Featured Model ship/boat, any value?

Got this in a $10 lot of a couple items. Any value here? Listing it now and don’t know what price to put on it. Figured I would start around $50 and see what happens. Seems to be fairly well done. Pickup in East Boston. Will ship or deliver for a fee.

 

looks like an old mass. whaling boat model....
is it 8 inches...or 20 inches....
still it's nice...lots of equipment......50 should be an easy sell in that market..

 

Could have been homemade from a kit, like this nicer one https://www.micromark.com/Model-Shipways-MS2033-New-Bedford-Whaleboat-Ship-Kit-1-16
I think the kits are worth more than they are put together so $50 may work (please let us know if you sell and what it goes for).

 

Ugh I replied in length without logging in and it said it wouldn't display in full until I signed in. Now I'm signed in and can't see it. This has happened a couple times to me. Can you see it on your end or do these posts just get deleted?

 

I'll update y'all. Thanks for the link! Mine is definitely not 8'. I'll measure when I get a chance. 20" sounds pretty close if I recall correctly.

 

Looks to be somebodies shop project - not a kit. I can't see kits using pine with knots and thin plywood. The base and even the pine body has a knot in it and the top decking is very thin plywood. But it is a nice job well worth a 50$ bill.......

 

I agree, homemade job with much love and heart.

 

Thanks. They certainly impressed me if it’s all done from “scratch”. I guess probably from the days when many men had home wood working shops and some free time that wasn’t always spent staring at a screen of some sort.

 

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I love the boat!

 

Thanks! Glad you like it. I couldn’t see leaving it for that price.

The way it’s worded when you hit “post reply” makes it seem like it will show up once you’ve logged in. Oh well, I’ll have to be more cognizant.

 

I thought I would update this post finally. I ended up selling this boat for around $60 or so. Older gentlemen that liked old boats. I had another one from the same auction lot hanging around. It was a nicely done skiff model. I ended up selling him that once he arrived for $75 in addition to the one I posted about. Good sale overall and we were both happy.

 

Congratulations, two great sales!

 

Thanks! It was a good one! One of those nice guys you feel bad even taking their money. I ended up listing it for higher than I was going to. I think I had it at $75 in my ad and ended up knocking $15 off for him once I met him just because I liked him. The other one I was going to put up at around $100 and discounted that a bit for him. Took his personal check so he didn’t have to go back home and get more cash once he saw the other one. Thanks for the assistance folks.