Creating models of ships - the art, craft, interest for collectors ...

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In the center of Mexico City, thanks to large businesses across from each other will be built two of the museum. One of them will be initiated by the head of the largest in Mexico, the manufacturer of juices and nectars Jumex Eugenio Lopez Alonso (Eugenio Lopez Alonso), who next month will choose the architect's bureau for the design of the building exhibition center.


The second museum in the project to reorganize the city center, which provides Grupo Carso SA, owned by billionaire and telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helou (Carlos Slim Helu), will Soumaya Museum.


The gallery Sliema Soumaya Museum, which is due to open in 2010, planned to place 1,600 impressionnists and Mexican modernists. The museum will be exhibited Jumex 1,700 works of contemporary artists in Mexico. Since 2001, they demonstrated at the plant Jumex in northern Mexico.


Lopez, who, according to some estimates, supports more than a third of contemporary Mexican artists, sits on the board of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New Museum of Contemporary Art) in New York. Carlos Slim, whose fortune is estimated at 59 billion dollars in August 2007 was recognized by Fortune magazine as the richest man of the world, ahead of Bill Gates. According to the journal The Forbes, the state of Gates and Slim are about equal.

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Carlos Slim, whose fortune is estimated at 59 billion dollars in August 2007 was recognized by Fortune magazine as the richest man of the world

And now The Forbes also recognized the richest in the world.

the richest man in the world has become Mexico's Carlos Slim - the businessman of Arab descent, the son of Christian immigrants from Lebanon.
Status of Mexican businessman estimated at more than 67.8 billion dollars, equivalent to 8%of gross domestic product of Mexico. Condition Gates site rated in 59.2 billion dollars. 67-year old Slim managed to push back Gates from the first position in the ranking by increasing by 27%from March to June 2007 the value of the shares of America Movil - Mexican tycoon, owns 33%of the shares of the largest mobile phone operator in Latin America.

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Another place where you can look at samples of models. They will never be the subject of free sale. Therefore, the desire to possess such models can rely only on the creation of similar constructed by modern masters. Works which can be viewed here http://www.shipmodels.com.ua/rus/index.htm National Maritime Museum (National Maritime Museum). National Maritime Museum (NRM) in Greenwich, England, is the principal maritime museum in the United Kingdom and possibly the largest museum of its kind in the world. The museum has a major collection in the world dedicated to the maritime history of Britain, which has more than two million items, including paintings painters (both British and Dutch painters of the 17 th century), maps, manuscripts, including official records, models and schemes of construction ships, scientific and navigational instruments, instruments used for the timing and in astronomy (in the halls of the Observatory). The collection of British portraiture inferior in size only meeting of the National Portrait Gallery (National Portrait Gallery), a collection of outstanding individuals in British history, among them, besides many others, - Vice-Admiral Nelson and navigator James Cook, is unsurpassed.

The museum belongs to the world's largest reference library on the history of seafaring (100,000 items), including books published in 15 century.

National Maritime Museum's collection also includes objects brought from Germany after World War II, including a few ship models and paintings for the museum has been criticized because it, as was said, kept "looted art". The museum believes that these cultural objects are the "spoils of war", which were taken in accordance with the terms of the Potsdam Conference.

Each year the museum holds awarding Caird Medal in honor of its principal donor - Sir James Caird.

InformatsiyaAdres Romney Road
Metro Bank
Bus 177, 180, 188, 199, 286, 386
Phone +44 (020) 8312 6509
Hours 10:00-17:00
The cost of the ticket (entry) £ 6
Email [email protected]
Site http://www.nmm.ac.uk/

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More photos of models from the National Maritime Museum in London.

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In the first five photos a model of French 74-gun ship Le Rivoli from the collection of the Paris Naval Museum. And the other five presents a model of the same ship, being built by a famous artist from St. Petersburg, Mikhail Bezverkhny. Build a model for archival Measurement drawing, which the British withdrew from the ship after its capture.

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Model 64-gun ship L "Artecein 1762 - the first five photos. Next photo - Model 74-gun ship built in 1780, built by the wizard from Nizhny Novgorod Dmitri Shevelev.

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John Franklin in his book (cover pictured) talks about how many British Admiralty models, which are preserved in museums and private collections in the world. So figure a little more than 400 items. This is the question of frequency of occurrence of these models are on sale and the possibility of collecting. Photos of models are included.

