CUSTOM HAND-CARVED NAME BOARD

Take home an original and personalized piece of craftsmanship. The winner will receive a custom wooden name board carved by Mystic Seaport Museum woodcraftsman Rich Froh. Choose to have the name of your boat, house, family, etc. hand-carved and beautifully finished, similar to the America and the Sea Award (pictured) given to the gala honoree.

Woodcarving at Mystic Seaport Museum is done using the traditional tools and skills of 19th century craftsmen.

Figureheads and other carvings which decorated wooden ships in the Age of Sail are sometimes all that remain from the many vessels built in the 19th century. Carvings on a vessel were meant to show pride and to capture the public's attention.

HAND-FORGED IRON BAR SET

Bring a bit of the 19th century to your next dinner or cocktail party with a hand-forged iron cork screw, bottle opener, and cheese cutter created at Mystic Seaport Museum. All were hand-forged by experienced blacksmiths in the Museum's historic James Driggs Shipsmith Shop using traditional, 19th-century techniques. The set is complete with a small cheese cutting board crafted from wood used in the Henry B. DuPont Preservation Shipyard.

The James Driggs shop was originally built in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1885, and came to Mystic Seaport Museum in the 1940s. Today the shop is used to train staff and demonstrate historic blacksmithing techniques for visitors and school groups.

HAND-FORGED IRON COAT HOOK SET OF 5

Bring a bit of Mystic Seaport Museum home with a set of five iron coat hooks hand-forged by our experienced blacksmiths in our historic shipsmith shop using traditional, 19th-century techniques.

The James Driggs shop was originally built in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1885, and came to Mystic Seaport Museum in the 1940s. Today the shop is used to train staff and demonstrate historic blacksmithing techniques for visitors and school groups.

RELIEF CARVING: BRECK MARSHALL (LIBERATED!)

The Breck Marshall is a replica of a Cape Cod pre-1900 Crosby-designed 20-foot working catboat. The Breck Marshall was built at the Mystic Seaport Museum Small Boat Shop in 1987 using the techniques developed by the Crosby family of boatbuilders at Osterville on Cape Cod. The classic lines and swan-like grace of this iconic sailing craft inspire Museum visitors to experience for themselves a half-hour sail along the Museum's picturesque and well-protected waterfront. A seaworthy and able working craft type, she is shown here "liberated" from the confines of the Mystic River estuary as she would appear while sailing on an ocean swell and homeward-bound off a North Atlantic coastline.

The hand-carved piece in clear northern pine was begun as a bas relief woodcarving study and live demonstration as part of the Mystic Seaport Museum A Way With Wood exhibit in the Collins Gallery during the reopening of the Museum following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was selected to be finished for auction and was completed in the summer of 2021. The piece expresses the artist's hope for everyone's "liberation" from the confines imposed by the pandemic, and for their having a first, joyful experience of sailing the wind.

RELIEF CARVING: PROMISE (of a New Day)

PROMISE (of a New Day) shows the view that a sailor on a square-rigged sailing vessel experiences when sent aloft as a lookout at the masthead at daybreak. After coming on deck from the cramped confinement below decks in pre-dawn to begin the next duty watch, the sailor savors the serenity aloft while the promise of a new day unfolds as the sun breaks the horizon. A giant albatross flies past and veers off to investigate another sailing vessel that has appeared in the same stretch of ocean, heading in the same direction, and shore-based sea birds appear, bringing a promise of fair weather, and soon, a landfall, bringing our sailor thoughts of returning home. The piece was created as a live demonstration as part of the Mystic Seaport Museum A Way With Wood exhibit in the Collins Gallery during the reopening of the Museum following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece expresses the artist's hope for everyone's return to their home ports.

This hand-carved clear northern pine piece has four types of carving. The gilded edge and the lettering are incised; the sky is carved with a small veiner gouge to capture light on the edges of the clouds and sun's rays; the sea is carved in bas-relief style; the "wings" bracketing the lettering are relief promise and also gilded. Nineteenth-century ship carvers such as Mystic's own Campbell & Colby often carved decorative scenes as panels affixed to ships' transoms. The vessel name and home port were required to be displayed.

CARNEGIE BLAIR DESIGNS: ART FOR THE TABLE

Brighten up your dining space with these placemats that are sure to get your guests talking. Made in America by Carnegie Blair Designs and replicated from the timeless images of Delft Blue, a style of pottery recognizable around the world, these placemats are cork-backed, hardwood, heat resistant, and easily wiped off. Carnegie Blair Designs offers high-quality art for the table and floor and these placemats are no exception.

Delft Blue also known as Delftware or Delft pottery is Dutch tin-glazed earthenware named after the city of Delft in the Netherlands - a major center of production for the pottery. This style of pottery began in the early 17th century, was a major industry throughout the 18th century, and is still produced today.

Lot includes three sets of four placemats, for a total of 12.

"Delft" Rectangular Placemats: 15.75x11.5"