Despite the numerous distinctive features of this model, such as the promenade-type walkway around the wheelhouse and the liner-style lifeboat davits, the search to identify a vessel named Mascot has so far proved fruitless. Not recorded in Lloyd's Registers or the Mercantile Navy Lists, it has been suggested she might be a passenger tender, a lighthouse or buoy tender, a port commissioner's inspection yacht or even some kind of training vessel although each suggestion remains unproven. In the absence of any documentary reference to a Mascot of this design, it seems equally probable that she was merely a figment of the modeller's imagination. Whatever her origins however, Mascot is an accomplished and very decorative model which was constructed with considerable skill and ingenuity.