COUSTEAU’S CALYPSO
Description
“COUSTEAU’S CALYPSO” (1953)
Model numbered – delivered with a certificate of authenticity.
• The Calypso was originally a royal Navy minesweeper built by Ballard Marine Railway Company and launched in 1942 before to be use as a research vessel.
• Bought in 1950 by Thomas Loel Guinnessans leased to Cousteau. Cousteau restructured and transformed the ship into an expedition vessel. He made a lot of dicover.
• In 2016, the Calypso arrived to Turkey in order to be restruturated thanks to the Cousteau Fundation.
Size
Scale
Finish
Working time
85cm
1/50e
Painted
350 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.
