Lot Essay
Volunteer was a centerboard sloop owned by General Charles J. Paine.
Details
A well detailed display model of the America's Cup yacht Volunteer (1887)
With mast and booms, standing and running rigging, anchors, winches, companionway, belaying rails and pins, bitts, gratings, stove pipe, deck lights, capstan, bildge pump, helm and binnacle, rope coils, life bells and dinghy in lashings, finished in green, cream and natural wood and mounted on two slender brass columns, inlaid display base and brass bound glazed cover
82 x 79cm.
With mast and booms, standing and running rigging, anchors, winches, companionway, belaying rails and pins, bitts, gratings, stove pipe, deck lights, capstan, bildge pump, helm and binnacle, rope coils, life bells and dinghy in lashings, finished in green, cream and natural wood and mounted on two slender brass columns, inlaid display base and brass bound glazed cover
82 x 79cm.