29th Apr, 2009 12:00

Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Popham)

 
  Lot 98
 

98

[M] A RARE WHITE METAL AND ENAMEL SOUVENIR BROOCH...

A RARE WHITE METAL AND ENAMEL SOUVENIR BROOCH FOR THE S.S. CITY OF MONTREAL, CIRCA 1871
depicting the vessel steaming in a heavy sea with some sails set, mounted on an oblong with securing pin, the reverse engraved S.S. City of Montreal -- 1½in. (4cm.) wide
Built by Tod & McGregor of Glasgow for the Inman Line, City of Montreal was an iron hulled clipper-bowed steamship registering 4,451 gross tons and designed for the trans Atlantic crossing between Liverpool and New York. Accommodation for 60-1st, 60-2nd and 1,200-3rd Class Passengers was provided and she could make a respectable 12 knots. In 1877 she was refitted and thereafter carried two funnels; however on the 10th August 1887 she was overwhelmed by fire at sea with all hands saved by the Furness Lines liner York City.
Estimated at £300 - £400

 
A RARE WHITE METAL AND ENAMEL SOUVENIR BROOCH FOR THE S.S. CITY OF MONTREAL, CIRCA 1871
depicting the vessel steaming in a heavy sea with some sails set, mounted on an oblong with securing pin, the reverse engraved S.S. City of Montreal -- 1½in. (4cm.) wide
Built by Tod & McGregor of Glasgow for the Inman Line, City of Montreal was an iron hulled clipper-bowed steamship registering 4,451 gross tons and designed for the trans Atlantic crossing between Liverpool and New York. Accommodation for 60-1st, 60-2nd and 1,200-3rd Class Passengers was provided and she could make a respectable 12 knots. In 1877 she was refitted and thereafter carried two funnels; however on the 10th August 1887 she was overwhelmed by fire at sea with all hands saved by the Furness Lines liner York City.
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