurements 10 x 16in. carved in the form of a sea horse leaping over a scroll-form (25.5 x 40.5cm.) base, with scales extending behind from shoulders to tail, finely Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 carved mane, remains of gesso and gilt covering, mounted on an ebonised base (later, wear and losses) -- overall measurements 12Â½ x 14in. (32 x 35.5cm.) Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 Lot: 160 A BRASS SUNDIAL BY HILKIAH BEDFORD, LONDON, C.1666-1674 of typical octagonal form, signed between 'VIII' and 'IIII' H. Bedford in Fleet street, complete with original foliate Lot: 155 gnomon -- 14in. (35.5cm.) diameter Hilkiah Bedford specialised AN INTERESTING 19TH-CENTURY BRASS SIGNAL GUN in mathematical instruments and portable dials, working with heavily-constructed 1in. bore 14in. two-stage barrel with between 1656-1680 from several addresses in the City, he touch hole, cascabel with integral wheel elevation, mounted on signed his instruments ...in Fleet street. between 1666 and a solid brass truck with brass wheels, front axle attached to 1674, thereafter adding near Fetter Lane.. He died in 1689. sprung recoil mechanism, the whole secured to inset brass bed Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 plate with runners for wheels set on thick oak base with brass securing loops to sides. Overall measurements -- 8Â½ x 18 x Lot: 161

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A GOOD MID 19TH-CENTURY DIPLEIDOSCOPE BY E.J. numbered ivorine maker's plate to middle section, DENT constructed in oxidised-brass, signed on the polished- approximately -- 7in. (18cm.) square The movements for Ray & brass cap, countersigned and numbered to side E.J. Dent Co. chronometers were provided by Mercers and their number Patentee 624, levelling screw, bubble level and compass, (10824) corresponds to manufacture in 1917. contained within original mahogany box, together with a copy of Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Dent's Table for the equation of time, 1846 to accompany his new meridian instrument, and a note attributing provenance to Captain Thomas Levois, in the slave trade most of his time, the Lot: 166 lid containing polarising filter. Overall measurements -- 6in. A HAMILTON 'NAVIGATION MASTER' DECK WATCH FOR (15cm.) square The dipleidoscope was patented in 1843 by THE BRITISH HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY, CIRCA 1942 with James Bloxam and marketed by Edward Dent for timing the 1Â¾in. enamel dial signed HAMILTON, Arabic numerals, blued meridian transit of the sun. The mirror cell contains a hollow, spade hands with sweep seconds, the movement counter- right-angled prism, with two sides silvered and one of glass. signed and numbered '30225', lever escapement, '3992B The meridian transit was determined by the coincidence of two [calibre], 22 jewels, adjusted to 6 positions and temperature', images of the sun by single and double reflection, one from the Government mark, contained within a chromed steel case, the top glass and the other from both mirrors. With the base back signed and inscribed over earlier Hydrographic marks properly levelled and oriented, the meridian transit could be 'H.S. 527-3637 Serial No. 601-1942 ('H.S. 3' cancelled), read to seconds. contained within fitted box of issue with serial numbers in lid -- Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 1Â½ x 3Â¾ x 5in. (4 x 9.5 x 12.7cm.) Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 162 A LATE 19TH-CENTURY POCKET COMPASS SUNDIAL BY Lot: 167 STEWARD, LONDON with 1Â½in. silvered compass dial signed A FINE AND RARE SILVER-CASED KEYLESS DECK WATCH as per title, steel hand with clamp, lacquered-brass bowl with BY VACHERON & CONSTANTIN, GENEVE, PRODUCED hinged sundial over with dual divisions inscribed INNER FOR THE BRITISH HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY, 1940S with CIRCLE OF LETTER & FIGURES USED IN SOUTHERN 2in. matt silvered dial signed as per title with Arabic numerals LATITUDES, oxidised-brass gnomon and folding latitude scale, and blued-steel spade hands with sweep seconds, 21 jewels, contained in original plush-lined leather case with securing straight line lever escapement with Guillaume balance and hooks -- 3in. (7.5cm.) overall special alloy Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer, Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 movement counter-signed and numbered '454898', contained in fully-marked silver case numbered '286295' stamped on reverse 'H.S. 2 54898' with Government broad arrow mark Lot: 163 (suspension fob missing) -- 2Â½in. (6.5cm.) diameter A MID-18TH-CENTURY AUGSBURG POCKET DIAL IN THE Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 MANNER OF ANDREAS VOGLER constructed in brass with black-filled lettering, 1in. glazed compass with original steel needle, silvered dial with compass rose engraved 'OR' for east Lot: 168 and 'OC' for west, the back plate with latitudes for European A LATE 18TH-CENTURY MARINER'S HOUR GLASS capitals and ?maker's initials 'WTM', contained within original comprising two hand-blown bulbs conjoined at middle by wax- leather-covered card case with remnant lining and securing covered twine, contained within two hexagon plates supported hook -- 2Â¾in. (7cm.) overall Literature: Higton, H: Sundials, A with six square-sided supports -- 7in. (18cm.) high Portable History, Philip Wilson 2001, p.101 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00

Lot: 169 Lot: 164 AN 18TH-CENTURY-STYLE SANDGLASS with bulbs blown as AN 8-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY BARRAUD'S, a single unit, contained within wooden holder lined with marbled LONDON, No.639, CIRCA 1820 the 4in. silvered dial signed as paper and covered with Morocco leather tooled with gilt motifs -- per title, Barraud's up/down aperture over 'VI', blued spade 8Â¾in. (22cm.) hands, Earnshaw escapement with OZ-type balance, blued Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 helical spring, jewelled locking stone, mounted in gimballed brass bowl with Barraud 'butterfly' winding assembly within three-tier mahogany box (later), approximately -- 7in. (18cm.) square Lot: 170 A LATE 19TH-CENTURY BONE SAND GLASS with hand- Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 blown bulbs conjoined at middle with twine, contained between turned bone plates with three bone "bamboo form" supports -- 5Â¾in. (14.5cm.) high Lot: 165 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 A 2-DAY MARINE CHRONOMETER BY J. W. RAY & CO., 60 DALE ST. LIVERPOOL, NO.262, CIRCA 1919 the 4in. silvered dial signed and numbered as per title, up/down and subsidiary second dials, blued spade hands, Earnshaw escapement with Lot: 171 A MARINE-THEMED SHIP-STRIKE CLOCK & BAROMETER bi-metallic balance, steel helical balance, jewelled locking DESK SET with brushed-steel dials signed Westbury, U.S.A., stone, stamped '10824' on back plate with counter stamp inside the clock with eight-day going barrel movement and "Ship's bowl, gimbal-mounted within three-tier mahogany box with Watch" strike train, ship's wheel rims, mounted opposite

15 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com matching aneroid barometer on a bronzed base with Lot: 178 thermometer set between -- 8 x 12Â½in. (20 x 32cm.) A DISTRESSED MID 19TH-CENTURY 12IN. TERRESTRIAL Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 TABLE GLOBE BY W. & A.K. JOHNSTON, EDINBURGH & LONDON the globe fractured and missing sections, mounted within brass meridian ring, contained within a mahogany stand Lot: 172 with horizon ring -- 17in. (43cm.) high A LATE 19th-CENTURY CELESTIAL NAVIGATION GLOBE Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 BY CARY & CO., LONDON with 5Â½in. diameter paper-covered globe signed and inscribed Cary & Co. Makers to the Admiralty, 7 PALL MALL, LONDON, varnished and mounted in a brass Lot: 179 meridian set within a counter-signed horizon ring with A 19TH-CENTURY TURNED-IVORY THERMOMETER removable altitude frame with indicator, contained in a teak box constructed in three sections in the form of an 'Eleanor Cross' with instructions pasted inside lid -- 8in. (20.5cm.) square; the mercury tube set to front with range of 20-120Âº and photocopy of 1896 patent (2) annotated Freezing to Fever Heat opposite, secured to Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 ebonised base within glass dome -- 10Â½in. (26.5cm.) high Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 173 A 'HUSON' STAR GLOBE BY HENRY HUGHES & SON, LTD, Lot: 180 LONDON with 7in. globe signed THE HUSON STAR GLOBE / A MODERN THERMO-BAROGRAPH BY CASELLA, LONDON H. HUGHES & SON LTD, LONDON, contained in mahogany the drum with eight-day clockwork motor, temperature/pressure- box with brass meridian ring and removable horizon rings with recording arms with felt tip markers, contained in a plastic case sliding indicators, instructions pasted inside lid -- approximately with plexi-glass flip-lid and folding metal handle, the front with 10Â½in. (27cm.) square applied maker's mark signed as per title -- 11Â¾in. (30cm.) Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 diameter Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lot: 174 A 19TH-CENTURY DRY CARD COMPASS (unsigned), the Lot: 181 5Â¼in. card contained in gimbal-mounted, lacquered-brass and A LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MARINE painted bowl within wooden box with sliding lid -- 9in. (23cm.) INCLINOMETER, ATTRIBUTED TO JESSE RAMSDEN the diameter; together with another similar (2) lacquered-brass pendulum indicator with reciprocating upper Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 action mounted on a bedplate engraved with two 30Âº scales and broad arrow marks, contained within an inverted glazed keystone case for bulkhead mounting -- 22in. (56cm.) high A Lot: 175 near-identical example of this instrument signed by Ramsden A 19TH-CENTURY DRY CARD COMPASS BY H.J. HARTING was sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 17 November 2004, BANK UTRECHT with 4Â½in. compass card signed at centre as Sale 9969, lot 210. per title, contained within a black-painted and lacquered-brass Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 bowl, gimbal-mounted within oak box with sliding lid -- 10in. (25.5cm.) square Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Lot: 182 A GOOD TWO-CYLINDER VACUUM PUMP BY BENEVOLO, LYON, C.1880 heavily constructed in lacquered-brass and Lot: 176 signed BENEVOLO, Opticien, A LYON on the stock, wooden- A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SINGER'S-PATENT DRY CARD handled crank operating twin glass cylinders, brass bed plate COMPASS the 3Â½in. paper-covered compass card of typical supporting enclosed mercury thermometer, isolation and form, mounted within a lacquered-brass gimbal-mounted bowl operating valves, circular glass bell jar platform with cylinder within mahogany box with sliding lid -- 6Â¼in. (16cm.) square and fruitwood funnel to top, overall -- 20in. (51cm.) square Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 177 Lot: 183 C. ABEL-KLINGER (C. 1852), NUREMBERG: AN 8-INCH A 19TH-CENTURY HAND-OPERATED VACUUM PUMP TERRESTRIAL GLOBE signed as per title, made up of twelve unsigned, constructed of cast iron and brass, glass-enclosed printed and coloured gores with polar calottes and with Dutch cylinder, atmospheric mercury level, bell jar and platform with titles, the equatorial and prime meridian graduated in degrees, adjustable input valve, mounted on mahogany base -- 15 x the ecliptic ungraduated, the oceans coloured a light 28in. (38 x 71cm.); together with a hand-cranked set of bellows; green/blue, the continents coloured pale yellow showing and a small swordfish rostrum (3) mountains, rivers, towns, cities etc., Australia and Tasmania Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 described as Nieuw Holland / Van Diemens Eil, mounted in wooden tripod stand with paper meridian -- 19Â½in. (49.5cm.) high Lot: 184 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 AN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY 3IN. REFRACTING TELESCOPE BY J. MERZ, MÃœNCHEN signed as per title around objective, white-painted brass main tube with tripod mounting lugs,

16 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com lacquered-brass eye-piece with rack-and-pinion fine focus, terminus, assembled length -- 36Â¼in. (92cm.) high George length overall -- 51Â½in. (131cm.) Willson is recorded as an 'optical turner' working from 1798 in Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 his own capacity, having been apprenticed to James Moulding in 1781. He himself latterly had significant apprentices in George Dixey and John Cole, forming a partnership with Dixey Lot: 185 between 1802-1809, suggesting that this stick was made A LARGE MID-18TH-CENTURY 1Â½IN. SINGLE-DRAW NAVAL between 1798 and 1802. TELESCOPE unsigned, with tapering mahogany decagonal Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 tube, main lens assembly with dust slide, inscribed in copperplate script on the gilt brass draw-tube Captn. Matthew Smith R.N. (missing eye cup, tube cracked) -- 49Â½in. (126cm.) Lot: 190 closed This officer is recorded as being made Lieutenant on A RARE 18th-CENTURY 1Â¼IN. THREE-DRAW BRASS AND 4th December 1779, Commander 18th April 1782 and Captain SHAGREEN REFRACTING "SUBSCRIPTION" TELESCOPE exactly one year later. Intriguingly he is also listed as being BY WILLIAM STORER, LONDON with shagreen-covered main Dismissed the Service in 1796, but Restored again in 1798. He tube, lens cap and dust-slide to eye-piece, finely engraved on died in 1844. This telescope was discovered recently in the attic tube with the Royal Arms and inscribed underneath The during a clearance and despite losses and wear, remains in Subscription Telescope / by the King's Patent / Sero sed Serio / good optical condition. Warranted to be adjusted by Wm. Storer, / & delivered to the Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Subscribers / at Chas. Lincoln's, / No.62 Leadenhall Street, / London, rack-and-pinion focus, further engraved on lower stage * Storer, Professor of Optics to His Majesty No.8 -- 7Â¾in. Lot: 186 (19.6cm.) closed William Storer worked in London (off A GOOD 18TH-CENTURY 2IN. NAVAL SINGLE-DRAW Leicester Fields, now Leicester Square) between 1778-1789 TELESCOPE BEARING DUAL SIGNATURES FOR DOLLOND but was bankrupted in 1784. These telescopes are discussed in AND RAMSDEN the tapering mahogany tube with brass draw the article reference below. The numbering seems to have signed Dollond London and Ramsden London, bulbous eye- been rather opaque and, despite the highest number (188) piece with dust slide -- 38Â¼in. (97cm.) closed; contained in later being sold in these rooms in April 2010, the present lot, the canvas rod case Jesse Ramsden married John Dollond's lowest number to date, brings the total known to just six youngest daughter in 1765, thus aligning two of the greatest examples, suggesting that Storer used random numbers to instrument-making families in London. Dollond was justly famed disguise low sales. That Sero sed Serio (Late, but in earnest) for the quality of their optics and zealously guarded the was included in the inscriptions is telling. Literature: De acquired rights and subsequent patent to the invention of the Clercq, Dr. P: Bulletin 98, (pp37-8) September 2008, Scientific achromatic lens against London competitors - a share of which Instrument Society. ++Missing rack-and-pinion focus wheel; was given to Ramsden as part of the dowry when he married brass lacquer worn overall; optics in good condition. No Dollond's daughter. It seems that in the instance of this lot, evidence of cleaning or restoration. Ramsden simply acted as a retailer and had a somewhat hasty- Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 looking signature added. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 191 AN 18TH-CENTURY 2Â¼IN. REFRACTING TABLE TELESCOPE Lot: 187 BY RAMSDEN, LONDON the 24Â½in. lacquered-brass main tube A 19TH-CENTURY 1IN. THREE-DRAW WOOD AND BRASS with rack-and-pinion focus extension to threaded sighting tube, TELESCOPE BY DAVIS, LONDON signed by the tapering eye- mounted on folding tripod stand with levelling screws, bubble pieces E. Davis, London, Day or Night, dust slides, foul-weather level, rack-and-pinion elevation, horizontal vernier above feet extension cuff -- 11Â¼in. (28.5cm.) closed; together with another and elevation quadrant, approximately -- 20 x 35in. (51 x similar, signed Dolland (2) 89cm.) Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00

Lot: 188 Lot: 192 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 1Â¼IN. THREE-DRAW A 19TH-CENTURY IVORY, HORN AND BRASS 1Â¼IN. SINGLE- TELESCOPE SIGNED RAMSDEN, LONDON with nickel-plated DRAW MONOCULAR the main tube set with coloured brilliants, tubes signed as per title, wooden main tube, contained within gilt-plated draw-tube, contained within associated leather and original wood and leather container (optically impaired) -- 7Â¾in. wood pocket case -- 3in. (7.5cm.) high (19.5cm.) high Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Lot: 193 Lot: 189 A 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH IVORY AND STEEL POCKET AN EXTREMELY FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY BALEEN, DENTAL HYGIENE SET unsigned, the turned ivory handle with SHAGREEN AND LIGNUM VITÃ† COMPASS & TELESCOPE six types of scraper etc., contained in fitted red morocco leather SYSTEM STICK BY WILLSON, LONDON comprising 1in. case with securing hook -- 2Â¾in. (7cm.) diameter single-draw shagreen covered telescope signed by the eye- Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 piece as per title, the cap containing a 1in. dry card compass with card clamp in rim, secured when top cap is in place, the stick covered with a spiral of baleen and shagreen to brass Lot: 194

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A RARE LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH-CENTURY ITALIAN CARD, containing some accessories. The microscope -- 14Â½in. (37cm.) LEATHER AND IVORY 1IN. THREE-DRAW TELESCOPE high (closed); the case -- 18in. (46cm.) high Very similar unsigned, each draw with impressed focus ring and ivory stage, examples to this can be viewed in the Golub Collection turned dust cap and eye-piece (conservation and restoration) -- (No.181) located at the University of California, and the History 15Â¾in. (40cm.) closed; contained within an early 19th-century of Science Museum, Oxford (No. 43576), which appears to use six-sided plush-lined hinged oak case with securing hook and the same embossed designs and focus line numbers on its handle -- 28in. (71cm.) long (2) draw tube. Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Estimate: £8,000.00 - £12,000.00

Lot: 195 Lot: 199 AN 18TH-CENTURY CARD AND HORN 1IN. THREE-DRAW A FINE LACQUERED-BRASS COMPOUND MICROSCOPE TELESCOPE unsigned, each tube covered with vellum and BY JOHN CUFF, LONDON, CIRCA 1745 signed around the marked for correct withdrawal length, horn staging, eye-piece aperture on the cruciform stage J. Cuff London Invt. & Fecit, the and objective lens mount, stained coloured main tube with 7in. main tube with eye-piece dust slide, rectangular-section tooled decoration -- 13in. (33cm.) closed pillar engraved with objective settings 1-6, clamp screw and Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 fine-screw focusing adjustment, substage mirror, secured to a base with internal accessories, drawer containing six numbered objectives; swivelling platform lens; ebony loup; bone handled Lot: 196 tools; tweezers; platform forceps; ivory canister of slide spares; A FINE LACQUERED-BRASS UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPE contained in pyramidal storage case with top handle and COMPENDIUM BY BENJAMIN MARTIN, CIRCA 1774 signed internal drawer containing fish-plate; wet box; Bonnani spring by the eye-piece B. Martin, Invt. et Fecit, London, with stage; Lieberkuhn reflector; substage cone; fish skin-covered triangular section pillar with rack and pinion platform case of numbered bone slides with original specimen interest adjustment, double-sided substage mirror, six numbered etc., the box -- 17Â½in. (44.5cm.) high objective lenses, sprung 'Bonanni' stage, fish-plate, stage Estimate: £5,000.00 - £8,000.00 forceps and other accessories, contained in a fitted mahogany box (later) -- 12in. (30.5cm.) diameter Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 Lot: 200 A MID 19TH-CENTURY DRUM-TYPE MICROSCOPE unsigned, the 6Â½in. lacquered-brass sighting tube with rack-and- Lot: 197 pinion focus, single-sided mirror, contained in fitted mahogany A FINE 'JONES MOST-IMPROVED'-TYPE COMPOUND plush-lined box with accessories including six nose-pieces, MICROSCOPE COMPENDIUM BY DOLLOND, LONDON, Lieberkuhn reflector, live box, forceps and magnifier, the box -- CIRCA 1800 signed on the foot as per title, the square-section 11in. (28cm.) diameter shaft with front-inset rack-and-pinion strip, 7in. main tube, Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 substage condensing lens and plano-concave mirror, together with near-complete complement of accessories including a 'wheel of lenses' numbered 1-6; fish-plate; live box; large and Lot: 201 small bone slides with some original specimens; ivory tube of A 19TH-CENTURY CARY-TYPE BOTANIST'S MICROSCOPE mica spares; sprung Bonnani spring stage; cone substage light unsigned, of typical form and contained in box with plush-lined condenser; Lieberkuhn reflector, etc., contained within original lid and partial accessories including tweezers, two 6-specimen fitted mahogany box with side-securing hooks -- 4 x 13Â½ x 9Â½in.wooden slides, live box and glass blanks, the case -- 6Â¼in. (10 x 34 x 24cm.) Originally devised by George Adams the (16cm.) diameter Younger (1750-1795) and published after his death in the 2nd Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 edition of Adams Essays on the Microscope (1798), which W.& S. Jones purchased the copyright of, this type thus became known as the Jones Most-Improved Microscope. The London Lot: 202 firms W.& S. Jones, Bleuler, Cary and Dollond all made these A LATE 19TH-CENTURY PORTABLE MONOCULAR magnificent microscope compendiums, which achieved their MICROSCOPE PROBABLY BY SWIFT & SON the lacquered- greatest popularity in the first half of the 19th Century. This lot brass 5Â½in. tube with 1in. nose-piece signed Swift & Son, rack- represents the largest 'Jones Most-Improved' model Dollond and-pinion adjustment, removable plano/convex mirror, folding made and is in highly original condition. tripod legs contained in mahogany travelling box with some Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 accessories and drop handle, the box -- 7in. (18cm.) diameter Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 198 A FINE DOUBLE-REFLECTING COMPOUND MICROSCOPE Lot: 203 ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF EDMUND A CULPEPER-TYPE BRASS MICROSCOPE, ENGLISH, CULPEPER, CIRCA 1725-30 unsigned, with rayskin-covered C.1800 of typical form with 7in. sighting barrel, dust slide, main tube, green paper-lined draw-tube with embossed gilt platform forceps, contained in fitted pyramidal box with drawer decoration and inked focus staging lines and numbers, turned containing four nose-pieces and hinged top handle -- 13in. lignum vitÃ¦ eye-piece with brass dust slide supported over (33cm.) high circular brass objective stage by three legs, and secured by Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 three legs to circular lignum vitÃ¦ base with concave mirror at centre, contained within pyramidal case with lower drawer

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Lot: 204 Lot: 210 AN ENGLISH MID 18TH-CENTURY POCKET COMPASS A LATE 18TH-CENTURY BRASS THEODOLITE BY THOMAS MICROSCOPE unsigned, apparently complete and comprising JONES, LONDON signed on the base plate Thomas Jones, three lenses with silvered lieberkuhn mirrors, slide clamp, Charing Cross, London, and impressed with the Government pincers, loup and shade attachments, in fitted plush-lined black broad arrow mark between 'BO', numbered 2176, silvered fish skin case with securing hooks -- 5in. (12.8cm.) diameter compass, quadrant with telescope and level over (missing Literature: Turner, G.L'E: Collecting Microscopes, p.28-9, parts, old wear) -- 10 x 11in. (25.5 x 28cm.) where a similar example is discussed. Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 211 Lot: 205 A SURVEYOR'S LEVEL BY BAKER, LONDON in oxidised- A RARE OPTICAL COMPENDIUM RETAILED BY W.& S. brass with lacquered fittings, signed on the main tube Baker, JONES, CIRCA 1820 comprising a lacquered-brass drum-type 244 High Holborn, London 2818, bubble levels, compass, microscope; a projecting microscope with lignum vitÃ¦ scioptric levelling screws and base plate for tripod attachment, contained ball; and a two-draw mahogany and brass telescope, all in fitted mahogany box with leather strap -- 16in. (40.5cm.) contained in fitted mahogany box with two four-sample ivory wide; together with a 'Walker's' yacht log and impellor (2) slides and tweezers and maker's label inside lid. The box -- Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 13Â¼in. (33.5cm.) diameter Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 Lot: 212 AN 18TH-CENTURY MAHOGANY AND BRASS SURVEYOR'S Lot: 206 LEVEL BY COTTAM & HALLEN, LONDON comprising a A 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH LACQUERED-BRASS SOLAR lacquered-brass quadrant, signed and inscribed Cottam & PROJECTING MICROSCOPE unsigned, with substantial lens Hallen Winsley Strt, London No 180, the scale divided 12-0-12 assembly and bed plate with adjustable mirror, contained in and inscribed to left Inches Full In 3 Feet, and to the right fitted mahogany box with removable two-tier fitted compartment Inches Rise In 3 Feet, thumb-screw retention, the crossbar with for accessories including live box, specimen brass slides and folding pin-hole and cross-hair sights, shaft terminating in a two annotated wooden slides, the case -- 14Â½in. (37cm.) sharp point with foot plate; accompanied with matching diameter surveyor's staff -- dimensions overall 56Â½ x 54in. (143.5 x Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 137cm.) (2) Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00

Lot: 207 A RARE 19TH-CENTURY MICROSCOPE PROJECTION Lot: 213 ACCESSORY FOR A MAGIC LANTERN unsigned, constructed A 19TH-CENTURY LACQUERED-BRASS PANTOGRAPH BY in lacquered-brass with 4in. objective lens supporting JOSEPH CASARTELLI, MANCHESTER of typical form, signed microscope nose-piece with rack-and-pinion adjustment -- J. Castartelli, 43 Market Street, Manchester, contained in fitted 19Â¾in. (50cm.) long mahogany box with accessories and trade label -- 35Â½in. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 (90cm.) diameter This firm operated from this address between 1851-95. Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 208 A GOOD MID 19TH-CENTURY LACQUERED-BRASS MONOCULAR MICROSCOPE BY ANDREW ROSS, LONDON Lot: 214 signed and numbered on the foot ANDRw. ROSS, LONDON. A 19TH-CENTURY CIRCULAR PROTRACTOR BY WATSON No.85., rack-and-pinion focus, adjustable stage, plano-convex & SON, LONDON signed on one of the oxidised-brass cross mirror, contained in a fitted double-door box with accessories limbs Watson & Son, 313 High Holborn, London, polished- including nose-pieces, three by Ross, the 1/12th dated for brass main scale, hinged sprung arms with threaded points, '1857', assembled -- 16in. (40.5cm.) high; box -- 10 x 7Â½ x 9in. contained in fitted mahogany case -- 10Â½in. (26.5cm.) diameter; (25.5 x 19 x 23cm.) together with a brass roller rule signed UWV Birmingham in Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 pine box -- 19in. (48cm.) diameter (2) Watson & Son worked from this address between 1869-1872. Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 209 J.B. DANCER MICRO-PHOTOGRAPH SLIDES, MID 19TH- CENTURY comprising: 'Cent Francs, Banque de France'; 'Her Lot: 215 Majesty the Queen, the Princess Royal, and Prince of Wales. AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY DUTCH 'ROEDEN' (ROD) Painted by E. Landseer and engraved by S. Cousins'; 'Â£20 Bank ALIDADE RULE BY BRENER, NAMUR the brass bedplate Note'; 'Laying Down the Law. Sir E. Landseer'; 'The Marriage of secured to coromandel wood base, signed as per title and the Queen'; 'Major Dickson's Tablet, In Rostherne Church, further inscribed Dubbe De Schaale / Generalitait Schaale van Cheshire'. Size of original, 5 feet.'; 'Illuminated Lord's Prayer'; 160 RÃ½nlan dse Roeden with measurements and Gunter 'David Livingstone, L.L.D, Born 1816, The African Traveller'; squares delineated along length, each end with hinged sights, and 'Family Group seven figures' (8) each with two further hinged sights, contained within original Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 felt-lined leather-covered box with securing hooks and handle -- 24in. (61cm.) diameter At the date this was made, many

