A Model of the Schooner Yacht America

LEONARD BRAINSKY, C.M.M.S. (AMERICAN, BORN 1921)

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A Model of the Schooner Yacht America
Leonard Brainsky, C.M.M.S. (American, born 1921)
A fine scale model, built up in plank on frame construction, with the hull and deck built up in maple planking for the hull and maple veneer for the deck. The model is fitted with numerous details which include: anchors, anchor windlass, skylights, capstan, stove pipe, companionway, circular cockpit, etc. The model is rigged as a gaff rigged schooner, and is fitted with 2 masts and a bowsprit. The rigging details include shroud hanks, jib boom, mast rings in brass, main boom, gaffs, turning blocks, standing and running rigging, etc. The model is also fitted with a full suit of linen sails with the sail panels drawn in and reef points attached to the mainsail. The model is displayed on a pair of wood turned posts in a glass case with a mahogany base.
28½ x 9½ x 23½ in. (72.4 x 24.1 x 59.7 cm.) cased dimensions.

拍品專文

The first contest for the 100 Guinea Cup or the Queen's Cup, was sponsored by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain as part of an international exhibition in London in 1851. Members of the New York Yacht Club competed in the race with the 170-ton schooner America, which in August 1851 sailed against 14 yachts from the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight. America easily won the prize, a silver cup. In 1857 the cup was presented to the New York Yacht Club, to be held as a perpetual trophy; thereafter it became known as the America's Cup.