Engine Order Telegraph by Durkee

Brass engine room telegraph with commands “hard left”, “hard right”, “steady”, “course” etc. Telegraph has one face-plate and brass handle. Mount...

Authentic aluminum engine order telegraph from the 1950s.

Solid brass ship's engine order telegraph with faceplates from Charles Cory and Son Patentees, New York. Smaller size than most, meticulously polished and lacquered. Overall Dime...

Solid brass ships bridge telegraph by the venerable English maker Chadburns of Liverpool England. Twin faceplate design with ahead and astern commands. Meticulously polished and lacq...

American ships bridge telegraph by Kirk Habicht Co, of Baltimore Maryland. The ships commands are on display back, ahead, full, one third, full, and s...

Japanese ships telegraph. Unit has been stripped of paint and polished. Aluminum head with brass handle. 43 pounds. 40 tall by 8 by 9. Mounted to a wood...

British Sailor's Woolwork, With Motto of The Order of The Garter, Circa 1880. The unusual sailor's woolwork depicts a soldier and a sailor standing and pointing with one hand to either side of a circular device in the form of a garter with the Union Jack within and the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense...

Vernier Octant by John Todd, London, circa 1850. An eleven inch radius vernier octant by John Todd with ebonised wooden frame with inset bone scale marked ...

Nantucket Harbor Scene, by Inna Garsoian (1896–1984), circa 1946, oil on canvas view of wharves and waterfront from vantage of old Steamship office, signed lower right, and signed and dated on the reverse, mounted in original hand carved wooden frame. Garsoian was a former costume designer in Paris for the Ballet Russe, and summered on Nantucket from 1935-1945. Her work is noted for muted colors, stark light and shadows; she exhibited at the Easy Street Gallery. From the Nantucket Historical Association's digital exhibition "Nantucket Art...

Vintage small nautical searchlight by General Electric, USA, circa 1950. For decorative display purposes only, not operational.

Schooling Mackerel by Barnaby Porter, circa 1970s, a sculpture made from reclaimed wood on the mid-coast of Maine. Porter used old found wood to cut and hand paint these three mackerel "weathervanes," mounted together as a school - this was part of an original room-sized installation. The sculpture is in excellent, as made "distressed" condition as shown in photographs. Porter's work has been exhibited in the Farnsworth Museum and elsewhere and has been featured in the TV show, "Made in Maine', and in magazines such as Fine Woodworking...

Pre World War I Nautical Compass by E.S.Ritchie Nautical compass mounted by a brass gimbal into a copper brass bound case with sloping glazed aperture with heavily bevelled glass. Flat brass bezel with five holding screws signed ‘E.S.Ritchie’ and numbered 5779. Side opening compartment for a lighted wick with drawer beneath. The compass is mounted in a heavy painted brass bowl with very fine copper pivot supporting the floating direction card. A diaphragm is located in the base of the bowl for temperature compensation. E.S.Ritchie founded the business in 1850 to manufacture mechanical, electrical and scientific instruments. In 1857 he turned his attention to navigational instruments and begun making marine bearing compasses for the U.S.Navy before the American civil war. At the time the British admiralty dry mounted nautical compasses were considered by all navies and commercial shipping companies as the highest technological standard of the day, however, in 1860 Ritchie had received a US patent for the first successful and practical liquid-filled marine compass...