Forbes' toy Lusitania sails to record $194,500 at auction
- December 19, 2010 22:40
The antique toy collection assembled over the course of 40 years by the late Malcom Forbes and his sons went for a total $2.4 million at Sotheby's in New York on Dec. 17.
Fetching $194,500, to set a record for a toy boat at auction, was a 37.5-inch-long replica of the Lusitania, the Cunard ocean liner torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1915. The pre-sale estimate was $100,000-200,000.
Malcolm Forbes had purchased it in 1983 for $28,600.
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