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A Large Scale Model Of The U.S. Frigate Essex
Fred Schaffner; American, ca. 1986
The hull of the model, built up in plank on frame construction, has a coppered bottom which has some areas of verdi gris, and black painted topsides with natural band of planking around the gun ports. The bulwarks of the model are built up and fitted with a black painted cap rail. Mounted at the bow of the model is a figure head of an Indian, which is painted, and at the stern of the model are quarter galleries which have eagles mounted above and below the windows, and at the transom is a painted reef above the windows and the name below them. The decks of the model are planked and pinned in place with deck grating over the areas on either side of the boats mounted amidship's. The deck of the model is well detailed and includes: anchors, coils of line, deck cannons on carriages and sleds, pin and fife rails, barrels, ships boats mounted amidships and on the stern davits, hammock nets, scale figures, deck gratings, companion way, capstan, rudder, belfry, binnacle, ship's wheel, rudder, etc. The model is well rigged with a bowsprit and three masts. The masts are fitted with cross spars, tops and trees. The model is rigged with standing and running rigging which includes ratlines rigged through deadeyes, fore stays and back stays, halyards, topping lifts, bracing lines, sheets, halyards and other running rigging. The model is mounted on a mahogany baseboard and displayed in a glass and mahogany framed case.
54¾ x 18¾ x 37½ in. (139 x 47.6 x 95.2 cm.) cased dimensions.
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