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Ø A 19TH CENTURY SHARK VERTEBRAE CANE
the tapering cane with alternating and contrasting ebony and vertebrae sections terminating in a turned marine ivory handle of a fist clenching a rope - 34in. (86.5cm.) long
£200-300
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Ø A 19TH CENTURY MARINE IVORY AND WOOD WALKING STICK
the stout tapering plain wooden shaft terminating in Turk's Head Knot handle - 36in. (91.5cm.) long
£200-400
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A SILVER MOUNTED HORN AND WOOD CANE USING TIMBER FROM H.M.S. MONTAGUE, 1907/8
the plain tapering shaft with foliate silver cuff with owner's initials 'ARC', hallmarked for Birmingham 1907/8, and inscribed made with wood from H.M.S. Montagu - 96.5cm. high; together with another barleytwist wooden walking stick
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£100-150
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A BELL FROM THE CUNARD LINER R.M.S. LUCANIA (1893)
inscribed over a semi-circle with foliate flourish under, loop top and clapper - 10in. (25.5cm.) high
One of a famous pair of late-Victorian Cunarders - the other being her sister Campania - Lucania was built by Fairfield's at Glasgow and launched in 1893. Registered at 12,950 tons gross (4,974 net), she measured 620 feet in length and had accommodation for 2,000 passengers in three classes. With an excellent service speed of 21 knots, she took the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing one month after her maiden voyage and broke the record again on three occasions the following year. Fitted with wireless in 1901, she became the first liner to publish a shipboard bulletin compiled from radio news in 1903. An extremely popular steamer, her career was brought to an abrupt end when she caught fire and was burnt out at Liverpool on 14th August, 1909, being scrapped thereafter
£4000-6000
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A FINE CHROMOLITHOGRAHIC TRAVEL AGENT'S POSTER FOR THE LUSITANIA & MAURETANIA, CIRCA 1907
after Norman Wilkinson - 12¼ x 18½in. (31 x 47cm.), mounted, framed and glazed
£600-800
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A ROYAL NAVY RESERVE ENSIGN FROM R.M.S. QUEEN MARY, BELIEVED FLOWN DURING USE AS A TROOP SHIP
constructed in sewn bunting panels, attached to canvas sleeve with lanyard - 18 x 36ft. (5.5 x 11m.)
Provenance: Private Collection, UK
As a civilian liner the Queen Mary normally flew the red ensign, however when she was commissioned as a troop transport in March 1940 she was doing so as part of the Royal Navy Reserve which fly blue ensigns. She spent the War ferrying just over 800,000 troops across the globe wherever they were needed. Although never attacked herself, she was involved in a notorious incident in October 1942 when she rammed one of her escort vessels, the British cruiser H.M.S. Curacao, with Queen Mary going at full speed, the force of the impact sliced Curacao clean in half and 338 of her crew were drowned in the tragedy. Released from trooping duties in 1946, she was reconditioned and resumed her peacetime sailings in July 1947. Showing her age under growing competition from air travel, she was finally retired in 1967 and sold to the city of Long Beach, California, for $3,450,000, arriving there on 9th December 1967. Initially her contents and fittings were sold off and it's understood this ensign was originally acquired at that time.
£1500-2500
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A SET OF SILVER AND ENAMEL TEASPOONS FROM R.M.S. QUEEN MARY, CIRCA 1936
in fitted plush leather case with maker's mark for W.L. Parkhouse, Southampton - 7¾in. (19.5cm.) wide; together with a quantity of liner collectables comprising plated ware including trophies, ashtrays, letter openers and novelties; a souvenir cigar from the maiden voyage of Queen Mary 1936; four cased sets of coins from the Queen Elizabeth; a boat badge from P&O's Macedonia; an empty drawing set case from S.S. Salamis and a 19th Century leather P&O uniform belt
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£200-300
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A DECKHEAD SALOON LAMP, PROBABLY FROM R.M.S. AQUITANIA, CIRCA 1915
the frosted etched glass bowl contained within hinged brass deckhead fitting inscribed on two of the three arms DECK I / CABIN 4 - 16½in. (42cm.) diameter
£400-600
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A LARGE QUANTITY OF LINER EPHEMERA
comprising menus, cruise itineraries, playing cards, postcards, souvenirs and including staff paperwork for Cunard, P&O, Elders & Fyffes etc
(a lot)
£80-120
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A RARE 'QUEEN ANNE' PENTHOUSE SUITE ARMCHAIR FROM THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II, CIRCA 1972
in painted Sheraton style with original green-blue plush seat and back - 38in. (96.5cm.) high; together with 'QE2' by Warwick and Flayhart, Norton, 1985 which describes how the Penthouse Suites were incorporated
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£300-400
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δ STEPHEN J. RENARD (BRITISH, B. 1947)
The 'Titanic' - A Memory
comprising five pen and ink sketches framed as one studio stamp to reverse, together with two pages of notes
overall 19 x 26in. (48 x 66cm.)
