The brass bell cast with the incuse name DOON, which is highlighted with black paint, topped with a turned integral finial and set into a likely later wooden wall mount (bell 9.5 in.); a gimbel mounted brass kerosene lamp (7.5 in.) (toned brass; two small pushes to the shoulder); port and starboard lights with red and blue glass respectively, unmarked tin casings, not electrified (10.5 in.) (light surface oxidation and some minor chipping to the paint).

Private Collection of a Lady, Chapel Hill, NC


From the bark "Doon," built in 1870. This classic sailing ship plied the Atlantic until 1920 when she was dis-masted and converted into a lumber barge. Based in Mobile, the "Doon" spent her last days servicing Florida real estate developers on behalf of the Eastman-Gardinier Lumber Co. When she was finally scuttled, many of the "Doon's" elements went into private nautical collections. The items presented here belonged to McWhorter Beers (1886-1969), a Laurel, Mississippi banker who was with Eastman-Gardinier Lumber as a young man. The consignor, whose father acquired these relics from the Beers Estate, aptly states that their present sale will "mark the final disassembly of the 'Doon.'"

$300 - 500