Terry Weber submits-
Does anyone know anything about old model boats?
This thing is practically a fossil, covered in dust, with no identifying marks on it that I can find except a possible faded British flag.
Someone told me that it was not worth much, it was just a decorative piece, but I want to make sure before it goes in the yard sale bin.
Thank you!
Good Morning Gloucester 
If you want to know about model boats, Contact Walter McGrath at 978-281-0968
Bob Quinn
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Thank you!
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Don’t know anything about model boats but that piece looks like pure Americana. I’d put it on Ebay.
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Go to the library and look at Kovel’s Guide to Antiques.
It might be folk art made by a sailor/seaman
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thanks for the tips!
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Sorry took a while to call mom this is what she told me – However, take this as informational I could be wrong.
In regards to the wooden ship my mother recalled her Uncle (Collins McDonald Somerville MA had one in the mid 1930’s, and when her mother cleaned his house out brought it back to Bayview and it ended up be given to mom first saw it when she was 4 in the 1930’s. She seems to recall it was a model-make up, of the Christopher Columbus ships, the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria but these could be even older 80-100 years. She still has her ship in her residence out west.
We also had a wooden model version of a schooner ship made in Essex in the bus we came across country in. However, it burned up in the bus fire – the bus was parked on private land within the Carson National Forest burned in 1971-1972. It is assumed a hunter or a person living off the land got into it and used the little wood stove which you had to watch closely or it would over heat and could cause a fire or it may have been an accidental fire or arson?
Burned down to the frame totally destroyed lost some prized possessions that were to be picked up later when bringing the bus to where we currently moved within the state almost 150 miles south of this location mid-state. The bus was converted to a motor-home in 1968 bought from (Bowen Bus company that had the Cape Cod route with Marquee hand cranked (Buzzards Bay, Woods-hole, Falmouth, Osterville, Hyannis Port, Dennis Port, Chatham, Brewster, Yarmouth, Barnstable, that I can remember. Yep long ago:-)
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You might try the Lannan Ship Model Gallery in Boston.
http://lannangallery.com/
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There’s a model ship gallery next to the State of the Art gallery on pleasant st. They might know.
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