Late 19th Century Nautical Objects

A French Hand Painted International Code of Semaphore Signals This wonderful piece shows the signal flags for the alphabet and numbers Beautifully done with a few seagulls and se...

19th Century Folk-art Ship Diorama A highly decorative piece of English nautical folk art, in the form of a carved wooden ship displayed in a bespoke ...

Magnetic nautical compass, signed Henry Browne & Son Ltd Barking & London Trade Sestrel Mark, Barking & London, second half of the 19th century . Contained in its originale wooden box. Very good condition. Diameter compass inche 5.35, Measure box inches 7.8x 7.5 h 6.4. The compass consists of a cylindrical brass container, called mortar, on whose bottom it is fixed a stem of hard metal, called sensitive element, on which the appropriately fixed compass card is placed, so that the zero coincides with the magnetic polarity. To reduce friction to a minimum, the mortar was filled with liquid with a low freezing point, which also had the purpose of rapidly damping any oscillations of the compass and closed at the top by a sturdy protective glass. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London; our gift box is free (look at the last picture). Sestrel is a trade mark of Henry Browne & son, an important English firm maker quality compasses, inclinometers, sextants, etc. established in the second half of XIX century. The brand ‘Sestrel’ was an amalgam of the qualities their instruments embody is in fact a name synonymous with quality and accuracy; this is evidenced by the sheer number of vintage and antique instruments still in use today. The first hints in Europe on the use of instruments using magnetic fields for orientation are dated back to the late twelfth century, especially thanks to the knowledge brought by merchants and sailors after contacts with the Arabs: we find hints in the work by Alexander Neckam "De nominibus utensilium" and in the works by Guyot de Provins, where the magnet is called "sailor's friend". Even the inventory of a Sicilian ship of 1200's, the San Nicolò, refers to the presence on board of a magnet and a "bussola di ligno", that is a wooden compass...

Mid 19th century brass English sextant signed Marshall London, instrument complete with three telescopes, one of which is long, and a filter and it is in its original mahogany box wi...

Brass sextant signed Georg Hechelmann Nachf Hamburg from the late 19th century, original wooden box with locking hooks, handles, brass hinges and key set. Flap and vernier in silver, wooden handle, 3 colored glasses for the fixed mirror and 4 for the mobile one, three telescopes, a microscope for reading the vernier, graduated from 0 to 145 °, index and horizon mirror. Conservation status: very good, complete with base for support made of wood and custom-made brass. Box size 30 x 30 H 14 cm - inche 11.7 x 11.75 x 5.5. It is available our free gift box (look at the last picture). The sextant is an ancient astronomical instrument used...

A Fine Two Day Marine Chronometer by Victor Kulberg No. 9270 c,1870 Three tier mahogany box with rectangular brass plaque to both the top and the second tier below a brass ‘push button’ knob opening to a third tier with round brass escutcheon. The movement has full hatched plates, chain fusee with four ringed pillars and ten jewels with Harrison’s maintaining power. Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with split bi-metallic balance and cylindrical shaped temperature compensation weights, polishes steel helical balance spring and faceted endstone. The four and three quarter inch silvered dial signed ‘Victor Kulberg, maker to the Admiralty, The Indian and Italian Governments. 105 Liverpool Road, London. N.’ Numbered 9270 with Roman numerals and subsidiary dials for ‘state of wind’ and seconds. Inside the seconds dial bears the mark denoting military use. The movement is set in a lacquered brass bowl with screw down bezel mounted within a pivoted gimbal with knurled locking screw and original tipsy key. Victor Kulberg was born in Gothland, ( Sweden) in 1824, he then worked for Louis Urban Jurgensen...

19th Century Folk Art drinking barrel Covered in wonderfully naïve hand painted detail, including what resembles two well-dressed French soldiers toasting a drink to one another....

Antique Sailor's Woolwork Embroidery picture of sailing ship in pursuit of and firing on another. The embroidery is worked in wool on canvas ground, blu...

Antique Sailor's Woolwork Embroidery Picture of an American three masted ship. The embroidery is worked in wool on canvas ground, in a variety of stitch...

Stick barometer, oak wood, antique measuring instrument made in UK in the mid-19th century and signed by Negretti & Zambra, with thermometer and nonius reading the atmospheric change...

A turn of the century 18/1900 oil painting of the American vessel USS Lancaster. Painted in China where the captains of these merchant and navy sailing ships ordered paintings from l...

Nautical oak frieze We are proud to offer a 19th century hand carved oak frieze covered in intricate nautical related detail. Depicting 2 dragon creatures at both ends, a mounted gl...