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Auction archive: Lot number 231

A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR WOODEN MODEL OF A ROYAL NAVAL 50-GUN FRIGATE

Auction 31.10.2002
31 Oct 2002
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$6,229 - US$9,344
Price realised:
£8,225
ca. US$12,810
Auction archive: Lot number 231

A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR WOODEN MODEL OF A ROYAL NAVAL 50-GUN FRIGATE

Auction 31.10.2002
31 Oct 2002
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$6,229 - US$9,344
Price realised:
£8,225
ca. US$12,810
Beschreibung:

A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR WOODEN MODEL OF A ROYAL NAVAL 50-GUN FRIGATE with details including bound masts, yards with stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging with wooden blocks, dolphin striker, boomkins, carved figurehead in the form of a crowned lion, metal anchors with wooden stocks, head rails, belaying rails, deck rings, capstan, well deck with ship's boat over, hammock rack, guns in red-painted carriages, deck lights, stern davits and boat. The hull with chain plates and deadeyes, carved stern and quarter galleries and rudder, is copper sheathed below the waterline, finished in black, white and varnish and mounted on two wooden columns to a display board with legend, secured within a woodbound glazed case (restored overall) . Model -- 10 x 12in. (25.5 x 30.5cm.), Measurements overall -- 13 x 17in. (33 x 40cm.) See illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 231
Auction:
Datum:
31 Oct 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A WELL-PRESENTED AND DETAILED NAPOLEONIC PRISONER-OF-WAR WOODEN MODEL OF A ROYAL NAVAL 50-GUN FRIGATE with details including bound masts, yards with stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging with wooden blocks, dolphin striker, boomkins, carved figurehead in the form of a crowned lion, metal anchors with wooden stocks, head rails, belaying rails, deck rings, capstan, well deck with ship's boat over, hammock rack, guns in red-painted carriages, deck lights, stern davits and boat. The hull with chain plates and deadeyes, carved stern and quarter galleries and rudder, is copper sheathed below the waterline, finished in black, white and varnish and mounted on two wooden columns to a display board with legend, secured within a woodbound glazed case (restored overall) . Model -- 10 x 12in. (25.5 x 30.5cm.), Measurements overall -- 13 x 17in. (33 x 40cm.) See illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 231
Auction:
Datum:
31 Oct 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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