23420. COSTON RED HAND MARINE SIGNAL FLARE.
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23420. COSTON RED HAND MARINE SIGNAL FLARE.
23420. COSTON RED HAND MARINE SIGNAL FLARE. Beautiful wooden handled Coston’s flare, complete and intact with original waxed paper wrapping, designed to be used for signaling and on ship’s lifeboats. These wooden handled Coston Friction Ship and Marine Distress Signals are now most difficult to find. The Coston Company is famous for providing similar signals and flares to the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service and others since the 1860’s and continued well into the 20th Century. Paper label reads: “COSTON FRICTION SHIP SIGNAL. Coston Marine Signals, Coston Supply Co. 500 Candlepower…. Manufactured by Coston Marine Signals, Inc. Fine display piece or to fit in your Coston canister. (VG+). $32 each net.
23420c. COSTON RED FRICTION SHIP SIGNAL FLARE. Beautiful wooden handled Coston’s flare, complete and intact with original printed paper wrapping, designed to be used for hand signaling to and from ships and on ship’s lifeboats. These early wooden handled Coston Friction Ship and Marine Distress Signals are now most difficult to find. The Coston Company is famous for providing similar signals and flares to the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service and others since the 1860’s and continued well into the 20th Century. Paper label reads: “COSTON FRICTION SHIP SIGNAL. Coston Marine Signals, Coston Supply Co. 500 Candlepower…. Manufactured by Coston Signals Co., Inc. Fine display piece or to fit in your Coston canister. Early style, unusually good condition. (VG+). $68 net.
2798. SCULLER HAND MARINE SIGNAL LIGHT FLARE. Beautiful wooden handled Sculler Signal Light flare, complete and intact with original paper wrapping, designed to be used for signaling and on ship’s lifeboats. These wooden handled Friction Ship and Marine Distress Signals are now most difficult to find. The Sculler Company is famous for providing line guns for rescue from steamships from the 1800’s well into the Twentieth Century but is little known for signal flares. Original paper label reads: “SIGNAL LIGHT. Sculler Safety Corporation, New York, NY. … Fine display piece or to fit in your Life Saving collection. Completely intact, shows signs of age, soiling. (VG). $38 net.
(same) Intact but empty, without friction cap, shows signs of age, soiling. (VG-). $28 net.