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A half model of the sail-steam vessel Iorenzo D. Baker
Lot 55

A half model of the sail-steam vessel Iorenzo D. Baker

AMERICAN, CIRCA 1886

Closed25 September 2008

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USD 7,500

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A half model of the sail-steam vessel Iorenzo D. Baker
American, circa 1886
the hull constructed in ten lifts with applied stem, keel, propeller guard, propeller and rudder, painted with a white bottom, black topsides, and detailed with carved trailboards with gold leaf finish, applied rail, deck houses, masts, funnel, American flag, engraved name board on the aft quarter, and other details.
19¾ x 72 in. (50.2 cm x 182.9 cm.) backboard.

Specialist note

The steam schooner Lorenzo D. Baker was built by Goes & Sawyer of Bath, Maine. She was 190 feet long and had accommodations for twelve passengers along with her cargo, which was primarily bananas. She had a powerful steam engine which produced enough power for her to make ten knots. On the night of July 15, 1889, while en route from Port Antonio, Jamaica to Boston, the Lorenzo D. Baker caught fire off Nantucket Shoals, and the ship was a total loss.