A diorama "Taking on a Pilot" with the whaling bark "Charles W Morgan". by Kenneth Britten (British, 20th century) the models, in 1/8 in.=1 ft. scale, set in in a modeled and painted sea, the hulls weathered and well detailed with deck houses, tri-works, whale boats on davits, ladders, railings, masts rigged with standing and running rigging, modeled sails with seams and reef lines, and other details. Displayed in a brass framed glass case with a mahogany base and stand. 28-½ x 21 x 18 in.(72 x 53 x 46 cm.) cased on stand.
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15 Oct 2012 10:30 EDT Portsmouth
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A diorama "Taking on a Pilot" with the whaling bark Charles W Morgan
Kenneth Britten (British, 20th century)
the models, in 1/8 in.=1 ft. scale, set in in a modeled and painted sea, the hulls weathered and well detailed with deck houses, tri-works, whale boats on davits, ladders, railings, masts rigged with standing and running rigging, modeled sails with seams and reef lines, and other details. Displayed in a brass framed glass case with a mahogany base and stand.
28-½ x 21 x 18 in.(72 x 53 x 46 cm.) cased on stand.
Sold for US$ 4,125 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • The whaling bark Charles W Morgan was built by Jethro and Zachariah Hillman in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1841 for the whaling merchant of the same name. She worked as a whaling boat for 80 years during the peak of the whaling industry, making 37 voyages and catching and processing more whales that any other whaling ship in history. She sailed for New Bedford and San Francisco and due to the decline in whale oil prices in the early 20th century, her whaling days came to the end in 1921.

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