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Antique Tugboats

Great Lakes Tugboat CALUMET
By Otto Muhlenfeld
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Atlantic Ocean possible. Later in 1913 an entire class of tugboats would carry her name and a similar
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1890s Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Siebengebirge, circa 1920s Etching, Germany, Tugboat
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Hans Füsser (German, 1898-1959) Signed: Hans Füsser (Lower, Right) " Siebengebirge ", circa 1920s Etching Plate Size: 6 1/4" x 8 1/2" Housed in a 1/2" Frame Overall Size: 12 3/...
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Early 20th Century Antique Tugboats

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Etching

Ship Name Board From NY Tugboat "St. Martin"
Located in Norwell, MA
Great old nautical quarter board from the tugboat St. Martin. Incised letters in gold with black
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1920s American Antique Tugboats

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Wood

Original Vintage Workplace Motivational Poster Mighty Steam Ship Tugboat Success
Located in London, GB
depicting two small tugboats guiding a large steam ship on the water, the text above the ocean liner and on
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1920s American Antique Tugboats

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Paper

Marine Seascape New York Tugboat Maritime Painting by Parker Newton
By Parker Newton
Located in Sarasota, FL
. Lovely painting depicting a tugboat and a boat in the background. Housed in a lovely small gold gilt
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Early 20th Century American Antique Tugboats

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Paint

Antique 19C Manganese Dutch Delft Tile of Tugboat Towing a 2-Mast Tall Ship
By Delft
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Dutch Delft pottery tile. Depicting a tugboat towing a large two-mast sailboat
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19th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Tugboats

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Antique Naval Maritime Brass Telescope by Kelvin White & Hutton for USS Cheyenne
Located in San Diego, CA
1898 tugboat that was in service in 1898. Specifics include: USS Cheyenne (tugboat) • Service
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Early 20th Century English Victorian Antique Tugboats

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Brass

19th century English View Boats on the Thames Estuary , London
Located in Woodbury, CT
sits proudly in the still waters, its hull catching the fading daylight. A tugboat puffs alongside
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1890s Victorian Antique Tugboats

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Thomas Willis: Shamrock III and Reliance Crossing the Line, America’s Cup, 1903
By Thomas Willis
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
. Provenance: The daughter of the tugboat’s owner and thence by descent. Thomas Willis (1850-1925) was a
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Early 20th Century English Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Paint

Original Antique Travel Poster Cunard Europe America Aquitania Rosenvinge Cruise
Located in London, GB
) sailing towards the viewer on a calm sea being led in a harbour by a tugboat in the foreground, the title
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1910s British Antique Tugboats

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Paper

"Boats in Berlin Harbor, " Pastel on Cheesecloth by Francesco Spicuzza
By Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Boats in Berlin Harbor" is an original pastel painting on cheesecloth. Small tugboats push across
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1920s American Modern Antique Tugboats

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Pastel

Engine Order Telegraph from a Yacht
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass ships engine order telegraph. This style has often used on yachts and tugboats. Showing
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1910s American Antique Tugboats

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Brass

Antique Engine Order Telegraph from a Yacht
Engine Order Telegraph from a Yacht
$5,495
H 40 in W 13 in D 13 in
Large Oil on Canvas Painting Artwork by Pierre Peltier Vintage Antique City
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
cityscape. The painting depicts a tugboat in trouble on the Seine at Pont Neuf. Titled 'La Seine au Pont
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1920s Antique Tugboats

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Canvas

Large Oil on Canvas Painting Artwork by Pierre Peltier Vintage Antique City
Large Oil on Canvas Painting Artwork by Pierre Peltier Vintage Antique City
$1,919 Sale Price
30% Off
H 26.78 in W 30.71 in D 1.58 in
Three Gilt-Wood Framed Etchings by Olle Hjortzberg (1872-1959)
Located in Tarry Town, NY
captures the essence of a church, monument, and dockside scene with a barge and tugboat, reflecting
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Early 20th Century Swedish Antique Tugboats

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Wood, Paper

The Fighting Temeraire: A Framed 19th C. Engraving After J. M. W. Turner
By J.M.W. Turner
Located in Alamo, CA
journey, being towed by a less magnificent, but modern steam powered tugboat. The Turner painting was
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Tugboats

Materials

Engraving

Recent Sales

Original Antique Travel Poster Cunard Europe America Aquitania Rosenvinge Cruise
By Odin Rosenvinge
Located in London, GB
) sailing towards the viewer on a calm sea being led in a harbour by a tugboat in the foreground, the title
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1910s Antique Tugboats

