RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 29th April
An exceptional early 20th century Maritime Club House model of an unriggered four-masted vessel, finely planked and framed and displayed within its original glazed mahogany case. The model features four cut-away masts with bowsprit, brass anchor with cable, catheads, deck rails, fairleads, bitts, capstan, deck lights, companionways and hatch covers. The deck rails are wood-capped with bone balustrades and bone belaying pins, and the detailed deck house is complete with fire buckets above.
Four finely carved lifeboats are present, including one slung out on davits. The hull is detailed with boarding companionways and a shaped rudder, and the model is raised on two columns with cradle supports over its display board. The forward deck house is internally signed and dated “A. Kausen 1934.
Research accompanying the model suggests it represents one of the rare large wooden four-masted vessels with round sterns built in Nova Scotia. The largest of these was the four-masted barque Kings County, built by E. Cox at Kingsport, Nova Scotia in 1890, later stranded off Montevideo in 1919.
Reference Number: B11858