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Carter No.: 309

Handlist description: Model boat

Card/Transcription No.: 309-2


309 (Continued) 2

No thwarts or cross-ties are shown.

The cabin shows three windows on starboard and port-sides, with a door on the aft end.

At stern, before the poop deck, two long steering paddles which operate on upright crutches, and cross-beams; the paddles are tied to the crutches by means of string.

DECORATION: Coloured yellow ochre; bows and stern white with lotus, feather and chequer device. The screens of the 'look-outs', upon the forecastle and poop, have green & blue panels. The stem orpiment yellow and green; the stern piece white and green. The blades of the paddles white tipped with black, the long shafts orpiment yellow.

The cabin painted with cavetto cornice; dado; the outer wall with chequer pattern; roof white.

Card no. 309-2 relating to Carter no. 309
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