A launching casket for the Fantome Class composite screw sloop...
A launching casket for the Fantome Class composite screw sloop HMS Albatross, English, 1873,
the ornately carved oak casket with ships name in relief on the lid, opening to velvet lined interior mounted with carved satinwood hammer and chisel, the lid interior inset with watercolour portrait of the sloop and in manuscript H.M.S. "Albatross" Composite Iron Screw Sloop 4 Guns 120 H.P. Launched at Chatham Yard August 27th 1873", when closed. 13 x 33 x 23cm (5 x 13 x 9in)
A launching casket for the Fantome Class composite screw sloop HMS Albatross, English, 1873,
the ornately carved oak casket with ships name in relief on the lid, opening to velvet lined interior mounted with carved satinwood hammer and chisel, the lid interior inset with watercolour portrait of the sloop and in manuscript H.M.S. "Albatross" Composite Iron Screw Sloop 4 Guns 120 H.P. Launched at Chatham Yard August 27th 1873", when closed. 13 x 33 x 23cm (5 x 13 x 9in)
