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Auction archive: Lot number 326

A well detailed display model of the Cunard Liner R.M.S. Aquitania

Auction 24.05.2001
24 May 2001
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,701 - US$8,552
Price realised:
£8,225
ca. US$11,723
Auction archive: Lot number 326

A well detailed display model of the Cunard Liner R.M.S. Aquitania

Auction 24.05.2001
24 May 2001
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$5,701 - US$8,552
Price realised:
£8,225
ca. US$11,723
Beschreibung:

A well detailed display model of the Cunard Liner R.M.S. Aquitania built by D. Witty, with masts, radio aerials, rigging, anchors, capstans, spare anchor, bollards, deck rails, derricks and rigging, deck winches, ventilators, hatches, companionways, superstructure with bridge and open bridge over with telegraphs, passenger accommodation, deck lights, stayed funnels with safety valve extension pipes, the foremost with three-chime hooter, boat, promenade and other decks, cranes, twenty-six lifeboats and thirty-four folding boats in chocks and davits and many other details. The hull, with four four-blade propellers, rudder, bilge keels and boarding companionway, is finished in Cunard livery and mounted on four turned brass columns -- 23 x 80in. (58.5 x 202.5cm.). Display base with brass plate engraved RMS Aquitania, Quadruple Screw Turbine Driven Cunard Liner, Length 901 ft. Breadth 97ft. 5300 Tons. Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank. Model by David Witty' . Glazed case See illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 326
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A well detailed display model of the Cunard Liner R.M.S. Aquitania built by D. Witty, with masts, radio aerials, rigging, anchors, capstans, spare anchor, bollards, deck rails, derricks and rigging, deck winches, ventilators, hatches, companionways, superstructure with bridge and open bridge over with telegraphs, passenger accommodation, deck lights, stayed funnels with safety valve extension pipes, the foremost with three-chime hooter, boat, promenade and other decks, cranes, twenty-six lifeboats and thirty-four folding boats in chocks and davits and many other details. The hull, with four four-blade propellers, rudder, bilge keels and boarding companionway, is finished in Cunard livery and mounted on four turned brass columns -- 23 x 80in. (58.5 x 202.5cm.). Display base with brass plate engraved RMS Aquitania, Quadruple Screw Turbine Driven Cunard Liner, Length 901 ft. Breadth 97ft. 5300 Tons. Built by John Brown & Co., Clydebank. Model by David Witty' . Glazed case See illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 326
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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