£60 - £90
Models. The Chris Knutson Archive:
Scratch-built treen model potato carts one with shaft and chassis painted red, the other varnished. Scale 1½ins. to 1ft. (2)
The models were made during the 1980s by Christopher Knutson after he had retired and was living in Monmouth. He took up model making purely as a retirement hobby and over a period of eight to ten years produced about a dozen models of various cart types. Several were given as presents to family members, these are the final ones. He was not a woodworker by trade but had the necessary skill and patience to make stuff like this: Note they are not made from 'kits', he purchased detailed plans and fashioned every component by hand.
He was born in 1908 and died in 1994 of 'Industrial Disease', specifically lung damage due to his time as a coal miner in South Wales during the 1930s. He survived WWII, including Malta during the siege, but in the end the dust caught up with him.
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Free Registration
30% inc VAT*
Flat Fee Registration
26.40% inc VAT*
