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Nantucket Opera House Menu, circa 1960s to 1970s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Rare Vintage Menu from the Opera House Restaurant on Nantucket, circa 1960s. The beloved and fondly missed Opera House was the iconic restaurant owned and operated by Gwen Gaillard o...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Other Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
19th Century National Whaling Bank Check
Located in Nantucket, MA
Rare 19th Century Bank Check Drawn on the "National Whaling Bank" of New London, Connecticut, written on 23 December and deposited and cancelled on 5 January 1872. The check is adorn...
Category
Antique 1870s American Victorian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Late 18th Century Nantucket Brant Point Lighthouse Ledger Page
Located in Nantucket, MA
Extremely Rare an Important Late 18th Century Nantucket Lighthouse Ledger Page documenting Subscriptions and Donations to rebuild the Brant Point Lighthouse on Nantucket. Brant Point...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century American American Colonial Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Nantucket Steamship Luggage Tag, circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Nantucket Steamship Luggage Tag, circa 1920s, heavy stock paper or card in faded red with the printed inscription "NANTUCKET." This is the last of a stash found in an attic on Nantucket.
The tag is in excellent condition, with the color delightfully faded to what is popularly known today as "Nantucket Red...
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Uncut Sheet of Nautical Decorated Commercial Banknotes, Circa 1850s - 1860s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Uncut Sheet of Nautical Decorated Commercial Banknotes, Circa 1850s - 1860s, a polychromed printed sheet of obsolete commercial banknotes issued by the Stonington Bank of Stonington, Connecticut, in Five and Ten Dollar denominations.
The Five Dollar notes feature a central allegorical image of a Neoclassical seated woman holding a Liberty Pole and scales, by a cornucopia, resting her foot on a globe: symbols of Liberty, Justice, Plenty, and Navigation - taken together she represents Lady Liberty or perhaps a version of Lady Columbia...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Federal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
American 45 Star Flag, circa 1896
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique American 45 Star Flag, circa 1896, marking the admission of Utah into the Union as the 45th state in 1896. This was an official flag of the United States for only twelve yea...
Category
Antique 1890s American Federal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Muslin
19th Century Windsor High Chair
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Windsor style child's high chair. Surface with various old paints in blues and greens. Great as a plant stand.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century North American Children's Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
19th Century Faux Bamboo Child's Chair
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century faux bamboo child's armchair with plank seat. Original finish and great size.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Children's Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Vintage Map of Nantucket Town by Ruth Haviland Sutton, 1946
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage Map of Nantucket Town by Ruth Haviland Sutton, 1946, a classic vintage tourist map of Nantucket Island showing historic landmarks and geogr...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Other Maps
Materials
Paper
American 44 Star Flag, circa 1891
Located in Nantucket, MA
Rare Antique American 44 Star Flag, circa 1891, marking admission of Wyoming as a state in 1891. This was an official flag of the United States for only five years, making it one of ...
Category
Antique 1890s American Federal Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Muslin
19th Century Hand Carved Ship's Carved and Gilded Trailboard
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Hand Carved Ship's Carved and Gilded Trailboard, Second Half 19th Century, a carved and shaped plaque that is upswept and narrowing towards th...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
19th Century Carved and Painted Ship's Billethead
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Carved and Painted Ship's Billethead, second half 19th Century, a scroll carved and painted wooden ornament from the bow of a ship.
A billethead was a smaller carving used in place of a figurehead, mounted under the bowsprit of a ship. As the 19th Century progressed and the age of clipper ships saw a move towards ever more extreme clipper bows, there was a need to eliminate unnecessary weight aboard ship, especially in the bow (to avoid burying the nose into every wave), so billet heads...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Federal Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
18th Century Child's Thumb Back Windsor High Chair
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th Century Child's Thumb Back Windsor High Chair, circa 1780, an American Colonial Period Country Thumback Windsor High Chair with flattened finia...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century American American Colonial Children's Furniture
Materials
Wood
American Darting Gun Toggle Iron Harpoon, Marked Macy, for Bark Sunbeam
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique American Darting Gun Toggle Iron Harpoon, made by E.B. and F. Macy, New Bedford, for the Larboard Boat on the Whaling Bark Sunbeam (1856 - 1908), having an improved toggle head with acute barb (standing nearly at a right angle), and an unusual ridged cheek, with the maker's mark MACY stamped on the right cheek (the mark of E.B. & F. Macy, blacksmiths of New Bedford: 1861-1904), the ship stamp BK SB on the left cheek (for the Bark Sunbeam, and the dot punched boat mark L B (for the Larboard, or Second, or Port-side Stern whale boat); mounted on a round shank slightly kinked from use, ending in the spike end necessary for use with a darting gun, and the loop for splicing on the iron strap. An amazing artifact retaining a tremendous amount of historical documentation.
