A BUILDER'S HALF-MODEL OF THE IRON SHIP ANONYMA, CIRCA 1863

with 48in. hull carved from half-inch laminated yellow pine with ebonised top sides with boxwood stringing, finely carved female figurehead, cutaway bowsprit and masts and deck housing, mounted on wooden display board with contemporary paper label behind, 13½ x 57in. (34 x 145cm.)

The full-rigged ship Anonyma was built in Vernon’s yard at Liverpool to the order of Imrie & Co. [also of Liverpool] in 1863. Built of iron and classed A1 by Lloyd’s surveyors, she was registered at 848 tons gross and measured 186 feet in length with a 30 foot beam. Although she began her career in the India trade, she changed to the Australia run in 1866 and, by 1869, she was trading to South America. By 1873, she disappears from record and, in the absence of any notification of her being wrecked, it is likely she was sold and renamed thereafter.

Condition Report

Fine overall condition. One or two minor marks commensurate for age.

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