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By Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Feb 11, 2017 - Feb 13, 2017
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2017-02-11 11:00:00
2017-02-13 11:00:00
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- Lot Description
Large Spoon made of exotic wood, a coconut shell bowl, the spatulate handle inlaid with whalebone and baleen, scrimshawn on back '"Bark" Catalpa, J. Coeking, 1875'. 12 1/4" long. Fine condition. A remarkable souvenir of the most famous escape of Irish Republicans or Fenians from the British penal colony of Western Australia. The Fenian John Devoy of New York approached the 1874 convention of the Clan na Gael and got the Clan to agree to fund a rescue of the group of Irish convicts. He contracted with whaling captain George Smith Anthony, who agreed to command a ship. James Reynolds, a member of the Clan, bought a three-masted whaling bark Catalpa for $5,500, and George Anthony recruited twenty-two sailors. On 29 April 1875, Catalpa sailed from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Six men escaped, the most successful of all escapes from Australia. Memorials stand in Rockingham, Western Australia and New Bedford, Mass. James Coeking was a sailor on the ship, and part of the longboat crew that rescued the Fenians. This incredible story is the subject of the book "The Emerald Whaler" by William J. Laubenstein, and the soon to be released motion picture "The Fenian." PLUS a gilt framed print titled 'BARK CATALPA, OF NEW BEDFORD', dated 1876, drawn by E.N. Russell, printed by Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co., Boston, OS: 23 1/2" x 17 1/2", spotting, some creasing and tears in upper mast area.
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