![A FINE BASSETT-LOWKE BOARDROOM MODEL OF THE R.M.M.V. WINCHESTER CASTLE [1930] AS DEPICTED AFTER HER REFIT IN 1938
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A FINE BASSETT-LOWKE BOARDROOM MODEL OF THE R.M.M.V. WINCHESTER CASTLE [1930] AS DEPICTED AFTER HER REFIT IN 1938 the laminated and carved wooden hull finished in red and lavender grey with white topsides, lined lacquered decks crowded with detailed gilt, silvered and painted fittings including winches with studded chains, anchors, bitts, ventilators, wood-capped deck rails, boarding companionways, painted and lined superstructure with covered lifeboats in davits, overbridge with range finder and much other fine detail, mounted on bronzed display columns on display base with maker's plate and specification plate within original glazed case with stand; together with a top lamp, measurements including stand -- 68 x 94 x 23½in. (173 x 239 x 59.5cm.) Built in 1930 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast with a length of 656½ft and a gross tonnage in excess of 20,000grt for the Union-Castle Line, the Winchester Castle was the last 'Castle' to be upgraded to oil-fired boilers in 1938 when her twin funnels were replaced with a single raked funnel as seen on this model. During the War she served as a troop carrier but was briefly used as the Allied Headquarters during the invasion of Vichy-held Madagascar as part of Operation Ironclad between May and November 1942. Post war she was deployed as a UK-South Africa migrant ship before being scrapped in Japan in 1960. This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road Our Next Sale will be held on Tuesday, 10th May, 2016, closing for entries 11th March, 2016.
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A HALF BLOCK BUILDER'S MODEL FOR A PASSENGER CARGO SHIP OF CIRCA 1890 the carved hull finished in white with black topsides, lacquered deck with lined fittings, cutaway mast and funnel, and other fittings, mounted on wooden board within bow-fronted glazed case with brass suspension loops, overall measurements -- 9 x 41 x 5in. (23 x 104 x 12.5cm.)
![A 1:240 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE TRIBAL CLASS DESTROYER H.M.S. COSSACK, PENNANT NO. L03 [1937]
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A 1:240 SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE TRIBAL CLASS DESTROYER H.M.S. COSSACK, PENNANT NO. L03 [1937] with solid moulded hull, with portholes, finished in regulation grey with fittings, superstructure, main and secondary armament as appropriate, secured to black plastic display base with plexiglass cover, overall measurements -- 6½ x 25 x 5in. (16.5 x 58.5 x 12.5cm.); together with another similar for H.M.S. Dainty pennant no. D108. (2)
A 1920s MODEL GUN TURRET FROM METAL OFF THE SCUTTLED IMPERIAL GERMAN BATTLESHIP HELGOLAND the well-made model fashioned as an inkstand in the form of a revolving gun turret, the inner lid marked "Cast from Metal ex-surrendered German Battleship Helgoland", Thos. W. Ward Ltd., Sheffield, 1922, with two aluminium ink reservoirs, an attractive item, extreme width -- 7½ins. (19cms.) Helgoland was the nameship of a small class of three battleships and one battle-cruiser ordered for the Imperial Navy during the celebrated Anglo-German 'Arms Race' of the early 20th century. Built at Kiel, Helgoland herself was 549 feet in length with a 94 foot beam and displaced 25,200 tons deep loaded. With a main armament of 12-12in. guns, she could cruise at 20 knots and must have been a hugely impressive sight at full speed. In action at Jutland, in Vice-Admiral Schmidt's 1st Squadron, she was interned at Scapa Flow when the High Sea's fleet surrendered after the November 1918 Armistice. Laid up idle for six months, Helgoland was scuttled along with the rest of the fleet on 21st June 1919, after which began the famous salvage operation which lasted throughout the 1920s.
