£850
A FINELY CONSTRUCTED MODEL FOR A THAMES TIMBER BARGE LYDIA, CIRCA 1888
constructed as in working practice, in contrasting woods with planked and pinned hull and deck with companionway with sliding cover and ladder, hatches covered with individually numbered boards, windlass, deck rings and intermittent gunwales -- 6 x 27in. (15 x 68.5cm.)
Richard Martin (1852-1920), a Master Barge Builder who worked at Corey's Barge Builders for over fifty years and who constructed this model in 1888 in celebration of the birth of his daughter, Lydia.
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