Thread: London antiques market find.

Although i haven't finished my raid on the London antiques markets for straights, I thought I'd post a few pictures of a couple of beauties I got at Portabello Road this morning. They weren't cheap but I think that for what they are, they were excellent value for money. It's not everyday you get a chance to aquire a boxed pair of scrimshaw scaled straights.











The pair are Mappin & Webb. Post 1868 but pre 1891. There was a Barque Emma. In the early 1850's it was running between San Francisco and Sydney.