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Found an old wooden stool i used to sit on when i was a wee boy.

 

Leather top shows 3 sailing ships from Admiral Nelson’s time in the leather top.

 

A name is signed in the leather either Lavanga or Ravanga and wondered if anyone knew anything about the origins

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1 hour ago, Noggin said:

Found an old wooden stool i used to sit on when i was a wee boy.

 

Leather top shows 3 sailing ships from Admiral Nelson’s time in the leather top.

 

A name is signed in the leather either Lavanga or Ravanga and wondered if anyone knew anything about the origins

Could you post a photo please?

"People are more violently opposed to fur than to leather because it's safer to harass people in coats than to try being nasty to motorcycle gangs." ~Anonymous

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Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria ?

"Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )

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I'd take that to an antique dealer that specializes in furniture...does the antique roadshow ever come out there? You might be the next millionaire...

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Antiques Roadshow was originally British..Arthur Negus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Negus
The ships are too old to be from the time of Nelson..and have the red cross on the sails..the image is the same as the most common images of the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria..of the 1st voyage of Christopher Columbus..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus
Images of the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria..
https://lite.qwant.com/?q=Nina%20pinta%20santa%20maria&t=images

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"Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )

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The English flag (St George) is a Red Cross on a White background  and they appear to be involved in a battle and as we know the English were always fighting someone!!LOL

However I will take on board your knowledge of the Nina,Pinta and Santa Maria Mike!!

 

As for the Antiques Roadshow,yes Mark it sometimes comes to Scotland but mostly like everything else in Britain it is mainly in England...appreciate your comment but not holding my breath at being the world’s next millionaire.

 

That said I am in Las Vegas this November so if the stool doesn’t make me a millionaire maybe everything I own on Zero may just do it

Regards to ALL of you for taking the time to answer .....from Scotland

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Is n't "zero" the one where the house wins ?..I should know, having lived in Cannes and other parts of the Côte d'Azur where they have casinos, and even here in Brittany I'm only 4 kms from another, but have never set foot in one anywhere..Idea just does not appeal at all..

"Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )

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