19 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com variations of rod measurement co-existed. The Dutch roede Meulemans, Bruxelles; a spring bow with ivory handle, was generally shorter than the English rod (16.5 ft) however the unsigned; three nickel-plated proportional dividers in fitted subdivisions, or voeten, varied dramatically from place to place cases, one signed Rieffler, the widest -- 8Â¾in. (22.2cm.) and there could be anything between 7 and 21 voeten to a diameter (5) roede. Louis XIV invaded Namur 1692-5 when he built Namur Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 castle. Napoleon re-occupied the area from 1794-1815 when he introduced his Code Napoleon unifying all these measurements and making instruments such as this lot Lot: 222 obsolete. AN UNUSUAL AND RARE COURSE INDICATOR BY J.R. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 STEBBING, SOUTHAMPTON, C.1862 constructed in lacquered-brass, signed and inscribed Invented by Comr. Hay, R.N. & J.R. F.R.A.S. Southampton No.518 together with Lot: 216 diamond registration mark for 1862 and Stebbing monogram, A LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH-CENTURY SHAGREEN- and comprising a 12in. rule with cutaway section, twin scaled COVERED DRAWING ETUI BY FRASER, LONDON the fitted circumferentor, three indicators with wire sights and a swivelling interior with folding rule and sector signed as per title, pen, sight with sliding shade -- 5 x 12in. (13 x 30.5cm.) compass ends and rasp (missing some content) -- 5Â½in. (14cm.) Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 high William Fraser worked from 3 New Bond Street between 1780-1805. Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 223 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY MAHOGANY MARINE BAROMETER BY COX, LONDON with ivory scales and top Lot: 217 plate signed as per title, restricted mercury tube, hinged AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY DRAWING SET ETUI with brass, thermometer guard panel, plain parallel shaft with gimbal and steel and ivory instruments comprising a folding rule signed weight -- 39Â½in. (100cm.) high W.& S. Jones; sector; protractor, compass, dividers, pricker Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 etc., contained in a sharkskin-covered case with hinged lid -- 7in. (18cm.) high Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 224 A MID 19-CENTURY ROSEWOOD SHIP'S 'IMPROVED SYMPIESOMETER' unsigned, the carved case with ivory Lot: 218 barometer plates with twin adjustment wheels, brass gimbal A LATE 19TH-CENTURY CASED DRAWING SET BY ring, silvered sympiesometer inscribed as per title and brass STANLEY with single tray of instruments containing pens clad weight under -- 38in. (97cm.) high signed as per title, proportional dividers, compasses, etc.; the Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 lower compartment with ivory folding rule, sector and parallel rule and tortoiseshell pen, contained in a burr walnut box with plush-lined lid with maker's label and nickel-plated mounting -- Lot: 225 8Â½in. (21.5cm.) diameter A FINE FLAT-BACKED BOW-FRONT DOMESTIC Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 BAROMETER BY WATKINS & HILL, LONDON, C.1840 signed on the silvered scale Watkins & Hill, 5 Charing Cross, LONDON, long thermometer with Fahrenheit and Reaumur Lot: 219 scales, original mercury tubes, contained in a fruitwood case A LARGE QUANTITY OF ASSORTED DRAWING with indicator key to front and reservoir adjustment under -- INSTRUMENTS, SPARES AND PARTS various makes and 38in. (96.5cm.) high dates, comprising compass, divider, screws etc., contained in a Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 cardboard box (a lot) Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 226 A DOMESTIC BAROMETER BY GEORGE ADAMS SENIOR, Lot: 220 LONDON, C.1760 the mahogany case with break arch and urn A RARE 19TH-CENTURY SET OF GEOMETRIC SOLIDS BY pediment, silvered scale plate signed Made by Geo Adams in CLAXTON & MORTON cut from satinised wood, each stamped Fleet Street LONDON / Inftrument Maker To His MAJESTY, 'C&M' and numbered, contained within original box of issue exposed full-length mercury tube to demi-sphere cistern with with maker's label inside lid with diagram numbered to level adjustment under (cleaning, restoration) -- 39in. (99cm.) correspond -- 12in. (30.5cm.) diameter Claxton & Morton high worked between 1840-1845 from 27 Harrington Street, London. Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 A similar set by Claxton & Prothero who worked from the same address between 1846-1849 was sold in these rooms 20th April 2011, lot 218. Lot: 227 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 A KEW-PATTERN MARINE BAROMETER BY NEGRETTI & ZAMBRA, LONDON with black-painted main tube, silvered thermometer, signed as per title to left of main scale, gimbal Lot: 221 mount for wall securing -- 36in. (91.5cm.) high A QUANTITY OF CASED DRAWING INSTRUMENTS Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 comprising a nickel-plated pillar compass in fitted case signed Lot: 228

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A 19TH-CENTURY LACQUERED-BRASS MARINE overall BAROMETER GIMBAL of typical horseshoe form, supported on Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 a 7Â½in. column hinged to base plate, drilled for bulkhead mounting -- 14in. (35.5cm.); together with a similar modern example. Lot: 234 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 'A NEW AND COMPLETE EPITOME OF PRACTICAL NAVIGATION.. AT SEA..' J.W. Norie, seventh edition, 1822, containing maps, charts, diagrams and tables, rebound in full Lot: 229 calf with gilt titles -- 8Â¾ x 6in. (22 x 15cm.); together with a copy A 19TH-CENTURY POCKET ANEROID BAROMETER BY of Nicholls's Seamanship & Nautical Knowledge, 17th ed, 1937; HAMILTON & INCHES, EDINBURGH with 1Â½in. silvered dial and a 'Capt. Field's Improved' boxwood parallel rule -- 24in. signed as per title, blued-steel indicator, rotating bevel scale, (61cm.) diameter (3) contained within a gilt fob-form case with back half of leather Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 outer case -- 3Â½in. (9cm.) overall Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 235 A FINE 12IN. RADIUS DOUBLE-FRAMED VERNIER Lot: 230 SEXTANT BY TROUGHTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1800 the A RARE EARLY 20th-CENTURY CYCLONOMETER BY oxidised-brass frame with polished-brass arc signed as per title HUGHES & SON, LONDON with 6in. silvered aneroid and divided to 140Âº, Vernier scale with magnifier, sighting barometer inscribed COMPENSATED / THE tubes, mirrors, four shades, contained within original wooden CYCLONOMETER / No.531, with rotating bevelled glass scale fitted keystone case, together with counter-weighted pillar divided for different dates, latitude settings and storm distances, support and accessories, the lid with trade label for John Bruce blued-steel indicator with gold marker, set in an oxidised-brass of Liverpool -- case 17in. (43cm.) square bed plate contained within mahogany box with ivorine maker's Estimate: £2,500.00 - £4,000.00 label inscribed Hughes & Son, Opticians, 59 Fenchurch Street, London., the hinged lid containing an ivorine-backed thermometer and an adjustable cyclonometer indicator -- 4Â½ x Lot: 236 8Â½in. (11.5 x 21.5cm.) Designed to give sailors early warning of AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 5IN. VERNIER REFLECTING typhoons and cyclones, this instrument seems to have been CIRCLE BY LISTOR & MARTINS, BERLIN with oxidised-brass developed around 1912 with Hughes & Son issuing this version frame, polished-brass meridian signed as per title, with inset from the mid-1920s. Alternate names are the silvered scale, lacquered-brass index arms, vernier magnifier, 'barocyclonometer' or 'typhoon barometer'. five shades, two mirrors and sighting tube, double rosewood Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 handle, contained within original fitted wooden box, with accessories. Case -- 12Â¼ x 12Â¾in. (31 x 32.5cm.) Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 Lot: 231 'SLIDING SCALE FOR CORRECTING LONGITUDE AT NOON, FOR AN ERROR IN THE LATITUDE USED IN THE Lot: 237 COMPUTATION AT TIME OF SIGHTS, BY GILBERT, T. KEY, A LATE 18TH-CENTURY 13Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER OCTANT LIEUT. R.N.' J.D. POTTER, LONDON, C.1865 signed on the BY DOLLOND, LONDON the 'T'-frame with ivory scale divided top plate J.D. Potter / 31, Poultry, London and comprising three to 100Âº, index arm signed as per title, pencil top, pin-hole card discs inscribed True 45Âº Bearing; Latitude 0Âº and Error in sights, interchangeable shades, index and horizon mirrors, Latitude conjoined by a central brass stud, instructions and brass feet to reverse, overall -- 15in. (38cm.) high examples printed on the top plate, the reverse with manuscript Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 inscription reading Rec Feb 7th 1865 at [?] Fort Menrue. -- 6Â¼in. (16cm.) diameter John Dennett Potter worked between 1851 and 1880 from this address with a second establishment running from King St. from 1884. Lot: 238 AN UNUSUAL EARLY 19TH-CENTURY LACQUERED-BRASS Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 DRUM SEXTANT BY W.& T. GILBERT, LONDON signed as per title, inset silvered scale divided to 145Âº, vernier with external slot and clamp with fine adjustment over, magnifier, Lot: 232 internal pin-hole sighting and shades and threaded cover -- 3in. EMPTY 19TH-CENTURY INSTRUMENT BOXES comprising (7.7cm.) diameter William and Thomas Gilbert worked from two three-tier chronometer boxes; an outer guard box with 148 Leadenhall St. between 1819-1831. leather strap for a chronometer; and a keystone box for an Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 octant (4) Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Lot: 239 AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 11Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER Lot: 233 OCTANT BY B. WALTER, LONDON with maker's plate A LATE 19TH-CENTURY ANEROID BAROMETER BY JOHN inscribed WALTER : LONDON, the ebony frame with ivory NOBLE, HONG KONG with 4Â¼in. silvered dial signed as per scale divided to 95Â° and Ramsden's foul-anchor dividing mark title, black steel needle with gilt indicator and curved tube to centre, braced lacquered-brass index arm and fittings thermometer around lower edge, contained within lacquered- including pin-hole sight, interchangeable shades and mirrors, brass case with suspension loop --5in. (12.8cm.) diameter turned pencil head in 'T' bar, note plaque to reverse and pin

