1st May, 2018 11:00

Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Britannia')

 
  Lot 42
 

42

[M] Marie-Edouard ADAM (FRENCH, 1847-1929)<br/>The...

Marie-Edouard ADAM (FRENCH, 1847-1929)
The cargoship 'Worms', Captain Otto Hassold 1910
Signed indistinctly 'Ed. Adam' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
23 x 35½in. (58.5 x 90cm.)

Built and launched by Swan, Hunter & W. Richardson in 1907, the Worms was a 4428 ton general cargo ship owned by the Deutsch-Australische Dampfs Ges as part of their burgeoning fleet - by 1914 the Company owned 51 vessels. This Worms replaced one of 1905 which was wrecked in 1907 near Craster. Renamed Sha in 1916 and Harburg in 1920, she was broken up in Hamburg, 1933.

Sold for £682
Estimated at £200 - £400

(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)


Condition Report
righthand side: 6in tear and small puncture above otherwise in clean condition

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Marie-Edouard ADAM (FRENCH, 1847-1929)
The cargoship 'Worms', Captain Otto Hassold 1910
Signed indistinctly 'Ed. Adam' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
23 x 35½in. (58.5 x 90cm.)

Built and launched by Swan, Hunter & W. Richardson in 1907, the Worms was a 4428 ton general cargo ship owned by the Deutsch-Australische Dampfs Ges as part of their burgeoning fleet - by 1914 the Company owned 51 vessels. This Worms replaced one of 1905 which was wrecked in 1907 near Craster. Renamed Sha in 1916 and Harburg in 1920, she was broken up in Hamburg, 1933.
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