Plate 419 · 1959

Winter Fairway

The winter of 1959 froze the outer fairway for eleven weeks. The plate records every buoy's fate in a code the harbour board still keeps framed: a filled diamond for froze in, an open diamond for broke loose, and a small engraved coffin, used once, for the mark the ice took. It sold steadily to skippers for a decade and then stopped being reprinted, which is why the second state is the harder one to find.

Plate

Copper, hand-engraved

State

2nd of 2, 1959

Paper

Blue-grey cartridge

Edition

140 impressions

Margins

Full, buoy code key in lower margin

Reference

MC-WF-59

This is a demonstration catalogue. Reserving logs your interest in the page only: nothing is sent, nothing is charged, and the impression, like the house, is invented.