The harpoon remain in very good condition with a still very sharp cutting edge and deep brown patina and no corrosion. The head is frozen, but in the absence of rust it would very likely free up with a little lubrication if so desired. The tip of the front barb has a small chip off tip. The slight kink to the shank comes from use and is considered by most to be a a good feature.
The Bark SUNBEAM was built in Mattapoisett in 1856 and enjoyed a long career in the New Bedford whale fishery of 17 voyages to the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Clifford Ashley...
Category
Antique 1860s American Other Nautical Objects
Materials
Steel
Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner, Ca 1910
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Hand Colored Photograph of Nantucket Street Scene by Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942), circa 1910, a period hand tinted photograph entitled "Nantucket Shearing Cart and Quakers" showing classic grey shingled houses on a cobblestone paved street, with a couple in horse drawn cart riding away from the viewer, and four women on doorstep and sidewalk, all dressed in period Quaker attire. It is interesting to note that the couple in cart are seated on antique Nantucket Bow Back Windsor chairs. The photograph was titled and hand signed in pencil across the bottom of the old acid foxed mat; the photograph is now mounted in new archival acid free matting, and a photocopy of the original pencil inscription has been preserved on the reverse. The photograph itself remains in excellent condition.
H. Marshall Gardiner (1884-1942) was born on September 18, 1884 in Windsor, Ontario, and immigrated to the United States circa 1890, where his father W.H. Gardiner opened two photographic studios, one in Detroit during the winter months and a second at Mackinac Island during the more tourist-oriented summer months. Recognizing the potential of Florida's rapidly growing tourist trade, around 1894-95 he moved with his family from Detroit to Daytona, Florida which proved much more accommodating to the family's photographic business during the colder winter months.
Marshall learned many of his photographic techniques from his father prior to going out on his own at a relatively early age. Whereas his father generally used wet collodian negatives, technology had advanced to where he was able to use gelatin dry plates in his earlier years, and later the less expensive and much more convenient roll film. Another very important lesson learned from his father was strategy of setting up shop in a tourist resort. Early in his career he traveled to Bermuda where he shot a series of beautiful Bermuda scenes that he hand-colored and successfully sold over a number of years to the local tourist trade.
Around 1910, at the age of around 24, he first traveled to the island of Nantucket. The year-round population of Nantucket was then just over 2500, not nearly enough to sustain a photographic business for the entire year, so he opened a joint Photography and Art Supplies Store. Working as Nantucket's exclusive agent for Eastman Kodak, his business expanded to include the island's only photo-finishing service. However, with such a small year-round population, even the addition of a Gift Shop to compliment the hand-painted photographs, general portrait...
Category
Early 20th Century American Other Photography
Materials
Paper
Early 19th Century Needlework "Show Towel" Dated 1836
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely early 19th century "show towel" likely from Pennsylvania. Show towels were special towels with decorative accents stitched into the fabric - often di...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Decorative Art
Materials
Cotton, Linen
Early 20th Century Hooked Rug of Dove and Cherry Branch, Mounted for Hanging
Located in Nantucket, MA
Turn of the century/early 20th century hooked rug, mounted for wall hanging on black linen and foam core stretcher. With evergreen ground and white and variegated striped border. Cen...
Category
Early 20th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Wool
19th Century Hooked Rug with Greek Key and Flowers, Dated 1891, Mounted
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely 19th century hooked rug with black braided border surrounding rug with vibrant red and teal highlighted Greek key border. Inset blue striped border around central floral medal...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
19th Century American Geometric Pattern Mounted Hooked Rug
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vibrant antique hooked rug composed of numerous hexagons of various colors, all surrounded by black borders. Professionally backed with burlap and ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
Seascape with Clippership by George Howell Gay (American: 1858 - 1931), ca 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
Seascape with Clippership by George Howell Gay (American: 1858 - 1931), circa 1890, an oil on canvas bow view of a clippership under full sail, running with stun'sls and skysails set, on lively sea under blue cloudy sky, with a second square-rigger visible in the background, signed in the lower right, and titled on the reverse "Clipper Ship Before the Wind." A beautiful and dramatic painting with a cool, brisk feel.
The painting is in fine condition, with one small patch along the upper margin and a tiny spot of corresponding inpainting.
