A BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACK MODEL OF THE CARGO SHIP S.S. GLANYWERN

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A BUILDER'S MIRROR-BACK MODEL OF THE CARGO SHIP S.S. GLANYWERN
with cutaway masts and funnel, stowed collapsible anchors, deck rails, hatches, ventilators, winch, superstructure with open bridge, two lifeboats in davits, engine lights, capstan, benches and other details. The hull with carved and gold-painted stern decoration, two-blade propeller and rudder is finished in pink, black, lacquer and silver-plated brightwork, is mounted on a front-silvered mirror with bow and stern mirrors set at 45°, within mahogany-bound glazed case set atop a glass-fronted display cabinet (restoration, cabinet later). Measurements including cabinet -- 46½ x 66in. (118 x 168cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. This lot is subject to Collection and Storage Charges.

拍品专文

A careful search of Lloyd's Registers of Shipping has so far failed to locate any iron screw steamer named Glanywern although a superficial knowledge of the Welsh language suggests that Glanwern and Glanywern (or Glan-y-wern) are one and the same. Assuming this to be the case, the Glanywern (sic) was built by W. Doxford & Sons at Sunderland in 1882 for the Aberystwyth Steam Ship Company. Registered at 915 tons gross (719 underdeck and 574 net), she was designed with one main deck plus a well deck and measured 212 feet in length with a 30 foot beam. Powered by a compound 2-cylinder 90nhp. engine manufactured in Doxford's own workshops, she seems to have been used as a blueprint for other Doxford orders, their Glanrheidol of 1883, built for another Welsh company, being identical in every respect. Sold to Thomas Howe & Co. of Cardiff in 1889 and then resold the next year to Actieselskabet Glanwern of Tonsberg, Norway, she was purchased by another Norwegian owner in 1905 and renamed Manchester. Before that year was out however, on 23rd November (1905), she was sunk after a collision with the steamer Frieda off the Calf of Man.