The Marine Sale Montpelier Street, London | 26 May 2020 The Marine Sale Montpelier Street, London | Tuesday 26 May 2020 at 2pm BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Please see page 4 for bidder IMPORTANT INFORMATION Montpelier Street Pictures information including after-sale In February 2014 the United collection and shipment Knightsbridge Veronique Scorer States Government announced London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3962 the intention to ban the import Please see back of catalogue www.bonhams.com [email protected] of any ivory into the USA. 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SUBSCRIPTIONS To obtain any Bonhams Payment at time of collection catalogue or to take out an by: annual subscription: cash, cheque with banker’s card, Subscriptions Department credit, or debit card. +44 (0) 1666 502200 +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax [email protected] 1 A NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE MODEL OF THE 100-GUN SHIP-OF-THE-LINE HMS ROYAL SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, FRENCH/ENGLISH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, three masted ship with standing and running rigging, pinned and planked haull and baleen strakes, two long boats, carved and polychromed warrior figurehead, cat heads, anchors, capstan, bell canopy, gratings and deck house, mounted on rectangular parquetry base with toggle and string for gun retraction, in original mirror backed parquetry straw-work case with hinged and glazed front panel, two hinged doors and brass carrying handle above, the model, 10in x 11in x 3in (25.5cm x 28cm x 7.5cm), the case 12in x 13 1/2in x 6in (30.5cm x 34.5cm x 15cm) £6,000 - 10,000 €6,600 - 11,000 US$7,300 - 12,000 HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of Trafalgar. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE MARINE SALE | 5 2 Y A LARGE NARWHAL TUSK, 19TH CENTURY, 4 written in ink in the cavity, (tip chipped and base extended) main shaft 80in (204 cm), extended to 87in (221cm) £6,000 - 8,000 €6,600 - 8,800 US$7,300 - 9,700 The whaling fleet at Whitby fished in the waters of Greenland and Davis Straits between 1766-1816 the overall catch was recorded at 2761 great whales, 25,000 seals, 55 bears, 43 unicorns and 64 seahorses. ‘The unicorns were doubtless Narwhals, and in the dinning room of Airy Hill, once occupied by Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom (1760-1835) and now by Mr.T.M.Turnbull are to be seen eight magnificent Narwhal tusks built into two pillars’ - Whitby Lore and Legend by Percy Shaw Jeffery The one offered for sale is number 4, recorded in Airy Hill insurance valuation dated 1929. 3 No lot For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 6 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 4 A PLAITED LOCK OF ADMIRAL LORD NELSON’S HAIR, MOUNTED IN A GOLD-BACKED BROOCH, inlaid with 20 small turquoise stones around the border, in a small It was Nelson’s dying wish that this lock of hair should be delivered to white enamel box with lid lettered ‘A Token of Regard’. Together with Lady Emma Hamilton and that the British government would see that a handwritten note, A locett of the hare of Lord Nelson gived to my Emma and their child would be looked after in a manner fit for their husband by Admirel Hardy for his loyal service. Jane Long, W Millton; station in life. Sadly for Emma and Horatia, the government would offer accompanied by a section of oak with brass framed note “Piece no support and Emma would run up truly huge debts after Nelson’s of HMS Victory 1856” and a number of press cuttings from 2005, death. Eventually, she ended up in prison for debt and died shortly the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, reporting on the history afterwards. and rediscovery of this brooch, 1.5 x 1.7cm (.59 x .67in) The pigtail at Greenwich shows his sandy-coloured hair, bound with £8,000 - 12,000 black ribbon, which is tied in a bow. Surgeon William Beatty records €8,800 - 13,000 in his ‘Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson’ that Nelson asked that US$9,700 - 15,000 Lady Hamilton should have his hair. Small locks of hair were given to relations and close friends, and some Provenance pieces were mounted in special mourning rings and lockets. Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy (1769-1839) Given to one of Hardy’s servants and later returned to the Hardy family. West Milton referred to on the hand-written note is a village located Thence by decent to Rodney Legg (1947-2011) a distant relative of the in West Dorset relatively close to the Hardy family estate inPortersham. Hardy family, a campaigner and an author of 125 books on the history and landscape of Dorset, and chairman of the Open Space Society. Thence by direct decent to the present owner. Nelson’s pigtail (or queue), on permanent exhibition at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, was cut off after his death at the Battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE MARINE SALE | 7 6 5 5 6 * CHARLES EDWARD DIXON (BRITISH, 1872-1934) CHARLES EDWARD DIXON (BRITISH, 1872-1934) Unloading cattle, Deptford ‘Coaling, Portsmouth Harbour’ signed and dated ‘Charles Dixon/96’ (lower right) signed, dated and titled ‘Charles Dixon. 08’ (lower left) watercolour heightened with bodycolour watercolour and gouache 89 x 48.5cm (35 1/16 x 19 1/8in). 37.2 x 28.9cm (14 5/8 x 11 3/8in). £4,000 - 6,000 £1,000 - 1,500 €4,400 - 6,600 €1,100 - 1,700 US$4,800 - 7,300 US$1,200 - 1,800 Provenance With Malcolm Henderson Gallery, London. Private collection. For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 8 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. 7 * CHARLES EDWARD DIXON (BRITISH, 1872-1934) A view on the Thames by Cleopatra’s Needle with Westminster beyond signed and dated ‘Charles Dixon/1930’ (lower left) watercolour heightened with white 37.2 x 52.4cm (14 5/8 x 20 5/8in).