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A French prisoner-of-war-style, fully rigged and planked bone and horn model of a French naval armed cutter - 7½ x 8¼ins (19 x 21cms)
With bound mast, yards, standing and running rigging and full suit of carved marine ivory sails and deck details including anchor with bound wooden stocks, catheads, anchor winch, belaying rails, capstan, bilge pump, companionway, hatch, upper deck guns, rope coils and ship's boat with thwarts and oars and other details. The planked and pinned hull has horn strakes and bone chain plates. Mounted on straw work decorated wooden base (one foot missing). Domed, glazed display case.
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With bound mast, yards, standing and running rigging and full suit of carved marine ivory sails and deck details including anchor with bound wooden stocks, catheads, anchor winch, belaying rails, capstan, bilge pump, companionway, hatch, upper deck guns, rope coils and ship's boat with thwarts and oars and other details. The planked and pinned hull has horn strakes and bone chain plates. Mounted on straw work decorated wooden base (one foot missing). Domed, glazed display case.
See illustration