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Late 19th Century Sailor's Woolwork with Ship and Array of Flags

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  • 19th Century Sailor's Woolwork of Frigate with Signal Flags
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    19th Century Sailor's woolwork of a British Frigate at Anchor, circa 1880, adorned with an array of British ensigns and a full rig of signal flags strung along the stays. The hull has the unusual touch of having glass beads mounted in each gunport, and a metaliic gilt thread highlighting the strakes above and below the two rows of gunports, and on the sterncastle. Mercantile silk threads were used for the flag halyards. The ship is moored off a lighthouse at the foot of a large green haystack headland. The woolwork is mounted in its original Victorian carved, ebonized and parcel gilt oak frame...
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    Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects

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    Wool

  • 19th Century Matched Pair of Sailor's Yachting Woolies
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    Very unusual 19th century matched pair of sailor's Yachting Woolies, circa 1870, a true pair of woolworks featuring mirror images of the same Yawl rigged yacht, and period photograph...
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    Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects

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  • 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...
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    Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Nautical Objects

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  • 19th Century Sailor's Woolie of the Ship-Sloop "Coquette"
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    19th Century Sailor's Woolie of the Ship-Sloop "Coquette," circa 1880, a handcrafted sailor's woolwork picture depicting a larboard side view of a steam-sailor at anchor, fully dress...
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    Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects

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  • 19th Century Sailor's Woolie with an Auxiliary Ship and Schooner, circa 1880
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    19th Century Sailor's Folk Art Woolie with an Auxiliary Ship and Schooner, circa 1880, a sailor's folk art hand stitched wool yarn picture of a British Ship-Rigged Steam Sailor with ...
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    Antique 1880s English Folk Art Nautical Objects

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    Wool

  • 19th Century Sailor's Woolie with Trapunto Sails
    Located in Nantucket, MA
    19th Century Sailor's Woolie, circa 1860, a sailor's folk art woolwork picture of a British frigate with white trapunto sails, the ensign of the White Fleet at the stern, and the fle...
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    Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects

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