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Paper

Watercolor Harbor Scene, By William Paskell (1865 - 1951)
By William F. Paskell
Located in Hadley, MA
. Vibrant colored scene, showing several sailing ships, dory, tugboat, wharves and sheds, amid an overcast
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Early 20th Century Antique Tugboats

Tramp Art Nautical Diorama
By F. Carlson
Located in West Palm beach, FL
dimensional miniature of a nautical nature. Large three masted clipper ship a sail with tugboat and
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Early 20th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Tugboats

Tramp Art Nautical Diorama
Tramp Art Nautical Diorama
H 27 in W 40 in D 9 in
Mallory Line Steamer San Jacinto
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
and large, tugboats to racing sloops. In the mid-1880s, he did some forward-quarter views of yachts
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

American Line Steamship St. Paul
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
and large, tugboats to racing sloops. In the mid-1880s, he did some forward-quarter views of yachts
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

Transitional Steamer Alvo
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
and large, tugboats to racing sloops. In the mid-1880s, he did some forward-quarter views of yachts
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

Plant Line Steamship Evangeline
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
and large, tugboats to racing sloops. In the mid-1880s, he did some forward-quarter views of yachts
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

Sloman Union Line Transitional Steamer Bellagio
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
and large, tugboats to racing sloops. In the mid-1880s, he did some forward-quarter views of yachts
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

Transitional Steamship Anapa
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
vessel: small and large, tugboats to racing sloops. In the mid-1880s, he did some forward-quarter views
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

Plant Line S.S. Evangeline, Halifax/London/Glasgow, 1912- 1921
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
. Over the years he painted every type of vessel: small and large, from Steamers and Tugboats, to Pilot
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Early 20th Century Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

Nautical Scene of Tugboat
Located in Charleston, SC
Nautical scene of tugboat.
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Late 19th Century North American Antique Tugboats

Nautical Scene of Tugboat
Nautical Scene of Tugboat
H 30 in W 42 in D 2 in
Steamship and Tugboats In New York Harbour
By Charles Edward Dixon 1
Located in Brecon, Powys
Steamship and Tugboats in New York Harbour. Brooklyn Bridge in the background. Signed in plate and
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Etching

Early 20th Century Scratch-Built Clockwork Tugboat
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century scratch-built clockwork tugboat We are proud to offer a unique example of a
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1920s British Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Pine

Sailor's Small Woolwork of a Paddle-Powered Tugboat
Located in Downingtown, PA
Miniature sailor's woolwork of a paddle steam tugboat, circa 1875-1880. The miniature sailor's
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1870s English Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Wool

1925 Tugboat New York City Skyline EAST RIVER Chrysler Building
Located in New York, NY
, the east river, a tugboat and the Chrysler building. Created in 1925 by the American impressionist
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Tugboats

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Oil, Wood Panel

Adolphus Knell (fl.1860-1890) - Late 19th Century Watercolour, Brig and Tugboat
By Adolphus Knell
Located in Corsham, GB
A watercolour painting en grisaille depicting a brig and tugboat on choppy waters off the coastline
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19th Century Antique Tugboats

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Watercolor

Signed W.H. Austen Bolam, 'Ocean Liner in NY Harbor.' Oil on Canvas, circa 1918
Located in Kingston, NY
dated lower right. A large ocean liner surrounded by tugboats flying American flags, with the statue of
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Early 20th Century American Antique Tugboats

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Canvas

English Scratch Built Nautical Folk Art Diorama Display
Located in London, GB
Folk Art diorama. Displaying a nautical theme of a handcrafted wooden tugboat pulling along a ship with
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1920s British Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Glass, Plaster, Wood

Original Vintage Poster Lamport & Holt Line South America New York Cruise Travel
By Samuel John Milton Brown
Located in London, GB
moored at sea with a tugboat and sailing boats on the calm water around the cruise liner and Sugarloaf
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1920s British Antique Tugboats

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Paper

Original Antique Cunard Europe America Cruise Poster Featuring RMS Aquitania
By Odin Rosenvinge
Located in London, GB
(1914-1950) sailing towards the viewer on a calm sea being pulled by a tugboat in the foreground, the
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1910s British Antique Tugboats

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Paper

"Freighter with Nautical Flags, " Exceptional, Large Art Deco Vase by Lallemant
By Robert Lallemant
Located in Philadelphia, PA
freighter in a French harbor, with swags of nautical flags overhead and tugboats in the foreground. The
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1920s French Art Deco Antique Tugboats

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Ceramic

Presidential Presentation Pocket Watch by Waltham
By Waltham
Located in New Orleans, LA
United States Woodrow Wilson to Henry William Webster, the Captain of the British tugboat Champion, in
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Early 20th Century American Aesthetic Movement Antique Tugboats

