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Ship Models
Megayacht On Foreclosure Auction Block
April 17, 2013Foreclosure auctions are often on courthouse steps, but this one will be held in a harbor. “Triton,” a 163-foot foot megayacht has all the toys: helipad, country kitchen, elevator, quarters for 14 guests and 10 crew, two 1000 hp diesels, and a range of 6,100 nautical miles. It also has a $21m unpaid mortgage. The San Diego sale is scheduled for April 26, “as is and where is” to the highest bidder.
Read more...Model Ship May Take $250,000 Cruise To New Port
October 25, 2012For $250,000 you could choose between quite a variety of powerboats and sailing vessels. Or you could apply the sum toward a model paddle wheeler that Bertoia Auctions is offering at a New Jersey sale next month. The toy ship “Chicago,” which Marklin constructed between 1900-1902, is the highlight at an auction of the vast Dick Claus collection of model boats. To captain this particular ship, Bertoia expects you’ll have to pay $200,000-$250,000.
Read more...Spectacular Maritime Art Auction
October 04, 2012By today’s auction standards big money won’t cross the block, but beauty will, when some of the most enchanting paintings of ships at sea come to Annapolis, Md., where Heritage is selling what it terms“ perhaps the finest collection of maritime art ever assembled.”
Read more...How European Aristocrats Lived
April 11, 2011Once, these objects filled the great houses of Europe’s aristocracy—items like a set of double-cased set of drawing instruments (est. $73,600-$114,400) that luxury goods maker Alphonse Giroux created in the 19th century for the Duchesse de Berry. Her collection forms the majority of the more than 1000 items that Sotheby’s will be offering in London later this week in a sale it’s calling “Noblesse Oblige.”
Read more...Nautical Collection Of Malcolm Forbes To Sell
January 10, 2011Last month Sotheby’s sold Malcolm Forbes remarkable collection of toys, which included a number of boat models. But it was only a scintilla of the irrepressible publisher’s vest maritime collection—the largest ever assembled of ship models, marine painting and nautical memorabilia, which Red Baron Auctions will sell on January 29-30.
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