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Australian History — Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:596
Sale Title:Australian HistoryLots with images:583
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:386
Date:30-May-2017
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A large scrimshaw whale's tooth, 19th century, 17.5 cm
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A scrimshaw whales's tooth titled 'The Flying Childers', 16 cm
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with romantic scene, 10 cm
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth, circa 1920s, engraved 'Albany, West Australia, Jan Lany, ith whaling scene and mermaid on reverse, monogrammed Rhc, 12 cm long
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with whaling scene, festooned with unusual insults, engraved 'Albany WA Jan Lany 1923', 13 cm long
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with harbor scene, titled 'Peter Duck Pin Mill', circa 1935, reverse inscribed Arthur Ransome Nancy Blackett, monogrammed Nl with anchor, 13 cm long
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with boating scene titled 'Alma Doepel, Hobart 1933', 14 cm long
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A whaling harpoon by Scorrar of London, 19th century, 98 cm long
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Group of three scrimshaw whale's teeth depicting Captain James Cook, General Howe and The Ohio, largest 11.5 cm
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with female portrait and tree, 13 cm
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A pair of hand painted whale eardrums mounted on jarrah plinths, late 19th century, 12 cm overall
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with tall ship engraved 'Charles W. Morgan USA', 9.5 cm long
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A whale oil ship's hanging slush lamp with double pans, 19th century, 35 cm high
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A scrimshaw coconut shell, circa 1820s, ingraved 'W.A.Lanell' with tallship, sunspray and cottage, 10 cm high, 12 cm across
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A group of four scrimshaw whale's teeth with ship portraits, largest 14 cm
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth on whale's tooth base engraved with tall ship and whaling boat on reverse, 15 cm high
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A whalebone model ship, 19th century, 40 cm high, 51 cm long
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A 19th century whalebone handled sailors knife, 28 cm long
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A working model pond yacht on stand, early 20th century, 91 cm high, 104 cm long
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A whalebone walking stick with whale's tooth Turkman's knot handle, 19th century, shaft carved from a solid piece of bone, 85 cm long
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with carving of three women, 17 cm
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A whalebone walking stick with carved whale's tooth fist handle with casuarina, cedar, baleen and horn spacers, 19th century, 88 cm long
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A whale's penis walking stick with fiddleback blackwood handle, 19th century, 91 cm
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with boating scene and inscription (illegible), 12.5 cm long
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with ship portrait mounted on whalebone stand, 13 cm high
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth with female portraits, 16 cm
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A collection of 14 whale's teeth, two with tips cut, longest 18 cm
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A solid whalebone walking stick with whalebone handle, 19th century, 87 cm
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A whaler's pocket knife with tortoiseshell, mother of pearl and whalebone handle, carved with kangaroo and Lion, 19th century, 47 cm long
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A walking stick, stingray vertebrae and horn, 19th century, 87 cm
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A life buoy from the Coromandal Clipper Panama, 20th century, 75 cm diameter
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A rare ship's telephone circa 1900, with makers plaque 'Automatic Telephone and Electric Co. Ltd Liverpool, England.', 38 cm high, 25 cm wide, 15 cm deep
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A pair of hand painted whale eardrums, late 19th century, 10 cm high
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HMAS Australia engine room clock by Prescot Clock Co. circa 1910, 22 cm diameter, 12.5 cm deep. Provenance: Ex Nobles auction (postal bid sale No.640, lot 5993). Private Collection, I.S. Wright auctions. Private Collection
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A pair of Australian hardwood timber paddles, early 20th century, 130 cm long
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A pair of whalebone boot hooks, glove stretcher and implement, 19th century, longest 26 cm
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A rare huon pine ship's dresser, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, unusual side door access with pull out hanging slide, 208 cm high, 115 cm wide, 66 cm deep