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14k Gold

Stormy Day at Sea Tugboat Heading for Home
Located in Buffalo, NY
Lovely antique seascape oil painting of a tugboat as it heads toward shore on a stormy day
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1890s Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil, Board

Alexandre Marcette Tugboats In Dordrecht, Netherlands, Oil Painting
By Alexandre Marcette
Located in Cheltenham, GB
coastal view in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Through a smoky haze of dense clouds, the moon shimmers. Tugboats
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19th Century Impressionist Antique Tugboats

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Oil, Paper, Board

Paris: Le Pont des Arts avec Remorqueurs (Le Pont des Arts with Tugboats)
By Paul Signac
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Paris: Le Pont des Arts avec Remorqueurs' ('Le Pont des Arts with Tugboats'), etching with
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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Tugboats

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Etching, Aquatint

Folk Art Nautical Shadowbox, circa 1900
Located in Nantucket, MA
variety of handcrafted ships including a large brig with attending tugboat, a Barkentine, a bark and a
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Early 1900s English Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Wood

Folk Art Nautical Shadowbox, circa 1900
Folk Art Nautical Shadowbox, circa 1900
H 19 in W 27 in D 11.38 in
1920's Napa Autumnal Landscape -- Cottage in the Country
Located in Soquel, CA
the founder of the San Francisco Tugboat Service and a real estate salesman who painted as a hobby
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Tugboats

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Oil, Board, Wood Panel

Naval Diorama of the Trieste Steamship Launched in 1908
Located in Milan, IT
", reached by the coast by some tugboats, managed to enter the port of Bombay, where it was greeted by great
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1910s Italian Antique Tugboats

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Glass, Wood

Peel harbour and castle, Isle of Man
By Hubert Coop
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
its masts. Behind it is a steam paddle tugboat with smoke pouring from its funnel, possibly having
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Early 20th Century Antique Tugboats

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Watercolor

Leda and the Swan, an early 20th Century Aesthetic Movement Allegorical Painting
By Fernand Allard L'Olivier
Located in Cotignac, FR
tugboat, when it made an overnight stop. At one point, while he was chatting with some people, he excused
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Early 20th Century Aesthetic Movement Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Oil

American 19th Century Ship Diorama of a Barkentine and Tugboat Wood and Plaster
Located in Wells, ME
American 19th century ship diorama of a barkentine and tugboat. The ships are all painted wood and
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19th Century American Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Walnut

Oil Painting on Canvas of Tug Boat on Thames, London
Located in Salisbury, GB
An oil painting on canvas of a tugboat with lighters on the Thames, London in the background
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Late 19th Century Antique Tugboats

ENGLISH TIN LITHOGRAPH OF LINER BERENGARIA Signed 'A. Bishop'
Located in San Francisco, CA
with long, sleek black hull being escorted by a tugboat into the New York harbor with the Statue of
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Early 20th Century English Antique Tugboats

ENGLISH TIN LITHOGRAPH SIGN OF THE CUNARD LINER BERENGARIA
Located in San Francisco, CA
ship with long, sleek black hull being escorted by a tugboat into the New York harbor with the Statue
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Early 20th Century English Antique Tugboats

Original Antique Cunard Europe America Cruise Poster Featuring RMS Aquitania
By Odin Rosenvinge
Located in London, GB
(1914-1950) sailing towards the viewer on a calm sea being pulled by a tugboat in the foreground, the
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1910s Antique Tugboats

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Lamport & Holt Line South America New York Cruise Travel
By Samuel John Milton Brown
Located in London, GB
moored at sea with a tugboat and sailing boats on the calm water around the cruise liner and Sugarloaf
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1920s Antique Tugboats

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Paper

Steamship and Tugboats in New York Harbour, Signed Etching by Charles Dixon 1892
By Charles Dixon
Located in Boughrood, Powys
Steamship and tugboats in New York Harbour. Brooklyn bridge in the background. Signed in plate and
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1890s American Victorian Antique Tugboats

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Paper

Original 1928 NYK Shipping Poster of the Asama Maru by Harry Hudson Rodmell
By Harry Hudson Rodmell
Located in Los Gatos, CA
harbor and its tugboat guide. It is an excellent example of shipping poster art.
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1920s English Antique Tugboats

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Paper

Transitional Steamer Iroqouis
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in Stonington, CT
vessel: small and large, from Steamers and Tugboats, to Pilot boats and Yachts. Nearly every ship that
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Late 19th Century American Realist Antique Tugboats