£250-350
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UNION CASTLE LINE: A REMARKABLE, POSSIBLY COMPLETE, ARCHIVE OF POST-CARDS
spanning approx. 1900 to 1977 and comprising approximately 900 cards in wallets secured along left edge to a page of data about the vessel, arranged in alphabetical order and contained in fifteen numbered and lettered albums in slip cases, each 11 x 10in. (28 x 25.5cm.); together with With the Flag to Pretoria - a History of the Boer War 1899-1900, Harmsworth, 1900, 2 vols, blue cloth board; a lever arch folder of Union Castle Line ephemera; and a framed sepia photograph of the Union Liner Tartar
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£1500-2500
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A DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE, GORMAN & CO. LTD, CIRCA 1920
signed on the blade Siebe Gorman & Co., brass scabbard - 13½in. (34cm.) overall
£150-250
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A DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE, GORMAN & CO. LTD, CIRCA 1950
signed on the blade Siebe Gorman, brass scabbard with belt loop - 13¾in. (35cm.) overall
£150-250
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A DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE, GORMAN & CO., CIRCA 1900
signed on the blade as per title, turned wooden handle, brass scabbard with leather belt loop - 13½in. (34cm.) overall
£200-300
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A DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE HEINKE, CIRCA 1960
apparently unused, the blade signed Siebe Heinke of England, brass scabbard with belt loop - 13¾in. (35cm.) overall
£150-250
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A DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE, GORMAN & CO. LTD, CIRCA 1950
signed on the blade SIEBE GORMAN, the handle scratch marked 'ANDY', brass scabbard and leather belt loop (later) - 13½in. (34cm.) overall
£150-250
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AN ANTIMAGNETIC NAVAL DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE, GORMAN & CO. LTD, CIRCA 1930
the blade signed Siebe Gorman & Co. *, brass scabbard with leather belt loop - 13¾in. (35cm.) overall
£200-300
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AN ADMIRALTY PATTERN ANTI MAGNETIC NAVAL DIVER'S KNIFE BY SIEBE, GORMAN & CO. LTD, CIRCA 1930
the serrated blade inscribed both sides AP 6230 NON-MAGNETIC, brass scabbard with original leather belt strap and belt - 13¾in. (35cm.)
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£200-300
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A SPONGE ADVERTISING FIGURINE, CIRCA 1930
modelled in sponge as a sponge diver in moulded papier-mâché Siebe-style helmet with airtube, belt, weighted boots, holding a sponge, mounted on a square fibreglass plinth - 26½in. (67.3cm.) high
£400-600
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A RARE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ORIENTAL, DIVER'S NOVELTY CANE
The plain tapering shaft with steel-tipped brass ferrule and bone handle carved as a diving helmet with reversible happy/sad face – 35½in. (90cm.) high
The helmet depicted here is similar to the Deane brothers type, with multi-rivetted corselet and neck ring
£400-600
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A DIVER'S TORCH BY SIEBE, GORMAN & CO. LTD
finished in chrome and complete with leather strap; together with another, similar - 11¼in. (28.5cm.) high
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£200-300
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'DEEP DIVING AND SUBMARINE OPERATIONS'
by Sir Robert H. Davis, undated but owner's inscription on fly for 'April 1952', 651 pages plus indices, bibliography, pull-out colour chart of British Isles, green cloth boards with embossed titles (no dust wrapper, sellotape repair inside cover) - 10 x 7in. (25.5 x 18cm.)
