Two-mast Schooner
Date: n.d.
Inventory Number: MUS-117-0002
Classification: Model
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Dimensions:
Overall ship, base stand is attached: 36.8 × 43.2 × 5.1 cm (14 1/2 × 17 × 2 in.)
DescriptionModel of a two-mast schooner. The base of the ship is navy-blue with a cream border along top rim of base. Eighteen navy-blue square stickers are evenly spaced along the cream border. The bottom of the boat is a rudder that stretches from the front to the back of the ship, with a plastic navy-blue propeller on the back end.
Toward the back of the deck is a navy-blue wheel stand (with no wheel). The cabin, in front of the wheel stand, is a natural wood rectangle with a white canopy wooden top and two black rectangles painted on either side. In the middle of the deck is a raised natural wood platform. The front of the deck has a raised platform that extends to either side and curves around the front of the boat.
The natural wood bow of the ship is attached by thin brown ropes to the main body of the ship, it is encompassed by a navy-blue arm that ends at the middle of the bow. On the front of the ship is a gold-painted geisha? figurehead. On either side of the front of the ship are black plastic anchors attached by a brass chain.
The sails of the ship are attached to the natural wood masts by thin brown rope; there is a main sail on the back mast, a foresail on the front mast, two front “jib” sails not attached to masts, and fore topsail that is folded and connected to the front mast by a cross beam and thin brown rope. All the sails are made of white canvas that has brown vertical striping. Extended from the masts to the base of the boat from both sides are thin brown rope shrouds (four total). Three-quarters of the way up both masts are u-shaped platforms where the masts end and continue parallel to the mast; they are bound together by both thin brown rope and tan canvas.
The entire ship rests on an attached natural wood base, glued on with hot-glue, that sits in the middle of the ship and has four extended legs.
Toward the back of the deck is a navy-blue wheel stand (with no wheel). The cabin, in front of the wheel stand, is a natural wood rectangle with a white canopy wooden top and two black rectangles painted on either side. In the middle of the deck is a raised natural wood platform. The front of the deck has a raised platform that extends to either side and curves around the front of the boat.
The natural wood bow of the ship is attached by thin brown ropes to the main body of the ship, it is encompassed by a navy-blue arm that ends at the middle of the bow. On the front of the ship is a gold-painted geisha? figurehead. On either side of the front of the ship are black plastic anchors attached by a brass chain.
The sails of the ship are attached to the natural wood masts by thin brown rope; there is a main sail on the back mast, a foresail on the front mast, two front “jib” sails not attached to masts, and fore topsail that is folded and connected to the front mast by a cross beam and thin brown rope. All the sails are made of white canvas that has brown vertical striping. Extended from the masts to the base of the boat from both sides are thin brown rope shrouds (four total). Three-quarters of the way up both masts are u-shaped platforms where the masts end and continue parallel to the mast; they are bound together by both thin brown rope and tan canvas.
The entire ship rests on an attached natural wood base, glued on with hot-glue, that sits in the middle of the ship and has four extended legs.
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FunctionModel ships have become common collection items and decorative items for the home
Historical AttributesThe art of making models ship is almost as old as the art of shipbuilding. Archaeologists have uncovered models of war ships and transportation ships throughout the Mediterranean, notably in Greece, Egypt, and Phoenicia. These early models, dating at least back to 2000 BCE, were used burial or votive offerings as well as household articles.
During the 12th through the 15th centuries, model ships were constructed by European shipwrights to show perspective buyers how the full-size ship would appear. As time went on, these models grew to be popular children’s toys, especially during the 19th century.
In the early part of the 20th century, amateur ship model kits became widely available in England and the United States. These first kits were comprised of wooden hulls and cast lead for anchors, deadeyes, and rigging blocks; the cast lead eventually became replaced by plastic pre-cast items. Ship modeling in the United States hit its height in the late 1920s when a famous ship modeler was featured extensively in the magazine Popular Science.
Mondfeld, Wolfram zu. Historic Ship Models. United States: Sterling, 2005.
McCann, E. Armitage. Only Half a Ship Model, Popular Science. September 1929.
During the 12th through the 15th centuries, model ships were constructed by European shipwrights to show perspective buyers how the full-size ship would appear. As time went on, these models grew to be popular children’s toys, especially during the 19th century.
In the early part of the 20th century, amateur ship model kits became widely available in England and the United States. These first kits were comprised of wooden hulls and cast lead for anchors, deadeyes, and rigging blocks; the cast lead eventually became replaced by plastic pre-cast items. Ship modeling in the United States hit its height in the late 1920s when a famous ship modeler was featured extensively in the magazine Popular Science.
Mondfeld, Wolfram zu. Historic Ship Models. United States: Sterling, 2005.
McCann, E. Armitage. Only Half a Ship Model, Popular Science. September 1929.
ProvenancePurchased from Epiphany Antiques in Ogden, Utah 2018 by Annie E. Bommer
Published ReferencesLavery, Brian, Simon. Stephens, and National Maritime Museum. Ship Models : Their Purpose and Development from 1650 to the Present. London : Wappingers' Falls, N.Y.: Zwemmer ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Antique Collectors' Club, 1995.
Boyd, Norman Napier. The Model Ship: Her Role in History. Antique Collectors' Club, 2000.
Dodman, Frank E. Observers Book of Ships. Frederick Warne & Co, 1950.
Mondfeld, Wolfram zu. Historic Ship Models. United States: Sterling, 2005.
McCann, E. Armitage. Only Half a Ship Model, Popular Science. September 1929.