MEMORABILIA
ACQUIRING ARTEFACTS AT AUCTION
The auction house Charles Miller Ltd specialises in nautical, maritime and shipping antiques, selling many impressive and interesting items.
A 1:64 scale builder’s model (Swan Hunter) of the 1906-built liner Mauretania, which measured 4m in length. It was carved from laminated wood, with gilt and painted fittings and finished in Cunard livery. It is thought that this model probably appeared in a pre-War exhibition about the famed ‘Blue Riband’, and had been on loan to the Science Museum since 1938, who later decided to sell it. This highly prized item sold for £167,400, a world record amount for a builder’s model.