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anonymous

Mooring Swivel

? Netherlands, 1860 - 1870

Object data

iron and wood

width 28 cm × depth 8 cm × height 17 cm

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1157

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Swivel for mooring chains, with two harp shackles at either end. The shackles have bolts of oval section, their forelocks are wooden pegs.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1157

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Mooring Swivel, Netherlands, 1860 - 1870', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244970

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