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75 - A FINELY-DETAILED BUILDER'S-STYLE MODEL OF THE LONDON, CHATHAM & DOVER RAILWAY PADDLE FERRIES CALAIS & DOVER, ORIGINALLY BUILT BY DENNY BROTHERS, DUMBARTON, 1896
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£4,000 - 6,000 (€4,700 - 7,200)Sale fees
A FINELY-DETAILED BUILDER'S-STYLE MODEL OF THE LONDON, CHATHAM & DOVER RAILWAY PADDLE FERRIES CALAIS & DOVER, ORIGINALLY BUILT BY DENNY BROTHERS, DUMBARTON, 1896 the laminated and carved hull with lined boxwood deck complete with silvered and gilt fittings as appropriate, stayed funnel, six lifeboats in davits, glazed wheelhouse with compass, binnacles etc., paddle boxes with feathering gilt paddle wheels, masts and rigging, mounted on gilt posts to a plush-lined green display board with brass plaque and glazed cover -- 29 x 75½ x 22in. (74 x 191.8 x 56cm.) Provenance: With Langford's Marine Antiques. Completed in March 1896, Calais & Dover registered 979 tons each, were 280 feet long and fitted with two 19.5hp engines. Calais was sold in 1912 and re-named the Au Revoir and was fated to be torpedoed and sunk off Cap de la Heve in February 1916; Dover was sold for breaking at Stavanger in 1911.
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