Object data
brass
total: length 11.4 cm
anchor stock: width 10 cm
span 6.3 cm
Grofsmederij Leiden
Model of an Anchor
Leiden, United Kingdom, 1845
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-616
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a stocked Porter’s anchor.
The arms turn on an axle in the forked end of the shank. The bend in the arms is more pronounced than usual and the flukes have a horn on the outside. The anchor stock can slip through the hole in the shank and be set parallel to it. There is a shackle at the end of the shank, a chain at the crown and a double link around the shank.
Scale (estimate) 1:10.
Literature
British Patent 1838, no. 7774; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 616; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), p. 391, fig. 129; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 200-03
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Grofsmederij Leiden, Model of an Anchor, Leiden, 1845', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244431
(accessed 5 October 2024 10:26:40).