A well detailed fully rigged model of the American Clipper 'Flying Cloud' of 1851

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A well detailed fully rigged model of the American Clipper 'Flying Cloud' of 1851
modelled by Glen Brown with bound masts, spars with foot and hand ropes, standing and running rigging, carved female figurehead with horn, anchors, capstan, catheads, bollards, bitts, deck rails, companionways, belaying rails and pins, deck houses, hatches, firebuckets, deck rails, companionways, deck light, helm, chart locker and three ship's boats and another with thwarts in davits and other details. The hull, individually copper plated to the waterline, is finished in black, white and grey with planked decks and mounted on two turned metal columns -- 24 x 36in. (61 x 91.5cm.). Glazed case

Provenance

ex Jim Proctor, Greenwich CT Collection

Lot Essay

Built by Donald McKay, East Boston for Enoch Train, 1851 she was acquired by Grunnell, Mintern & Co New York and made the fastest passage New York - San Francisco ever recorded by a sailing ship June 8 - August 31st 1851, equalled only by herself on another voyage and in 1860 by the 'Andrew Jackson'. She was destroyed by fire at St. John's, New Brunswick in 1874.

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