Nautical Telescopes and Spyglasses
Some antique telescopes were very small, handheld tubes, while others were much larger and had to be mounted on a tripod or other stable object. In keeping with the honor sailors have always felt for the sea, many a nautical telescope was carefully and beautifully designed - often made of brass, sometimes accentuated with leather, and usually arriving in a case just as lovely as the tool itself.
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Nautical Solid Brass Double Barel Telescope W/Mango Wood Stand/Pirate Nautical
Buy now: $89.00
Harbor Telescope 18" Brass W/Stand Nautical Decor
Buy now: $208.99
or Join bidding: $189.99
Nautical Brass Ship Sextant With Leather Box -2 Extra Telescope -Kalvin & Hughes
Buy now: $39.00
Telescope With Waking Sticks - Hidden Telescope In Canes-Telescope Walking Stick
Buy now: $80.00
Articles (nautical antiques)
Mystery or misery on the high seas? Crew eschews GPS to sail by sextant
In 1854, a wooden ship called Mystery completed a successful voyage from England to Australia. And in 2008, a crew pulled up the anchor on that vessel's spiritual descendant, Spirit of Mystery, to make the same voyage with the same technology. Namely, Captain Pete Goss and his three-man crew (son, brother, brother-in-law) are using the sextant and the stars...
eBay emerges as an unexpected hotbed of high-priced antique diving helmet sales
Although eBay would seem to be a less efficient place to buy something as bulky and obscure as an antique diving helmet, in fact there are some exquisite, unique examples changing hands for large amounts. Looking at recently completed auctions in the Antique Diving Helmets category, a surprising seven helmets sold for over $1000 (ranging from $2,280 for a...
New 11-part series about exploring shipwrecks to air on Discovery Channel
The Discovery Channel, long known for its interesting but artificially melodramatic series about the natural world and history, has recently announced that it will be producing eleven episodes of a series that follows a company searching and collecting treasure from shipwrecks around the world. The exploration company is Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., which...
Historic Civil War shipwreck faces uneasy future in its Marine Sanctuary home
The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, sixteen miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC, is home to America's first such designated shipwreck: the USS Monitor, an iron ship that went down during the Civil War. The designation was given in 1975. Although the ship is still in reasonable shape, with several sections of it having been removed and put on display...
Stash of first-ever US gold coins (worth $100K each) found in Gulf of Mexico shipwreck
Divers exploring wrecks in shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico have located the remains of a 19th-century paddle wheeler that had, among other exciting treasures, a bunch of coins that are the first gold coins ever minted in the United States. The coins were minted in New Orleans; in Charlotte, NC; and in Dahlonega, Ga. The Civil War stopped the minting for a...