RARE PERIOD RIGGED MODEL OF THE 1934 AMERICA'S CUP DEFENDER RAINBOW
1930s
Diorama-style model complete with sails and set into a carved and painted sea.
Case height 24.5". Length 24". Width 12".
Note:
In Race 4 of the 1934 America's Cup, Rainbow won by 1:15 after a protest from Endeavour. The controversial protest arose when Rainbow failed to respond to a luff from Endeavour, but Sir T.O.M. Sopwith, the British owner and skipper of the yacht, failed to immediately raise a protest flag and instead hoisted it as he passed the committee boat stationed at the finish line. Although the New York Yacht Club representative aboard Endeavour had advised it would be acceptable to wait to the finish line to raise the protest flag, the Club's protest committee stood by its rules about raising a flag at the earliest possible moment and thus declined to hear Endeavour's protest. While Sopwith's public response was restrained, the incident riled the British team and press.

Some minor staining to the paper sails, otherwise excellent.