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Australian & Historical, Session II — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:430
Sale Title:Australian & Historical, Session IILots with images:419
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:368
Date:19-Nov-2023
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A whale harpoon desk ornament paperweight, cast metal and green marble, 9 cm high
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An antique whale blubber oil ladle, copper and iron with wooden handle, 19th century. Rare. 84 cm long
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An antique ship's tar bucket, 19th century, 21 cm high
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An antique whaling harpoon bomb head, 20th century, 38.5 cm high
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A whale harpoon with explosive bomb head, 20th century, 155 cm high
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A whale harpoon with explosive bomb head, 20th century, 144 cm high
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A whaler's antique killing lance, 19th century, rare. 143.5 cm long
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A whaler's antique killing lance, stamped 'H. S.', 19th century, rare. 180 cm long
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A whaler's antique killing lance, 19th century, rare. 184 cm long
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An antique toggle harpoon, stamped 'Scorpar, London', 19th century, 89.5 cm high
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A whale harpoon with bomb head, early to mid 20th century, stamped 'Caunt, Patender C.M.V.', an impressive 189 cm high, (note: approximately 100kg+)
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Harpoon bomb head fragment, early 20th century, 22 cm long
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Jarmann (model 28) Norwegian harpoon and line throwing gun, with three harpoons and original leather case. Stamped with ownership details for John Andrew Tennant Mortlock of port Lincoln in South Australia. On September 14th, 1934, Mortlock was n
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Flensing knife with timber handle from Albany, Western Australia, 19th/20th century, 128 cm high
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Flensing knife with timber handle from Albany, Western Australia, 19th/20th century, 131 cm high
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Flensing knife with timber handle from Albany, Western Australia, 19th/20th century, 124 cm high
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Bomb Lancers selection of four brass examples, one with wings, early 20th century, the largest 45 cm long
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Harpoon Bomb heads four assorted antique and vintage examples, 19th and 20th century, the largest 43.5 cm long
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An antique ship's gaff hook, together with an antique harpoon tip, 19th century, (2 items), 57 cm and 30 cm long
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An antique blubber hook, together with a ship's gaff hook, 19th century, 53 cm and 50.5 cm long
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Whaling interest group of 17 magic lantern black and white glass slides including 'Cutting out whale Bone', 'Making off walrus Skins', 'Whaling - the whale's Tongue', 'A whale is Captured', 'Polar bear Hunting' and others. A fascinating and grisly c
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Seventeen assorted whale bone implements including bone saw, boot hook, bodkins etc., the largest 30 cm long
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A replica model whaling harpoon boat, 91 cm long
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'Whaleman's Shipping list, and Merchant's Transcript, new Bedford, Tuesday morning, May 10th 1887'. Two page double-sided newspaper display, attractively framed and mounted, showing fascinating pictorial advertising and news of whaling commerce of t
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Small whale harpoon, bone mallet and whalebone swagger stick with silver top, 19th century, (3 items), the largest 44 cm high
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Three whalebone cotton bobbins with scrimshaw decoration, whalebone busk carved with lizard decoration, Pacific Islander whalebone fishing hook, whale tooth toggle on keychain, antique Chinese carved ivory cigarette holder, marine ivory shoehorn and
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Dominoes antique set of whalebone pieces in mahogany box, pocket size, 19th century, the box 5.5 cm long
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Artist unknown, (whaling scene, Newfoundland), oil on canvas, signed lower left 'E.V.E., Newfoundland', 19 x 24 cm, 31 x 36 cm overall
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A vintage line-throwing gun, stamped 'Ratemingan', 20th century, 101 cm long
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An antique Tasmanian oak boat hull with whale bone adornments, with Australian cedar base, 19th/20th century, 34.5 cm long overall
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A sawfish rostrum, holed for mounting, early to mid 20th century, 98.5 cm long
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Two Japanese carved and painted fish broadbills, early to mid 20th century, 87 cm and 59 cm long
