EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC BEEF BONE PRISONER OF W...

Hammer

£7,000

EARLY 19TH CENTURY FRENCH NAPOLEONIC BEEF BONE PRISONER OF WAR SHIP MODEL

11in. planked and pinned hull with carved figurehead stern and quarterlights, backed with gilt tracing, oxidised brass guns with red painted port lids, chainplates with deadeyes, brass anchors with bone stops, planked deck with simple fittings including belaying rail, stove pipe, belfry, carved and fitted bone boats, over well deck, gratings, companionways, bound masts, yards with st'uns'l, standing and running rigging with bone blocks, mounted on wooden cradle stands within wood trim case -- 17½ x 22 x 8½in. (44.5 x 56 x 21.5cm.)

Parker Gallery London

figurehead possibly a replacement, rigging possibly old restoration but authentically done