332. PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY TORCHÉRES, circa Height 36 ½ in.

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1 332. PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED MAHOGANY TORCHÉRES, circa Height 36 ½ in PAIR OF MAHOGANY CHIPPENDALE UPHOLSTERED DINING CHAIRS, circa ENGLISH SATINWOOD SIDE TABLE, 19 th Century, with ebony, satin and tulip wood shell inlay and turnbridge gallery top VICTORIAN PARTIAL GILT LEATHER TOP DROP LEAF TWO DRAWER GAME TABLE, circa 1874, with original maker s label A. Cutler & Son, Buffalo, New York, Patented March 24,

2 336. CARVED FIGUREHEAD OF TURK WEARING TURBAN. Height 70 in AMERICAN ROOSTER COUNTERBALANCE MILL WEIGHT, 19 th Century, cast iron. Height 19 in. Width 18 in. 151

3 338. TELL-TALE COMPASS, late 19 th Century, in green patina, the card is marked N.R. Holzer, New York ST. LOUIS BOXED SPERM WHALE OIL, case of four TH CENTURY SPANISH ARMADA STRONG BOX. Height 16 in. Width 28 in. Depth 17 in. 152

4 341. SCARCE IRON WHALE BLUBBER HOOK, circa Length 39 in RARE STAVED OAK SPERM WHALE CASE BUCKET, circa 1850, a valuable whaling tool, buckets such as this were pushed repeatedly down into the case by a long wooden pole and then removed with the valuable spermaceti oil. Length 24 in. Diameter 10 ½ in TH CENTURY WHALE BLUBBER AND BONE SPADE TH CENTURY WHALE BLUBBER AND BONE SPADE. 153

5 TH CENTURY DOUBLE FLUE HARPOON TH CENTURY KILLING LANCE TH CENTURY TOGGLE HARPOON TH CENTURY TOGGLE HARPOON WITH WOOD SHEATH TH CENTURY TOGGLE HARPOON WITH SHEATH TH CENTURY WHALE BLUBBER SPADE WITH SHEATH TH CENTURY WHALE BLUBBER SPADE CAST IRON WHALE HARPOON, 19 th Century. 154

6 353. SIGNED WHALE BLUBBER CUTTER, 19 th Century, with wood sheath. Length 20 in WHALE BLUBBER CUTTER, 19 th Century. Length 21 in STUDENT S NAVIGATIONAL WORK BOOK, early 19 th Century, inscribed on cover Holton P. Haskell, 1827 with mathematical, geometrical, and plain sailing problems and drawings. 155

7 356. STUDENT S NAVIGATIONAL WORKBOOK, WILLSON CARPENTER HIS BOOK ON NAVIGATION th Century, including mathematical tables, sailing case studies, and plain sailing problems LOG BOOK OF H.M.S. LEMERAIRE AND H.M.S. NORTHAMPTON, , with detailed daily notes and profusely illustrated with 24 hand drawn maps, 6 watercolor scenes, 6 boat watercolors, and 4 flag watercolors, kept by J.G. Watson THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR BY NATHANIEL BOWDITCH, 15th New Stereo Type Edition, 1845, leather bound and sail cloth covered, inscribed Daniel G. Allen, Nantucket 1846 America is my nation, Nantucket is my dwelling place and whaling my occupation, with seven sperm whale stamps. 156

8 359. NAUTICAL WORK BOOK INCLUDING THE DESCRIPTION AND USE OF HADLEY S QUADRANT, early 19th Century, including various navigational and mathematical problems illustrated in watercolors ROBERT CRAIG S BOOK OF NAVIGATION AND JOURNAL OF A VOY- AGE FROM LONDON TO MADERIA IN THE FAME OF LONDON, 248 pages of ink script and drawings, , housed in a sailor-made oil cloth case. 157

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