Teak Collection

Canberra: the swimming-pool
Colour illustration depicting the swimming pool of P&Os super-liner Canberra. Designed by architects Casson and Rendle, the pool was of white mosaic and set within tiers of sunbathing terraces

Burma (Myanmar) - Rangoon (Yangon) - Elephants
Elephant scenes from Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Myanmar (formerly Burma). The Elphants are being shipped onto a steamer and working/moving teak logs

20th century teak steamer chair
SHIPPING: 20th century teak slat back steamer chair

Teak footstool recycled from a ship
Teak footstool with small plaque Made by the Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Company from teak taken from Esperance Bay. 17.5 inches. Date: 20th century

Cunard Line - teak coffee table recycled from a ship
Cunard Line - teak circular coffee table with small plaque Made by the Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Company from teak taken from R.M.S. Aquitania. 22 inches. Date: 20th century

Cunard Line, table from RMS Aquitania
Cunard Line - teak coffee table bearing brass label Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Company, teak taken from RMS Aquitania'. 32 x 19 inches. (2 of 2)

Ocean Liner - P & O pair of deckchairs
Ocean Liner - P & O teak pair of deck chairs, both stamped P&O. Date: 20th century

Bastard teak, Pterocarpus marsupium. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Plants of Sri Lanka: tamarind 1, sago palm 2, cassia 3 and teak 4. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Vijayasar, buja, or Indian kino tree, Pterocarpus marsupium. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Bastard teak or parrot tree, Butea monosperma
Bastard teak, parrot tree, palas or dhak, Butea monosperma (Butea frondosa). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Java War or Diponegoro War. 1825-1830. Spear rack of Governor-General Jean Chretien Baud (1789-1859). Java. 1824. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Relic of St. Andrews head on a silver carved teak. Patras
Relic of St. Andrews head on a silver carved teak. Preserved in the interior of the church of Agios Andreas (Saint Andrew). Patras. Greece

A French cornemuse and an Indian sarangi
Page from the Illustrated London News, 9th March 1963, showing two instruments from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: a French cornemuse

Elephant piling Teak - Myanmar. Date: circa 1910s

Tuskless Elephant trained in Myanmar
Tuskless Elephant (Hind) trained in Myanmar by the Karens. The Karen (Kayin, Kariang or Yang people) reside primarily in Karen State in southern and southeastern Myanmar

Teak mill - elephant - Moulmein - Steele Bros. Teak Mill - Ellen up! Watched and rode elephants, not as much fun as the Egyptian camels tough body bristles! Date: 1951

Teak mill - Moulmein

Teak mill - elephant - Moulmain - Steele Bros. Teak Mill - 40 years prime age for an elephant; 25 years old not entirely reliable. Always work with the same oozies. Date: 1951

Family with Holmess - Moulmein - With Cal and Mary Holmes. Cal was Chief Officer of the Steele Companies of Burma, including teak, china, cotton, and rice milling an old Burma hand Date: 1951

Waterfront - Moulmein - walk down to pier teak logs, varied craft, busy waterfront. Date: 1951

Irawaddy River - Rangoon - teak basin Date: 1952

Teak on the Chao Phraya - Thailand - Teak logs on the Chao Phraya River near Ayuthaya Date: 1952

Teak Loaded at Kokogon
Elephants loading teak at Kokogon, Burma. Date: 1905

Poster depicting a teak forest in Burma
Poster, possibly for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting a teak forest in Burma, with elephants and their riders

White Star Line, SS Olympic window sketches
A White Star Line handwritten booklet entitled Particulars of Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, SS Olympic, May 1911. The vessel returned to the shipyard in Belfast in October 1911 for alterations

The Queens New Barge for Virginia Water, June 1877
Engraving of Queen Victorias new Royal Barge on Virginia Water, from the Illustrated London News, 30th June 1877. This four-oared barge was built of teak and mahogany by C. and A

Elephants Loading Teak
A colonial gentleman in a white suit supervises elephants loading teak from a rail carriage

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping