Polychrome Paint Decorated Swordfish Bill

Nest of three Nantucket lightship baskets, the swing handles, staves and the ears ( which attach the handle to the basket) are all carved from oak. The bottoms are made from pine and each are stenciled with the maker's mark, "R Folger Maker Nantucket Mass." Rowland Folger (1803-1883) is considered one of Nantucket's first makers of lightship baskets. His baskets are very durable and were definitely used as utilitarian.These three baskets were discovered in an attic, where they were living for the last 90 years...

Oval Nantucket lightship basket with shaped oak swing handle ending in carved round “lollipop” ends and brass ears. Remnants of the original paper label remains on the bottom. Made...

Paint decorated ochre and brown double-sided game board, one side with Canadian checkers, the other with Parcheesi, Canada, circa 1890. Measures: 25 1...

Double sided painted game board with a red, black, yellow and green checkerboard on one side and a “X” painted game board on the reverse side, American, circa 1900. Measures: 16” ...

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 ...

19th century silk embroidered and hand painted oil on canvas seascape by Thomas Willis (1850 - 1925), depicting the schooner-rigged racing yacht MARION W...

A painted wood relief model of a three-mast ship 20th century With a plaque reading Oriol 1884, in a shadowbox frame. Measures: 26 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (fra...

A rare relief carved and painted sailing ship on heavy board depicting a three-masted 26 gun third-class US naval frigate under partially reefed sail nearing a point of land with a l...