Six Models of Buoys

Enkhuizen, 1869 - 1873

Object data

wood and iron

(A): length 30 cm × diameter 17 cm
(B): length 30 cm × diameter 15.4 cm
(C): length 26 cm × diameter 14 cm
(D): length 22.7 cm × diameter 12.5 cm
(E): length 19.4 cm × diameter 11 cm
(F): length 17.4 cm × diameter 9.4 cm

Inscriptions

inscription: N:I. / 1869.
inscription: N·II / 1873
inscription: N·III / 1873.
inscription: NIV / 1873
inscription: N·V / 1873
inscription: N·VI / 1873
monogram, on each buoy: crossed anchors

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1350

Entry

Six models of differently sized buoys (NG-MC-1350-A to NG-MC-1350-F).

All six models have conical bodies with one pointed end and a flat circular top with a ring in the middle. They are made of staves with hoops like casks. They have an eyebolt at the lower end for the buoy chain. All are marked with crossed anchors.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1350; A.W. Lang, Entwicklung, Aufbau und Verwaltung des Seezeichenwesens an der Deutschen Nordseeküste bis zur Mitter des 19. Jahrhunderts, Bonn 1965, pp. 49-51, figs. 72-74, 149

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, ''s Rijks Algemeen Betonningsmagazijn, Six Models of Buoys, Enkhuizen, 1869 - 1873', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245152

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