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RARE 1/3 SCALE MODEL INDIAN BIRCH BARK CANOE-82" LONG

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Sold Date: 03/24/2011
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Transportation and Vehicles

MUSEUM GRADE 1/3 TO LIFE SCALE MODEL

NATIVE AMERICAN "INDIAN" BIRCH BARK CANOE

IMPORTANT OFFERING!

Allston Antiques takes the utmost pride in offering this ultra rare museum grade 1/3 to life scale and completely accurate 82" long & 21" wide model of a Native American "Indian" birch bark canoe. We have been accumulating research information about this piece. Our main point of reference is Robert LaVertue, noted sailing canoe and antique wooden boat restoration expert. Bob cautioned us to hold this listing back as he feels certain that we would be making a huge mistake in letting an extremely valuable piece slip through our hands. We have never become paralyzed behind any piece. If we make a mistake to the buyer's benefit than we are truly happy that one of our customers made a score. Plus we walk away from it being enriched by the education we obtained from the experience. Don't we all deserve a score from time to time? Its a big part of the fun of this business and the day it stops being fun is the day we will find something else to do. Back to this remarkable find: Its truly too large to be a conventional model. Accuarate average size is about 18 foot long. If it is it was made for a museum exhibit the plan sought 100% accuracy as is the case here. We would imagine that the bark skin is applied and fastened with some contemporary resin as opposed to pine pitch. It has bent oak gunwhales and bent splint ribbed construction with cross support rods and front and back solid wood braces. Every attention to detail was employed in the construction of this piece. Our information from the seller (the little he honestly knew) was that this was made in the Adirondacks about 30 years ago and as long as he could remember was in the family's lake side summer home. Ever see the 'modest' little summer lodges up there? They call them "mansions" anywhere else! Frankly this canoe looks slightly more recent due to its spotless condition. Its always been housed in a controlled envirornment. We have seen and handled a lot of vintage boats and until now never had the pleasure of handling anything like this beauty.

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Founded in 1979 in the Harvard Avenue Allston section of Boston by Judith Sacarob Youngworth and William P. Youngworth, III. Allston Antiques created the entire Harvard Avenue Antiques District and was Boston's very best antique furniture and decorative arts shop. Many of you reading this will look around your homes and see the remarkable treasures obtained through our four Boston stores. Now we are proud to present to you William P. Youngworth, IV, the new owner of Allston Antiques. We bring to you over 35 years of industry expertise with the very best inventory and contacts in the antiques industry of the Northeastern United States. We welcome back our family of loyal customers. We look forward to serving you once again and making new friends with those of you who have not yet experienced New England's very best in fine furniture and collectibles. We are presently in the transition process of merging our former on line operation under the umbrella of Allston Antiques for what will be the very best in offerings anywhere in the United States. For those of you who we have had the pleasure of serving over the last several years through our last company you can expect the very same standard of excellence you have come to depend on and premise we have continued to proudly build our reputation on. We sadly lost Judy in 1997 and we honor her memory each day through every wonderful piece we offer.

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We only offer you the most select goods available anywhere at the very best prices. You might find cheaper but you will not find better. Each item we offer has been carefully examined and any item needing attention receives it from our expert restoration staff. If an item has a notable flaw that is so minor that it does it require a full restoration we will do our very best to bring this to your attention. We deal in a ver...