Lot Essay
This model was awarded Bronze Medal M.E. Exhibition, London, 1996
Details
An exhibition standard 1:120 scale waterline model of the smuggler 'Ferrett of Fowey' of circa 1803
built by M.J. Tidd with mast, yards, standing and running rigging and full suit of sails with reefing points, anchors, rope coils, belaying rails, gratings, sail winch, companionway, eight guns in carriages, aft lockers, helmsman with tiller and other members of the crew, the clinker built hull with closed gunports and planked deck, finished in white, black and venetian red and mounted on a painted, moulded seascape. Glazed case -- 9¾ x 14¾in. (24.7 x 37.5cm.) Certificate and historical data
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built by M.J. Tidd with mast, yards, standing and running rigging and full suit of sails with reefing points, anchors, rope coils, belaying rails, gratings, sail winch, companionway, eight guns in carriages, aft lockers, helmsman with tiller and other members of the crew, the clinker built hull with closed gunports and planked deck, finished in white, black and venetian red and mounted on a painted, moulded seascape. Glazed case -- 9¾ x 14¾in. (24.7 x 37.5cm.) Certificate and historical data
See illustration