1:75 wood Cutty Sark, Museum heirloom quality model,

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1:75 wood Cutty Sark, Museum heirloom quality model,

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Sold Date: 03/08/2008
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fine Art

This is an heirloom quality model of the clipper "Cutty Sark". Built of approximately 70%wood, 22%copper, 3%brass, .1%gold, 4% cotton-silk, .2% iron and .3%plastic

She is 1/75 scale or 44 inches long, 15 inches wide with full studding sails unfurled, and 31 inches high.

This hand built model of the Tea Clipper "Cutty Sark" was laid from the keel plates up

with the finest genuine materials, many that were used in the original ship. I happened to travel to Greenwich England on business, w the real-life clipper is moored, and took hundreds of photos of the genuine ship for as much authenticity as possible. This model is number 1 of possibly 1 or 2 for public distribution. I began work on her in 1993 for my own collection, but work on my career kept my work on her to about 5 to 10 hours per month. She finished about 6 months ago and my selling her is of strictly personal reasons.

I have left the rigging just short of finished so that the new owner could select how she will be permanently rigged. Everything about her is in Bristol fashion of the finest craftsmanship, any collector has seen. I have seen models of her type of far lesser craftsmanship, which still looked very nice and fetched over $5000 in fine nautical shops in Seattle , San Diego and San Francisco .

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· You choose how you would prefer to have your clipper rigged.

· Her masts and rigging are accurate to the genuine Clippers of the day and are available

as they were for any ships' Captain, for:

· "Port stowage"(All sails tightly stowed below decks),

· "Light running" placed and tuned to be accurate for "Running for Seas".

or with Full "Studding sails unfurled" for full down-wind reaching.

· Her sails are hand sewn silk and cotton with genuine black reinforced stitching.

· Her stanchions, bull-heads and most of her hardware and fittings are solid brass, ordered custom from a leading European miniature fitting kit and modeling company.

· She is 1/75 scale or 44 inches long, 15 inches wide with full studding sails unfurled, and 31 inches high.

· " placed and tuned to be accurate for "Running for Seas".

· Her sails are hand sewn silk and cotton with genuine black reinforced stitching.

· Her ship's legend head is genuine 24kt gold leaf with horse hair in hand (legend included)

· Triple jibs Reefed tight for speed

· Cutty sails rigged for light seas or an easy reach home

· Contrasting wood colors offer a striking display of elegance.

· Most details taken from the original 19 th century drawings in Greenwich , England

· Her decks are scale cut and laid genuine Teak deck planking sealed with tung-oil and poly.

· Every inch of this grand lady in every detail

· With solid birch, pine and basswood hull planking normally painted black, I decided such natural beauty and craftsmanship should not be covered by paint!. If you want it black though, I will paint it for you.

· Likewise, with over 100 hours of work applying and polishing each pure copper plate by hand, I decided to polish and seal it "as is" with clear polyurethane instead of painting or pickling it. If you really want it red though, I will paint it for you.

Detailed copper and brass rudder beneath the quartermasters' station.

Grey canvas covers the main cargo hold hatch just forward of the main mess

Atop the main mess, the #2 lifeboat, detailed with genuine teak hull, brass railing/hold-bar, fully detailed mast with sloop sail and rigging, and real bass-wood plank row-station seating in case of a flat calm.

Aft, fast skiff boats (thinner boats with white seats) sport an all copper bottom with mahogany free-board and solid brass railing/hold/bar. These boats are also ready for skiff type sail rigging set. The two-tone stained, mahogany plank ...