PRISONER-OF-WAR MODEL OF AN 80-GUN SHIP-OF-THE-LINE
Hull, circa 1805, planked and pinned in bone over a wood plug, with applied keel, stem and rudder post, painted black gunport bands, and the stem rising up and supporting a refinished figurehead of a Beefeater in red, gold and black. Figurehead further supported by head rails with relief-carved decoration. At the stern are pierced and polychrome-decorated quarter galleries and transom with a blank name board, foliate and cherub decoration, gunports, etc. Decks also planked and pinned in bone and detailed with pin and fife rails, deck eyes, hatches with pierced covers, belfry, an open waist with geometric decoration, cannons on carriages, skylight and ship's boat swung over the stern on davits. Re-rigged with some replacement masts and spars, and later standing and running rigging. Mounted on an ebony base with supporting stanchions on either side, the base decorated with a flat, undulating rose-colored border.
Height 23". Length 32.5". Width 12".

Masts and rigging replaced.

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