The Trip Trap maritime collection

Training ships, schooners and frigates

The collection comprises a broad selection of maritime articles spanning the last 300 years of shipping history. Some of the most impressive articles in the collection are the beautiful model ships. A model of the training ship København, two metres in length, is a magnificent sight (estimate EUR 4,000-6,700).

The actual training ship was built in 1921 and in its time was the world’s largest sailing vessel. Just seven years later the ship met a tragic end after sailing out of Buenos Aires in 1928 bound for Australia. The ship disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving no trace either of itself or of the 60 crew.

Moreover, in Buenos Aires a new first mate was to sign onto the København. And he was to bring a new swallow-tailed flag for the vessel. His voyage was delayed and the new first mate failed to reach Buenos Aires in time; thus both he and the Danish flag returned to Denmark. The swallow-tailed flag is estimated at EUR 1,050-1,300.

The spray of the ocean waves

A large number of ship portraits by artists from at home and abroad account for a major part of the collection. The ship portraits took pride of place in many of the country’s drawing rooms – perhaps over the captain’s wife’s writing desk, where she sat writing letters to her husband, who unlike her was having adventures in exotic lands around the Seven Seas.

The paintings were painted by e.g. the Italian painter Luigi Roberto, who painted the schooner Caledonia of Nykøbing Mors (estimate EUR 650).

Maritime mementos and classic navigational instruments

A number of small articles, both functioning and by way of being curiosities, may also be acquired at the auction. Thus you will be able to bid for such items as a small signal gun (estimate EUR 400), a bottle of washed-ashore port from Peter Heering vintage 1870 (estimate EUR 65) and a lifebelt from ØK’s motor vessel Canada from 1939 (estimate EUR 530).

The collection also comprises many navigational instruments - octants, compasses, lanterns and binoculars.