21 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com feet, contained within stepped keystone case with trade label Lot: 244 for J. W. Norie & Co., lock and brass escutcheon -- 15in. A 6Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY HEATH & CO., (38cm.) wide LONDON with three-circle oxidised-brass frame, polished brass Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 arc, signed Heath & Co., New Eltham, London SE9, No. B889, inset silvered scale divided to 155Âº, shade, mirrors, sighting tubes, contained in fitted oak box with test certificate for 1936 -- Lot: 240 11in. (28cm.) diameter AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY 11Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 EBONY AND IVORY OCTANT BY SYEDS, ROTHERHITHE with âˆ•-shaped ebony frame, inset ivory scale divided to 105Âº, signed on the crossbar SYEDS 379 ROTHERHITHE , pin- Lot: 245 hole/telescope sight, index mirror, seven shades, rosewood A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 7Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER OCTANT handle, contained in fitted wooden keystone case; together with BY LARMOUR, BELFAST with black-painted tulip frame, the letter of provenance from Port of London Authority dated 1933 -- polished-brass arc signed as per title, inset scale divided to 14 x 13in. (35.5 x 33cm.); together with a similar, but 130Âº, silver magnifier, shades, mirrors, sighting tubes, incomplete, example by Norie, London, contained within a contained within a fitted wooden box with trade label for Hayes distressed wooden stepped keystone case (2) Agnes Syeds Brothers, Cardiff -- 10Â¾in. (27.4cm.) worked from 1834-1853 from this address, having taken over Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 the business from her late husband in 1834. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 246 A 6Â¼IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT BY T.L. AINSLEY, Lot: 241 SOUTH SHIELDS with oxidised-brass three-circle frame, A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 6Â½IN. RADIUS VERNIER polished-brass arc, signed as per title, inset scale divided to 'HEZZANITH' SEXTANT BY HEATH & CO. LTD. with oxidised- 150Â°, vernier with quick-release clamp, silver magnifier, mirrors, brass bell-frame, signed on the arc as per title, numbered shades, sighting tubes, wooden handle, contained in fitted '3959' and inscribed George Louis Browne R.N., silvered scale wooden box with test certificate for 1927 -- 10Â½in. (26.5cm.) divided to 150Âº, Vernier scale with magnifier, permanent diameter sighting objective with front focus and alternate tube socket, Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 shades, mirrors and fruitwood handle, contained in fitted case with press-button release on handle and test certificate for 1897 in lid -- 10Â¼in. (26cm.) diameter Details concerning this officer are scant, however he was awarded the China Medal of 1900 Lot: 249 with a Relief of Pekin clasp; seems to have been made TWO GLASS DISPLAY DOMES SUITABLE FOR SHIP Lieutenant in 1903, was lent to the Royal Australian Navy and MODELS one with fitted ebonised base -- both approximately is listed as Lieutenant of the Tingira in 1912; and in 1918 was 13 x 13in. (33 x 33cm.) (2) awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French President. Estimate: £100.00 - £200.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 250 Lot: 242 A WELL-PRESENTED AND FINELY-OBSERVED NAVY A LATE 19TH-CENTURY 7Â¼IN. RADIUS VERNIER OCTANT BOARD-STYLE MODEL OF THE 28-GUN FRIGATE BY MATHESON & CO., LEITH with oxidised-brass T-frame, SOLEBAY (1694) modelled in fruitwoods after the original held polished-brass arc, signed as per title, with inset ivory scale at the Central Naval Museum, St. Petersburg with deck details divided to 125Âº, magnifier, shades, mirrors, sighting tubes, including launching masts with hand-painted flags, cast brass rosewood handle, contained in fitted wooden box -- 10Â¾in. figurehead and 'carved work', bronze guns with Royal Arms in (27cm.) diameter stepped wooden carriages, finished in natural wood and wax Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 and mounted on a pair of cast dolphin set wooden stands on sliding display base within glazed case. Model measurements (excluding masts) -- 9Â½ x 34Â½in. (24 x 87.5cm.); Overall measurements -- 22Â¼ x 41Â¼ x 14Â¼in. (56.5 x 105 x 36cm.) The Lot: 243 model offered here has been copied, with meticulous attention A GOOD 19TH-CENTURY 7IN. RADIUS VERNIER SEXTANT to detail, from the original now housed in the Central Naval BY CARY, LONDON the lacquered-brass 'T'-frame with Museum in St. Petersburg. One of two (the other being Royal polished-brass arc signed as per title and numbered '898', inset Sovereign) presented to Peter the Great (1682-1725) when he silvered scale divided to 160Âº, vernier engraved P. Somerville visited London during his novel European progress of 1697-98, R.N, swivel magnifier, sighting tubes, mirrors and shades with these source models are justly famous, not least because of the blackened frame, contained in fitted mahogany box with unusual circumstances which took them to Russia. Soon after accessories and test certificate for 1923 in lid -- 9Â¾in. (24.8cm.) the innovative Tsar Peter ascended the Russian throne, he square; together with a cased boxwood roller rule signed W. H. realised that if he was to modernise his backward country he Harling, London, inscribed with same owner's name -- 16in. must learn something of Western Europe's technological skills, (40.5cm.) diameter (2) Cmdr. Philip Somerville D.S.O. and Bar especially shipbuilding. It was this latter interest which was the son of Vice-Admiral Hugh Gaultier Coghill Somerville, eventually brought him to the Thames-side shipyards in the C.B., D.S.O. of County Cork. He served aboard the K-Class spring of 1698 to study the shipwrights' craft and where he saw, destroyer H.M.S. Kingston during WWII and was killed aboard with amazement, the huge bulk of Royal Sovereign taking her in 1942. shape on the stocks. In commemoration of this visit, King Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 William III is said to have presented Peter with a beautiful

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Lot: 253 Lot: 251 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. TOM A 1:20 SCALE NAVY BOARD-STYLE MODEL OF AN PERKINS REMOVED FROM PLUMPTON PLACE, EAST ADMIRAL'S BARGE AND CREW OF CIRCA 1710 with typical SUSSEX -- LOTS 252 - 254 A 19TH-CENTURY WOOD AND open-framed boxwood hull decorated with blue bulwarks and METAL MODEL 18-GUN FRIGATE with planked and pinned gilt string-work, Venetian red-painted interior with ten moulded hull, carved and gilt scroll-form figure piece, stern and quarter polychrome crew holding red sculls, a seated Admiral with lights, planked and pinned deck with details including winch, periwig and tricorn, and a tillerman, mounted on a walnut carved wooden anchors with bound stocks, bitts, deck hatches, veneered display base. Overall measurements (with oars insitu) deck rings, twelve brass cannon in rigged trucks with sliders, -- 6 x 19 x 17in. (15 x 48 x 43cm.) This model closely suite of fitted ship's boats and dinghies, capstan, wood and resembles the example sold at Christies, South Kensington 7th metal helm, companionway etc., three raked bound masts with October 1993, lot 277. yards, stun's'l booms, bow sprit with metal dolphin striker, Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 standing and running rigging, with ebonised dead-eyes and wooden blocks -- overall measurements 44 x 58in. (112 x 147cm.); wall-mounting brackets This model will be available Lot: 251A for viewing at Imperial Road A FINELY-REALISED 1:64 SCALE MODEL OF THE SIXTH Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 RATE UNICORN (1776) with planked and pinned hull, the planks omitted to expose ribs amidships on port side, ebony wales, open gun ports with red-painted lids, painted and Lot: 254 decorated bulwarks, finely carved unicorn and warrior PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. TOM figurehead, caryatid and taffrail carvings, semi-planked decks PERKINS REMOVED FROM PLUMPTON PLACE, EAST revealing 'tween decks and great cabin, gratings, guns in SUSSEX -- LOTS 252 - 254 A LATE 19TH-CENTURY WOOD carriages, helm, capstand, belfry, masts with standing and AND METAL MODEL FOR A 28-GUN FRIGATE with green- running rigging with blocks, chain plates and deadeyes and painted hull carved from the solid, ebonised main wale, gun masthead streamers, mounted on a planked wooden display ports with wooden barrels, Royal Navy-type carved full length base within brass-bound glazed cover. The model -- 23 x figurehead of an officer in bicorn hat, glazed stern and quarter 33in.(58.5 x 84cm.); The case -- 26 x 37Â¾ x 16in. (66 x 96 x lights, planked and pinned deck with details including cannons 40.5cm.) A typically active ship of the American War of in sliders, bitts, well deck with fitted boats over, Independence,Unicorn was built by John Randall & Co of companionways, capstan, double helm, deck lights, with three Rotherhithe for a fitted and coppered cost of Â£8,524.7.1d. bound masts, white-painted to the first stage yards, stun's'l Commissioned in April 1776, she sailed from Plymouth under booms, bow sprit with double dolphin striker, standing and Captain John Ford in July for North America to serve as a troop running rigging, blocks and tackle -- overall measurements 47 x convoy escort, and within a few months had taken six American 62in. (119.5 x 157.5cm.); wall-mounting brackets This model privateers, and together with the Experiment also took the 32- will be available for viewing at Imperial Road gun U.S.S. Raleigh. After a refit in England, she returned to Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 American waters and took the Hope before she herself was captured by the French L'Andromaque in September 1780, but was re-captured in April 1781 in the West Indies by the Lot: 255 Resource and renamed Unicorn Prize. Refitted at Portsmouth Various Properties A 19TH-CENTURY WOOD AND METAL for over Â£6,500, she served in the Channel and Irish Sea but by MODEL OF A 12-GUN CUTTER with planked and pinned hull 1786 was worn out and, paid off at Deptford, was broken up with lead-weighted keel, scored deck with details including there in August 1787. working mahogany anchor, winch, deck hatches, gratings, deck Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 light, guns and carriages and tillers, with single gaff, rigged raked mast with suit of stitched linen sails, standing and running rigging -- overall measurements 53 x 52ins. (134.5 x 132cm.); Lot: 252 stand It has been suggested that this model may in fact be a PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. TOM small dockyard-pattern model which was converted with a lead PERKINS REMOVED FROM PLUMPTON PLACE, EAST keel in the latter part of the 19th-Century. SUSSEX -- LOTS 252 - 254 A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY, Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 POSSIBLY DOCKYARD, WOOD AND METAL MODEL FOR A TOPSAIL SCHOONER the hull planked with square-headed copper pins, ebonised main wale and top sides, scroll-form Lot: 256 head piece, carved and glazed stern, gallery and quarter lights, AN ATTRACTIVE 19TH-CENTURY PICTURE planked and pinned deck with details including anchor winch MODEL/SHADOW BOX OF A THREE-MAST MERCHANT with working ratchet, bitts, metal anchor with wooden stock, SHIP depicted with carved hull, carved wooden sails and gratings, deck rings, raised companionway with glazed sides, rigging, sailing on port reach on a calm sea with blue cloudy sky sliding top revealing painted interior, wood and brass helm behind, contained within a marquetry frame with demi lune inscribed DEXTER, twin raked masts with ebonised yards, with cartouche of a similar vessel over -- overall measurements 22 x stun's'l booms, standing rigging with ebonised locks secured to 33in. (56 x 84cm.) chain pates, running rigging with sheathed locks etc. Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Measurements overall - 43 x 62in. (109 x 157.5cm.); wall-

