AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND BALEEN SHIP MODEL FOR A 100-GUN SHIP
the planked and pinned hull with baleen wales, brass guns with red port lids, polychrome figurehead and transom, brass anchors with bound bone stocks, scored deck with fittings including belaying rails, water barrels, well deck, belfry, guns in stepped bone carriages, companionways, deck light and other details; bound masts, yards with s'tuns'l booms, standing and running rigging with bone blocks, mounted within polychromed strawwork display case with six-panel mirrored back, hinged doors and brass top handle. Cased measurements -- 11¾ x 15 x 6in. (30 x 38 x 15cm.)

Model appears to retain much original rigging and is in good overall original condition, several lines have parted in the bow sprit area; model may be associated with this case - typically they are on a display base and this is fixed direct to the base, there are evidence holes for a previous base/model; the glazed drop panel is missing from the case with just the lower edge hinged in situ; case has old worm holes overall - possibly these account for the now-missing display base and drop panel.