Object data
wood and iron
length 43.5 cm × diameter 12.5 cm
's Rijks Algemeen Betonningsmagazijn (possibly)
Model of a Buoy
? Enkhuizen, 1873
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1365
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a buoy with a conical body with pointed ends, circular in cross section. It is made of staves with hoops like a cask. It has an eyebolt at one end and a long point with an eyebolt at the other, probably for the buoy chain.
Scale (according to archives)1 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1365; A.W. Lang, Entwicklung, Aufbau und Verwaltung des Seezeichenwesens an der Deutschen Nordseeküste bis zur Mitter des 19. Jahrhunderts, Bonn 1965, p. 105, figs. 149-50
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'possibly 's Rijks Algemeen Betonningsmagazijn, Model of a Buoy, Enkhuizen, 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.245170
(accessed 15 November 2024 12:39:32).