L’Avenir

Malcolm Forbes Collection - For Sale

This model depicts L’Avenir, a four-masted steel barque built in 1908 by R.C. Rickmers, Geestemünde. She is 62′ in length, This boat was in the Malcolm Forbes Collection.The original vessel sailed from Port Germain, Australia, for Hamburg with a cargo of 3500 tons of wheat in 1938. After having radioed her position March 1 and…

Rangitiki

Malcolm Forbes Collection - For Sale

A builders’ model of the R.M.S Rangitiki for the New Zealand Shipping Company British, circa 1929 The hull built up for the solid, with a painted duel red bottom, black and white top sides with inset brass portholes, name, anchor, gangways, topside boarding gates, window and other topside details. The decks in maple veneer with…