£5,500
A BUILDER'S-STYLE MODEL BY NORMAN HILL FOR THE S.S. SINNINGTON COURT, ORIGINALLY BUILT BY ARMSTRONG, WHITWORTH & CO. FOR THE UNITED BRITISH S.S. CO., 1928
with 52in. carved hull finished with red below the waterline, ebonised topsides, lined yellow and planked decks replete with detailed metal and wood fittings as appropriate with some elements plated in gilt, mounted on four gilt supports within glazed wooden case with builder's-style plates -- 25½ x 60½ x 16½in. (65 x 154 x 42cm.) overall
A large vessel of nearly 7000 tons, Sinnington Court was owned by the Court Line for ten years from 1936 before reverting to her original owners. Sold to Japanese owners in 1951, by 1955 she was trading as the Fukuzan Maru. On 26th October 1961 she foundered in a hurricane sixty miles north of Saipan on a voyage from Townsville to Yokohama carrying copper ore. Understood to have been privately commissioned in the 1970's, Norman Hill mainly produced models for the Admiralty.
Overall restortion, later plates and case.
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