A fine early 19th Century French Prisoner-of-War bone model of a 110-gun First Rate, mounted with a boxwood frigate under a domed glass cover. Measurements overall --15 x 19in (38 x 48.2cm)

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A fine early 19th Century French Prisoner-of-War bone model of a 110-gun First Rate, mounted with a boxwood frigate under a domed glass cover. Measurements overall --15 x 19in (38 x 48.2cm)
With masts with gold bindings, yards with stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging, carved male figurehead, anchors, catheads, deck rails, belaying rails, deck rings, stove pipes, barrels, hammcok nettings, gratings, balustrading, companionway, deck light, guns and two ship's boats with thwarts and oars (one detached, some oars and guns detached), the planked and brass pinned hull with carved stern and quarter galleries, mounted on two bone supports on parquetry base with bone and wood railed surround (some old damage) --10¼ x 14½in (26 x 36.7cm); the frigate with bone bowsprit and topmasts, rigging, carved figurehead, anchors, catheads, capstans, bell canopy, grating, guns and other details. Finished in white, black and natural wood, decorative stand --3½ x 4¾in (8.8 x 12cm).

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