Model of Cable Stopper

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1889-48

Model of a cable seizure, in which a steel cable is pinched between a row of three sheaves on the one side and a row of two on the other. The rows of sheaves can be tightened together or loosened by means of a crank. The cable has a hemp heart strand and a small handle for pulling at one end.

The identification of the model as this catalogue number was derived from a process of elimination only.

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of Cable Stopper, Netherlands, c. 1830 - c. 1870', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245284