Model of an Anchor

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-947

Model of an anchor, consisting of a shank with a bent arm with flukes at the ends.

The iron anchor ring is covered with puddening of tarred rope. The shank is heavier, the angle of the arms with the shank smaller, and the flukes are broader than is common on anchors of this kind. The anchor stock is missing.

The identification of this model was by a process of elimination and is thus uncertain. According to Obreen this type of anchor was introduced by the Dutch Navy in 1858 and was used in all sizes, with both wooden and iron anchor stocks.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 108.

Scale (estimate) 1:10.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089 , no. 947; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), pp. 388-89, fig. 126; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 200-03

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor, Netherlands, 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244761