Sport Antiques Catalogue - Rowing & Yachting
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#23081
VINTAGE CLINKER BOAT BOOKCASE.
Is it a boat or is it a piece of furniture?
The front section of a clinker built rowing boat has been successfully transformed into a nautical looking bookcase, (clinker built = planks of usually cedar, overlapping and held together with copper rivets. The bookcase is aptly named Flotsam (Wreckage or cargo that remains afloat after a ship has sunk).
Circa: 1900
75 cm wide x 38.5 cm deep x 226.5 cm high
29½\" wide x 15\" deep x 89\" high
