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Auction archive: Lot number 325

AN INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL EARLY 20 T H CENTURY STATIC DISPLAY SCALE MODEL OF THE ?PASSENGER/CARGO STEAMER MASCOT

Auction 19.06.2002
19 Jun 2002
Estimate
£1,200 - £1,500
ca. US$1,780 - US$2,225
Price realised:
£1,292
ca. US$1,916
Auction archive: Lot number 325

AN INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL EARLY 20 T H CENTURY STATIC DISPLAY SCALE MODEL OF THE ?PASSENGER/CARGO STEAMER MASCOT

Auction 19.06.2002
19 Jun 2002
Estimate
£1,200 - £1,500
ca. US$1,780 - US$2,225
Price realised:
£1,292
ca. US$1,916
Beschreibung:

AN INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL EARLY 20 T H CENTURY STATIC DISPLAY SCALE MODEL OF THE ?PASSENGER/CARGO STEAMER MASCOT with masts, rigging, radio aerials, stayed anchors, anchor winch and crane, ventilators, bollards, companionways, belaying pins, lighthouses, superstructure with glazed wheelhouse with binnacle, telegraph helm and 'master', bell, semaphore arm and binnacle with working compass over, fire buckets, funnel with hooter and safety valve extension pipe, two carved ship's boats in davits with cross boards, thwarts and oars, coal shute covers, ten-spoke helm wth binnacle and other details. The hull, carved from the solid, with fully removable sectioned scored decks and deckhouses to reveal fully appointed interiors from boilers up, the whole lifting off the bilge line, is finished in grey, black and varnish and with several silver-plated ?Bassett-Lowke fittings, is mounted on launching-style blocks on display base, loosely contained within oak-bound glazed display case. Overall measurements -- 23 x 45in. (58.5 x 114.5cm.) See illustration and detail

Auction archive: Lot number 325
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

AN INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL EARLY 20 T H CENTURY STATIC DISPLAY SCALE MODEL OF THE ?PASSENGER/CARGO STEAMER MASCOT with masts, rigging, radio aerials, stayed anchors, anchor winch and crane, ventilators, bollards, companionways, belaying pins, lighthouses, superstructure with glazed wheelhouse with binnacle, telegraph helm and 'master', bell, semaphore arm and binnacle with working compass over, fire buckets, funnel with hooter and safety valve extension pipe, two carved ship's boats in davits with cross boards, thwarts and oars, coal shute covers, ten-spoke helm wth binnacle and other details. The hull, carved from the solid, with fully removable sectioned scored decks and deckhouses to reveal fully appointed interiors from boilers up, the whole lifting off the bilge line, is finished in grey, black and varnish and with several silver-plated ?Bassett-Lowke fittings, is mounted on launching-style blocks on display base, loosely contained within oak-bound glazed display case. Overall measurements -- 23 x 45in. (58.5 x 114.5cm.) See illustration and detail

Auction archive: Lot number 325
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jun 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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