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Two ships in bottles, early 20th century, largest 20 cm long
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A selection of draftsman's tools including three ebony parallel rules, boxed implements, compasses etc, 19th century
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Three sawfish bills, early to mid 20th century, largest 97 cm
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A ship's chamber pot, copper and zinc, early 20th century, stamped 'Bulpitt and sons, Birmingham 1915', 36m high
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A rare Tasmanian trinket box with handle, huon pine and brass bound coopered construction, handle made from a selection of 9 different Tasmanian timbers and baleen, mid 19th century, 23 cm high, 23 cm across the handles
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A taxidermy Sea Turtle, 19th century, 70 cm long
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A model ship in a bottle, 20th century, 21 cm
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Four whalebone needle cases, shaving brush and glove stretcher, 19th century, longest 16 cm
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Two whalebone handled corkscrews and a whalebone and whale tooth gavel, 19th century, longest 16 cm
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A collection of whalebone sewing implements, 19th century, comprising pin cushion, bobbin holder, bodkins, thimble case, thread shuttle and napkin ring
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Unusual bone handled knife and scabbard, 19th century, 23 cm
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A carved whalebone model of a white sperm whale on jarrah plinth, possibly a model of the famed Judas Whale from Albany West Australian who's white colour helped local whalers track down pods of the harder to spot dark skinned whales, 11 cm long
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A taxidermy Sea Turtle, late 19th century, 55 x 35 cm
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A taxidermy sea turtle, early 20th century, 58 cm long
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A vintage boat model on stand, mid 20th century, 91 cm long
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A fishing creel, two pulley blocks, ashtray, decanter, three souvenir life buoys and embroidered cushion
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A vintage cedar and Tasmanian oak boat rudder, together with a painted boat rudder, 120 cm & 130 cm long
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A boat anchor with old hemp rope and iron hook, anchor 70 cm
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Two heavy brass portholes, early 20th century, largest 40 cm diameter
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Whalebone paper knives and implements, longest 20 cm
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A Norwegian pattern rotary fog horn made in England, circa 1900, restored and in working order, 38 cm high, 57 cm wide, 20 cm deep
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A mounted model trout, hand painted, 20th century, frame 34 x 91 cm
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A seagull porcelain statue float bowl, circa 1930, stamped 'Kittiwake Bowl' Falcon ware, England, 33 cm diameter
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Two whalebone stanhopes, two pairs of knitting needles, busk and three manicured tools, longest 27 cm
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Two whalebone seals, two snuff spoons, whalebone brooch and three implements, 19th century, largest 10 cm
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Brighton Yacht Club C Class silk pennant, 1947 to 1948, 52 cm long
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A huon pine carved trout on stand, based signed John...(') Longford 2009, 43 cm long
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Rms Queen Mary maiden voyage nickel plated souvenir ashtray, 27th May 1936, stamped on base 'This is a model of one of the propellers, made by the Manganese Bronze and Brass Co. Ltd. London, England, weight 35 tons', 9 cm high, 13 cm diameter
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A folk art model of a three masted ship named Chimera, 20th century, 69 cm high, 67 cm long
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A group of four model pond yachts with painted hulls, mid 20th century, longest 46 cm
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A pair of green and white painted timber pond yachts, 20th century, 60 cm high, 53 cm long
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Group of four vintage folk art pond yachts, 20th century, longest 81 cm
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Group of three pond yachts, 20th century, tallest 62 cm
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Three pond yachts including huon pine hulled example, 20th century, tallest 87 cm high
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S.S. Burma World War II period Japanese folk art ship portrait painted on tin depicting a religious ceremony and Japanese soldiers, 120 cm x 378 cm
