296
A pair of vintage timber boat oars, 
19th/20th century,
240cm long. (2)
$120–200 ❖
297
Heavy spade head whaling tool with 
later finish, 20th century,
purported to have come from the 
whaling station at Frenchman’s Bay, 
Western Australia,
192cm long overall.
$300–500 ❖
298
A Georgian carved whalebone seal, a 
carved whale’s tooth ornament, and a 
scrimshaw pearl shell busk, (3 items),
the largest 14cm long.
$300–500 ❖
299
Four assorted carved whalebone and 
walrus tooth Inuit animal ornaments, 
Alaskan origin, 20th century,
the largest 9.5cm long. (4)
$200–300 ❖
300
Kronsberg 90mm whale gun harpoon 
with explosive head, stamped “Gaunt”, 
20th century,
40cm high.
$1,000–2,000 ❖
301
Assorted whalebone bodkins, crochet 
hooks, glove stretcher, knitting needle, 
implements etc., 19th century, (qty).
$150–250 ❖
302
An antique whalebone thread dispenser, 
needle case, bodkin, crochet hook and 
sailor’s tool, (5 items),
the largest 17cm long.
$250–350 ❖
303
A vintage sperm whale tooth with 
affixed paper label, mid 20th century,
12cm long.
$200–300 ❖
304
STARBOARD, PORT & MASTHEAD 
group of three vintage lanterns, 
20th century,
26cm high including handle. (3)
$120–200 ❖
305
A whalebone snuff box with 
scrimshaw scene engraved 
“Skulking In His Watch & Lashes 
Flogging USS Constitution 1813”,
10.5cm wide.
$400–600 ❖
306
Assorted whalebone implements, 
19th century, (17 items),
the largest 15.5cm long.
$150–250 ❖
307
Assorted whalebone spoons and forks, 
mostly 19th century, (15 items),
the largest 13.5cm long.
$150–250 ❖
308
Whalebone handled hammer, jarrah fid, 
coconut ladle (with blackwood, baleen 
and whale tooth fittings), carving set 
with whale tooth handles, whale tooth 
desk ornament, whalebone handled 
fid with Turkoman knot sheath and a 
vintage blackwood and pine roller with 
whale tooth and abalone shell ends, 
(qty).
the hammer 24cm long.
$600–800 ❖
309
An Inuit carved whalebone face plaque, 
inscribed verso,
24cm wide.
$200–300 ❖
310
An antique taxidermied sea turtle, 
traditionally stuffed and wired for wall 
mount, 19th/20th century,
58cm long.
$300–500 ❖
311
QUEEN VICTORIA AS EMPRESS OF 
INDIA: Ship’s figurehead, carved teak 
displayed on bespoke metal stand, 
Indian origin, 19th century,
73cm long, 77cm high overall.
$2,000–4,000 ❖
Convict History
312
CONVICT LOVE TOKEN cartwheel 
penny size, stamped with the initials 
“I. D.”, 18th/19th century.
$120–200
313
EARLY CONVICT PARDON –
GEORGE BRIDGES BELLASIS. 
First formal pardon of a convict to serve 
in high office in New South Wales, this 
being the original manuscript order 
to Governor PHILIP GIDLEY KING 
announcing the free pardon of GEORGE 
BELLASIS, signed by KING GEORGE 
III and C. YORKE (Home Secretary). 
“Given at Our Court at Saint James’s 
the Nineteenth day of November, 
1803”. Folio, 2 pages, with paper seal; 
in very good condition.
George Bellasis was the first emancipist 
to be appointed to high office in the 
new colony. He arrived in Sydney in 
1802 to serve a 14 year transportation 
sentence for killing an opponent in 
a duel in Bombay, where he was a 
Lieutenant in the East India Company’s 
Artillery.
Governor King decided to make use 
of Bellasis’s experience and to grant 
him a conditional pardon so that he 
could be commissioned as Lieutenant 
of artillery in charge of “the Batteries 
and Cannon in this Settlement” and 
as Commandant of the Governor’s 
bodyguard of cavalry, despite the 
problems which would probably be 
created by such a promotion from 
among the convicts. Paterson in 
particular feared the reaction of his 
officers in the New South Wales Corps, 
but Bellasis seems to have won general 
acceptance.
King asked the Colonial Office to make 
the conditional pardon absolute, which 
was carried out (in this document) in 
November 1803; it had been anticipated 
by the Governor who gave Bellasis a 
Royal pardon on his own authority on 
the King’s birthday in June of 1803. 
Bellasis later sailed for India in August 
of the same year and was reinstated in 
the Bombay Artillery in 1806. He died 
in 1825.
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Sydney. 
Purchased from McCormick’s Rare 
Books auction in 1986.
$2,500–3,500
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