Nautical Antiques: With Value Guide (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
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Book Description
This beautiful volume illustrates hundreds of nautical treasures, items related to lives of seamen in past generations. Included are a variety of scrimshawed items, sailor-made ship models, nautical instruments and aids, nautical and whaling implements, furnishings and accessories, ship's figureheads, sternboards, and billet heads, ship's journals, ephemera, paintings, and much more. A useful price guide is included. This fascinating and complete look at the artifacts of our nautical past will be enjoyed by collectors and old salts alike.
About the Author
Robert Ball is a lifelong resident of Connecticut. he is an Army veteran, a military historian, and a dealer and collector of militaria and firearms. He has written several other books, including Western Memorabilia and Collectibles, Cowboy Collectible and Western Memorabilia, and American Shelf and Wall Clocks.
Nautical Antiques: With Value Guide (A Schiffer Book for Collectors),Robert W. D. Ball,Schiffer Publishing,0887406025,Antiques & Collectibles,Antiques/Collectibles,Art & Art Instruction,Collectors and collecting,Nautical paraphernalia,Subjects & Themes - General,Transportation,Militaria, arms & armour,Shipping industries
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