The famous entrepreneur Frederick Vanderbilt, member of the New York Yacht Club, purchased the 1899-built Steam Yacht VIRGINIA, designed by G.L. Watson and built by Bath Iron Works, Maine. Vanderbilt had Cox & Stevens redesign the vessel and her complete refit performed by Bremesiter & Wain of Copenhagen in 1924. This quality dockyard model is representing this period, her second full dockyard builders model.

The model has 24-karat gold-plated fitting throughout, a silver plauqe and housed in a fine glazed Rosewood case, showing just some of the elegance these finest of yachts possessed in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Steam yachts are the rarest typw of dockyard models.