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Auction archive: Lot number 270

A FINE AND WELL DETAILED STATIC DISPLAY WOOD AND METAL MODEL OF THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION ("OLD IRONSIDES")

Auction 01.11.2001
1 Nov 2001
Estimate
£2,800 - £3,500
ca. US$4,023 - US$5,029
Price realised:
£2,820
ca. US$4,052
Auction archive: Lot number 270

A FINE AND WELL DETAILED STATIC DISPLAY WOOD AND METAL MODEL OF THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION ("OLD IRONSIDES")

Auction 01.11.2001
1 Nov 2001
Estimate
£2,800 - £3,500
ca. US$4,023 - US$5,029
Price realised:
£2,820
ca. US$4,052
Beschreibung:

A FINE AND WELL DETAILED STATIC DISPLAY WOOD AND METAL MODEL OF THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION ("OLD IRONSIDES") modelled by Z. Petrofszky with bound white painted masts, yards with stun's'l booms and foot ropes, standing and running rigging, fiddle-end prow, boomkins, catheads, metal anchors with bound wooden stocks, belaying rails and pins, hammock nets, grates with shot racks, belfry, ship's boat lashed to main grate, capstan, deck lights, double helm, binnacle, twenty guns in carriages and many other details. The planked hull with finely plated copper sheathing, gun ports with guns and split-lids, chainplates and deadeyes, boarding companionway, glazed quarter windows and rudder, is finished in black, white and varnish and mounted on four white columns over a mirror with legend, display base and glazed cover. Overall measurements - 31 x 47 x 18½in. (79 x 120 x 47cm.) See illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 270
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

A FINE AND WELL DETAILED STATIC DISPLAY WOOD AND METAL MODEL OF THE U.S.S. CONSTITUTION ("OLD IRONSIDES") modelled by Z. Petrofszky with bound white painted masts, yards with stun's'l booms and foot ropes, standing and running rigging, fiddle-end prow, boomkins, catheads, metal anchors with bound wooden stocks, belaying rails and pins, hammock nets, grates with shot racks, belfry, ship's boat lashed to main grate, capstan, deck lights, double helm, binnacle, twenty guns in carriages and many other details. The planked hull with finely plated copper sheathing, gun ports with guns and split-lids, chainplates and deadeyes, boarding companionway, glazed quarter windows and rudder, is finished in black, white and varnish and mounted on four white columns over a mirror with legend, display base and glazed cover. Overall measurements - 31 x 47 x 18½in. (79 x 120 x 47cm.) See illustration

Auction archive: Lot number 270
Auction:
Datum:
1 Nov 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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