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anonymous

Sample of an Iron Tiller Rope

? Netherlands, 1866

Object data

galvanised iron and rope

length 202 cm

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1206

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Sample of a galvanised iron tiller rope, cable-laid with six shroud-laid strands of eighteen wires each around a rope heart.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1206

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Sample of an Iron Tiller Rope, 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.245020

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