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anonymous

Boarding Grapnel

Netherlands, c. 1800 - c. 1850

Object data

iron

height 35 cm × width 36 cm × depth 34.5 cm
chain: length 180 cm

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1019

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Four-armed hand grapnel with a ring at the top of the shank and a chain. The arms have no flukes but barbed hooks instead.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1019

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Boarding Grapnel, Netherlands, c. 1800 - c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244834

(accessed 26 November 2024 11:46:18).

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