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Two walking sticks, musk and blackwood, 19th century, each 89 cm long
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A fiddleback blackwood walking stick with rose gold collar, 19th century, 89 cm
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A fiddleback blackwood walking stick with carved ivory Bonzo dog, circa 1925, 88 cm
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A rare Australian fiddleback blackwood fox hunting stick inscribed 'This Riding Whip Was Used In Australia James Berridge Smith Who Changed His Name to Steeth', Steeth went on to become a renowned silversmith in Victoria, the current Melbourne Cup was designed by Steeth, 88 cm
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A fiddleback blackwood walking stick with Tasmanian musk carved fist and ball handle, 19th century, 94 cm long
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A bamboo walking stick carved with kangaroo, late 19th century, 88 cm long
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An unusual Australian walking stick with carved emu and kangaroo and boot handle, 19th century, 92 cm
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A group of three walking sticks, fiddleback blackwood with carved snake, New Zealand Maori carved stick and Indian ebony carved stick, 19th and 20th century, longest 91 cm
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A rare Australian whip handle carved with kangaroos, emus, Aboriginals and animal motifs, studded with brass nails, 19th century, 44 cm long
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Two walking sticks, whalebone and carved horn with ivory and whale tooth, Chinese 19th century, longest 90 cm
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A group of four assorted walking sticks with silver collars, one with whalebone handle, 19th century, longest 94 cm
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A Tasmanian blackwood and musk glove box, together with a spatter work jewel box, late 19th century, largest 6 cm high, 30 cm wide, 11 cm deep
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Two carved folk art picture frames, circa 1900, largest 38 x 49 cm
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A pokerwork kookaburra sewing box, 18 cm high, 16.5 cm wide, 9 cm deep
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Thomas Bock (attributed, 1790 - 1855), Lady Jane Franklin, carved marble relief bust, plaque 33 x 25 cm. Provenance: Private collection Queensland. Originally the property of Charles Sherborn the engraver and thence by family decent. Purchased by the Wilsden family in the 1930s where it remained for fifty years, then described in Sotheby's valuation in 1984.
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John Kendrick Blogg, wood carving of eucalypt branch, signed and dated lower right John Blogg 1929, 64 x 41.5 cm overall
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An Australian timber writing slope, circa 1860, inlaid with fiddleback blackwood, cedar, kauri pine, beefwood and Queensland maple on a cedar carcass, interior fitted with slope and compartments, 16 cm high, 41 cm wide, 26 cm deep
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A Tasmanian huon pine apprentice chest with blackwood knobs and feet, 29 cm high, 24.5 cm wide, 21 cm deep
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An Australian cedar and pine deed box inlaid with Aboriginal weapon motif, Queensland origin, 19th century, 20 cm high, 36 cm wide, 23.5 cm deep
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A Tasmanian cribbage board box, musk, blackwood, casuarina, pine and cedar together with a silky oak cedar and maple topped box, cribbage box 28 cm wide.
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A rare exhibition cabinet, huon pine, fiddleback blackwood and mahogany with landscape watercolour panel back, with accompanying note 'cabinet of blackwood made by Arthur Bell at the age of 18, loaned by Bert Webb' circa 1880, 48 cm high, 39 cm wide, 26 cm deep
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An Australian timber writing box, cedar, fiddleback blackwood, pine, Tasmanian oak and casuarina, circa 1860, 16 cm high, 40.5 cm wide, 26 cm deep
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An Australian cedar apprentice chest, 19th century, faint inscription on back partially legible 'Mithell....Grattan street Carlton('), 36 cm high, 36 cm wide, 25 cm deep
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An Australian ceder based pin cushion, mid 19th century, 5 cm high, 12.5 cm diameter
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A pair of jarrah bookends with rose gold plaques engraved 'The Right Hon. L.S. Amery, Western Australia, October 1927, Jarrah', Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1924 until 1929. 15 cm high, 10 cm wide, 12.5 cm deep
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A folk art cabinet, pine and timber packing crate, late 19th century, 86 cm high, 67 cm wide, 32 cm deep
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Moorcroft Pottery waratah bowl, incised signature W. Moorcroft potters to H.M. The Queen, 20.5 cm diameter
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An Australia wool work bird picture, 19th century, 55 x 44 cm
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