MARITIME SALE
The sea in all its facets is the protagonist of the first Maritime Sale at Aste Bolaffi. The catalog is rich of collectibles items for nautical fans: books and prints, important advertising posters, paintings, furniture and objects d’art, nautical instruments and naval models, including some design objects and memorabilia from famous liners of the past.
Internet live
4 pm | lots 1-226
VIEWING from Thursday 28 June to Tuesday 3 July (except Sunday)
10 am - 6.00 pm
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Torino
Lot 111
UNDER-ARMED FRIGATE MODEL
Italy, 19th-20th Century
Three-masted ship, with Latin sails, canvas and metal inserts, on a wooden pedestal.
It is probably the Bounty model, a British Navy merchant frigate, armed with only four cannons, to make room in the hold for banana plants from Tahiti.
His story and his fame are
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Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 112
FRIGATE MODEL
Italy, 20th Century
Scale model of 'La Flore', a 1784 French frigate with thirty cannons, in wood, metal and fabric, on a wooden pedestal, with rectangular brass plate inscribed 'La Flore'.
27.2 x 31.1 x 12.6 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 113
SAILING SHIP DIORAMA
Late 19th Century
Wooden diorama of the Edimburgh three-masted sailing ship, the background and the walls painted in blue and light blue, with collage inserts of boats and seascapes.
Minor damages and losses, one of the lifeboats detached.
21.1 x 34.8 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 114
SAILING SHIP DIORAMA
20th Century
In wood and rope, the background painted in blue, the sides lined in light cloth.
3.5 x 20.6 x 13.9 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 115
FOUR-MASTED SHIP DIORAMA
Caffaro, Genoa, 20th Century
The painted background depicting a sky, the sea in painted papier-maché and cotton wool, the sailing ship with wooden sails lined in white painted canvas and smokestack with smoke in gray painted cotton wool, signed Caffaro on a red background inside the courtesy flag.
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Starting price: € 900
Lot 116
CIRCULAR DIORAMA
Probably France , late 19th, early 20th Century
Sailboat gouache on paper, with applied paper sails and ropes, signed lower right Gaston Digniniont, inside an ebonized and gilt wood with convex glass.
Damages, breaks to the frame.
Diameter 16 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 117
BRAGOZZO OF CHIOGGIA MODEL
Italy, 20th Century
In wood and painted canvas, net, thread and metal, the black hull with a light blue border and stylized fish, two winged images in the bow, with oars and removable rudder, the sails painted in ocher, red and green, with an orca and a seagull. The bragozzo is a typical
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 118
VENETIAN GONDOLE MODEL
Italy, 19th Century
In partially gilt wood, the 'felze' with a light blue embroidered silk canopy, supported by seahorses, a carpet in amaranth silk on the hull, inside an elegant wooden and glass case with molded borders and edges with acanthus leaves falling.
Minor fading to the silk.
13
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Starting price: € 2.200
Lot 119
SHIP CONSTRUCTION HALF HULL
Italy, 20th Century
Cream white painted wood, with marked construction coordinates.
Scratches, stains and minor lacks to the paint.
11.8 x 58.3 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 850
Lot 120
MODEL OF THE SANTA MARIA CARAVEL
Italy, 19th-20th Century
Wood, fabric and metal ship model on wooden pedestal.
Damages and losses.
Measures comprising pedestal 24.6 x 28.7 x 13.6 in.
Starting price: € 500