The Hunt Continues! Welcome to the home of a genius, his collections span generations, from greasy to shiny, from 19th century US Patents to 20th century museum quality ship models. Welcome to Fuel and Fire in Newton!

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Welcome to Fuel and Fire in Newton!

“The patent system…added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things” -Abraham Lincoln. 

Wow, ABE! That is SO inspirational, and so is this collection.

This Newton home features:

A collection of Patent models, from a cast iron dry dock, to a butcher block to a lantern device from famed innovators White and White - once required with every patent application, a Patent Model reveal the leading edge of nineteenth-century technology, advances in industry, and everyday innovations for the home.

Patent models served a practical purpose: to demonstrate the key components, usefulness, and novelty of innovations across a broad spectrum of industries and consumer markets. But they were also designed to please the eye; the models (typically no larger than twelve inches in any dimension) were often wrought by expert craftspeople, with the aim of impressing Patent Office examiners. Patent models are tangible representations of practical ideas, but they are also works of art.

And if you like the US Patent Models, something so large, presented in such a compact manner, you will keel over when you see the ship models from famed ship model builder: Peter Henrik Ness! These models are resplendent in detail, including a hull sheathed in copper and a mast rigged with endless cords, providing a true feel of the sea.

Highlighting the collection is a superb ship model of the whale ship The Charles W. Morgan crafted by renowned Boston model maker Peter Henrik Ness. A number of museums have Ness models on display, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, Boston’s Museum of Science, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt housed one in his office.

The Charles W. Morgan is an American whaling ship built in 1841 and was used in the 19th as well as 20th centuries. Over an 80-year whaling career, the Morgan embarked on 37 voyages with most lasting three years or more. Built for durability, not speed, it roamed every corner of the globe in pursuit of whales. The Morgan is known as a “lucky ship,” having successfully navigated crushing Arctic ice, countless storms, Cape Horn roundings.

After its whaling days ended in 1921, the Morgan was preserved, and exhibited at Mystic Seaport Museum where once it hunted and processed whales for profit, its purpose now is to tell an important part of our nation’s maritime heritage and the lessons that history has for current generations. The whaleship was designated a National Historic Landmark by order of the Secretary of the Interior in 1966.

The Ship Fram (Forward) The Fram was the first ship specially built in Norway for polar research. She was used on three important expeditions: the first with Fridtjof Nansen on a drift over the Arctic Ocean 1893-96.

Forcing ships through the arctic ice to reach the North Pole had been tried and had failed many times already. Nansen conceived the plan of building a ship “so small and so strong as possible ... that it was improbable that it could be destroyed by the ice”. With such a ship he could drift with and thereby prove the theory of the current, and at the same time hopefully drift over or very near to the North Pole.

For three years, the ship was carried by the ice across the Arctic, but never exceeded 86°N latitude, so Nansen and Frederick Johansen set out to the Pole on skis, with kayaks, sleds, and provisions. Ridges of ice blocked their progress northward, so they only just surpassed 86°N before being forced to turn back and head for Franz Josef Land, about 400 miles to the south. They survived the winter season on Franz Josef Land living in a stone hut, killing bears and walrus for food, clothing, and burning blubber for fuel. The following June, Nansen and Johansen reached Cape Flora, an English base where they were returned to civilization. The Fram, which was left in the charge of Otto Sverdrup, arrived in Tromso, Norway on August 20, 1896, and Nansen and Johansen were reunited with the crew the next day.

The Flying Cloud was the most famous clipper ship built by Donald McKay that held the word's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco from 1854-1989. She was built in East Boston and launched in 1851.

A museum-quality ship model by John F. Corliss, of Danvers, MA. Corliss career was a pattern maker, following two years of research in the construction and history of clipper ships, he spent 3200 hours in the construction of an exact model of the ship "Flying Cloud" using plans obtained from the Marine Research Dept. of MIT. Every aspect of this model is created true to scale, to the smallest detail.

Additional standout pieces include:

A modern dining room from Joseph van Benton, with accoutrements of the past, like fine china to a stunning Modern Mexican Sterling Silver Tea Service.

A vintage office featuring Herman Miller, Jens Risom Design Inc. that spans to include a Apple computer, adding machine and two National cash registers.

And so much more!

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Maggie and Jim