L’Etoile/La Belle Poule (1932 – France)
Description
National navy training ship
Model numbered – delivered with a certificate of authenticity.
• These vessels were lauched en 1932 and have been serving as annexes to the French Naval Academy for cadets’ training.
• They were built in 1932 in the fishing port of FECAMP in Normandy.
• Etoile and The Belle Poule are replicas of Icelandic schooners which fished cod off the shores of Iceland.
• During WW II, both vessels relocated to portsmouth, and served the Free France Forces.
Size
Scale
Finish
Working time
63cm
1/60e
Painted
230 H
79cm
1/47e
Rosewood
280 H
79cm
1/47e
Painted
305 H
125cm
1/30e
Painted
325 H
For the pleasure to smell the smell of the liquid bees-wax, a light pasage annual on the wood; for the dust removal, if you possess one sandbank – hairdryer ( cold air) biweekly will be completed. If, unfortunately, you broke sometimes something on your model, to contacted the Association of close Designer from your home.
Each of our models is numbered. Each model is unique, thanks to its entirely handcrafted nature (every small part is made by hand or on a lathe, in wood, aluminum, copper, etc.), the shade of its rosewood, etc. A certificate of authenticity is enclosed with each model.
Since 1984, very numerous collectors rely on us: LIMITED COMPANY Prince Albert of Monaco, Realm of Spain, Head of state and of governments, Ambassador, admiralty, personalities of the world of the arts and the business, Enlightened amateur private, numerous museums.
