277.


AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF- WAR-STYLE BONE MODEL FOR A 74-GUN SHIP


the 6in. hull planked and pinned with ebony main and secondary wales, carved stern and quarter galleries, female form figurehead, oxidised-brass guns with red port lids on the lower decks, chain plates with deadeyes, planked deck with canon in bone carriages, capstan, bitts, gratings, water casks, belfry with bone bell, well deck with whaler, companionways, saloon lights and chicken coops, bound masts with yards and s’tuns’l booms, standing and running rigging, mounted on bone supports within brass-bound glazed case. Cased measurements -- 10½ x 12½in. (26.7 x 32cm.)


£1800-2500


277 278.


A NAÏVE FRENCH WOOD AND BONE MODEL FOR A TRANSITIONAL RAM-BOWED BATTLESHIP, CIRCA 1860


the planked and pinned hull with mother-of-pearl port holes, carved bone wales, ebony gun decks with bone guns, companionways, chain plates with standing rigging, simple deck detailing and masts with yards and rigging, mounted on a single turned bone baluster secured to ebonised board (lacking rudder, masts and rigging, distressed overall). Model measurements including bone baluster -- 9 x 10in. (23 x 25.5cm.)


£300-500 279.


A FINE AND WELL-PRESENTED EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE MINIATURE BONE AND EBONY MODEL FOR A 74-GUN SHIP


the 2in. hull carved from the solid, with ebony main and secondary wales, brass guns with red port lids, polychrome figurehead, carved stern, quarter galleries, some deck fittings including guns in carriages, belfry, companionways, capstan, mast with standing and running rigging, yards and s’tuns’l booms, mounted on bone base within small dome cover with crowned finial. Cased measurements -- 5½ x 4in. (14 x 10cm.); travel stand


£600-800


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