Collectable clout of Nelson and Titanic
The Maritime sale held by Bonhams (15/10% buyer’s premium) in their New Bond Street rooms on January 16 was a sizeable 400-lot affair divided roughly 50/50 into paintings and maritime artefacts – the latter featuring anything from ship models to scrimshaw, divers’ helmets to sextants.
The picture section saw the lion’s share of the highest prices with £100,000 of the £620,000 total p…