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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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a fine rigged model of a french naval 18-gun schooner
Early 19th Century
With pine and metal furnished main and topmasts, yards with hand and foot ropes, standing and running rigging (damaged) with scale blocks and dead eyes, some ropework left hand wound, anchors with bound wooden stocks, catheads, belaying rails and pins, rope coils, bitts, capstan with bars, canvas covered hatch, partially metal capped bulwarks, deck rings, stove pipe, bilge pump, gratings, companionway, quarter cabins, three long guns in carriages (fifteen missing), helm and two ship's boats (later).
The finely shaped hull, carved from the solid with some simulated planking, and copper plated to the waterline (some detached, some missing) is finished in black and natural wood with venetian-red gunports - on later stand
116cm. x 160cm.
Early 19th Century
With pine and metal furnished main and topmasts, yards with hand and foot ropes, standing and running rigging (damaged) with scale blocks and dead eyes, some ropework left hand wound, anchors with bound wooden stocks, catheads, belaying rails and pins, rope coils, bitts, capstan with bars, canvas covered hatch, partially metal capped bulwarks, deck rings, stove pipe, bilge pump, gratings, companionway, quarter cabins, three long guns in carriages (fifteen missing), helm and two ship's boats (later).
The finely shaped hull, carved from the solid with some simulated planking, and copper plated to the waterline (some detached, some missing) is finished in black and natural wood with venetian-red gunports - on later stand
116cm. x 160cm.