A 1:48 scale builder's model of the collier S.S. Sir Johnstone Wright built for the central electricity authority by william pickersgill & sons ltd, sunderland, 1955 by the Sunderland Model Making Co., carved hull finished in two-tone red and black, black painted cargo decks with lined superstructure and fittings including deck rails, winches, ventilators, covered hatches, over bridge with binnacle, range finder, water tanks, superstructure with liveried funnel, lifeboats in davits, emergency steering over propeller and other details, mounted on four silver columns with original mahogany display case with ivorine plates, on associated table stand, cased model measurements -- 18 x 50 x 14in. (46 x 127 x 35.5cm.); table 30in (77cm) high; together with a watercolour of the Sir Johnstone Wright, signed 'John Mortimer' (lower right), framed size -- 20in x 24½in (51 x 62cm.); and a leather photograph album showing the launch of the Sir Johnstone Wright and the presentation of the model to Gordon Blain, retiring Fuel Supplies Officer. (3) Named in honour of Sir Johnstone Wright (1883-1953), chairman of the Central Electricity Board and president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the collier S.S. Sir Johnstone Wright was launched on the 18th August, 1955 for the express purpose of shipping coal from the North East of England to power stations in the South at the behest of the fuel supplies officer, Gordon Blain. In the year he retired (1976), she was sold and renamed Fanis by Christincoast Cia Naviera SA, of Piraeus, Greece before being broken up at Aspropyrgos in 1984. Provenance: Gordon Blain and thence by descent. This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
A MIRROR-BACK BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE S.S. KINGSWEAR, BUILT FOR RENWICK, WILTON & CO. LTD, BY WOOD SKINNER, TYNE & WEAR, 1909 the laminated and carved hull with lined and lacquered decks, superstructure with silver-plated fittings where appropriate, mounted on an above-waterline mirror with ivorine builder's plates within original glazed mahogany display case. Overall measurements -- 19 x 75in. (48 x 190.5cm.) The S.S. Kingswear was built in Newcastle in 1909 by Wood, Skinner & Co. with a length of 245ft and a gross tonnage of 1457. She served as an ammunitions carrier during WWI and was subsequently purchased by John D. Paleocrassas in 1929 who renamed her Polemis. In 1940, she was seized at Port Lyautey by the French Vichy government who renamed her Maure. In 1943 the German 'Mittelmeer Reederei' (Mediterranean Shipping Company) took control but she was targeted by Allied aircraft who successfully bombed her on 15th March, 1944 at St Louis du Rhône, forcing her scuttling that August - she was finally raised and broken up in 1949. This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
A WELL-PRESENTED NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE SLIPWAY MODEL FOR A 64-GUN SHIP the hull with polychrome figurehead, carved stern and quarter galleries, open gun ports, chain plates with dead-eyes, deck with mast holes, bitts, belaying rails, belfry with bell, well deck with capstan, poop deck with deck lights and other details, mounted on a slipway with stock supports, within 'dock yard' laid out with masts with their component parts, and other fittings including long boats, cannons in trucks etc., with sentry huts in two corners and perimeter fence with gates, contained within glazed wooden case -- 9 x 12 x 12in. (23 x 30.5 x 30.5cm.) Similar models upon which this is based are in the collections of Trinity House, London, and the U.S. Naval Academy, Anapolis. Please see Freeston, E.C. Prisoner of War Ship Models, Chatham, 1972, ch.12.
A LARGE BUILDER'S HALF BLOCK MODEL FOR AN UNIDENTIFIED FOUR-MASTED AUXILIARY PASSENGER/CARGO SHIP OF APPROXIMATELY 1870 the laminated and carved hull with black topsides, mounted on a display board (display board cropped along the lower right edge, lacking masts, funnel, several deck houses, old wear) -- 14 x 105in. (35.5 x 267cm.) Provenance: De-accessed from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich circa 1995, catalogue number HB404. This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
A BUILDER'S HALF BLOCK MODEL FOR A BARQUE OR CLIPPER, UNIDENTIFIED, CIRCA 1870 the laminated carved hull finished 'copper' below the waterline with black topsides, cut-away bowsprit and mounted on a painted display board with remnant details (details unreadable, model and board repainted, lacking rudder, old wear) -- 12½ x 75in. (32 x 190.5cm.) Provenance: De-accessed from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich circa 1995, number HB392
A WELL PRESENTED AND FINELY DETAILED SCALE MODEL FOR THE R.T.Y.C STEAM YACHT AMANDA the wooden hull with bilge keels, portholes and companionways, finished in red and cream, with scored varnished decks, wood capped deck rails, fitted boats in davits including steam launch, desk lights, stayed funnel, open bridge with search lights, binnacle, winch, ventilators, etc., mounted on two gilt-brass columns on raised plush base within glazed mahogany case on stand, overall measurements -- 61½ x 60 x 16in. (156.5 x 152.5 x 40.5cm.) This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
