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An extremely fine, probably dockyard, contemporary model of a Dutch East India Company eighty four gun ship of circa 1840
with bound masts, yards with foot ropes, stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging with scale blocks and some left hand wound ropes, carved female figurehead, hair rails, anchors with bound wooden stocks, belaying rails and pins, bitts, hatches, companionways, upper and main deck guns in carriages (some upper deck guns missing), double helm, carved and panelled bulkhead to aft cabins, ballustrading, deck light and other details. The hull, fully planked and brass pinned has carved and glazed stern cabin windows and metal ballustrading with wood capping around the walkway and carved quarter cabin windows and is finished in lacquer to the waterline, black and white with lacquered decks and bulwarks (some restoration) -- 48 x 70in. 122 x 175.7cm. Stand, display base.
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with bound masts, yards with foot ropes, stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging with scale blocks and some left hand wound ropes, carved female figurehead, hair rails, anchors with bound wooden stocks, belaying rails and pins, bitts, hatches, companionways, upper and main deck guns in carriages (some upper deck guns missing), double helm, carved and panelled bulkhead to aft cabins, ballustrading, deck light and other details. The hull, fully planked and brass pinned has carved and glazed stern cabin windows and metal ballustrading with wood capping around the walkway and carved quarter cabin windows and is finished in lacquer to the waterline, black and white with lacquered decks and bulwarks (some restoration) -- 48 x 70in. 122 x 175.7cm. Stand, display base.
(See colour illustration)