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LANCASTER AND B-17 DESK MODELS

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:120.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 350.00 USD
LANCASTER AND B-17 DESK MODELS
LANCASTER AND B-17 DESK MODELS
Lot of three wartime models of heavy bombers, all made of cast metal. Included is a massive theater-made model of a Lancaster, 14" wingspan and 5" tall with circular base, with four spinning propellers. The second is a manufacturer's desk model of a Lancaster, chrome-plated brass by Lawrence Wilson & Sons, Sheffield who made the drop-forged parts for the Wellington, this model 6 1/2" long suspended above an ashtray. Lastly is a B-17, 12" wingspan, chromed brass, with worn ashtray base, lacking props and screw to secure base to model. Overall very good. Provenance: The War Museum, New York. Exhibited at U.S. Naval War College Museum, Newport: "Trench Art" & Naval Scrimshaw", 1990; Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum, 1995-2007.