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a detailed, planked and rigged model of the corvette atropos
With bound masts, yards with stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, carved eagle figurehead, hair rails, anchors with bound wooden stocks, catheads, belaying rails and pins, bitts, gratings, companionway, capstan, deck lights, fourteen guns in carriages, ship's boat in stern davits and other details. The hull copper plated to the waterline is finished in black, white and natural wood with carved transom and quarter window decoration, stand and plexiglass case
63.5 x 83.8cm.
With bound masts, yards with stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, carved eagle figurehead, hair rails, anchors with bound wooden stocks, catheads, belaying rails and pins, bitts, gratings, companionway, capstan, deck lights, fourteen guns in carriages, ship's boat in stern davits and other details. The hull copper plated to the waterline is finished in black, white and natural wood with carved transom and quarter window decoration, stand and plexiglass case
63.5 x 83.8cm.