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A LARGE LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S WOOLWORK PICTURE OF THE THREE-MASTED STEAM YACHT VALHALLA, R.Y.S.
depicted in profile with lower sails set and flying call sign and pennants for the Royal Yacht Squadron, inscribed in banners VALHALLA R.Y.S -- 27 x 43½in. (68.5 x 110.5cm.) framed and glazed
Valhalla, 1,218 tons gross, was the only British steam yacht to have a full ship rig and is believed by many to have been the finest example of a steam auxiliary ever built. Designed by W.C. Storey and built for Captain J.F. Laycock by Ramage & Ferguson in 1892, she is best known for her achievement of third place in the Kaiser’s famous Trans-Atlantic Race of 1905 despite the competition afforded by the much faster schooners taking part. She had several owners, most notably the Earl of Crawford & Balcarres (from 1902 to 1908 under whose tenure she featured in the book by M.J. Nicoll Three Voyages of a Naturalist : Being an Account of Many Little-Known Islands in Three Oceans Visited by the ‘Valhalla’ R.Y.S., published by Whitherby & Co. in 1908), and she also did War service with the Royal Navy including a period at Limnos - in the Aegean - during the Gallipoli campaign. After the War she became a Spanish-owned fruit carrier but she was wrecked and sunk off Cape St. Vincent in 1922.
£1000-1500 89.
A LATE 19TH-CENTURY SAILOR’S WOOLWORK PICTURE OF A SOUTH EASTERN & CHATHAM RAILWAY CROSS CHANNEL PADDLE STEAMER
with twin raked funnels and masts flying house flags, depicted in profile in a calm sea -- 15¼ x 21in. (39 x 53.3cm.) framed and glazed
£500-800 90.
A FRENCH 19TH-CENTURY SAILORWORK SCRIMSHAW- DECORATED GOURD
possibly a powder flask or water bottle, the top section with repeated portrait busts of Napoleon III, the lower section with a man o’war in profile flanked by six soldiers in differing dress uniforms, the top with a carved ivory bird stopper -- 11in. (28cm.) high
£300-500
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