BUILDER'S PRESENTATION MODEL OF THE MOTOR YACHT "NIRVANA IV"
America, Circa 1920
Hull built up from the solid, the bottom painted a pale green and the topsides painted white, with an applied sheer strake and gold-plated portholes with mirror inserts. Fitted with a rudder and twin propellers. Coaming with a mahogany cap rail and mounted railings. Veneer deck with the planking drawn in India ink. Numerous fittings, most gold plated, including a jackstaff with ensign, anchors, anchor windlass, hawse pipes, mahogany companionway, forward bench, deck light, ventilators, running lights, forward and aft masts with standing rigging, nameboards, search light, horn, funnel painted buff and black, two boats mounted atop the aft cabin on cradles and rigged with davits, mahogany main cabin and aft cabin with gold-framed windows with mirror insets, canopy covering the aft deck, flagstaff flying the American flag, etc. Displayed on a pair of silver trumpet-form pedestals on a book-matched maple veneer base within the original fine quality mahogany and beveled glass display case. Silver plaque mounted on base engraved "TW. SC. Cruiser Nirvana IV Owner H. Struckmann New York".
Case height 20.25". Length 36.25". Width 14.75".
Provenance:
Comissioned by the owner Holger Struckmann of Rye, New York, president of International Cement Co. and member of the Larchmont Yacht Club, Larchmont, New York.
By descent through the Struckmann family.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, January 2017, Lot #4062.
A private collection, Maine.

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