Saleroom
Apr 16, 2021
2 minutes
By Dave Selby
BONHAMS
The Great Boat Jumble of 1851
It’s well known that Britain invented everything including drowning, as this photograph of a rubber dinghy at the 1851 Great Exhibition testifies.
In 1823, Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh developed a way of bonding rubber to fabric to create a waterproof raincoat several years before the
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