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Lot: 257 AMERICAN TEA CLIPPER RED JACKET (1854) modelled by A 19TH-CENTURY PICTURE HALF-MODEL OF THE WHITBY J. Hayward with laminated carved hull coppered below the COBLE MEG the 20in. hull carved from the solid with clinker waterline, carved and painted deck fittings with cut-away masts, planking, seats and mast, and mounted on a canvas laid on mounted on a green baize-covered backing board with board in oils, with a colourful harbour scene with cliffs behind -- engraved brass specification plate -- 17Â¼ x 40 in. (44 x 101.6 overall measurements including frame 22Â½ x 35Â½in. (57 x cm.) 89.5cm.) Estimate: £200.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 260 Lot: 258 A WELL-PRESENTED 1:24 SCALE HALF-BLOCK MODEL A REMARKABLE 1:96 SCALE MODEL DIORAMA OF THE FOR THE G.L. WATSON-DESIGNED RACING YACHT VICTORY PREPARING TO SAIL, ANCHORED OFF MADGE (1879) modelled by Peter Ward, carved from AGINCOURT SOUND, SARDINIA, AT 3.45PM ON THE 19TH laminated mahogany with black-painted top sides brass fittings, JANUARY 1805 WITH THE CAPTAINS OF THE ACTIVE AND cutaway mast, bow sprit and boom, mounted on wooden SEAHORSE APPROACHING TO REPORT modelled and display board with details -- overall measurements 10 x 38Â½in. presented from his own exhaustive researches by T. Davies; (25.5 x 98cm.) the Victory fully modelled in fruit and box woods with planked Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 hull copper sheathed below the waterline, contrasting black and yellow hull with open gun ports on upper two decks with guns fitted with red tompions run out forward, the latter ports glazed, Lot: 261 finely carved head-piece, glazed stern and quarter galleries A WELL-PRESENTED Â¼IN. TO THE FOOT SCALE HALF- with internal fittings visible, planked decks and bound masts MODEL OF THE 23 METRE CLASS RACING YACHT with standing and running rigging of correct weight, yards and CAMBRIA (1928) modelled by Peter Ward, with carved hull stun's'l booms, flying the signal to 'unmoor' from the mizzen finished in red, green and white, cutaway mast with boom and mast, the decks crowded with numerous crew and officers bow sprit, mounted on a polished wood display board with undertaking tasks including furling sails, stowing anchor ropes, details -- overall measurements 9 x 37Â½in. (23 x 95.3cm.) preparing to raise an approaching pinnace, with a company of Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 marines being drilled, the poop deck with Nelson pointing and Hardy watching as Pascoe stows signal flags, the whole mounted in a 6in. deep rippled green glass sea with painted Lot: 262 white flecking, a pinnace with ten oarsmen, two officers and a A FINE AND WELL-PRESENTED 1:48 SCALE STATIC marine approaching, contained in a bespoke glazed case with DISPLAY MODEL OF THE WORLD'S FIRST TURBINE- backdrop and stern views painted by Geoff Hunt showing the POWERED CRAFT TURBINIA DESIGNED BY SIR CHARLES headland and rest of squadron, internal electric lighting, dust PARSONS IN 1894 modelled by John R. Haynes with bespoke trap and legend to front, mounted on tapering legs. pre-formed hull, painted deck with superstructure and fittings as Measurements overall -- 75 x 53Â½ x 26in. (190.5 x 136 x 66cm.); appropriate and including anchor, winch, glazed wheel house framed charts of location and description of activities; service with steering wires to aft rudder shoe, deck rails with named life table (5) Born of a frustration with the inadequacies of some buoys, raked buff-coloured funnel, engine room companionway models to show the Victory accurately enough and to put it into and observation post, fitted dinghy with gratings, oars etc, the an interesting moment of history, this model evolved into what two-tone hull fitted with three propeller shafts each supported is possibly the most complex and detailed presentation of this three brass propellers, mounted on brass columns within famous ship yet undertaken. Log books and site visits were wooden glazed case with maker's plate. Cased measurements - used to determine Victory's precise anchorage at this date, - 9Â¾ x 31 x 6in. (25 x 79 x 15cm.) Turnbinia was designed by from which photographs and period pictures were used by Sir Charles Parsons, inventor and builder of Parsons turbines. renowned marine artist Geoff Hunt to provide the backdrop She was built by him in 1894 to test Parsons turbines in service canvases; detailed discussions with historians and the curator and to demonstrate the advantages of turbine vs reciprocating of H.M.S. Victory were undertaken to extraordinary degrees to engine propulsion. Naturally, the fastest type of craft should be establish precisely the arrangement of the vessel at this date - used for such demonstrations. It was a sad blow when, there was a small refit before the Battle of Trafalgar which powered by one radial flow turbine, Turbinia made less than 20 provided additional challenges. Three years of trials were taken knots due to cavitation at the high turbine speeds of 1800-2000 with the sea to get it realistic. It is uniquely poured around the RPM. Parsons made many studies of cavitation. The single hull to conform to the modeller's wishes to create the correct turbine was removed and replaced by three Parsons parallel- light refraction, so the hull and anchor cable look as they did flow turbines, each driving a shaft with three propellers on each when Nelson gave the order to set sail. The success of the shaft as clearly seen in this model. The Royal Naval Review vignettes on the deck, in the rigging and the pinnace is a rare for Queen Victoria's Jubilee took place at the Spithead in 1897. achievement with very few models so successfully employing With all the ships of the Navy, guest vessels, and huge crowds this detail. To preserve the model for posterity, the modeller looking on, the tiny (comparatively) Turbinia ripped through the designed an airtight case with temperature-controlled climate rows of cumbersome naval vessels at an astonishing 35 knots. and a dust trap on top, however should anything ever come This bravado display effectively demonstrated beyond question astray, full instructions on how to access it are provided along the superiority of steam turbines, and in a very short time with a table of the right height to slide the model on. successful turbine installations had been made and put in Estimate: £20,000.00 - £30,000.00 service on coastal steamers. The Cunard Line experimented with turbines in the 20,000 ton Carmania, and then entrusted turbines to their Mauretania and Lusitania. Both ships became Lot: 259 world famous, the former holding the transatlantic speed record A WELL-PRESENTED HALF-MODEL OF THE CELEBRATED from 1910 to 1929. Turbinia was solely a demonstration vessel

