Object data
brass
height 22.8 cm × width 11 cm × depth 5 cm
anonymous
Model of an Anchor
? Netherlands, United Kingdom, c. 1879
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1415
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a ‘flat hand’ anchor without stock.
Both flukes are set parallel on an axle, which runs through the crown on which they turn. The flat forward section of the flukes serves as the anchor stock, forcing the pointed end of the fluke into the ground. The model has a shackle at the end of the shank and one at the crown, and a double link around the shank.
A model and a drawing of a ‘flat hand’ anchor were presented in 1879 with a proposal for experiments.
Scale (estimate) 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. 1415; 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, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor, Netherlands, c. 1879', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200316202
(accessed 13 December 2025 23:55:14).