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Horseshoe crab framed display, mid 20th century, 45 x 30 cm overall
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Two vintage Japanese lithograph tin whale meat advertising signs, mid 20th century, 25 x 68 cm each
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Two vintage Japanese baleen pictures, hand-painted with whaling and fishing vessels, mid 20th century, 96 cm and 97 cm long
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An Alaskan Inuit baleen busk with carved dogsled scene, together with a vintage Japanese hand-painted baleen sign, 20th century, the larger 85 cm wide
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An antique baleen specimen, mounted on metal stand and housed in a custom made display case, early to mid 20th century, 47 cm high, 44 cm wide, 32 cm deep overall
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Boxed Japanese scallop set made from baleen, sawfish rostrum (holed for mounting), timber fid with iron tip, timber fid, and a Japanese timber box, 19th/20th century, (5 items), the rostrum 37 cm long
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An impressive fossilized fish specimen, 89 cm long
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'The Endeavour Entering the pier, a Trifle from Margate' antique Battersea enamel patch box, 18th century, 5 cm wide
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Artist unknown, (portrait of a ship's Captain), oil on canvas, housed in gilt frame, 90 x 75 cm, 116 x 100 cm overall
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An antique ship's trunk made in teak with dove-tailed construction and brass fittings, attractively adorned with hand-painted nautical scene inside the lid, 19th century, 44 cm high, 93 cm wide, 41 cm deep
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Two pocket telescopes, one five drawer by 'T. Cook of London' and the other a three drawer, both with leather mounts, 19th century, the larger 46 cm when expanded
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An antique coloured lithograph of a steam powered sailing ship, 19th century, 67 x 98 cm overall
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An antique Australian model steam powered sailing ship, housed in a period Australian cedar and glass display case, 19th century, 57 cm high, 105 cm wide, 30 cm deep
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Two antique whalebone bodkins, 19th century or earlier, 6.5 cm and 8.5 cm long
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A whaler's folk Art sweetheart brooch/token, carved whalebone with male profile portrait, entwined rope and flowers, 19th century. Note: no pin. 4 cm wide
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A whaler's folk Art sweetheart brooch, carved whalebone adorned with two sperm whales, 19th century, 4 cm wide
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An antique whalebone chess set in cedar box, 19th century, the Kings 7 cm high, 2.4 cm diameter
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'H.M.S. Hero' Australian wool work tapestry, 19th century, 59 x 72 cm overall
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A pair of whale's tooth ornaments on stands adorned with folk Art penguin paintings, 15 cm high overall
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A pair of scrimshaw whale's teeth with engraved figural decoration, 11 cm high
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'Log of H.M.S. Glasgow bearing (the English flag) of Admiral Arthur Cumming C.B. Commanded by Captain T. Morton Jones Kept by James Knowles, Midshipman'
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Whaler's knife with cross hatched whalebone handle, 19th century, 22 cm long
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M. Gillett (?), 'HMS opal, New Hebrides 1886', watercolour, signed, titled and dated lower right and centre 'M. Gillett hallmarked sterling opal New Hebrides 1886', 22 x 38 cm, 65 x 88 cm overall
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A sailor's seam rubber, 19th century, an impressive 22 cm high, 10 cm wide
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A carved whalebone chess set, housed in an Australian cedar box, 19th century, 8 cm high, 3 cm diameter
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A sailor's cabin blanket box, Baltic and celery top pine with red pine trim, 19th century, 43 cm high, 93 cm wide, 42 cm deep
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A scrimshaw whalebone toggle depicting an American ship under full sail, 19th century, 5 cm high
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Two sperm whale teeth, 19th/20th century, 11 cm and 12 cm high
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Gary Tonkin (Albany, Western Australia) scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Blackfish, ready the Greenhand', signed 'G.R. Tonkin', 16 cm high
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Nantucket basket with carved whalebone bird decoration and fittings, 19th century, 27 cm high
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H.M.S. Jupiter 1897-1900: a collection of 281 annotated photographs (many dated) in a large album which belonged to Lieut. F.G. Loving, R.N. The images show scenes on board and at Plymouth, Gibraltar, Sardinia, Lisbon, Cernuschi bay, Arosa bay (Spai
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Artist unknown, (Four-masted barque), oil on canvas, early 20th century, 54 x 84 cm; framed 65 x 95 cm overall.