£80-120
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A LARGE SHIP'S BRIDGE DOUBLE TELEGRAPH BY CHADBURN'S, LIVERPOOL
with back light glass plates and independent control action on gongs mounted on tapering pedestal support - 44in (112cm.) high
£500-800
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A BRIDGE TELEGRAPH BY CHADBURN & SON LIVERPOOL, CIRCA 1900
of typical form with two glass plates, signed as per title and set on a tapered pedestal stand (mechanism and gong removed) - 43½in. (110.5cm.)
£300-500
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AN EIGHT-SPOKE SHIP'S HELM BY MACTAGGART, SCOTT & CO. LTD, EDINBURGH, CIRCA 1930
signed around the brass hub as per title, and numbered to reverse TS172/01 - 36in. (91.5cm.) diam; together with a copper masthead lamp converted to electricity and a gimballed cabin oil lamp
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£250-350
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AN EIGHT-SPOKE SHIP'S HELM, PROBABLY LATE 19TH CENTURY
with cast iron rim binding and bolted hub plates - 44in. (112cm.) diameter
£200-400
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AN ENGINE ROOM REPEATER TELEGRAPH BY A. ROBINSON & CO. LTD, LIVERPOOL
the 8in. dial signed as per title, now mounted in a wooden frame with handle to rear operating indicator and large gong - 14½ x 18in. (37 x 46cm.)
£150-250
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A FINELY MADE WOODEN MODEL FOR AN EARLY TWO-BLADED RETRACTABLE PROPELLER, CIRCA 1855
the blades with truncated tips bolted to boss with brass bolts, loosely fitted shaft and carved end bolt, mounted on plush base with dome cover, the propeller - 8in. (20cm.) diameter
In the early days of propeller development, founders had trouble casting them in one piece and it was common to case the blades and bosses separately and bolt them together. The unusual truncated tip on this model suggest that it was designed to retract when the vessel was under sail, a feature that remained almost until the end of the sailing navy in the 1870s.
£400-600
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THE SHIP'S BELL FROM THE LIVERPOOL-JAMAICA TRADING BRIG ULYSSES, 1822
with moulded rim and shoulder, suspension bracket with iron fitting attached and embossed cast name and date inscribed ULYSSES • AD • 1822 (lacking clapper), height including iron fitting - 17 x 13½in. (43 x 34.5cm.)
Of the ten Ulysses listed in the Lloyds Register for 1822, only one was built that year for Campbell & Co. It was a Third Class brig of First Quality and was built in spruce with a copper-sheathed hull for the busy Liverpool to Jamaica run. Her first Master is listed as one E. Raymond
£400-600
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A BELL FROM THE CARGO SHIP S.S. HAREWOOD, 1890
with moulded rim and shoulder, inscribed to front HAREWOOD / 1890 in black-filled lettering, clapper with sally, suspension loop with iron deckhead bracket attached, the bell - 9 x 7in. (23 x 18cm.) excluding bracket
Built by Palmers' of Jarrow, Harewood registered 2,602 tons and was a typical 'tramp' steamer of the day. Sold in 1894, her name changed to Myrtledene in 1898 when it is assumed this bell was removed. She was still steaming under this name when, on 25th March, 1912 on passage from Sagunto to Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore, she struck rocks off Portland Bill and became a complete loss.
£300-500
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A BELL FROM THE SWEDISH CARGO SHIP MINNA, 1922
inscribed with black-filled lettering to front, moulded rim a loop top - 14in. (35.5cm.) high
Built by Nylands Verksted, Kristiania, Norway and registered at 1,544 tons, she was sold in 1935 and renamed Britt. Captured by the Kriegsmarine in 1939, she entered German service under the name Leba until seized by the Allies in 1945 and renamed Empire Conavon. Sold in 1947, her last name was Baltkon before she was scrapped in 1959
£300-400
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SHIP'S ARTICLES FOR THE SLAVE RUNNER MERMAID, 1778
commanded by Edward Smith for a Voyage from Liverpool to Africa and at and from thence to such Place or Places in AMERICA, as the aforesaid Master shall direct... and from thence back to the said port of LIVERPOOL... signatures, ranks, rates of pay and prize shares on part-printed vellum document entitled Articles agreed upon for Manning and Fitting out, from Liverpool on a Voyage to ANGOLA / The Ship MERMAID, EDWARD SMITH, Commander / Mounts 16 nine, and 4 four Pounders, with Swivels, and Small Arms. carries 50 Men, and has a safe Protection..., folded in three places - 27 x 12in. (68.5 x 30.5cm.); together with an associated miniature reputed to be of Capt. Smith, by B.D. Griffin in leather pocket case - 3in. (7.5cm.) high
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£800-1200
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Ø A COCO DE MER BASKET, CIRCA 1900
with shaped panels cut out of top to form a handle, with husk to the underside - 6in x 12in (16 x 30.5cm.)
