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Lot 58W

A Builder's half model of the passenger cargo steamship India 1870
77x11.5x4ins.(195.5x29x10cm)

15 April 2014, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,062.50 inc. premium

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A Builder's half model of the passenger cargo steamship India 1870

Hull of solid timber on horizontal lifts. Painted black to the waterline with varnished gunwale and rail, decorated beakhead and quarters. Red below, with painted propeller aperture. Mounted onto a wooden painted backboard inscribed India and No 208 in gilt lettering. 77x11.5x4ins.(195.5x29x10cm)

Footnotes

Provenance: From the family of Mitchell's ship yard on the Tyne.

The India was built for R Rubattino & Co. of Genoa, by Charles Mitchells' Low Walker shipyard as a passenger cargo steam ship of 1,297 gross tons.

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