A FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND IVORY SHIP MODEL OF H.M.S. ARGO
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A FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND IVORY SHIP MODEL OF H.M.S. ARGO

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed19 June 2012

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GBP 10,625

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A FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR BONE AND IVORY SHIP MODEL OF H.M.S. ARGO
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With planked and pinned hull, figurehead, baleen banded, the deck fittings including brass cannon on carriages, gratings, long boats, rigged masts all on a bone and baleen base with balustrades set in a later glazed case
the model 15 in. (38 cm.) high; 21 in. (53 cm.) long

Specialist note

Argo was a fifth rate of 1781, broken up in 1816