Half Modelof an Extreme Clipper Ship Ca 1852

This Fine Item Has Been Sold! Thank you!

BUILDER’S
HALF MODEL OF An EXTREME CLIPPER
SHIP

SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS –
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DIMENSIONS:

The ship model 30″
L x 2 3/4″ W x 4″ Depth
The
backboard 35″ L x 9″ W x 1/2″ T
Weight 10
pounds

Presented is a finely
made builder’s half hull model with six alternating lifts of Mahogany. The aged
backboard has been added. It reminds us of the half model of Donald McKay’s
famous Clipper Ship Sovereign of the Seas which
we sold in 2007, and may be another model of this famous
ship.

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Half
Model of Sovereign of the Seas sold by us in
2007

The original ship was
launched on 19 June 1852 at McKay’s, East Boston, MA., ship yard. Built for his
own account on speculation, she was immediately sold to Andrew F. Meinke of the
ship broker firm Funch & Meinke, New York.

Sovereign’s leading dimensions are as follows:
— Length of keel 245 feet, on deck, between perpendiculars 258, over all, from
the knight-heads to the taffrail, 265′; extreme beam 44′, depth 23½ feet, and
registers 2421 tons.

Looking from
the bow

Looking
from
the
stern

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Overhead deck
view

PROVENANCE: The half
hull comes from a New England estate, and nothing else is known of its origin
other than she is a finely crafted piece.

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