Lot 393
LARGE POND YACHT MODEL 'FLEETWING'
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 27 January 2016 at 10:00 GMT
£525
Description
with a black painted hull, inscribed mid-deck 'FLEETWING / SMYC'
Dimensions
156cm long, 226cm high
Footnote
Note:
Lots 393 and 394 are marked with the initials of the St Monan's Yacht Club
The pond yacht model, the 'Fleetwing' was built in the 1930s by John (Ian) Morrison, who was serving his apprenticeship with local yacht-builders James N. Miller in St Monans. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy where he worked as a shipwright/carpenter, before he left to continue his career as a builder of both model and fishing boats in Scotland.