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Vol. 65, No. 1 spring 2020 46


19. Watermark in 0149 (0856) with initials IV, used by Van der Ley in 1762.


his book, Van IJk gives the rule that we also fi nd in the Evenredige Toerusting van Schepen van Oorlogh totter Zee (Proportional Equipment of ships for war at sea): six shrouds for a ship 100 feet long and, for every 15 to 16 feet more, one extra. T is rule can also be applied to ships shorter than 100 feet, as evidenced by the many checks that I have carried out on images of smaller ships. T is vessel should have had four shrouds on the main mast.


T e paper


T e paper on which all drawings are made is special. All design drawings I know are drawn on thick, handmade paper. All the drawings discussed here, however, are on extremely thin paper, although also handmade and provided with watermarks, but clearly produced for printing. T ey are probably cut out of a book as blank pages.


T e watermark in the paper of the statenjacht


drawings corresponds to that in pinas drawing A.0149 (858) (the pinas ship of 90 x 24 feet) and with that in the section by Sturckenburgh, which makes a single origin plausible. T e watermarks are easy to identify.


20. Watermark in drawing 0149 (0860) with initials AJ (Abraham Jansen), used from 1679 to 1712.


T ey are depicted in H. Voorn’s book, De papiermolens in de provincie Noord-Holland (T e Paper Mills in the province of Noord-Holland) of 1965, which means that a number can be dated. T e watermark in drawing 0149 (0856) (the top view of the 110 foot pinas) has the initials IV, which was used by Van der Ley’s Zaanse paper mill in 1762. T e watermark in drawing 0149 (0860) (frames and top view of a 90 foot pinas) shows the initials AJ (Abraham Jansen) and was used from 1679 to 1712. (Figures 19 and 20) At the dated time of the drawings, those pieces of paper did not yet exist. We must, however, always keep a close eye on this, because through reuse and adaptations to the sieves used for watermarking, the proof is not watertight.


Conclusion


All in all, the conclusion seems inevitable to me: the series of pinas drawings is completely unreliable as a historical source for shipbuilding in Holland and for the pinas as a ship type. T e statenjacht drawings and the section of the warship belong to the same group and are anachronisms. T e state of the art in Storck’s days was at a diff erent level than presented here. T e


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