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Here is an example of a serious attitude toward collecting. Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg is located in the Hafen City.
Kaispeicher B, Koreastraße 1
20457 Hamburg
Telefon 0 40 /March 2000 92 30-0, Fax 0 40 /3 00 92 30-13 Museum collection - models of ships of all time, old maps, telescopes, naval military forms, vobschem - everything related to shipping.
The founder of the museum - Peter Tamm, began gathering a collection of 6 years, since his mother gave him his first model of the ship. The museum building - a former warehouse, built in 1879, I will consistently post interesting material on this museum. This article obzoranaya: "In the age of six he received as a gift from mother small model coaster. This ugly lead treasure marked the beginning of the main passion of his life. Now Peter Tamm (Peter Tamm) for 80, and his Maritime collection grew, so that had to be opened for her in Hamburg, the whole museum.

To take part in the ceremony of its opening last Wednesday on the Elbe came specially Federal President Horst Köhler (Horst Khler). This fact alone speaks of the high status of the International Maritime Museum. Here is concentrated the whole history of navigation for the 3000 years of existence. Water transport represented 36 000 models, replicas of vessels of various functions in the scale of 1:1250 - from primitive ancient canoe the length of three millimeters to 28-centimeter cruise liner Queen Mary-2. Fulfilled an old dream of Peter Tamm that his private collection accessible to a wide audience. At the same time, visitors will see on the stands only about two-thirds of the museum exhibits - the rest have to keep in storage. The exact number of items did not even know the founder of the fund.

A passionate connoisseur of all the sea was still a father Tamm, who served during World War II on a submarine. Sam Peter, like many of his peers in the 30's, began collecting miniature models of ships and vessels, which, even in details like the original. They have begun to produce more commissioned Kaiser navy to the sea could clearly identify the proceeding in the distance a ship on its shape. Tamm same age over time developed into his children's passion, and he remained in his power, turning the gathering into the business of life.

Even in a profession a journalist, which he gave in 1943, resulted in his history of navigation. In order to earn his teaching in high school, Tamm in 1948 began writing for the then newly founded newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt. He suggested editorial series about the postwar fate of passenger ships of Germany, the revival of the German fishing fleet, he went to sea and did broadcasts from the ocean space. In the end, that he planned to yourself as a temporary second jobs, spread over four decades. Once he created a maritime journal editors, and a hobby was to feed him. Meanwhile, the collection is enriched: "In the post-war time, it was easy - people got rid of unnecessary detail, and I sometimes could only raise ejected.

In 1958, Peter Tamm went to the publisher Axel Springer (Axel Springer) and rose to chairman of its board, and after the death of the founder in many respects defined the policy of the concern. He created his own publishing house, specializing in maritime subjects, and then founded the Research Institute of seafaring and naval history, whose premises could not accommodate all the valuable artifacts and documents. In 2002, Tamm created a special fund to finance the future of the museum, and two years later signed a contract with the city authorities. In accordance with the city's free to provide funds for 99 years building a warehouse in HafenCity to create the museum. Instead, Tamm actually gave Hamburg all my collection, and now everyone can see it and see how much can a man do if he has a dream.

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I want to return to the question which asked Eugene (here we investigated with the content, but not with people). The question concerned the pricing models of the ships at auctions, in particular the question asked by the example of the British Admiralty model estimated in 1700 built (now at this link description of the lot http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot...t_id=159307687). The model was sold for 433,000 pounds. The question was raised - and in fact why. I consulted with NARIM Maygeldinovym and Michael Bezverhny on this issue. We agreed on three points. And now I can still see the fourth. The content of the topic was very specific, for us it is a professional. Our responses can be subjected to inspection, but these should be regarded as an expert and professional. This fourth due to the fact that it is "British admiralty model. I do not know how serious the subject characteristics for members of the forum heard this phrase. This model, which formed in the style of modeling, is an epoch in the creation of works of art on this topic. If we compare with the painting, it is as a whole trend - Impressionism, for example. This style is the culture of crafts and artistic approach. Therefore, it is not just a continuous phrase. I already wrote that the world remained little more than 400 models of this style and period of 1650-1750. So back to answering the question of pricing. Three things that determined the price for our opinion. 1) very rare occurrence models of this style are on sale. 2) This model of the ship of the second rank. Again - there is a big difference in the models of ships depending on the rank of the ship. This time too, intra-corporate and special. He is still connected with the fact that the total mass of this model style, models of actual ships of the first rank remained extremely low. 3) excellent quality of the model. They were our arguments in favor of such pricing. Eugene found them unconvincing. Accompanied by a comment disparaging remarks. That is his right to err. I continued to dig in that direction. I spoke with another expert - Dmitry Sidorov, the historian of the fleet. Here is his answer: "Such a high price in my opinion is caused by two moments, namely: in private hands Admiralty models nowadays preserved items, and the number of hunters for them only grows with time, such models will only get more expensive. Secondly, to have survived are very few models of large ships (1 st and 2 nd grades) and they are by definition should cause excitement, although there are exceptions.
In this case, I think, the crucial role played marvelously preserved. "Here is the answer. As a classic - one of just a coincidence, two - is the trend. To be continued.