Sale 4658
London
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22 November 1991
Price realised
GBP 2,200
Estimate
Thaddeus Bannister (b. 1915) Benjamin Hale off the Coast signed 'T. Bannister'; oil on canvas 22 x 35½in. (55.9 x 90.2cm.)
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The three-masted American schooner Benjamin Hale was built by Atkinson & Pillmore at Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1882
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