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An antique Australian blackwood fid with rope binding, 19th/20th century, 30.5 cm long
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'Souvenir of Western Australia' shell ornaments with hand-painted finish, 19th/20th century, (2 items), anchor example 10 cm high
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Two antique hand-painted pearl shells, Western Australian origin, 19th/20th century, 14 cm and 15 cm wide
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A ship's bulkhead lantern, displaying starboard and port side lights, 30 cm high overall
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Gary Tonkin scrimshaw whale's tooth titled 'Nigero, 1840', signed 'Tonkin', 12 cm high
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A scrimshaw whale's tooth depicting a whaling scene and tallship on reverse, 13.5 cm long
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Dominoes antique whalebone gaming tiles with ebony backs, 19th century
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'Stelling' antique bronze ship's bell, 19th/20th, an impressive size of 29 cm high, 30 cm diameter
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A ship's lantern in copper, brass and glass, 19th/20th century, 63 cm high overall
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Nautical searchlight lamp, circa 1940s, on later silky oak platform base, 45 cm high
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Two vintage cast brass ship's portholes, 20th century, 32 cm wide
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Thomas Mercer 56 hour marine chronometer in original timber case, from the A.D. Geopotes 1 (a dredger from Newcastle Australia). Bearing service plaque and timing rate certificate by R.F. Whitten, 403 hunter Street, Newcastle, N.S.W, Serial number
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An English brass rolling navigation rule, in timber case, 20th century, the box 48 cm wide
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Ship's bell from the 'Bass Trader, Melbourne', with impressively worked rope handle, 20th century. The Bass Trader was built in Newcastle and launched in 1961 and spent her days plying the Bass Strait route from Tasmania to Melbourne, the bell 20 cm
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Royal Hobart Regatta Association 97th Anniversary Regatta, 1935 silk program with blue tasseled edging, 93 cm high, 30 cm wide
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'Couta' boat model by Patrice Johnson of Melbourne, scale model, circa 1950s, with accompanying hand-written notation, 103 cm high, 100 cm wide
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German World War II battle cruiser Gneisenau in the scale of 1 to 1200 by the model makers Bassett-Lowke of England, and is an RAF identification model of the 1940 period. 26 cm wide overall
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Excelsior IV Ship-Log boxed nautical instrument with instructions, 20th century, 38 cm wide
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An Australian folk Art scratch-built model ship in case, early - mid 20th century, 59 cm high, 91 cm wide, 18 cm deep.
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A vintage scrimshaw whale's tooth with whale boat scene, mid 20th century, 20 cm long
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After William Duke (1815-1853), Offshore whaling with the Aladdin and Jane, 1849, facsimile print in gilt frame, 74 x 88 cm overall
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Whale's teeth, antique and vintage examples, 19th and early 20th century, (8 items), the largest 14 cm high
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A 'Close up of Americas famous Lightning', oil painting on board, signed lower left 'Mitchell', early to mid 20th century, 41 x 57 cm, 76 x 92 cm overall
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Two taxidermied puffer fish hanging ornaments, 20th century, the larger 28 cm long
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Bannockburn portrait of a tallship, oil on board, signed lower left 'Mitchell', 76 x 89 cm, 81 x 102 cm overall
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Assorted shells displayed in a hand-woven basket, including conch, pA?ua and baler shells, the basket 53 cm wide
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1857 Arctic medal (miniature), the reverse depicting a three-masted sailing vessel amid icebergs with a sledge party in the foreground 'For Arctic Discoveries 1818 - 1855'; with pole star above and attached to the original ribbon with Spink clasp.
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1907-09 Shackleton Expedition monographs (2), 1911-14 Mawson Expedition monographs (4 different), 'Problems of polar research', 1928; 'The Royal Society international Geophysical year Antarctic Expedition - Halley bay, Coats land, Falkland Island de
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B1 - title: the Discovery heading through ice-congested waters of the Mackenzie Sea,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B2 - title: Landing at cape Bruce, MacRobertson Land,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Monday Apr. 6, 1931' verso, to
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B3 - title: off the Shores of Princess Elizabeth Land,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Monday Apr. 13, 1931' verso
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B4 - title: whaling in Antarctica,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Monday Apr. 6, 1931' verso, together with the off
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B5 - title: new Discoveries in Antarctica,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Monday Apr. 6, 1931' verso, together with
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B6 - title: Raising the flag over new Antarctica Territory,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Monday Apr. 13, 1931' ve
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B7 - title: Once Shambles - Now Sanctuary,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday Apr. 21, 1931' verso, together wi
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The B.A.N.Z. Antarctic Expedition:Official original photograph by Captain Frank Hurley:Image B8 - title: Telling it to the Penguins,with official 'Mawson Antarctic Expedition' handstamp and release date 'Tuesday Apr. 28, 1931' verso, together with
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