Lot 195
A Maritime Collection of Sea Captain Ebenezer Andrews, comprising a c. 1800 wood and brass four-draw telescope, engraved "Ebenezer Andrews"; a leather fire bucket, with green and yellow paint, marked "E. Andrews/ 1829" and a book The Seaman's Complete Daily Assistant, and New Mariner's Compass..., by John Moore, 1800, signed by Captain Ebenezer, with numerous doodles and calculations in the endpapers and margins. Note: From a note accompanying the items, "Captain Ebenezer Andrews, born in 1790, was an old East India captain having sailed his clipper ship around the Horn many times in the China Trade. He also owned the Whaleship Gold Hunter launched in 1832, the first whaling craft to set out from Fall River, Mass., then known as Troy. He built and sailed the Brig Columbia, launched in 1830 at Berkley Bridge in Fall River."
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