Artsoutine Arts and Antiques

Description

Lovely Cased Model Ship The Violet 1839 the model is made from wood carefully detailed hand crafted well built model boat brigantine merchant ship housed in its Oak Framed Glass Display Case.
Unsure Of Age But think the model dates to some time within the last 50 years latter half of the 20th c not sure if the model is from a kit or is scratch built.
The oak framed glass display case is glazed all round including the top and diplays the model very well it might possibly be older than the model this item would make a ideal present for some one who likes marine models ships or boats.Brigantines were a favorite of Mediterranean pirates and its name comes from the Italian word brigantino, meaning brigand, and applied by extension to his ship. By the 17th century the term meant a two-masted ship The word "brig" is an 18th century shortening of the word brigantine,which came to mean a vessel square-rigged on both masts.
By the middle of the 19th century In modern parlance, a brigantine is a principally fore-and-aft rig with a square rigged foremast, as opposed to a brig which is square rigged on both masts,