£200-300
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A 19TH-CENTURY MARQUETRY MARINE WORK BOX
the lid depicting a four-masted barque in full sail, mother-of-pearl lock plate, compartmented interior - 12in. (30.5cm.) wide
£250-350
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A FINELY PRESERVED FIGUREHEAD FROM THE JERSEY BARQUE ROSEAU, 1857
modelled as a full-length young lady wearing a plumed hat, coat and gloves, holding a posy, her dress blowing against her legs, stepping forwards from scrolled base and mounted on substantial iron bracket for wall securing - 74 x 38in. (188 x 96.5cm.); Dover Harbour Board brass plaque
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Provenance: Dover Harbour Board; local Private Collection.
£15000-20000
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A FINE LATE 19TH CENTURY FIGUREHEAD, PROBABLY FROM A PRIVATE STEAM YACHT
modelled three-quarter length as a young lady clutching a flower and wearing a collared tunic, blouse and choker, and with a slotted scroll-form terminus, (restoration to end of terminus) - 64in. (162.5cm.) high
£10000-15000
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A MERCHANTMAN'S FIGUREHEAD, CIRCA 1830
carved as a half-length female wearing an Empire line dress, hair tied close with ringlets and earrings, terminating in a scroll cutaway to form base (conserved and repainted) - 27½in. (70cm.) high
£2500-4000
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A MERCHANTMAN'S FIGUREHEAD, CIRCA 1840
carved in the form of a three-quarter length lady, stepping forward on her left leg, retaining thole pin through waist and arm sockets - 41in. (104cm.) high
£1500-2500
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A DECORATIVE BRASS GONDOLA CAVALLI, 20TH-CENTURY
heavily cast in the form of a hippocamp and mounted on an brass socle - 13 x 15½in. (33 x 39.5cm.)
£250-350
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A RARE MERCHANT SHIP RECOGNITION CONSTRUCTIONAL SET
containing a blank hull form and assorted superstructure types with pins and brass fittings, contained within box of issue with sliding lid stencilled Merchant Ship Recognition Constructional Type 52/676, - 12¾in, (32cm.) wide
£80-120
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A SET OF MARINE SIGNAL FLAGS
apparently unused and comprising 40 numerical and alphabetical stitched bunting flags and three indicator pennants, each with canvas sleeves and connected to a universal lanyard, each approx. - 35 x 55in. (89 x 149cm.)
£150-250
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A COLLIOGRAPH (DISPUTE SET) BY HENRY HUGHES & SONS
comprising twenty four paper-covered vessel types with blued steel indicators and rudders, wind and tide indicators and three-section wooden chart board, all contained in box of issue with maker's contents label in lid - 16¼in. (41cm.) wide
£200-400
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A CHANDLER'S PROMOTIONAL MODEL BINNACLE FOR A STANDARD COMPASS
complete with liquid compass in gimbal rings, brass hood, magnetic deviation balls, mahogany trunk with hinged door, and deck securing studs - 22in. (56cm.) high
£150-250
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"PASSAGE OF PENANG SOUTH SHIELDS TO NYSTAD 1936"
a private photograph album assembly by E.A. Arnold and comprising approx. 80 annotated photographs showing life aboard ship various sepia photographs pasted on card pages with ink and watercolour route map on fly, and enclosing a number of Lloyd's trip reports for associated vessels - album 8½ x 11in. (22 x 28cm.)
