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This half-hull model of Valkyrie II was built by G.L. Watson for Lord Dunraven, Royal Yacht Squadron, and presented to Valkyrie’s racing skipper William Cranfield. The bronze-coloured bottom is painted with black topsides and has a maple stump mast, bowsprit, caprail and the original painted decks. It is set on a mahogany backboard with a moulded edge and Bakelite name plaque engraved ‘Cutter Yacht Valkyrie, R.Y.S. 1893’. Scottish.
Height: 14 ¼in (36.5cm) Length 67in (170cm).
Provenance: William Cranfield and thence by descent until.
Sotheby’s Marine Sale, London, April 1999.
Hyland Granby Antiques, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
2002 The Kelton Collection of Maritime Art & Artifacts.
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Height: 14 ¼ inches (36.5cm) Length 67 inches (170cm)The BADA Standard
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