From Carrack to Clipper: A Book of Sailing-Ship Models
Year: 1927 Language: english Author: Frank C. Bowen Genre: History Publisher: Halton & Truscott Smith Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 156 Description: At the present moment there is an unprecedented enthusiasm for ship-models on both sides of the Atlantic, and the public has taken a great fancy to works of art which a few years ago were only of interest to the student of naval architecture and a handful of maritime enthusiasts. Naturally enough, such a demand has soon produced a supply, and the market is now being flooded with ship-models which have nothing but a surface appearance of age to commend them to any purchaser. They are being turned out in their hundreds by German factories and dealers occasionally contrive to get quite a big price for them from unsuspecting amateurs. The object of this work is not to pose as a text-book for collectors of ship-models. Two or three expensive books on the subject have been published, but even they only touch on the fringe. Such books are the meat of the collector who is willing to pay his two and three hundred pounds for a model : even so they do not teach him to detect the spurious any more than the art book teaches the collector to detect the old master under the varnish. But there are many model enthusiasts who cannot afford to pay such prices, either on their hobby itself or on books about it. Outside the big collections there are thousands of good models scattered all over the world in ones and twos, frequently handed down for generations. The owners of such models are just as anxious for information concerning them as the rich collectors who can afford to spend large sums.
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From Carrack to Clipper: A Book of Sailing-Ship Models
Language: english
Author: Frank C. Bowen
Genre: History
Publisher: Halton & Truscott Smith
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 156
Description: At the present moment there is an unprecedented enthusiasm for ship-models on both sides of the Atlantic, and the public has taken a great fancy to works of art which a few years ago were only of interest to the student of naval architecture and a handful of maritime enthusiasts. Naturally enough, such a demand has soon produced a supply, and the market is now being flooded with ship-models which have nothing but a surface appearance of age to commend them to any purchaser. They are being turned out in their hundreds by German factories and dealers occasionally contrive to get quite a big price for them from unsuspecting amateurs.
The object of this work is not to pose as a text-book for collectors of ship-models. Two or three expensive books on the subject have been published, but even they only touch on the fringe. Such books are the meat of the collector who is willing to pay his two and three hundred pounds for a model : even so they do not teach him to detect the spurious any more than the art book teaches the collector to detect the old master under the varnish.
But there are many model enthusiasts who cannot afford to pay such prices, either on their hobby itself or on books about it. Outside the big collections there are thousands of good models scattered all over the world in ones and twos, frequently handed down for generations. The owners of such models are just as anxious for information concerning them as the rich collectors who can afford to spend large sums.
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