BRITISH SAILOR-MADE MODEL OF A 90-GUN BRITISH SHIP OF THE LINE
Circa 1850
Hull built up from the solid and painted with a green bottom and black and white topsides. Fitted with head rails with residual gold polychroming, the figurehead of a man, the stern with quarter galleries with glazed windows, rudder, and other details. Deck with scored planking and detailed with numerous figures on deck and in the rigging, pin and fife rails, deck hatches, ladders, belfrys, poop deck, double helm, ship's boats on davits, etc. Rigged with a bowsprit and three masts, cross spars with stun'sail booms, standing and running rigging, flags and other details. Displayed on wood cradles mounted to a mahogany board.
Height 24". Length 35". Width 9".

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