PAINTING OF A FAMILIES DOLLS AND ONE DOLL

Inscribed on reverse" By Alice Turner 1850 - 1860, painting of Alice turners dolls and some of her mothers". "the doll on the far right was sent out to New Zealand along with this painting" Watercolour, image is 37mm0 by 470mm. The dolls date back to 1680 and the one that accompanies this painting is a "Queen Anne" doll Ca 1720. Could do with a period frame.

NEW ZEALAND FERNWARE TABLE

Rare New Zealand Kauri Fernware trpod table ca 1880,
original condition

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"Monika Ruke" ca 1910,

Original large hand tinted photo of Monica Ruke Ca 1910

sold thanks Christchurch

WHALERS SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE WALKING STICK CA 1840

 SCRIMSHAW STICK OF PAN BONE
WITH A TOOTH FROM A SPERM WHALE
CARVED AS A TURKS HEAD AS A KNOP
THIS IS THE BEST SCRIMED STICK I HAVE HAD
PERFECT CRISP CONDITION 32 INCHES LONG
sold thanks Lincoln

UNUSUAL ORPHANGE SAMPLER, HARRIET BARNABY 1860

Unusual sampler by Harriet Barnaby,Royal Freemasons School For Females, 1860.
19 by 16 inches
The Royal Freemasons School was an orphanage for
the daughters of Freemasons in Wandsworth London.
The school admitted up to 65 girls between the ages of
8 and 11 .
The children, daughters of masons of at least three years' standing, entered the school between the ages of 8 and 10. They were taught needlework and domestic subjects and every effort was made "to impress strongly on their minds a due sense of subordination, in true humility and obedience to their superiors." No child who had not had the smallpox or who had any defect or infirmity was admitted. The girls were apprenticed out at the age of 15
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UNIQUE TATTOO FLASH CARDS CA1950

From Emille McSweeny's Tatto Parlour
Manchester Street, Christchurch
Black ink and watercolor,
each measure 12 1/2 inches by 10 inches
I have 24 cards in total
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WHALE EARBONE

Ear bone from a Blue Whale painted to represent a Scottish soldier Ca1900
with 2 Sperm Whale teeth a nd a tooth from a Beaked Whale for more information
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UZBEK LAKAI FELT TENT BAG

Central Asian Felt Tent Bag Second half 20thC UZBEK LAKAI FELT TENT BAG or OK BASH
Felted wool, flatwoven wool (inner), goat hair
Uzbekistan, Central Asia 39 inches long
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ADVANCE AUSTRALIA SILKWORK

Very cute, note the elephant instead of a sheep and the very rat like kangaroo
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SAILORS WOOLWORK OR "WOOLIE"

Unusual subject, from Portsmouth
19 1/2 inches x 26 inches

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SAILORS WOOLWORK OR "WOOLIE"

19th century, the card de visite of the sailor is stamped "Ouless Jersey" 21 inches by 17 inches
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SAILORS WOOLWORK OR "WOOLIE"

19th century 22inches by 22 inches
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SOLD

LARGE CARVED MAORI SERVING TRAY CA 1900

Carved bread tray by John Henry Menzies
1840 -1919
of Menzies Bay Banks Peninsular

Kauri 24 inches x 16 1/2 2nches signed JHM in four places

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NAIVE PAINTINGS OF AKAROA

" Cygnet" and "Ruahine" at Wainui,
44cm x 40cm
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"Regatta Akaroa 1907" 73cm x 42 cm
both painted from postcards by Ray Bisman, Lyttleton

NAIVE PORTRAIT AMERICAN ca 1850

Naive portrait of young girl with basket of flowers, signed "N.W." and titled "Whiteley". Oil on board 20 inches by 16 inches
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RARE WHIMSEY BOTTLE, DATED 1796

Very rare signed and dated whimsey bottle with an intricate crucifixion scene, inscribed "OTTENSEN BEI ALTONA 1796 12 OCKTOBER" 10 inches high by 4 inches wide

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SCRIMSHAW BULLOCK HORN, GUSTAV VON TEMPSKY

Scrimshaw bullock horn by Gustav von Tempsky, Prussian born artist, adventurer and soldier - Gustavus Von Tempsky. Von Tempsky is an iconic figure from the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s and was the leader of a company of Forest Rangers - an elite unit of bush fighters. He was killed during a battle in Taranaki against the Maori leader Titokowaru.
Similar examples are held in the Te Awamutu Museum, Waikato Museum and the Dargaville Museum
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PALESTINE SAMPLER 1850

Unusual map sampler from 1850 showing Palestine in the time of our Saviour 16 inches by 18 inches
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SARAH MCGREGOR SAMPLER 1845

17 inches by 17 inches, by Sarah McGregor, of Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Daughter of Gregor McGregor and Margaret Colquhoun.
This is quite the best sampler I have ever had. Bright colors, silk and wool, with a school, church, houses, a hunter on horseback, a woman and a soldier, a peacock, animals and birds, bordered with flowers.
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PAIR SHIP PORTRAITS BY REGINALD MATTHEWS. CONVICTED MURDERER

A pair of unusual ship portraits by Reg Mathews who shot an killed a man in Timaru in 1920 and also shot a policeman in Lyttleton while trying to make good his escape. Both are extensively inscribed on the reverse.He was found guilty but his death sentence was commuted on the grounds of insanity.He spent the rest of his life in various mental institutions.They are painted in lampblack, laundry blue and milk of magnesia. He notes one one painting,"painted under difficult conditions by an ex member of the vessels crew" A news paper clipping on the reverse states that" he spent 60 years behind locked doors, 45 of those in solitary confinement".