Ship models
Tony Crowther has been sorting out his RSL files, and has kindly forwarded two Cardiff newspaper clippings concerning the disposal of the Reardon Smith ship models at the time of the company’s liquidation in 1985.
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| In August 2011 this model is for sale in Switzerland for Sfr.£42,000 which is about £29.000. John Cullen posted this on the forum: It looks like we will not be seeing the model of Queen City any time soon in South Wales. I have edited the response from David Jenkins slightly. "Thank you for your recent email. I well remember this model going for an exorbitant price to the representative of an anonymous Swiss collector at the auction back in 1985, when the museum bought most of the other models that were for sale.And it is still being offered for an exorbitant price!! - at nearly £30k, it is valued at about three times what most ship models of that pattern and period are fetching nowadays. That sum is also, I'm afraid, more than twice the budget that I have for specimen purchase during the current fnancial year. The museum already has a fine and representative collection of Reardon Smith ship models - the first ship City of Cardiff (1906) York City (1922, on display here at the National Waterfront Museum), Victoria City (1955) Cardiff City(1962) Australian City (1964) and New Westminster City (1972). With six RS models already in the collection, I'm afraid that I would find it hard to justify the purchase of another at such an unreasonable price and in the current economic climate." |