A Model Of The Baltimore Clipper LYNX

FINE ART MODELS (AMERICAN, 20TH CENTURY)

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A Model Of The Baltimore Clipper LYNX
Fine Art Models (American, 20th century)
This is a fine model of this famous Baltimore clipper. The pre-formed hull is scored to replicate deck planking with coffee colored topsides, and painted brown below a black waist. The bottom is painted and off white. The deck of the model is planked in basswood and is marked with trunnell points. The model is well detailed with anchors, belfry, pin and fife rails, stove pipe, deck gratings, long boat with oars mounted amidships and a ship's boat on davits mounted on the stern, bilge pumps, six cannons rigged on carriages, etc. The model is well rigged with two masts, standing and running rigging, bowsprit, gaffs, boom, topsails, cross spars, etc. The model is also rigged with a full set of sails including jibs, staysails, squarsails, main and fore sail, stun'sails, etc. The model is displayed in a plexi glass case with a light mahogany base.
50 x 23 x 34½ in. (127 x 58.4 x 87.6 cm.) cased dimensions.

Lot Essay

In 1814 the American Navy called for three 74-gun ships to be built and two squadrons of fast brigs and schooners, which would be sent out under Commodores Porter and Perry. Built at Washington, D.C. by James Owner, the Lynx was in the second squadron, which was comprised of five vessels. The Lynx was a Baltimore Clipper type ship, about 80' on deck and pierced for 14 guns, but armed with only six; she was an extreme clipper schooner without enough displacement to carry the guns she was pierced for.

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