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Auction: 4014 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 114

A Napoleonic Prisoner-of-War Model Ship A well-detailed early 19th Century bone model of a French 74-gun ship-of-the-line, with bound masts and fighting tops, plain yards, standing and running rigging with bone blocks, dolphin striker, carved and painted figurehead, catheads, main rail (partially painted), capstan, railed well-deck, gratings, saloon light and brass guns (those on the upper deck mounted on simple block carriages); the hull carved from the solid, with main wale, stern and quarter galleries, and lower gunports open and painted Venetian red, the model mounted onto a four-footed rectangular platform supported by two turned pegs; the hull 93mm. long overall, the ship 112mm. high (keel to maintop), the model contained in a uniformly-toned contemporary straw-work case, with glazed fall-front inside double-doors with bone pulls and catches, the interior varicoloured and with mirror panels at rear and sides; the case 71/2ins. (190mm.) wide x 31/2ins. (90mm.) deep x 61/4ins. (160mm.) high (model in good condition, but sometime re-rigged) See illustration Estimate £ 3,000-4,000 The three miniature tricolours at the ship's mastheads identify her as a French "74", although the English St George's flag above the French colour at the maintop indicates that she was taken as a prize prior to assimilation into the Royal Navy.

Sold for
£3,000