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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:496
Sale Title:The Collection of Caressa Crouch & Carl GonsalvesLots with images:491
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:478
Date:22-Feb-2015
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A collection of carved whalebone and scrimshaw implements, 19th century, including net shuttles, bodkins, letter openers and a cribbage board, the largest letter opener 19 cm
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A collection of carved whalebone and baleen implements, 19th century, including ladles, knitting needles, spoons and scoops, a model harpoon and a glove stretcher, the longest knitting needle 60 cm
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A powder horn with scrimshaw decoration, a barque in full sail, above the inscription 'Louis M.E. Govin, Maker, AD1868, Cadargah, Queensland', and with Masonic insignia beneath a scroll inscribed 'Friendship and Truth' (Some damage). Note: See Christies, London, South Kensington, Maritime Model, and Pictures Sale, Lot 223, 14 April 1992
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A carved and incised buffalo horn scrimshaw by Louis M. F. Gauvin, dated February 15th 1870, further incised 'Louis McGauvin Maker, Tambo Barco, P.W. Mulalley, Tambo Inn Barcoo River' with a tall ship and an Advance Australia coat of arms, 36 cm long. Note: Another two carved cow-horns are associated with the present item and show similarities in the form and decoration with clippers in sail, pseudo coats of arms and mottos 'Advance Australia.' The three works are incised with the name maker 'Louis M.F.…
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A collection of carved whalebone and scrimshaw cannisters, 19th century, one containing a miniature dominoes set, the largest cannister 5 cm high
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A finely carved and engraved scrimshaw whales tooth, second half 19th century, inscribed to the base of the images 'Sperm Whale Attacking a Boat', 17 cm long
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A carved scrimshaw whalebone box with a set of whalebone dominos, 19th century, 3.5 cm high, 21.5 cm wide, 8 cm deep
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A rare and unusual carved whalebone and caned armchair, probably American, circa 1830, the shaped top rail surmounted by four whale teeth above a plain cross splat and five hand carved spindles, the arms with curved rests and spindle supports (four replaced with wood), above a caned seat, with shaped front rail and raised on slender shaped legs which form to the end support for the arms joined by six stretchers. Provenance: Bonhams & Goodman, The Nancy Hall Collection, Sydney, 10 November, 2008
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A small collection of carved whalebone and scrimshaw jewellery, 19th century and later, including necklets, rings and a bangle, the bangle 8 cm diameter
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A small collection of ivory and whalebone measuring instruments and rulers, 19th century, the ivory pencil made by A. Tornaghi & Co. Sydney; the larger folding carpenters ruler inscribed Edgar Banks, Morden House, Lewisham S.E., the ivory ruler 31.5 cm
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A small collection of whalebone mounted implements, 19th century, comprising a whaler's knife, bale hooks, a ships carpenter's mallet, a fid/screwdriver, a folding pocketknife and a folding whaler's knife made by Joseph Rodgers & Sons, the mallet 21 cm
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An iron barbed dual-flue whale harpoon, made by Scorrar of London, English, 19th century, reputedly from a Private Museum, Boydtown NSW, 96 cm long
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A large hook ended flensing iron made by W. Gilpin, Wedges Mills Kent, 19th century, 83 cm long. Note: Gilpins - A William Gilpin & Co. is listed as a UK maker of plane irons 1868-1946 and a W. Gilpin (no & Co.) is listed as a chisel maker there with no dates given.
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A large and heavy percussion, muzzle-loading skeleton stock whaling gun, possibly by C.C. Brand of Norwich, Connecticut, circa 1850, 91 cm long
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A large and heavy percussion, muzzle-loading skeleton stock whaling gun, possibly by C.C. Brand of Norwich, Connecticut, circa 1850
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A whalebone ivory mounted coconut shell dipper, second half 19th century, 32.5 cm long. Note: For similar examples see: The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part 1, Sotheby's New York, December 1981, lot 418
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An ornately carved scrimshaw nautilus shell, with an Australian coat of arms, 19th century, also engraved with the English and American coats of arms and an ornate masonic emblema, and the words 'engraved on board ship, South Boston', 12.5 cm high, 14 cm wide
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A collection of games and toys, 19th century and later, comprising a carved whalebone and ebonised set of dominoes and checkers, a set of wooden checkers, a tin souvenir beach bucket, a Peek Frean 'The Winner' biscuit tin and a carved wooden kangaroo toy, the biscuit tin 15 cm high, 17.5 cm diameter
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A collection of five bronze boat models, first half 20th century, together with a chromed model boat and glass boat, the largest bronze boat 16.5 cm
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A small carved cedar boat hull model, 19th century, the reverse inscribed with a partly damaged label, J. Lewin Esq...Finwick...group. Bass Strait...1 Feb 1897, 14 cm high, 29.5 wide
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Two copper map cylinders, an hourglass and a collection of fish hooks, 19th century, the largest map cylinder 48 cm
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