24 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com to show, as she certainly did, the advantages of turbine drive. brass anchors with bone stocks, carved figurehead, stern and Her weight of 44Â½ tons divided by her horsepower gave a very quarter galleries, the deck with baleen to centre, polished guns low 49 pounds per horsepower, only to be surpassed five years in trucks, deck rings, casks, belfry, capstan, wooden long boats, later by the American Arrow which, even with reciprocating bound masts with yards, stun's'l booms, standing and running engines, achieved a figure of 36 pounds per horsepower. rigging with bone blocks and deadeyes, mounted on Shortly after being photographed alongside the Mauretania, the contemporary parquetry bone and wood base with balustrade. first large, fast, turbine powered ocean liner, she was laid up on Overall measurements -- 17 x 21in. (43 x 53.3cm.) the Tyne. Her after part was retired to exhibition in 1927 in the Estimate: £15,000.00 - £20,000.00 Imperial Science Museum in London. In 1961 both halves were rejoined in Newcastle on Tyne where she can now be seen. Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Lot: 268 A LARGE, FINELY-CARVED AND DETAILED EARLY 19TH- CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR Lot: 263 WOODEN SHIP MODEL OF THE HEROIC FRENCH AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF- VETERAN OF TRAFALGAR L'INTRÃ‰PIDE the planked and WAR BONE AND BALEEN MODEL OF A FIRST RATE SHIP pinned hull with ebony main and secondary wales, three decks OF THE LINE with planked and pinned hull, polychrome of retractable brass guns operated via stern cords, brass figurehead and guns run out of ports, mounted on original wood anchors with wooden stocks, finely-carved ivory warrior-form and bone base (unrigged, missing parts, dust), together with a figurehead, stern and quarter galleries, planked decks with quantity of associated bone components, base diameter -- 8in. details including capstan, stove pipe, water casks, two large (20.3cm.) brass ship's bells flanking the well deck, ship's boat fitted with Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 cross boards, thwarts and oars, gratings, companionways, helm, front of poop carved with swags of arms, deck lights, chicken coops, stern boats in davits, Jacob's ladder, brass guns Lot: 264 in carriages, bound masts with yards, stun's'l booms, standing A 19TH-CENTURY IVORY DIEPPE MODEL FRIGATE with and running rigging and other details, mounted in a wooden carved hull, masts with standing and running rigging, blocks cradle stand (later, cleaning, restoration to rigging). Overall and ivory sails, mounted on ebonised base with dinghy off port measurements -- 29 x 36in. (74 x 91.5cm.) A 'Bold' Class 74- side contained within a glass dome. The model -- 3 x 4in. (7.5 x gun frigate launched as IntrÃ©pido in Ferrol, Spain in 1799, she 10cm.); the dome -- 6Â½ x 6in. (16.5 x 15cm.) was given to France in 1800 which adapted the name. She took Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 part in Villeneuve's West Indies expedition in May/June 1805, and fought at Calder's Action on her return that July. However her most glorious (and final) action was at Trafalgar. Captained by the bluff-but-experienced Louis Infernet (who had assumed Lot: 265 command in August), she formed part of Vice Admiral A WELL-PRESENTED FRENCH NAPOLEONIC PRISONER- Dumanoir's van squadron. Attempting to relieve the pressure OF-WAR-STYLE MINIATURE BONE MODEL FOR A 64-GUN on Villeneuve's centre, L'IntrÃ©pide was the only one of ten ships THIRD RATE SHIP with carved 3-inch long hull, ebony wales, that sailed straight for the mÃªlÃ©e and, during two hours of guns with open gun ports, warrior-form figurehead, carved stern intense fighting, engaged seven or eight British ships, on one and quarter galleries, simple deck fittings, fully rigged masts, occasion coming under fire from four or five simultaneously. yards and stun's'l booms with bone blocks, mounted on a bone Incredibly Infernet came through unscathed, however 242 of his base secured to ebonised case with glazed cover -- 5Â¼in. 745 crew were casualties, and ultimately dismasted with her (13.3cm.) square rudder shot away and wheel smashed they were "obliged to Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 yield" as Infernet put it. During the severe storms that followed the action it proved impossible to preserve all the prizes and L'IntrÃ©pide was burnt on Collingwood's orders. Six months later Lot: 266 Infernet returned to France as part of a prisoner exchange and A FINELY-CARVED AND DETAILED EARLY 19TH-CENTURY was awarded the Grande Croix LÃ©gion d'Honneur by Napoleon NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE SHIP and is one of the few French naval officers to have his name MODEL FOR A 74-GUN THIRD RATE SHIP OF THE LINE the carved in the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. As one of the most 13in. planked and pinned hull with fretwork and gold leaf main illustrious French vessels at Trafalgar, it is not surprising that wale, retractable guns with stern cords and red-painted port the prisoner who made this model felt secure enough to name lids, warrior-form figurehead, balustrade stern with quarter it, as Lt. Senhouse of the Conqueror commented afterwards, galleries, deck details including capstan, casks, fretted she put up one of the most gallant defences I have ever hammock racks, well deck, bitts, deck lights, bound masts with witnessed and would have been a viable commercial prospect yards, stun's'l booms, standing rigging with deadeyes and chain in an age when heroic gallantry counted for as much, if not plates, running rigging with blocks and two long boats, mounted more, than the cause in which it was deployed. on planked bone base secured within glazed wooden case with Estimate: £28,000.00 - £35,000.00 provenance plaque. Overall measurements -- 22 x 27Â½ x 11Â½in. (56 x 70 x 29cm.) Provenance: Princess Eugene's Collection Estimate: £12,000.00 - £18,000.00 Lot: 269 A FINE AND EXCEPTIONALLY DETAILED BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE 'A' CLASS TANKER M.V. ARIES, BUILT BY Lot: 267 NIPPON KOKAN KK, YOKOHAMA FOR SOCIEDAD A WELL-PRESENTED BONE AND BALEEN NAPOLEONIC TRANSOCEANIC CANOPUS, S.A., 1957 the laminated carved FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR SHIP MODEL with 12in. hull with lowered boarding companionway, bilge keels and planked and pinned hull, sprung guns operated via stern cords, Plimsol marks, with green-painted deck covered in a multitude

25 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com of gold-plated fittings, central and aft superstructure with boats Lot: 273 in davits, awning stanchions, liveried funnel and much other Other properties AN 19TH-CENTURY BUILDER'S HALF- fine detailing, mounted within brass-bound glazed case with MODEL FOR THE CARGO SHIP EGLINTON, BUILT BY specification plate. Overall measurements -- 22Â½ x 71 x 15Â¾in. HUGH McINTYRE, PAISLEY, 1877 the laminated carved hull (57 x 180 x 40cm.) Aries was renamed Irenes Spirit ('73) and with black-painted topsides, lined decks and superstructure, gilt broken at Inchon in 1976; Antares was renamed Antares II ('72) fittings, cut-away masts and funnel, mounted on a satinwood and Black Builder ('74) and was broken at Browsville in 1978; display board with builder's plate within dome-fronted glazed Andromeda was renamed Scapriver ('72) and Kyra-Christina display case. Overall measurements -- 10 x 38in. (25.5 x ('74) and broken at Bilbao in 1976. 96.5cm.) Launched in April 1877, no career history has been Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 found for this 186 ton vessel at the present time. Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 Lot: 270 A BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL FOR THE BRITISH Lot: 274 FERRIES SEALINK PASSENGER 'SUPERFERRY' M.V. A BUILDER'S MODEL OF THE TUG IRANDE, BUILT FOR FANTASIA the hull constructed from carved laminated wood THE THAMES STEAM TUG & LIGHTERAGE CO. LTD. BY with metal and plastic superstructure and fittings, completed JOHN I. THORNEYCROFT & CO. LTD, SOUTHAMPTON, with company livery (damage to bow section, some loose parts 1929-30 the carved hull fully painted with gold-plated fittings and wear) -- 20 x 65in. (51 x 165cm.) contained in wooden including anchor davit and winch, foremast with navigation transit box with rope handles This model will be available for lamps, air intake, bell, wheel house with helm, telegraphs, viewing at Imperial Road. klaxon, life buoys, counter-weighted collapsible funnel with Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 company colours, ventilators, navigation lamps on brackets, engine room hatch covers, tow hook etc, mounted on turned wooden fittings within glazed wooden case and ivorine builder's Lot: 271 plate (detached). Cased measurements -- 14 x 29Â½ x 13Â½in. A BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACKED HALF-MODEL FOR THE (35.5 x 75 x 34.5cm.) No 'Irande' is listed in the company SINGLE SCREW CARGO STEAMERS CROWN OF TOLEDO inventory compiled by K.C. Barnaby in his history of AND CROWN OF SEVILLE, BUILT BY RUSSELL, GLASGOW, Thorneycroft, however, two motor tugs numbered 1084-5 were FOR THE CROWN STEAMSHIP CO., 1912 the laminated and built in 1929-30 for the Thames Steam Tug & Lighterage Co. carved hull with gold-plated fittings, line deck and The single name listed is Wortha which has the same overall superstructure, cut-away funnel and masts and fruitwood boats length noted on the model's plate, the next deliveries to this in derricks, mounted on a front-silvered mirror within original company were for diesel electric tugs in 1935 and 1937. What mahogany case with builder's plate (mirror fractured). Overall Wortha's sister was called, or their fates, remains unknown. measurements -- 22Â½ x 135 x 11Â¾in. (57 x 343 x 32.5cm.) Estimate: £2,500.00 - £4,000.00 Launched in November 1911 and August 1912, the Toledo was registered at 5806 - 520 tons heavier than her sister. Both were sold in 1920 to the Charente Steam Ship Co. and renamed Lot: 275 Craftsman and Collegian respectively. They were both broken A BUILDER'S HALF-BLOCK MIRROR-BACK MODEL FOR up by different Scottish firms in 1933. This lot may be viewed THE STEAM TRAWLER BIRCH, BUILT BY COOK, WELTON at Imperial Rd. & GEMMELL LTD, 1912 with laminated and carved hull, black Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 top side, lined and shaded superstructure with silvered fittings as appropriate, mounted on a front-silvered mirror within mahogany display case with plush lined base and ivorine Lot: 272 builder's plate, overall measurements -- 16 x 39Â½in. (40.5 x Sold on behalf of the The Wellesley Nautical School Charity A 100.3cm.) Birch was mined off Yarmouth on 23rd August, FINE MIRROR-BACKED BUILDER'S HALF MODEL OF THE 1916. Provenance: Sotheby's, 1st April 1998, lot 463 CARGO SHIPS DALMORE & DALVEEN, BUILT AND Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 ENGINED BY SCOTTS' OF GREENOCK FOR CAMPBELL BROS & CO., 1927 with laminated and carved hull, lowered companionway, silvered fittings as appropriate, lined and Lot: 276 lacquered fruitwood decks, hatches and fitted, glazed bridge, A HALF-BACKED BUILDER'S MODEL OF A PADDLE painted superstructure with stayed funnel, two boats in davits, STEAMER, FIRST HALF 19TH-CENTURY the laminated steering gear with chains etc. and much other fine detailing, carved hull with painted black topside and paddle box, hatch mounted on original front-silvered mirror with angled end covers, four cut-away masts and two raked cutaway funnels, mirrors and ivorine builder's plate below within original glass- mounted on wooden display board -- 15 x 118in. (38 x 300cm.) fronted mahogany case. Measurements overall -- 19Â¼ x 64Â¾ x It has been suggested that this model was built by Elders of 7Â¾in. (49 x 164.5 x 19.6cm.) Provenance: H.M. Training Ship Glasgow, circa 1830. Wellesley and thence to the Wellesley Nautical School Charity Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 This pair of large cargo steamers registered 5,193 tons. Dalveen was bombed and sunk by German aircraft on 28th September, 1940 on a voyage from Montreal to Hull. Eleven of her crew of 43 were killed; Dalmore fared better and, surviving Lot: 277 the War, was sold and renamed Ingerto (1946), Tassos (1960) A RARE BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACKED HALF-MODEL FOR and Claire (1961) under which name she was broken up at La THE FIRTH PASSENGER PADDLE STEAMER TANTALLON Spezia in July 1969. CASTLE, BUILT FOR THE GALLOWAY SALOON STEAM Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 PACKET COMPANY BY J. SCOTT, KINGHORN, 1899 the laminated carved hull painted pink below the waterline and

