Description
Model Numbered – delivered with a certificate of authenticity
• The Belem was launched on 10 june 1896 and built near Nantes in France. She was a cargo ship used to carry suggar, cocoa, coffe from Brazil to France and supply the cocoa for a parisien chocolate maker.
• She was a sailboat of 406 tons and 51m on lenght.
• In 1914,she was sold to The DUKE OF WESTMINSTER and converted her to a luxury pleasure yacht. And she was renamed Fantome II having been sold to the Hon. Arthur Ernest Guinness. Then in 1952, the Cini Foundation, bought the ship.
• In 1979, the Belem returned to France and was entrusted to Fondation Belem.
Size
Scale
Finish
Working time
60cm
1/92e
Rosewood
340 H
60cm
1/92e
Painted
370 H
88cm
1/65e
Rosewood
400 H
88cm
1/65e
Painted
450 H
126cm
1/45e
Rosewood
480 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.
