Object data
brass, cloth, wool, rope and paint
length 135 cm × diameter 16.9 cm
L.J. Lefèbre
Foghorn
The Hague, 1877
Inscriptions
- inscription, near the rim: HELiCON / 1a
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1375
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Simple trumpet-shaped foghorn, painted grey and red, with a mouthpiece and a rope lanyard; it is covered with cloth for about half its length. The mouthpiece has a reed inside and a clip on the outside.
L.J. Lefèbre’s horns were tested at IJmuiden on the Dutch North Sea coast on 29 September 1877.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1375
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'L.J. Lefèbre, Foghorn, The Hague, 1877', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.359791
(accessed 27 November 2024 00:29:53).