STUNNING 20thC JAPANESE BOARDROOM DISPLAY MODEL OF A TANKER c.1971
Reference Number: B6866
DESCRIPTION
A wonderful builder’s boardroom model for the oil carrier Hampton Maru, built for the Daiichi Chuo Kisen, by Sumitomo, Japan, circa 1971. Made with a wonderful shaped metal 140cm hull finished in polychrome with black topsides and orange decks with gilt metal fittings and pipework as appropriate, grey painted hold covers, white superstructure with green roofs, comms mast, liveried funnel with aerials, covered lifeboats in davits and other details, mounted on four gilt brass columns to display base with maker's plate for Momiyama Model Ship Mfg, Tokyo, with glass cover. Registered at 95,934 tons, this tanker was converted to a bulk carrier which reduced its weight by 1,140 tons. Sold and renamed Gold Transporter in 1982, she was broken up at Kaohsiung in 1984.
CONDITION
In Good condition - Communications mast a little warped, rigging restored. Blemished deck between hatch 2 and 3, possibly a missing deck house. Later case.
SIZE
Height: 56cm
Width: 178cm
Depth: 51cm