Measures:24 in H x 20 in W
Framed: 29 in H x 25 in W
George Howell Gay was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and educated in Chicago under Paul Brown and Henry Elkins, and in 1889 moved to Bronxville, New York. He worked in all media, but was especially fond of watercolor, which allowed him to capture the transparency of the ocean and the luminous qualities of sunlight and clouds. Gay worked along the Northeastern coast from Rhode Island to Maine, but also painted summer and winter landscapes throughout New England.
Gay’s seascapes were exhibited at the Boston Art...
Category
Antique 1890s American Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century China Trade Seascape with a Junk, Signed, circa 1870
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century China Trade Seascape with a Junk, by Lee Heng, circa 1870, an oil on board seascape with large Chinese Junk under full sail in the fo...
Category
Antique 1870s Chinese Chinese Export Paintings
Materials
Other
Late 19th Century Sailor's Knot Board
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Sailor's Folk Art Knot Board, circa 1880s, an intricate and elaborate array of approximately 41 bends, hitches, knots, splices, rigging and other fa...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Rope, Oak
Standing Red Painted Cranberry Scoop by A.D. Makepeace Co., Wareham, MA
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early 20th century Cape Cod cranberry scoop from Wareham, Massachusetts. In original red paint and tin-lined underside. With later added iron "feet" to...
Category
Early 20th Century North American Magazine Racks and Stands
Materials
Tin
19th C. English Brass Bound Camphor Wood Campaign Trunk
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lovely 19th century Campaign Trunk, camphor wood construction with nice, mellow patina, bound in brass, with brass lock escutcheon embossed...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Campaign Blanket Chests
Materials
Brass
Primitive 19th Century Rocking Cradle
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century rocking cradle in original red paint, with shaped detail at head and foot, on carved rockers. Old age crack along one side.
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Children's Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century Pollard Oak Floor Screen
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century Oak floor screen with insert Pollard Oak panels. In four sections with brass hinges.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Oak, Burl
Pair of Late 19th Century Swedish Gustavian Style Nightstands
Located in Nantucket, MA
Pair of late 19th century Swedish Gustavian style nightstands. Each with faux-marbled top, light grey paint (unfinished on reverse), and diamond motif on door face. Interior to revea...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Swedish Night Stands
Materials
Wood, Paint
Seascape with Portrait of a Schooner-Rigged Yacht, Signed and Dated 1937
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early Vintage Seascape with Portrait of a Schooner-Rigged Yacht, signed and dated Carl Schroeder, 1937, an un-tutored oil on canvas seascape painting with a port side view of a large schooner rigged racing yacht with all canvas aloft including topsails and staysails, smartly uniformed crew, captain and first mate visible on deck, a lookout posted on the foremast crosstrees, a burgee, pennant and flag flying on the fore and main peaks, with a one design class designation A-1 on the mainsail; a low-lying spit of land with red and white cottages is visible near in background beyond the bowsprit; signed and dated Carl Schroeder, 1937 in the lower right.
The painting is in near excellent condition, with only a stretcher line visible down the left side and one small pin hole on the right side. The painting is mounted in a contemporary carved an gilded frame.
The artist has not been identified, but the style and subject is consistent with either the American or Danish schools. The 1930s was a golden age decade for the J-Boats and other great ocean racing yachts. The A class designation suggests very large...
Category
Vintage 1930s Danish Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
1940's Swiss Army Shovel with Sheath
Located in Nantucket, MA
A military grade forged metal shovel with a protective leather cover used by the Swiss Army mountaineers during World War II.
Category
Vintage 1940s Swiss Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
19th Century Primitive Pine Farrier's Tray
Located in Nantucket, MA
Wonderful Canadian pine Farrier's Tray dating back to the 19th century, with light brown patina. Used originally for carrying tools for shoeing and modifying hooves for Canadian hors...
Category
Antique 1870s Canadian Primitive Magazine Racks and Stands
Materials
Paint, Pine
Engraved Brass and Copper Snuff Box, English, Circa 1850
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century English brass snuff box with copper top and bottom, remnants of old decoration throughout, circa 1850.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Brass, Copper
19th Century China Trade Pair of Portraits of Sea Captain and Wife
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century China Trade Pair of Portraits of Sea Captain and Wife, circa 1850s, matched pair of Chinese Export oil on canvas full length portraits of a Sea Captain and his wife, painted on commission in Hong Kong or a related China Trade port. The captain wears a double breasted wool greatcoat over a high collar white shirt with bow tie, black waistcoat...
Category
Antique 1850s Hong Kong Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Seascape with a Brig in High Seas
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Seascape with a Brig in High Seas, signed illegibly and dated 1857, an oil on canvas painting featuring a Brig laboring in heavy sea...
