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Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and to have taken three yearsto build. The finding of a finemodel today and the acquisi-ow figure is a collectors dreamOccasionally a collector with thetrue flair can find agem in a rubbishheap. A case in pointis the builders mod-el of a gun-brig ofthe late eighteenthcentury in the priv-ate collection of Mr.Collins. When hefirst saw this modelit was in fragments,and only his keeneye for the intimatedetails of old shipsenabled him to real-ize what the huddleof sticks actuallywas. It is due to hisknowledge and skillwith tools, combined Jour n i nety-t wo s E I T E M B E K 922 inceRnACionAL SI
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247V ENQLISH PRIVATEER (Topsail Schooner) of 1810 A Tvfodel in the collection ofTtfv. Irving <R. Wiles SEPTEMBER 1922 Jour n inety-three mceRnAooriAL it: with infinite patiemodel stands as ita perfect exampleand time in BrshipbuildingOne of the in-teresting and ap-parently inevi-table, results ofthis rise in themonetary appre-ciation of shipmodels is thetrade that has group in fakingtypes. Within tlyear a factory has sprungup in Germany whereold models are repro-duced as a regular busi-ness, boys trained inhandicraft making different parts of the shipsand older hands assembling the parts into awhole model. They are offered here at suchlow prices that no one familiar with thevalue of real models would ever be deceivedby them, from this viewpoint alone, to

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