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A working model of the dredger Ferdinand de Lesseps
with going-barrel chain-drive motor operating a (dummy) single cylinder and copper buckets, papier-mâché cloth-covered hull with portholes, half-stern concealing winding arbour, the scored oak decking with pressed metal deck rails and Sphynx figurehead, on waterline base in simulated brick harbour with mooring rings -- 27in. (69cm.) x 10¼in. (26cm.), circa 1900, (lacking bowsprit and funnel)
with going-barrel chain-drive motor operating a (dummy) single cylinder and copper buckets, papier-mâché cloth-covered hull with portholes, half-stern concealing winding arbour, the scored oak decking with pressed metal deck rails and Sphynx figurehead, on waterline base in simulated brick harbour with mooring rings -- 27in. (69cm.) x 10¼in. (26cm.), circa 1900, (lacking bowsprit and funnel)
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