Object data
wood, brass, galvanised iron, paper, rope and parchment
height 9 cm × width 41 cm × depth 29.4 cm
anonymous
Box with Samples of Metal Shrouds
? Netherlands, 1866
Inscriptions
- inscription, on a separate note: Verschillende soorten van ijzerdraadtouw / tot staand want.
- inscription, on the parchment labels: 0,135 / dr Nº 6 // 0,122 // dr Nº 7 // 0,112 / dr Nº 8 // 0,102 / dr Nº 9 // 0,093 / dr Nº 10 // 0,084 / dr Nº 11 // 0,067 / dr Nº 13 // 0,060 / dr Nº 14 // 0.053 / dr Nº 15 // 0.039 / dr Nº 17 // 0,027 / dr Nº 19 - 20. / doen vervallen
- label, on the inside of the box: 1207 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1207
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Box containing eleven samples of iron cables for shrouds, all are shroud-laid with six cable-laid strands around a seventh, each strand and the heart consisting of seven wires. Each is tied together with rope and yellow paper at the ends and carries a parchment label with an inscription and a piece of the wire they are made of. The inscription on the smallest sample also carries the instruction to have it suspended. The inventory mentions four more samples of lashings and wire;1 these were not found.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1207
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Box with Samples of Metal Shrouds, Netherlands, 1866', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245021
(accessed 20 April 2024 00:40:11).