A very fine miniature French Dieppe ivory model of a three masted brig, c. 1830 the hull carved from a single piece of ivory, the masts and bow sprit are ivory as well as the rigging for the ratlines, other rigging is done in cotton thread, other details include belaying posts, fife rails, tiller, cannons, deck hatches, two splendid aspects are the fine paper thin set of ivory sails and the animated crew on deck and in the rigging 10 x 11½in. (25.3 x 29.2cm.), case
A very fine miniature French Dieppe ivory model of a three masted brig, c. 1830 the hull carved from a single piece of ivory, the masts and bow sprit are ivory as well as the rigging for the ratlines, other rigging is done in cotton thread, other details include belaying posts, fife rails, tiller, cannons, deck hatches, two splendid aspects are the fine paper thin set of ivory sails and the animated crew on deck and in the rigging 10 x 11½in. (25.3 x 29.2cm.), case
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