SCOTTISH HALF-BLOCK BUILDER'S MODEL, S.S. ARDGARVEL & ARDGANTOCK, BY HUGH MACMILLAN, GREENOCK
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
£4,032
Auction: Lots 1 - 335 | 04 September at 10am
Description
painted and fitted with rigging and hardware, in a glazed mahogany case, with ivorine plaque inscribed ‘S.S. “ARDGARVEL” & “ARDGANTOCK”, BUILT BY FERGUSON BROS. (PORT GLASGOW) LTD/ PORT GLASGOW / FOR LANG & FULTON LTD. / LENGTH, B.P. 200'-0". DEPTH MLD. TO M.D., 15'-0"/ BREADTH, MLD., 30'-0". “ ” “ Q.D., 19'-0” / 1917; the reverse with paper trade label for Hugh Macmillan, Modelmaker, 15 Cathcart Street, Greenock
Dimensions
case 160cm wide, 58cm high, 19cm deep; ship 139cm
Footnote
Note: Hugh MacMillan Sr. was a renowned model maker born in 1880 in Greenock, Scotland. His son Hugh MacMillan Jr (1901-1968) followed in his father’s footsteps making models and eventually making models of aeroplanes as well as ships. Hugh, Jr. emigrated to the US in 1926.