A fine pre-First World War Gebrüder Bing clockwork tinplate ...
A fine pre-First World War Gebrüder Bing clockwork tinplate armoured Four-Funnel cruiser / Warship, Nuremberg, Germany, circa 1912–14, probably from the firm's 'New Armored Cruiser' series, of painted and soldered tinplate construction, the long, low naval hull finished with a dark battleship-grey upper hull and deck over a vivid red lower hull, with simulated portholes, and extensive applied deck detail. The deck retains the original coloured GBN manufacturer's badge, incorporating the initials of Gebrüder Bing Nürnberg, fitted with four black-painted funnels with red interiors, a tall mast with cross-tree, surviving cord rigging and red pennant, continuous wire deck railings, ventilators, bollards and other naval fittings, armament includes revolving fore and aft gun positions together with additional smaller deck-mounted fittings, the bow is sharply raked in the manner of an early twentieth-century cruiser or torpedo vessel, clockwork propelled through a single external propeller shaft and three-bladed propeller, with large adjustable sheet-metal rudder at the stern, original clockwork mechanism, approximately 430 mm long × 70 mm wide × 180 mm high overall.* Provenance: acquired at auction, lot 1417, sale 58/98** Literature: model is closely related to Bing's documented New Armored Cruiser series of circa 1912–14; a 42 cm example sold by Bukowskis shares the same general date, construction and scale. Bing also produced four-funnel clockwork gunboats and torpedo boats in this period.
[ translate ]A fine pre-First World War Gebrüder Bing clockwork tinplate armoured Four-Funnel cruiser / Warship, Nuremberg, Germany, circa 1912–14, probably from the firm's 'New Armored Cruiser' series, of painted and soldered tinplate construction, the long, low naval hull finished with a dark battleship-grey upper hull and deck over a vivid red lower hull, with simulated portholes, and extensive applied deck detail. The deck retains the original coloured GBN manufacturer's badge, incorporating the initials of Gebrüder Bing Nürnberg, fitted with four black-painted funnels with red interiors, a tall mast with cross-tree, surviving cord rigging and red pennant, continuous wire deck railings, ventilators, bollards and other naval fittings, armament includes revolving fore and aft gun positions together with additional smaller deck-mounted fittings, the bow is sharply raked in the manner of an early twentieth-century cruiser or torpedo vessel, clockwork propelled through a single external propeller shaft and three-bladed propeller, with large adjustable sheet-metal rudder at the stern, original clockwork mechanism, approximately 430 mm long × 70 mm wide × 180 mm high overall.* Provenance: acquired at auction, lot 1417, sale 58/98** Literature: model is closely related to Bing's documented New Armored Cruiser series of circa 1912–14; a 42 cm example sold by Bukowskis shares the same general date, construction and scale. Bing also produced four-funnel clockwork gunboats and torpedo boats in this period.
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