A WELL-PRESENTED NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR-STYLE SLIPWAY MODEL FOR A 64-GUN SHIP
the hull with polychrome figurehead, carved stern and quarter galleries, open gun ports, chain plates with dead-eyes, deck with mast holes, bitts, belaying rails, belfry with bell, well deck with capstan, poop deck with deck lights and other details, mounted on a slipway with stock supports, within 'dock yard' laid out with masts with their component parts, and other fittings including long boats, cannons in trucks etc., with sentry huts in two corners and perimeter fence with gates, contained within glazed wooden case -- 9 x 12 x 12in. (23 x 30.5 x 30.5cm.)

Similar models upon which this is based are in the collections of Trinity House, London, and the U.S. Naval Academy, Anapolis. Please see Freeston, E.C. Prisoner of War Ship Models, Chatham, 1972, ch.12.

Condition Report
One spar sitting outside fence; one corner fence post warped with a fence section partially dislodged; one pane of glass cracked.

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