£6,000
A BUILDER'S MODEL FOR THE TANKER S.S. BRITISH COURAGE, BUILT FOR BP BY HAWTHORN LESLIE, 1957
the laminated and carved 84in. hull with red painted decks, and painted and plated fittings including anchors, deck rails, anchor winches, bitts, bollards, ventilators, companionways, pipework, wooden gantries with rails and intermittent cowls, raised superstructure with awning stanchions, overbridge with binnacle, rangefinder and comms masts, benches with wooden slats, wood capped deck rails, fitted lifeboats in davits, swimming pool, liveried funnel and much other fine detail, mounted on four silvered columns within original phosphor bronze case with maker's plates and detail plates dated 1967, on table stand of issue -- 59 x 96 x 19in. (150 x 244 x 48cm.)
The Honourable Company of Master Mariners; Presented by BP Tanker Company in 1973.
This 22,001-ton tanker was sold to the Society de Transportes Maritimos and renamed Pounentes in 1973 and sent for breaking in China in 1977.
Good original condition throughout.
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32.4% inc VAT*
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28.80% inc VAT*