Category
Antique 1850s Unknown Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Grand Banks Dory Fishermen Seascape by Joseph Woods, circa 1910
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique grand banks dory fishermen seascape by Joseph A. Woods, circa 1910, an impressionist oil on panel seascape with two fishermen in dory in the foreground hauling back on their ...
Category
Vintage 1910s American Other Paintings
Materials
Wood
19th Century Mayhew Family Tree from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard from 1855
Located in Nantucket, MA
Very rare 19th century Mayhew Family tree from Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, lithograph on paper laid on linen, printed in 1855, in form of liter...
Category
Antique 1850s American Other Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper, Linen
19th Century French Siege of Arras Floor Screen
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Louis XIV Siege of Arras floor screen, 19th century, a four panel screen with paper lithograph laid down on wooden panels, depicting the schematic pla...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XIV Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paper
Large 19th Century Presentation Half Hull Model of a Whale Ship
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Presentation Half Hull Model of a Whale Ship, circa 1850, a large plank on frame model of a bluff-bowed and wide abeam whale ship. The model wa...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Pine
U.S. Navy Steel and Brass Quadrant, First Half of the 20th Century
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique steel and brass quadrant, first half of the 20th century, made in London for the U.S. Navy, in very good condition with lenses, shades and scale. The essential mariner's navi...
Category
Early 20th Century English Other Nautical Objects
Materials
Brass, Steel
Original Program for Nantucket Stage Production Dracula, Signed by Edward Gorey
Located in Nantucket, MA
Original program for the Nantucket Stage Company Production of "Dracula", signed by Edward Gorey, 1973. The Nantucket Stage Company (which became the Stra...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Historic Revolutionary War Period Bed Warming Pan
Located in Nantucket, MA
An important and historic revolutionary war period bed warming pan, belonging to Lieutenant James Porter, Jr., circa 1770s-1780s. A hand chased brass w...
Category
Antique 1770s American American Colonial Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Brass
Mid-19th Century Child’s Grain Painted Miniature Chest of Drawers
Located in Nantucket, MA
Mid-19th century Benchmade child’s grain painted Miniature chest of drawers. A country piece in the American Empire style, with a step-back drawer and backsplash, above the case with...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century North American Folk Art Children's Furniture
Materials
Wood
Iron Stand with Boot Scraper
Located in Nantucket, MA
Iron Stand with Boot Scraper
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Coat Racks and Stands
Materials
Iron
19th Century Child’s Mahogany Bagatelle Table, circa 1840
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century child’s mahogany Bagatelle table, circa 1840, mounted on a period custom base. The shallow rectangular mahogany case is hinged to open as ...
Category
Antique 1840s English Regency Games
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Spinning Wheel
Located in Nantucket, MA
Beautiful 19th Century spinning wheel. Fabulous patina.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wood
Black Painted Firkin with Lid
Located in Nantucket, MA
Black painted firkin with lid, decorated in leaf and vine motif.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wood
Large Copper Pot
Located in Nantucket, MA
Large copper pot with evidence of use.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century North American More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Copper
Large Fishing Creel
Located in Nantucket, MA
Large wicker fishing creel with buttock shape. Strap of leather and cotton.
Category
Early 20th Century North American More Furniture and Collectibles
Chess Board
Located in Nantucket, MA
English inlaid traveling chess board.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Games
Materials
Wood
American Cranberry Scoop
By A.D. Makepeace Company
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique American cranberry scoop on stand with label of manufacturer.
Category
Antique 19th Century American More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Metal
Antique American Pond Model
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique American Marconi-rigged sloop Pond model with planked deck, double spreaders and full running rigging.
Category
Early 20th Century American Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Lunch Bucket with Pinwheel
Located in Nantucket, MA
Beautiful lunch bucket with carved pinwheel detail
Category
Antique 19th Century American More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Iron
Wooden blacksmiths tray
Located in Nantucket, MA
Canadian Pine blacksmith's tray with iron bar support.
Category
Antique 19th Century Canadian Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Iron
Framed Embroidered Armorial Coat of Arms
Located in Nantucket, MA
Armorial Coat for the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry, or knighthood, existing in England, founded in 1348. Honi soit qui mal y pense...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Decorative Art
Materials
Silk
Turn of the 20th Century Edwardian Mahogany Walking Stick and Umbrella Stand
Located in Nantucket, MA
Crafted by James Shoolbred and Company, London, with original brass insignia on reverse, this three bay stick stand with tray is crafted from Mahogany with turned and incised element...
Category
Early 20th Century English Umbrella Stands
Materials
Tin
