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a planked and rigged model of the french flagship Le soleil royal (1669)
With bound masts, yards, standing and running rigging and full suit of stitched linen sails with reefing points, warrior figurehead, hair rails and pins, bitts, gratings, deck rails, companionways, bell, stern lanterns, guns in carriages, two ship's boats with bottom boards and thwarts and other details. The hull is finished in varnish and black with extensive decoration and detailed stern galleries, stand and glazed case (glass removed)
84 x 104cm.
With bound masts, yards, standing and running rigging and full suit of stitched linen sails with reefing points, warrior figurehead, hair rails and pins, bitts, gratings, deck rails, companionways, bell, stern lanterns, guns in carriages, two ship's boats with bottom boards and thwarts and other details. The hull is finished in varnish and black with extensive decoration and detailed stern galleries, stand and glazed case (glass removed)
84 x 104cm.