A model of the Grand Banks fishing schooner Benjamin Latham

ANONYMOUS (AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY)

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A model of the Grand Banks fishing schooner Benjamin Latham
Anonymous (American, 20th century)
A solid huill model with black painted topsides and a red bottom. The deck of the model is of mahogany and is fitted with numerous details, including: anchors, windlass, pin and fife rails, chain locker, companionways, deck hatches, fishing dories, barrels, cabin top, boom crutches, ship's wheel, and other details. The model is fitted with two masts with standing and running rigging, and a full suit of cotton sails. The model is displayed on a pair of brass pedestals in a brass framed glass case with mahogany base and stand.
41 x 12¾ x 63½ in. (104.1 x 32.4 x 161.3 cm.) cased dimensions on stand.

Lot Essay

The Benjamin W. Latham was a turn-of-the-century Grand Banks fisherman. Built in the Tarr & James Yard at Essex, Massachusetts in 1902, she sailed out of Noank, Connecticut as a mackerel seiner. From 1906 to the end of her career, she worked as a dory trawler out of New York's Fulton Fish Market. She was lost off the coast of San Juan in 1943.

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