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Vintage Custom Scale CLIPPER BOAT MODEL 3 Mast Ship 28" Handmade Wood Model sail

$ 216.48

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Size: 24 in. - 36 in.
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Time Period, War: 1800s
  • Type: Clipper
  • Primary Material: Wood
  • Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
  • Country/Region of Origin: United States

    Description

    28" long, 22" height including stand, 6" width.
    Nice piece, seems to have all rigging. Really handsome model that someone spent probably hundreds of hours building... recovered from a Cape Cod estate. Decades of dust were just removed from this piece. Not perfect, but great condition for the age. Aging and weathered... Detailed painstakingly.  Certainly you can see some of the marks of the amateur builder, a few repairs and redecisions in the custom construction, as this is clearly not from a kit.  Some unevenness to pieces, dots of glue, signs of custom decisions throughout.  Neat ship in need of a bit of love and a new home.  overall, incredibly charming. some exposed grid where the decking wasn't finished... please look at all pictures.  most rigging is amateur thread.
    Could use a new stand, the plywood and dowel one here doesn't deserve such a display.  a few new lines of rigging and a little tune up and this will be a great authentic custom display built by a hobbyist 60+ years ago on the cape.
    Feel free to ask any questions.  Local pickup preferred, otherwise shipping will be done carefully as I've shipped many vintage model boats, but there is always risk.