Lot Essay
RMS Queen Mary, 81,237 tons completed her last New York-Southampton Crossing 22.9.1967 and is now owned by the Walt Disney Co. (1988)
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BASSETT-LOWKE; C.1992
Details
A Model Of The R.M.S. QUEEN MARY
Bassett-Lowke; c.1992
A museum quality model with black and white topsides, red bottom and white waterline. The decks are of veneer with drawn in planking and the super structure and deck details are painted white. Other details include: anchors, bollards, chocks, anchor windlass, ventilators, deck and hand railings, catwalks, covered lifeboats on davits, funnels painted in Cunard livery, badminton courts, docking bridge, masts with standing and running rigging with crows nests, flag and jack staff as well as other miscellaneous details. The model is mounted on four brass pedestals and displayed in a oak frame and plexiglass case on an oak stand.
80¼ x 16¼ x 49.7/8 in. (225.4 x 41.3 x 126.4 cm.); cased dimensions on stand
Bassett-Lowke; c.1992
A museum quality model with black and white topsides, red bottom and white waterline. The decks are of veneer with drawn in planking and the super structure and deck details are painted white. Other details include: anchors, bollards, chocks, anchor windlass, ventilators, deck and hand railings, catwalks, covered lifeboats on davits, funnels painted in Cunard livery, badminton courts, docking bridge, masts with standing and running rigging with crows nests, flag and jack staff as well as other miscellaneous details. The model is mounted on four brass pedestals and displayed in a oak frame and plexiglass case on an oak stand.
80¼ x 16¼ x 49.7/8 in. (225.4 x 41.3 x 126.4 cm.); cased dimensions on stand
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, 10 October, 1991, lot 247.