Warship Prints

[caddyman]

I’ve found some excellent warship art prints on eBay, and have taken the opportunity to pick up three quite splendid pictures; two of HMS Warspite – one depicting the ship in heavy seas, about to attempt the ramming of a U-Boat whilst on its way home for repairs after the Battle of Jutland, the other in Narvik Fjord, 1940 bombarding fleeing German ships and one of an anti aircraft destroyer, HMS Egret on arctic convoy duty.

Hidden Menace Narvik Dusk Gathers

It turns out that the chap selling the prints is also the artist and he emailed me to tell me that his printer had broken down and that the second two of the prints would be delayed until next week. He offered to refund my money if I couldn’t wait, or as a gesture of goodwill, a couple of A4 size prints for free from his catalogue ( www.warshipart.com ). So that’s what I have gone for.

As it happens, I was in the shower when the first print arrived this morning, so I couldn’t take delivery. I shall have to collect it tomorrow morning. I need some frames now, I guess.

Comments

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Very Nice indeed.

By a strange coincidence I had a package arrive here at work for me today. A genuine piece of HMS Ajax from the Battle of the River Plate.

Our Nautical days appear to coincide !

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

HMS Ajax was broken up in Cashmore's yard here in Newport and my dad - what a pack-rat! - obtained a door, a small wooden door with a round hole in it. As far as I know it is still in my cellar. Would it sell on Ebay?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Well, if M'Learned Friend here was willing to pay for a piece of decking carved into a barrel, I don't see why a whole door wouldn't sell...

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Poor Old Ajax. That aside, anything will sell on Ebay. And if you get two people who want what you've got, then you could make a tidy amount from the sale of an old door.
I have to say I probably wouldn't buy a large item like a door... I just wanted to Buy my Mum a small piece of deck wood that her dad would have walked on and which was present during the Battle of the River Plate, which she can display in a box frame with her Dad's portrait and HMS Ajax Cap ribbon.

After a bit of research Idiscovered that similar little match spills that were in much worsecondition sold for over £50.

It will cost you next to nothing to list, so why not give it a try.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Hmph! I feel quite the uncultured oik now, with an electric guitar calendar on my wall. Hmph I say!