26 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com lavender grey over, decorated paddle box with feathering arrangement and lines gave ample means of confirming the wheel, lined deck and superstructure complete with silvered identity suggested by a later plaque. It seems reasonable to fittings and twin raked stayed funnels in company livery, suggest therefore that this model is not a proposal model but mounted on a front-silvered mirror with angled end mirrors and another yacht of similar vintage whose identity has yet to be details plaque within mahogany display case for wall hanging -- revealed. 23 x 68Â½ x 11in. (58.5 x 174 x 28cm.) Launched 6 May 1899 by Estimate: £8,000.00 - £12,000.00 Scott of Kinghorn -- a yard noted for launching ships ready to sail, with steam up,Tantallon Castle was GSSP's largest steamer at 393 tons and a length of 190ft. A "wet" steamer, she Lot: 280 didn't remain with her first owners long -- even after her funnels A FINE BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE S.S. PENCARROW, were lengthened to improve her steam, which possibly explains BUILT BY IRVINE SHIPBUILDING, WEST HARTLEPOOL FOR her frequent changes of owner. By 1901 she was located in R.B. CHELLEW, 1921 the laminated and carved hull with lined Brighton as the Sussex Belle under the ownership of Captain grey-painted decks with detailed silver-plated fittings, white- Lee; in 1904 she was sold for service in North Wales and painted superstructure, stayed liveried funnel, davits with fitted renamed Rhos Colwyn. A year later the emerging Barry boats, masts with derricks and rigging, contained within glazed Railway Company purchased her in 1905, and she was mahogany display case with ivorine builder's plates on glazed renamed again as the Westonia where she operated mainly on display base and stand (later). Measurements including stand -- the Cardiff-Weston ferry. She remained with the railway 58Â½ x 84 x 17Â½in. (148.5 x 213.5 x 44.5cm.) Registered at 4,841 company until 1910 until her sale to P & A Campbell at the end tons, the Pencarrow enjoyed a long career. Surviving the War, of 1911 who reboilered her. Emerging with one funnel instead she was sold to A. Jurgenthal and renamed Avon. Sold again in of two and now renamed Tintern, she only worked for the 1912 1955 to S.G. Embiricos and renamed Staras, she was broken season in the Campbell fleet before being sold for use in up under that name at Hirao in July 1959. This lot may be Portugal, changing name one last time to Alentejo, surviving viewed at Imperial Road there until broken up in 1924. Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00 Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00

Lot: 281 Lot: 278 A FINE BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE M.S. VANCOUVER A BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACKED HALF-MODEL FOR THE CITY, BUILT BY W. DOXFORD & SONS FOR REARDON STEEL SCHOONER-RIGGED STEAM YACHT VENETIA, SMITH & SONS, 1930 the laminated and carved hull with lined BUILT BY HAWTHORNE & CO. TO DESIGNS BY COX & lacquered boxwood decks with detailed gold-plated fittings, KING, 1903 the laminated and carved hull with glazed white-painted superstructure, stayed liveried funnel, davits with portholes, silvered fittings including anchor with studded cable fitted boats, masts with derricks and rigging, contained within and winch, deck lights, companionways, masts, binnacle, glazed mahogany display case with ivorine builder's plates on superstructure with over bridge with binnacle, helm, telegraph, glazed display base and stand (later). Measurements including ventilators, cutaway funnel, aft helm and binnacle, capstan and stand -- 56 x 73 x 20in. (142 x 185.5 x 51cm.) The Vancouver other details, mounted on a front-silvered mirror within glazed City (a large vessel of nearly 5,000 tons) was on passage from wooden case with details plate, overall measurements -- 27Â½ x Suva bound for the United Kingdom with a cargo of sugar 74Â½in. (70 x 189.5cm.) Owned by several well-known when, on 14th September 1939 (eleven days after War had yachtsmen over the years, Venetia served out of Gibraltar been declared), she was torpedoed and sunk at position 53.23 during World War I where, with the assistance of the U.S. Coast N, 7.03 W with the loss of three lives. This lot may be viewed & Geodetic Survey vessel Surveyor, she was credited with at Imperial Road damaging U-39 so severely, the submarine was forced to seek Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00 internship with Spain. Her later years were spent in Canada on the Great Lakes, and she disappeared from Lloyds' List in 1968. Estimate: £8,000.00 - £10,000.00 Lot: 282 Sold on behalf of the The Wellesley Nautical School Charity A FINE 1:48 SCALE BUILDER'S DISPLAY MODEL OF THE ROYAL NAVY 'LIGHTFOOT' CLASS FLOTILLA LEADER Lot: 279 TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER H.M.S MARKSMAN, BUILT A FINE BUILDER'S MODEL FOR A THREE-MASTED BY R. & W. HAWTHORN, LESLIE & CO. LTD, NEWCASTLE- SCHOONER-RIGGED STEAM YACHT, PROBABLY BARROW ON-TYNE, 1915 with laminated and carved hull finished in light SHIPBUILDING CO. LTD. C.1873 the hull carved in laminated grey with pink underside, the cream-coloured deck complete fruitwoods with ebonised topsides, brass glazed portholes, with silvered fittings and armament as appropriate, four stayed finely carved figurehead, lined and planked decks with lined raked funnels, three fitted wooden boats in davits, and much and painted superstructure, brass and silvered fittings including other fine detailing, mounted on sliding base with builder's plate four boats in davits, open bridge with telegraph, binnacle and within original mahogany glazed display case with lockable end helm, raked stayed funnel, engine room lights, gratings, saloon, panels. Measurements overall -- 36Â½ x 95 x 19in. (92.7 x 241.3 benches etc., three raked two-stage masts with standing and x 48.3cm.) Provenance: H.M. Training Ship Wellesley and running rigging, mounted on brass columns within wooden thence to the Wellesley Nautical School Charity One of display case with access door to stern. Cased measurements -- originally two flotilla leaders laid down as a result of the 24 x 37 x 14in. (61 x 94 x 35.5cm.) Provenance: Langfords emergency 1914/15 naval estimates, the 'Lightfoot' class Marine Antiques. Although un-named, this model bears a ultimately totalled seven. Each was named beginning with the striking resemblance to one sold by Messrs Christie's, South designation letter of each flotilla it was to lead. Displacing 1,440 Kensington in sale 9855 (24 May 2004, lot 324) and which was tons (significantly larger than ordinary destroyers), her three- known to be the S.Y. Aries built for Sir James Ramsden in shaft Browne-Curtis turbines developed a very respectable 34Â½ 1873. That model also bore no name, but her unique propeller knots. Armed with four 4in. quick-firing and other smaller guns,

27 of 28 Charles Miller ltd (Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Fine Art) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com and four 12in. deck-mounted torpedo tubes, she was manned by 104 crew and, with her enlarged administration space below deck proved to be a great success. Commissioned on the 18th November 1915, by when she was urgently needed for the War effort, she saw service at Jutland where she was commanded by Commander Norton Sulivan as part of the 12th Destroyer Flotilla. She was broken up in November 1921. Estimate: £15,000.00 - £25,000.00

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