Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 26th October 2016
Lot 1257
A modern silver model of a ketch
Estimate £500 - £700
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Description
A modern silver model of a ketch,
by Ammonite Limited, Birmingham 1980,
modelled in full sail, with a tender, and with two later non silver anchors, mounted on a wooden base, applied with an inscribed plaque: '19th century trading ketch most numerous in 1850 in North American coastal regions and ideally suited to beach trade. the crew generally consisted of a skipper, mate and boy and the ketch carried general cargo including coal, salt, slate and other quarry materials', with a perspex cover, length of ketch 23cm.