Document No 569: The 1857 Schooner-Yacht Magic

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AUTEUR : Currier and Ives

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EDITION : 1870

DATE : 1870

COURSE : 0

DESCRIPTION SITE :

Colored print
28" x 34" (71 cm x 86.5 cm)

The Schooner Yacht Magic of the New York Yacht Club; Franklin Osgood Esq. Owner and Commander. Winner of the great international yacht race for the Queen's cup at New York Aug. 8; 1870. Beating seventeen competitors including the English Yacht Cambria and the famous Yachts Dauntless; Idler; Fleetwing; Phantom; America and others. This is a description of the first America's Cup defense when the trophy was still known as the Queen's Cup. The winning yacht; Magic; was originally launched in 1857 as the sloop Madgie. She was designed by R.F. Loper of Philadelphia and built by Byerly & Son in New York. Her rig was changed to a schooner and she was renamed Magic in 1859. She won the first defense of the America's cup in 1870; when she was thirteen years old.

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Blue World Museum 708 550 http://blueworldwebmuseum.org/item.php?category=Schooners&title=The_1857_Schooner-Yacht_Magic&id=268&catid=78
Morphy Auctions 1800 1368 https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/lot-1010-currier-and-ives-publisher-19th-century-the-schooner-yacht-magic-of-the-ny-yacht-club-20595/