Ship Model Folk Art Combination Sail and Steamship Perc or Stillman Wilbur

Description

On offer a folk art ship model of a combination sail and steamship, entirely carved and worked by hand, made from make-do materials:  the rails are tiny tacks strung with flax and painted with a metallic paint, the masts look suspicously like drumsticks, etc. This was made by Perc Wilbur or his father Stillman Wilbur, who both worked in a shipyard in Albert, New Brunswick.
SIZE
: 24 L x 7 W x 13 T
CONDITION
: Good, amazingly intact given the fragility, excellent original surface.  Missing the side of one level, as shown.  Losses as pictured, displays extremely well.
ABOUT:
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