A MODEL found at a recent charity event held in Barmouth has been sold at auction for hundreds of pounds.

A rare Sutcliffe Models Bluebird II Speedboat discovered at a charity antiques valuation event for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Barmouth has sold for £220.

The model, which was made in tribute to British water and land speed record breaker Donald Campbell, went under the hammer at fine art

auctioneers Halls’ toys auction in Shrewsbury on Wednesday.

Contained within its original box, Bluebird II was produced by Sutcliffe Models from 1958 but the model was not endorsed by Campbell, who died when his powerboat crashed during a world water speed record attempt on Coniston Water on January 4, 1967.

He broke eight records in the 1950s and ‘60s and remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year, 1964.