A BUILDER'S WATERLINE MODEL FOR THE TURBINE STEAMERS ISLE OF JERSEY AND ISLE OF GUERNSEY BUILT FOR THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. BY DENNY BROTHERS, DUMBARTON, 1930 the laminated and carved hull finished in black with lacquered decks, lined superstructure with silvered fittings, twin raked stayed funnels, fitted lifeboats in davits, wood-capped deckrails, mushroom and standard ventilators, bridge with binnacle over, anchor winches with studded chains and other much fine detailing, mounted on a rippled glass velvet-backed sea with builder's plates, glazed case and stand, measurements including stand -- 70 x 90 x 24in. (178 x 229 x 61cm.) This pair of passenger ferries were ordered by Southern Railways for the Southampton to Channel Islands crossing in 1929 and built by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton. They were registered at 306ft in length and displaced 864 tons (net). The Isle of Jersey became Hospital Ship No 3 during World War II serving in Northern Waters and the Mediterranean, and also at the Normandy landings in June 1944. She returned to cross channel service after the war and was sold to a Libyan buyer in 1960 before being scrapped in 1963. The Isle of Guernsey also saw service as a hospital ship, including Dunkirk, and later as a training vessel and landing ship. She was scrapped in 1961. This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
A SCALE WATERLINE MODEL OF THE R.M.S. QUEEN MARY, CIRCA 1937 carved and painted in Cunard livery with detailed superstructure and fittings as appropriate, depicted under full speed with a frothing bow wave and wake in a moulded painted seascape within glazed oak case with silver plaques engraved R.M.S. "QUEEN MARY" / CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE / LENGTH 1019' 6" / SCALE 1" TO 60FT / MODEL BY E.E. BURRAGE -- 10 x 30 x 14in. (25.5 x 76 x 35.5cm.)
A 1:48 SCALE BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE 'ACACIA' CLASS FLEET SWEEPING SLOOP H.M.S. HONEYSUCKLE, BUILT FOR THE ROYAL NAVY BY LOBNITZ & Co., RENFREW, 1915 the hull in good condition with fine original finish, the deck and superstructure distressed and missing components, original display base and plates, lacking glazed case -- 17 x 73 x 20in. (43 x 185.5 x 51cm.); facsimile set of rolled deck plans supplied by Greenwich (2) Built under the Emergency War Programme, this class comprised 24 vessels all named after flowers and were also referred to as the 'Flower Class' and 'Cabbage Class'. Displacing 1,200 tons, they measured 250ft and could cruise at a respectable 16½ knots manned by 77 officers and crew. Their bows were triple-hulled against mine explosions and, because they were coal-fired, were famed for giving off huge clouds of smoke which, after dark, streamed sparks from their funnels. Honeysucke was sold for breaking in September 1922. This lot will be available for viewing at Imperial Road
FIVE BESWICK POTTERY MODELS OF CATTLE, COMPRISING; THREE BULLS, gloss, Charolais (2463A), 5" (12.7cm), Fresian 'Coddington Hilt Bar', (1439A), 4 3/4" (12.1cm) high and Hereford First version (1363A), 4 1/2" (10.8cm) high, and TWO COWS, gloss Fresian 'Claybury Leegwater' (1362A), 4 1/2" (11.9cm) high, (restored), and Charolais (3075A), 5" (12.7cm) high, TOGETHER WITH A BESWICK MODEL OF A BLACK FACED SHEEP (1765), 3 1/4" (8.3cm) high (6)
A PAIR OF SMALL LATE EIGHTEENTH/EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY DERBY PORCELAIN FIGURES one of a little girl spooning food from a bowl, the other a little boy eating an apple, a basket of apples in his left hand, polychromed and gilded, incised 'No. 101', also a SMALL ENGLISH PORCELAIN MODEL OF TWO BRIGHTLY PLUMAGED BIRDS in a basket with pained twisted-wire handle (3)
A collection of silver coloured items, comprising: a straight-sided oval box, indistinct marks, perhaps Dutch, the cover now inset with a photographic portrait, engraved overall, 6.7cm long; a Danish engraved tea strainer; a George IV fiddle pattern sugar tongs by Jonathan Hayne, London 1828; a white alloy model of a dog and a teddy bear child's rattle (5)
A group of objects of vertu, including: a Dunhill silver plated Rollagas lighter, in a box; three other lighters; various snuff boxes; two cigarette holders; a wooden desk seal; a Mauchline ware pincushion; a Japanese ivory netsuke of a lantern maker; two glass scent phials; an opalescent glass model of a bird by Sabino, 4.5cm high; a Chinese jade two-part butterfly buckle; and other items
A 1978 MGB Roadster rubber bumper model, present lady owner for the last thirty five years. Full body restoration and respray by local garage completed 2007. Door gaps and boot need adjustment. Engine and brakes require attention. MOT due 11/2/16. Hood and interior need finishing. Exhaust requires re-hanging. The odometer reads 17,889. Suggest removal by trailer or transporter
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