Model, full: 3 masted schooner w/ white hull and sails, LILLIAN

Model, full: 3 masted schooner w/ white hull and sails, LILLIAN

66 x 47" ship model of schooner LILLIAN. Three-masted, full rigged schooner with white hull and sails. Sailing model with metal keel. Accurate as to scale and details, but simplified as most pond models. Model has a name painted on the quarter bulwark rail "Lillian." Hatches are removable and show that the hull is carved and hollowed out, seemingly from a single block of wood. No visible seams. Deck is scribed, not laid. The poop is one piece; the main and fo'csle deck from two pieces each, joined along the centerboard. Masts appear to be spruce, hull pine. Nicely rounded transom with detailed decoration made from tooled metal, nicely done an most unusual. Has a carved yawl boat on stern davits. Nicely carved windlass and figurehead. Windows cut into main cabin. Metal mast hoops. Rigging seems to be hard twisted "Cuttyhunk" fishing line. Colors: Bottom, red; hull, white; spars, natural; tops and doublings, white; rails, green; hatch cover, blue trim; transom dark. Yawl boat: colors match vessel: interior blue; thwarts, white. Model, full: 3 masted schooner w/ white hull and sails, LILLIAN Model of three-masted full rigged schooner, with white hull and sails. Named LILLIAN. A very nicely made model, accurate as to scale and details, but simplified as most pond models. Model has a name painted on the quarter bulwark rail "Lillian." Presumably model was made for the donor, hence the name. No history with it. Hatches are removable and show that the hull is carved and hollowed out, seemingly from a single block of wood. No visible seams. Deck is scribed, not laid. The poop is one piece; the main and fo'csle deck from two pieces each, joined along the centerboard. Masts appear to be spruce, hull pine. Nicely rounded transom with detailed decoration made from tooled metal, nicely done an most unusual. Tiller is missing. Has a carved yawl boat on stern davits. Nicely carved windlass and figurehead. Windows cut into main cabin. Overall model is much better than most pond models. Original sails in excellent condition, one jib loose. Sails are a finely woven cloth with a few minor tears. Quite brown and discolored. Overall model is in very good to excellent condition, but quite dirty. Rigging needs some repair: all shrouds on main mast, starboard side are broken.; one bowsprit backstay on port and starboard sides are broken; one mainmast shroud, port side broken. Otherwise all rigging looks original and is intact. Metal mast hoops. Rigging seems to be hard twisted "Cuttyhunk" fishing line. Colors: Bottom, red; hull, white; spars, natural; tops and doublings, white; rails, green; hatch cover, blue trim; transom dark. Yawl boat: colors match vessel: interior blue; thwarts, white. DWB 3/18/04 Dimension: 42" length. Old number 772