29th Apr, 2009 12:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Popham)
98
[M] A RARE WHITE METAL AND ENAMEL SOUVENIR BROOCH...
A RARE WHITE METAL AND ENAMEL SOUVENIR BROOCH FOR THE S.S. CITY OF MONTREAL, CIRCA 1871
depicting the vessel steaming in a heavy sea with some sails set, mounted on an oblong with securing pin, the reverse engraved S.S. City of Montreal -- 1½in. (4cm.) wide
Built by Tod & McGregor of Glasgow for the Inman Line, City of Montreal was an iron hulled clipper-bowed steamship registering 4,451 gross tons and designed for the trans Atlantic crossing between Liverpool and New York. Accommodation for 60-1st, 60-2nd and 1,200-3rd Class Passengers was provided and she could make a respectable 12 knots. In 1877 she was refitted and thereafter carried two funnels; however on the 10th August 1887 she was overwhelmed by fire at sea with all hands saved by the Furness Lines liner York City.
Estimated at £300 - £400
depicting the vessel steaming in a heavy sea with some sails set, mounted on an oblong with securing pin, the reverse engraved S.S. City of Montreal -- 1½in. (4cm.) wide
Built by Tod & McGregor of Glasgow for the Inman Line, City of Montreal was an iron hulled clipper-bowed steamship registering 4,451 gross tons and designed for the trans Atlantic crossing between Liverpool and New York. Accommodation for 60-1st, 60-2nd and 1,200-3rd Class Passengers was provided and she could make a respectable 12 knots. In 1877 she was refitted and thereafter carried two funnels; however on the 10th August 1887 she was overwhelmed by fire at sea with all hands saved by the Furness Lines liner York City.
A RARE WHITE METAL AND ENAMEL SOUVENIR BROOCH FOR THE S.S. CITY OF MONTREAL, CIRCA 1871
depicting the vessel steaming in a heavy sea with some sails set, mounted on an oblong with securing pin, the reverse engraved S.S. City of Montreal -- 1½in. (4cm.) wide
Built by Tod & McGregor of Glasgow for the Inman Line, City of Montreal was an iron hulled clipper-bowed steamship registering 4,451 gross tons and designed for the trans Atlantic crossing between Liverpool and New York. Accommodation for 60-1st, 60-2nd and 1,200-3rd Class Passengers was provided and she could make a respectable 12 knots. In 1877 she was refitted and thereafter carried two funnels; however on the 10th August 1887 she was overwhelmed by fire at sea with all hands saved by the Furness Lines liner York City.
depicting the vessel steaming in a heavy sea with some sails set, mounted on an oblong with securing pin, the reverse engraved S.S. City of Montreal -- 1½in. (4cm.) wide
Built by Tod & McGregor of Glasgow for the Inman Line, City of Montreal was an iron hulled clipper-bowed steamship registering 4,451 gross tons and designed for the trans Atlantic crossing between Liverpool and New York. Accommodation for 60-1st, 60-2nd and 1,200-3rd Class Passengers was provided and she could make a respectable 12 knots. In 1877 she was refitted and thereafter carried two funnels; however on the 10th August 1887 she was overwhelmed by fire at sea with all hands saved by the Furness Lines liner York City.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art ('Popham), 29th Apr, 2009
