An extremely fine early 19th Century French Prisoner of War bone and horn model of a 86 gun Ship of the Line with bound masts, yards with stun's'l booms, fighting tops with carved rails, full standing and running rigging with scale blocks (restored) and deck details including carved female figurehead, anchors with bound bone stocks, catheads, hair rails with carved rope and leaf decoration, deck rails, bitts, belaying rings, deck rings, stove pipe, belfry, water barrels, carved and decorated ballustrading, gratings, 'hammock netting' with carved swags, cannon balls and rope edging, capstan, companionway, deck light, upper deck guns in carriages, stern davits and two carved wood long boats in slings. The hull, planked and brass pinned with horn strakes, has chain plates with carved rope edgings, stern and quarter galleries with carved ballustrading, swags, lion and unicorn, and gun pulls (restored) -- 30 x 44in. (76.2 x 111.8cm.). Mounted on two carved wood stands on inlaid base with bone edging in glazed case with opening door (later)

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An extremely fine early 19th Century French Prisoner of War bone and horn model of a 86 gun Ship of the Line with bound masts, yards with stun's'l booms, fighting tops with carved rails, full standing and running rigging with scale blocks (restored) and deck details including carved female figurehead, anchors with bound bone stocks, catheads, hair rails with carved rope and leaf decoration, deck rails, bitts, belaying rings, deck rings, stove pipe, belfry, water barrels, carved and decorated ballustrading, gratings, 'hammock netting' with carved swags, cannon balls and rope edging, capstan, companionway, deck light, upper deck guns in carriages, stern davits and two carved wood long boats in slings. The hull, planked and brass pinned with horn strakes, has chain plates with carved rope edgings, stern and quarter galleries with carved ballustrading, swags, lion and unicorn, and gun pulls (restored) -- 30 x 44in. (76.2 x 111.8cm.). Mounted on two carved wood stands on inlaid base with bone edging in glazed case with opening door (later)
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