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Description: | Scale: Unknown. Model of a Maltese fishing boat made entirely in wood. The hull is painted in bright colours, light and dark green, yellow, white, red and brown. There is a gold decoration around the gunwales and a gold insignia at the bow. Oculi have been painted on two red triangles on either side of the bow. The simple rudder is fitted with a tiller arm. the deck is covered with a fine gauze material on which is placed a pair of white painted paddles and three fish. The model is mounted on a pair of brown painted crutches which are fixed to a decoratively shaped baseboard which is inscribed "Malta" and "Kajjik" twice. On port and starboard bows, "F.16" and "S. Pawl". The baseboard is edged with white and red lines.
TRIM Reference GEN/36296. Inaccurate model made for the tourist market.
caption: Maltese boat - boat broadside
caption: Maltese boat - bow three quarter
caption: Maltese boat - stern quarter showing fish
caption: unavailable
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | boats models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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