Sold for:
$1,541
$1,541
Three Objects of Maritime History, including a walnut and brass bound ship's wheel with brass hub marked No. 977 , max. dia. 31 in., an oval engraved brass builder's plate inscribed S. S. Exiria, American Export Lines, Inc., Built by Bath Iron Works Corp. Bath, Maine, 1942 , lg. 19 1/4 in., and a framed Pictorial History of Seafaring and Meteorlogical Chart of the Sea by Edward Turpin, dated 1935 with the penned in remarks of Samuel Jonson, No man will be a sailor who has contrivances enough to get himself into jail, for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned .
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-11-20
