Antiques & Collectors’ Items with Maritime Antiques and Militaria(#183) 04/11/2020 10:00 AM GMT CLOSED Auction Information Liverpool Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Sporting Mirrors Watches: Wristwatches Doulton Textiles & Clothing Militaria: Knives & Daggers Silver Clocks: Wall Clocks Asian Art: Oriental & Eastern Works of Art Books Militaria: Medals, Badges & Buttons Garden and Architectural Watches: Pocket Watches Ceramics Paintings Militaria Plated Items Clocks: Mantel clocks Glass Film and TV Memorabilia Militaria: Helmets, Uniforms & Equipment Furniture Jewellery: Costume Jewellery Collectors' Items Prints, Etchings, Engravings & Maps Maritime Pictures Toys & Games: Toys Lighting Ceramic Figures Rock, Pop and Film Memorabilia Militaria: Guns Jewellery Barometers Metalware Maritime Ephemera Ephemera Carpets & Rugs Worcester and Royal Worcester Musical Instruments & Mechanical Music Militaria: Bayonets Coins Clocks: Longcase Clocks Decorative Arts Maritime Collectables Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Auctioneer All auctioneersLiverpooltest Lot Number Results: Viewing items 529-576 of 984. View Lot 522 Five folio albums, each approximately half full, containing numerous photographs and cuttings of Hollywood stars and British film and stage stars from 1920s to present day, and a large quantity of loose advertising photographs and memorabilia of the same. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 523 Two Burke's reference books, both dated 1937 to include 'Landed Gentry', Centenary Edition and another titled 'Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage' (2). View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 524 JK Rowling 'Harry Potter'; eight books to include two 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', first edition, 'Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince', first edition, error on page 99, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', first edition, has original mistakes on page 503, 579 and 594, two 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', adult version and two 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince', adult version (8). View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Lot 525 Ian Fleming, James Bond; seven books to include On Her 'Majesty's Secret Service', first edition, eighth impression, three Book Club editions comprising 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Thunderball', 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', James Bond in John Gardner's 'Scorpius', printed by Guild Publishing, 1988, also 'I Survived' by Godfrey Lias and 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' by Siegfried Sassoon, Folio society 1974 (7). View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Condition Report'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' has a homemade replacement cover, Tipex over some blue pen, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer has a pencil notes and comments to the frontispiece in pencil and also corrections and comments to the margins on the pages, this may suggest that this was a proof readers copy. Lot 526 A collection of nature and wildlife books to include three by Gerald Durrell, 'Menagerie Manor', 'The Whispering Land' and 'Encounters with Animals', also 'Born Free' by Joy Adams, 'Nests and Eggs, Outline of Nature' Vols 1, 2 & 3 and 'The Women's Land Army' by Sackville-West (9). View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£15StatusCLOSED Lot 527 Nine books relating to marine navigation, to include Creak, E. W.; 'Elementary Manual for the Deviations of the Compass in Iron Ships', The Theory of the Deviations of the Magnetic Compass in Iron Ships', 'Admiralty Manual Deviations of the Compass 1920', three books relating to the deviascope, 'A Seaman's Pocket Book June 1943', 'Brown's Flags and Funnels' and a further book relating to all manner of maritime-related shipping details (9). View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Condition ReportVarious conditions throughout, some losses, some with handwritten annotations. Provenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 528 A Negretti & Zambra ship's barometer, the silvered dial numbered 8562, with weather conditions and mercury scale to dial, within a brass case with hanging ring, diameter 11cm. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£90StatusCLOSED Lot 529 A brass sextant in a fitted wooden case with two extra lenses, maker's mark indistinct, of Commercial Road, London, width 24cm. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAge-related wear to fitted case and sextant. One brass pin missing. Lot 530 WIDENHAM & ADAMS; a good mid-19th century rosewood and brass inlaid marine chronometer with outer mahogany case bearing ivory plaque numbered 228 and with leather straps enclosing the rosewood two-sectioned brass inlaid main case, the upper glass bearing a handwritten label 'Cleaned 6/1913.J.Sewill' with Sewill label to the lid, the chronometer itself with silvered dial inscribed 'Widenham & Adams Makers to the Royal Navy, Lombard St. London 1943' and with twin brass carrying handles. View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,750StatusCLOSED Condition ReportWidth of outer case 23cm, width of rosewood case 17.25cm, diameter of bezel of dial 12cm, diameter of silvered dial itself 9.25cm. The piece is complete with the winding key, the gimbal all works well and it does tick when wound. There are a few spots to the silvered dial and some pitting and light rusting to the gimbal and metal framework throughout. There is one tiny screw missing to the plate that covers the winding hole underneath the chronometer. The case itself has a split running horizontally from the rear brass corners and a very fine split starting to form halfway along at the front of the lid. Otherwise general surface wear to the case and some pitting to the brass. The circular ivory roundel is missing beneath the escutcheon and we do not have the key for the case itself. The outer mahogany case has a split to the base and the leather strap is somewhat perished. General surface wear throughout, as you would expect. Appears to be the original lid. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 531 FRODSHAM & KEEN OF LIVERPOOL; a mahogany-cased brass sextant numbered 4685 with single spare end lens and large and short brass tubes to the box, the circular plate has been etched 'L.R.C.T.'. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSED Condition ReportHeavy wear to the box throughout with surface knocks, a couple of split. The sextant itself is very oxidised, very dark in colour throughout. There is pitting to the brass. The lens which should have the screw thread has no lens. There is a vertical flaw to the mirror. There is a chip to the rectangular small glass. The coloured lenses appear OK, general surface wear. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 532 SEWILL; a mahogany-cased artificial horizon, with both case and instrument inscribed 'Sewill, Maker to the Royal Navy, Liverpool', width of case 22cm. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£420StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAll parts present, surface wear and general wear throughout. The leather strap on the case has perished, a few knocks and splits to the wood. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 533 HARVEY & PEAK OF LONDON; a brass range finder on iron tripod base bearing maker's plaque, height 31cm. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£40StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThere is no case for this lot, there are no lenses to the screw-in section. Heavy pitting and heavy wear throughout. No cap to the end piece, general surface wear. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 534 J SEWILL OF LIVERPOOL; a brass three-armed position finder, length 59.5cm, unboxed, a George III oak box for an octant with paper label inscribed 'I. W. Norie & Co of London' and a mahogany box for an instrument (3). View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Condition ReportProvenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 535 SPENCER BROWNING & RUST OF LONDON; a George III ebony, ivory and brass octant with central plaque inscribed 'Spencer Browning & Rust London, John Taylor 1801' with initials engraved to the outer scale, length approx 39cm, unboxed. View details Estimate£150 - £250Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED Condition ReportA couple of fine hairline cracks around the outer scale, which is set beneath the brass 'arm'. Surface wear throughout, one of the coloured lenses is missing. The whole thing is very dirty. To the side brass plate there are rectangular and circular apertures, which presumably would have had something original. As mentioned, no box with this lot. Underneath one of the brass screws is missing. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 536 An unusual mid/late 19th century mahogany and pine cased navigational teaching aid, the hinged lid with recessed section for a model hull of a boat (lacking) and two lift-out trays detailing flags and pennants and set with dozens of hand painted individual sections, beneath the right hand tray is a rectangular slate board and beneath the left hand tray a vacant section for a similar board, width of case 67cm. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe case is heavily worn, hinges have been replaced to the lid showing the section where the previous hinges have been, which have snapped through the wood leaving unsightly marks. As detailed, it does appear that nearly all, or certainly the majority of the interior is present. There are no makers' names, all the pieces are very dirty. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 537 H HUGHES & SON LTD; a 7-inch Hewsun Star Globe dated 1920 and in original hinged wooden case with instructions to the underside of lid, width of case 27cm. View details Estimate£250 - £350Winning Bid£400StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe case itself is very heavily worn but with the majority being surface marks. There are also some handwritten inscriptions detailing numbers and names. The globe itself is slightly stained but spins correctly. There are two pins locating to the frame and a third pin or pointer attached to the bar on the inside of the lid. Some pitting to the frame, which is numbered 2564 and some heavier wear around the centre of the globe, as you might expect. There is also a very tiny old repair where the lower pin locating to the frame. Please see additional photographs. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. The metal mount on the globe is loose as both pins fall out and are not able to be secured, the globe itself is scuffed in several place and scratched, the box is also very worn with deep scratches Lot 538 A rare compass deviascope used to train seafarers in how to counter the magnetic effects of a ship's iron hull on the compass. The various attachments set in a wooden platform above compass and ebonised tapering base. Sold with instruction booklets relating to the instrument. View details Estimate£1,500 - £2,000StatusUnsold Condition ReportProvenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 539 BAIRD & TATLOCK OF GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH; a Wimshurst machine raised on walnut base with turned legs and retailer's plaque, height 49cm. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Condition ReportBoth circular discs are cracked, both handles are damaged - one almost entirely missing. Heavy pitting throughout, as can be seen. General surface wear. Provenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 540 KEEN & FRODSHAM OF LIVERPOOL; a pine-cased navigational teaching aid, early 20th century featuring a simple wooden compass with paper dial, two larger model boats and two smaller model boats, diameter of the compass 30.5cm, width of box 35.5cm. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£140StatusCLOSED Condition ReportEdges of the paper are slightly frayed, some wear to the boats and heavy wear to the box. Provenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 541 A C- ROV; an SP50 submersible underwater rover with 75m umbilical cord, monitor, control pad and various other accessories and spares, all contained within a hard yellow case (with instruction manual). View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£920StatusCLOSED Lot 542 DOBBIE OF GLASGOW; a George III ebony, ivory and brass octant, length approx 30cm, unboxed and lacking lenses. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£85StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAs you can see, this is missing the lenses. There is perishing to the mirror. Surface wear throughout and general marks. There is also a split to the circular end section wooden frame. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 543 CROSKERY'S PATENT POSITION FINDER; a pine cased brass instrument with registration no.15281, sold with instruction details and interesting handwritten letter, the letter reads 'Copy, Dear Capt. Croskery, Having had your Position Finder in use during the year's cruises on the Orient S.H.C. Steamer Garonne in the Med. and narrowing waters of Norway, I have much pleasure in testifying to the usefulness and accuracy of the instrument. It is ready and handy at all times near land, in fact a luxury wh View details Estimate£150 - £200Winning Bid£170StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThere is pitting to the instrument itself and surface marks. Rubbing to the pine box, as you would expect. The instructions are in various states, the letter has survived well. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 544 G WHITBREAD OF LONDON; a 19th century mahogany cased artificial horizon, the lid with brass plate inscribed 'Presented by Greenwich Hospital to Francis Odell Simpson', containing a wooden bob, wooden stand and metal framed angled lens, width of case 18.75cm. Footnote: Francis Odell Simpson was the author of 'The Pathological Statistics of Insanity'. View details Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£380StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe hinges are lacking to the case, general surface wear throughout, old sticker marks to the lid. No key, there is a split running through the base, the instrument itself has some surface wear, but overall in good order. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 545 H HUGHES & SON LTD; a cased Stuart's marine distance meter numbered 11976. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£95StatusCLOSED Condition ReportBoth the upper and lower plates are warped and have split around screw heads, please refer to photographs. The lens is slightly awkward in screwing into the base, but it does fit nevertheless. General surface wear. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 546 A copper and brass ship's binnacle compass (body only) with single outer ring, a 1920s oak ropetwist barometer for restoration and a box containing dry compass cards (3). View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Condition ReportProvenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 547 A wooden cased Weston Wattmeter numbered 17377 with instructions to inner side of lid, a cased tap and die set, a cased Aristo planimeter with instructions, an Avo Minor in leather case and a boxed three-piece divider and caliper set (5). View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£80StatusCLOSED Condition ReportProvenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 548 A painted pine cased Astro Compass Mk II, numbered 6A/1174 4-H and also stamped 'A.M.', height 21cm, width of case 27cm. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£45StatusCLOSED Condition ReportVery slightly misshapen, appears complete, general surface wear to both instrument and case. Provenance: this item is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 549 A large nickel silver parallel rule, length 61cm, a 19th century ebony and ivory rolling rule, length 31.5cm, a mahogany-cased bob thermometer numbered 4815, length of case 26cm and a further cased scale, length 45.5cm. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe mahogany cased bob thermometer has two sections of the wooden base missing and heavy surface wear. All four have general surface wear throughout. Provenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 550 The original copper printing plate by Rockliff Bros Ltd of Liverpool to produce the City of Liverpool Diploma of the Nautical College, the large plate beautifully decorated with ships' telegraph, telescopes, sextant, chronometer, crossed oars, anchor, flags, etc and sold with a rolled vellum certificate showing how it would print, the plate 58 x 42.5cm. View details Estimate£50 - £80Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe plate is slightly curved with some surface scratches and surface marks, but this is because it has never been cleaned. Provenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 551 Two ancient cannonball, diameter 12.5 and 10cm (both af). View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£30StatusCLOSED Lot 552 A group of maritime and related collectibles to include a Heath & Co of London 'Hezzanith' navigational slide rule in case, two thermometers, a torch, two stamp presses 'Langham Wholesalers' and '269 Dentons Green, St. Helens', a boxed Komet bell, etc. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Condition ReportProvenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 553 A small group of maritime and related collectibles including three heliograph mirrors, two glass light panels, a boxwood and brass gauge, a 16/32 foot cable gauge, six pocket sprung balance scales, a scribing tool, a prism, five pairs of dividers, a small pair of parallel rulers and various glass lenses. View details Estimate£40 - £50Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Condition ReportProvenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 554 A group of nine shipping-related commemorative wares including two Continental silver bowls, a wooden dish with plaque inscribed 'Timber ex H.M.S. Arethusa', a wooden desk weight inscribed 'Original wood from deck of Dufferin', a Steamship Company Speciality Supply glass paperweight, a cigarette case with plaque inscribed 'H.M.S. Renown', a salt with plaque inscribed 'H.M.S. Lancastria', a small trinket box with plaque inscribed 'R.M.S. S.S. Arcadian' and a Lamport & Holt Line green floral print View details Estimate£60 - £100Winning Bid£65StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSome surface wear throughout, as you can imagine, heavy tarnishing to the cigarette case and the metal pieces. The only bit of enamel that is damaged is on the H.M.S. Lancastria salt, where there is a small loss to the band, otherwise general surface wear. Provenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 555 An interesting and unusual collection being a nautical teaching aid with vast amount of miniature wooden marker buoys and a small selection of metal pieces, weighted model boats inscribed 'Wreck', etc, all contained within a pine case, width of case 48cm. View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£240StatusCLOSED Condition ReportSurface scratches, wear and chips to the paint throughout as you would expect. There is no maker's mark visible, the pieces are dirty. Provenance: this piece is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 556 An Elkington White Star Line silver plated twin-handled ice bucket with reeded borders interspersed with stars, the tapering body engraved with the White Star Line flag, numbered 26776, height 19cm. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£360StatusCLOSED Condition ReportAge related wear in the form of surface scratches and small dents, wear to the base, engraving of White Star line emblem, rubbed to centre Lot 557 A Wedgwood tile printed with a clipper ship 'Golden West', 17.5 x 23.5cm, framed. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Lot 558 A wheel from a private yacht, 'Ocean Spirit', purchased 1952, diameter 50cm. View details Estimate£30 - £50Winning Bid£70StatusCLOSED Lot 559 An unusual large brass-framed bottle coaster with an extract from Gillray's; 'Siege of the Pompeii Column Circa 1799' and a 19th century street scene verso, diameter 15cm. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 560 A White Star Line blanket, large White Star line logo to centre, K1920 to border, 178 x 115cm. Provenance: brought back by a Mr Thomas Worley who was badly injured in the area and returned by hospital ship and he sadly passed away 1923 from his injuries. View details Estimate£300 - £500Winning Bid£380StatusCLOSED Lot 561 WITHDRAWN Three various sized pond yachts each complete with sails, length of each 85cm, 74cm and 77cm (3). View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot 562 A large cream pond yacht with Union Jacks and Continental flags, large sails, K-85 and embellished with butterflies, length 98cm. View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Lot 563 A large red, yellow and cream pond yacht, deck adorned with various plastic and ceramic animals, length 92cm. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 564 A black painted pond yacht with pale blue sails, deck adorned with a stuffed otter, length 97cm. View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£20StatusCLOSED Lot 565 A single masted pond yacht with grey and red painted keel, length 59cm. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£50StatusCLOSED Lot 566 Three pieces of late 19th and early 20th century scrimshaw, comprising a mother of pearl shell inscribed 'James Bisset of Liverpool, 1600 Tons Registered...' and decorated with a triple-masted vessel and thistles, width 20cm, a cowrie shell engraved with an anchor and inscribed 'Remember S/S Louise, 07', length 9cm and a rectangular section of alabaster in the form of a book engraved with an anchor to the front, length 13cm (3). View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£25StatusCLOSED Condition ReportThe mother of pearl plaque has chips around the edges, some are larger than others. This is slightly encroaching on the decoration and writing to the right. There is also a split through the thistle decoration. The other two pieces have general surface wear and chips to the edges. Provenance: this lot is from a private collection in Surrey and the vendor's father taught at Liverpool Maritime College many years ago. Lot 567 No Lot. View details StatusUnsold Lot 568 A quantity of maritime related ephemera to include Cunard menus, Cunard Line Coronia 1959 North Cape Cruise booklet, certificates from Saturday 7th April 1990 relating to the breaking of the sound barrier on Concord, a copy of 'Gray's Anatomy', an early 20th century copy of 'Kelly's Directory of Liverpool and Suburbs' as used by the Royal Insurance Co, with a quantity of fold-out maps and a cased Pathescope film reel with label no T/9336 'Variety Talkie film no 254' etc. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£55StatusCLOSED Condition ReportKelly's Directory - 1939 Lot 569 An album of commercial shipping lines postcards to include Cunard White Star Line, Express Liner, SS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, RMS Almanzora, Anchor Line, Union Castle Line, etc (98). 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