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| VERY GOOD FISH by THOMAS CHRISTIAN |
£375 |
A wonderful "classic Fish" by Thomas Christian, with bulbous eyes and wooden teeth.
Thomas Coleman Christian was born on Pitcairn Island on November 1, 1935. He is the son of Frederick Martin Christian and Flora Clarice Christian. He married Betty Jean Christian, the daughter of Sterling Gifford Christian and Selina Agnes Coffin, on Pitcairn Island. Tom was invested as an Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1983. He lived on Pitcairn Island as of 2008. Thom is an internationally known ham radio operator, and has been Pitcairn's radio link to the world since the 1960s. In the election of 1972, he was appointed to the position of Governor's Councillor by the Pitcairn Island Governor who resides in Wellington, New Zealand. An island entrepreneur, he has a modest supplementary income from such things as postcards, mail-order filmstrips, and carvings. His communications training abroad was paid for by the island, he has been considered one of the Island's most valuable citizens, for many years maintaining their link with the rest of the world. In addition to his ham radio activities, he has furnished weather reports, handling three to four cables each day, and operating marine radio ZBP, the ling with passing ships and distress radio for the island. (Ball: Pitcairn: Children of Mutiny). He and his family are pictured on Page 516 of Howard: Pitcairn and Norfolk, National Geographic, October 1983. |
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