1:12 FERRARI 555 SUPER SQUALO BY MICHELE CONTI A fine 1:12 ...

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£2,000 - £3,000

1:12 FERRARI 555 SUPER SQUALO BY MICHELE CONTI

A fine 1:12 scale scratch built model of a Ferrari 555 Super Squalo by Michele Conti

A most beautiful and highly sought after kerbside model, produced in the mid-1950s by the renowned model maker Michele Conti. Highly collectable and rarely seen on the market.

On May 18, 2003 Michele Conti’s achievements were formally recognized at the 2003 Reading Ferrari Concours d’ Elegance. His son Maurizio Conti, also a model builder under the Conti banner, was in attendance to accept for his late father the “Enzo Ferrari Hall Of Fame Award” for his dedication to the Ferrari Automobile.

This ultimate accolade summed up 40 years of the supremacy of Michele and his son Maurizio in the very specialist field of fine scratch built model making, works of art owned by only a very few but munificent in its appreciation by the very many.

Metal construction, rolling wheels with rubber tyres, articulated steering, cockpit with leather seat, finished in Rosso Corsa race livery and wearing number 8.

Signed 'Conti.M.' in yellow paint to the underside, 34cm long.