£250-350
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A STOURBRIDGE 'ROCK CRYSTAL' ARTE NOUVELLE SILVER-MOUNTED ROSE BOWL FOR THE S.Y. HERSILIA, R.Y.S., 1904
with stylised floral etching and London hallmarked silver collar engraved "Hersilia" R.Y.S. June 1904 - 5¼ x 10in. (13.5 x 25.5cm.)
Hersilia was a 454 ton steam yacht built by Ramage & Ferguson in 1895 for Sir Walpole Greenwell. In 1902 he joined the Royal Yacht Sqadron and retained Hersilia until the outbreak of WW1. In common with most steam yachts, she was hired by the Admiralty, fitted with a single 12pdr gun and sent on anti-submarine patrol in the Stornoway area. She was wrecked on Eilean Chuai, Hebrides on the 6th January, 1916
£600-800
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SIR THOMAS LIPTON'S SILVER CIGAR CASE
by Edwin Page, hallmarked for Birmingham 1924, of standard form, the lid bearing the coloured enamel flag of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club (Lipton's 'home' club) above his personal yacht flag, the two flying from a yellow-enamelled pole, lacking internal elastic as usual; together with an interesting autograph letter to W.C. Dodge from Thomas Lipton on S.Y. Erin notepaper, dated New York, 7th October 1901, and clearly thanking Dodge for his commiserations following the defeat of Lipton's Shamrock II in his third America's Cup challenge just days before; and a copy of Laurence Brady's 2007 book The Man Who Challenged America; the Life and Obsession of Sir Thomas Lipton, as new; the first a highly personal memento and the second a poignant reminder of Lipton's repeatedly unsuccessful attempts to win the America's Cup
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By 1924, the year this cigar case was manufactured, Sir Thomas Lipton, the immensely wealthy British tea magnate of Irish parentage, had already mounted four costly but unsuccessful challenges for the America's Cup - or as he habitually called it "the Auld Mug" - in 1899, 1901, 1903 and 1920. Each challenge had required a new boat so he commissioned a succession of big cutters, each (numerically) named Shamrock, in addition to his own personal cutter, also called Shamrock. His final challenge came in 1930 soon after which Lipton died with his greatest ambition unfulfilled
£300-500
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A POIGNANT SHIPPING COMPANY'S VESTA CASE
a silver vesta case, by Walker & Hall, hallmarked for Sheffield 1914, bearing the coloured enamel house flag of Elder Dempster's British & African Steam Navigation Company, reverse with engraved inscription for S.S. Mendi - 2in. (5cm.) wide
S.S. Mendi, 4,320 tons, was built by Alexander Stephen & Sons of Glasgow in 1905 and operated for 11 years before being requisitioned as a troopship in 1916. At about 5.00am on 21st February, 1917, whilst still dark and in thick fog, Mendi collided with the Royal Mail Line's steamer Darro off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, and sank in twenty minutes. On passage from Simonstown, South Africa, to Le Havre, via Plymouth, she was carrying an entire Bantu native labour battalion heading for the Western Front. Out of a total complement of 824 persons, 625 native troops and 31 crew were lost in what can be regarded as one of the worst passenger ship disasters of the Great War even though it has been largely forgotten
£100-150
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A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY YACHTING NOVELTIES
comprising a table bell in the form of a helm mounted on a block; a bridge telegraph cigar cutter and ashtray; a cigar cutter inscribed Yacht Garrion 1879 / Nouaille Rudge Esqr. D. L. Edinburgh 1876; a pocket watch-form barometer prize by Chadburn's inscribed on cover Royal Alfred Yacht Club Cruisers Handicap 12th June 1905 won by "Theta"; and a bulk head mounted matchbox holder
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£150-250
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A 1½IN. SINGLE DRAW MAHOGANY AND BRASS MARINE TELESCOPE BY SYEDS & DAVIS, LONDON, CIRCA 1825
signed by the tapered eye-piece with dust slide as per title and inscribed Day or Night, parallel tube, splash cuff and removable lens cap with dust slide - 20½in. (52cm.) closed; together with an unsigned 2in. five-draw wood and brass example contained in wooden carry tube covered in red Morocco - 11in. (28cm.) closed
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£200-300
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