22nd Oct, 2008 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Association)
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[M] A PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MODEL OF A 54-GUN...
A PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MODEL OF A 54-GUN 4TH-RATE FRENCH SHIP
with planked and pinned hull, brass guns, carved fittings, bound masts with yards and stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted to an early 19th-century Napoleonic French prisoner-of-war straw work base, secured to a wooden base with glass dome cover
The model - 9 x 11in. (23 x 28cm.); the dome -- 14½ x 13in. (37 x 33cm.)
Estimated at £3,000 - £5,000
with planked and pinned hull, brass guns, carved fittings, bound masts with yards and stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted to an early 19th-century Napoleonic French prisoner-of-war straw work base, secured to a wooden base with glass dome cover
The model - 9 x 11in. (23 x 28cm.); the dome -- 14½ x 13in. (37 x 33cm.)
A PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MODEL OF A 54-GUN 4TH-RATE FRENCH SHIP
with planked and pinned hull, brass guns, carved fittings, bound masts with yards and stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted to an early 19th-century Napoleonic French prisoner-of-war straw work base, secured to a wooden base with glass dome cover
The model - 9 x 11in. (23 x 28cm.); the dome -- 14½ x 13in. (37 x 33cm.)
with planked and pinned hull, brass guns, carved fittings, bound masts with yards and stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted to an early 19th-century Napoleonic French prisoner-of-war straw work base, secured to a wooden base with glass dome cover
The model - 9 x 11in. (23 x 28cm.); the dome -- 14½ x 13in. (37 x 33cm.)
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Association), 22nd Oct, 2008
