Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 11 Aug 2020
A SCALE MODEL OF THE THREE-MASTED SCHOONER 'ACAMAS' FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY with wooden masts
A SCALE MODEL OF THE THREE-MASTED SCHOONER 'ACAMAS'
FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY
with wooden masts, decks, lifeboats and other details, mounted in an ebonised glazed case
56.3cm high, 85.8cm wide, 28.4cm deep
CATALOGUE NOTE
'Acamas' was built at Mary Port in 1897 by T. Ritson & Son. Eventually, the ship was sold to Norway. She was posted missing in 1918 on a passage from Rio to New York.