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Diorama of the Seven-Masted Schooner Thomas W. Lawson
United States, early 20th century

2 – 12 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$3,840 inc. premium

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Diorama of the Seven-Masted Schooner Thomas W. Lawson

United States, early 20th century
Fine half-hull ship model depicted at full sail with six figures on deck, mounted in a glazed shadow box with a raked sky background, the bottom rail plastered and painted to depict choppy ocean waves, flying a faded silk U.S. flag at stern, pencil inscription "F. Upham" on reverse, wd. 47 1/2, dp. 4 5/8, ht. 25 1/4 in.

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Provenance
Property from an Important New York Collection.
James and Nancy Glazer, Bailey Island, Maine, and Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Note
Thomas W. Lawson (1857-1925) of Boston, Massachusetts, was a prominent stock trader heavily invested in copper mining and steel mills. He commissioned the design for a steel-hulled, seven-masted sailing ship from naval architect Bowdoin B. Crowninshield. It was constructed by the Fore River Ship & Engine Building Co. of Quincy and launched in July 1902. Although intended for mercantile trade in the Pacific, Thomas W. Lawson served predominantly as a coal and oil tanker on the Atlantic coast. She sank during a storm near Cornwall, England, in December 1907.

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