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Auction archive: Lot number 63

A finely detailed 1/72th scale museum display standard fabric and metal model of Vickers Vimy Serial H651

Auction 15.04.1999
15 Apr 1999
Estimate
£5,000 - £6,000
ca. US$8,048 - US$9,658
Price realised:
£5,750
ca. US$9,255
Auction archive: Lot number 63

A finely detailed 1/72th scale museum display standard fabric and metal model of Vickers Vimy Serial H651

Auction 15.04.1999
15 Apr 1999
Estimate
£5,000 - £6,000
ca. US$8,048 - US$9,658
Price realised:
£5,750
ca. US$9,255
Beschreibung:

A finely detailed 1/72th scale museum display standard fabric and metal model of Vickers Vimy Serial H651 probably built by R.A. Burgess with fabric covered airframe with flying and control wires, bound wooden struts with bolted plates, engine nacelles with radiators and shutters, exhaust pipes, four blade mahogany propellors with bolted plates, wind driven generator, fore and aft gunner's seats with Lewis machine guns in scarfe rings, pilot's/navigator's cockpit with leather seats, joystick and other controls, windscreens, rubber tyred main undercarriage, nose and tail skids and eight bombs in underwing racks, finished in dark green with R.A.F. roundels and markings. Wingspan -- 33in. (85cm.) Overall length -- 21in. (53.3cm.) Airstrip plinth with brass bound glazed cover, display base and mahogany stand. See Colour Illustration and Detail

Auction archive: Lot number 63
Auction:
Datum:
15 Apr 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A finely detailed 1/72th scale museum display standard fabric and metal model of Vickers Vimy Serial H651 probably built by R.A. Burgess with fabric covered airframe with flying and control wires, bound wooden struts with bolted plates, engine nacelles with radiators and shutters, exhaust pipes, four blade mahogany propellors with bolted plates, wind driven generator, fore and aft gunner's seats with Lewis machine guns in scarfe rings, pilot's/navigator's cockpit with leather seats, joystick and other controls, windscreens, rubber tyred main undercarriage, nose and tail skids and eight bombs in underwing racks, finished in dark green with R.A.F. roundels and markings. Wingspan -- 33in. (85cm.) Overall length -- 21in. (53.3cm.) Airstrip plinth with brass bound glazed cover, display base and mahogany stand. See Colour Illustration and Detail

Auction archive: Lot number 63
Auction:
Datum:
15 Apr 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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