Nautical Antiques: With Value Guide (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) [Hardcover]

Robert W. D. Ball (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Schiffer Book for Collectors | Publication Date: March 1997

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.

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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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 238 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd; First Edition edition (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887406025
• ISBN-13: 978-0887406027
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,470,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Look Elsewhere, October 10, 2002

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This review is from: Nautical Antiques: With Value Guide (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) (Hardcover)

Nautical Antiques is a book of well described excellent photographs by an author whose qualifications are that he observed ships from the dock as a child. There is little history, context, significance or scholarship provided. See American Nautical Art and Antiques by Jacqueline Kranz (1975) for the opposite of what little Robert W. D. Ball has given us.