$2,370
Wooden Ship Model of the 1902 Mackerel Schooner Benjamin W. Lathem, Dr. Norman Selverstone, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979-82, scratch-built from a variety of woods including cherry frame and keel, holly, beech, and walnut bulwarks, mahogany waterways, deck houses, and bowsprit, boxwood deck planking, birch hull planking, and basswood dowels, ht. 6 1/2, wd. 5 3/4, lg. 29 in. Note: Accompanying the model is a photocopy of an article from The Belmont Herald , dated April 15, 1982, showing Dr. Selverstone and his model, which was exhibited at the Spring Art Fair sponsored by Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Cambridge Art Association, and for which he won first prize.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-06-08