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Oil

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Sunset in Deauville France oil on canvas painting seascape
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) - Sunset in Deauville - Oil on canvas Oil measures 60x73 cm. Frame measures 73x86 cm. Son of cartoonist Juan Grau Miró, he was born in Barcelona in 1911...
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1970s Fauvist Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Oil

Shipping in Calm Waters, 18th Century Dutch Oil on Wood Panel, Man o War
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shipping in Calm Waters Dutch School, 18th century oil painting on wood panel panel: 10 x 12.75 inches framed: 14 x 17 inches condition: very good, minor evidence of former retouchin...
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18th Century Old Masters Antique Tugboats

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Oil, Wood Panel

Tall Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Period Walnut Buffet or Sideboard
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This Louis Philippe period buffet from the nineteenth century is known as a buffet d'appui in French which translates "buffet to lean on," due to its unusually tall height of 45 inch...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Tugboats

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Walnut

"American Cup Race 1885"
By Frederick Tordoff
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on board painting by Frederick Tordoff. Signed lower right and titled verso. Overall size in gold and black nautical style frame 25 by 35 inches. Condition: good; no ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Antique Tugboats

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Oil, Board

"American Cup Race 1885"
"American Cup Race 1885"
$2,240 Sale Price
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H 20 in W 30 in D 1.5 in
Circa 1890 Hardware Store Wood Trade Sign Carved Smaltz Black and Gold Paint
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Exceptional late 19th century hand carved letters with black and Gold paint and black smaltz background. Excellent typography. Great wall art. Simple and bold.
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Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Wood

French Inspired Upholstered Linen Bergère Chairs
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
French inspired upholstered linen bergère chairs These French inspired chair are based on an original Napoleon III style pair of chairs. Napoleon III was the nephew of the Napoleon t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Antique Tugboats

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Linen

French Inspired Upholstered Linen Bergère Chairs
French Inspired Upholstered Linen Bergère Chairs
$3,600 / item
H 37 in W 32 in D 34 in
19th Century American Seascape of Commercial Ship
Located in Buchanan, MI
Handsome 19th century American seascape of commercial ship in giltwood frame, oil on canvas, signed lower left, Alvaro Acores (1868-1950.).
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19th Century American Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Wood

Waves, Seascape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
By Karen Darbinyan
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Waves Size: 12" x 17" x 0.8'' inch, ...
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2010s Academic Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Oil

Large Antique Cubist Impressionist Flower Still Life Signed Oil Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1930s Modern Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Oil

American American Painted Cast Iron "Old Salt" Maine Fisherman Doorstop
By Hubley Manufacturing Company 2
Located in Downingtown, PA
American Painted Cast Iron "Old Salt" Maine Fisherman Doorstop or Bookend, Hubley Manufacturing Company, The 1920s. The two larger figures depict an old salt fisherman standing ...
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Iron

Early 19th C Irish Provincial School Naval Officer Lieutenant Henry Anderson
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An early 19th century British/Irish provincial school oil on canvas painting Three Quarter Length Portrait of a Naval Officer, possibly Lieutenant Henry Anderson, housed within a gi...
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Early 19th Century European Antique Tugboats

Materials

Canvas

18th or Early 19th Century New England Pine Grain Bin
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th or Early 19th Century New England Pine Grain Bin in original red stain, having a rectangular lid held by long strap hinges, above five board case with interior divided into thre...
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1790s American Country Antique Tugboats

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Pine

Folk Art Encampment Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 19th Century Folk art encampment painting w/miners & farmers Oil on canvas No visible signature Canvas: 20" W x 14" H Frame: 23.5" W x 17.5" H
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19th Century Folk Art Antique Tugboats

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Canvas, Oil

Folk Art Encampment Painting
Folk Art Encampment Painting
$650
H 17.5 in W 23.5 in D 2.5 in
New York City Street Scene at Night
By Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born in Providence, Rhode Island, a...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Antique Tugboats

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Small Steel Blue Happy Pendant Light, Hand Blown Glass, Made to Order
Located in Aliso Viejo, CA
Small amber happy pendant light, hand blown glass by Siemon & Salazar, canopy included Glass measures 4.5”T x 4.5”W These works play with the reflective and malleable qualities of g...
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2010s Antique Tugboats

Materials

Nickel

Japanese Old Small Wooden Drawer / 1912-1950 / Accessory Case/ Taisho-Showa
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
It is a small drawer from the Taisho era to the early Showa period (1912-1950) in Japan. The outer material is made of chestnut. The inside is cedar wood. It's very cute. Also,...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Antique Tugboats

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Chestnut

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