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1726915237Code 57561 CutterVery rare and refined scale model from the early 1900s of a Cutter, precious lost wax casting in white metal of a small pleasure sailing vessel, the base also in white metal simulates wave motion. The white metal is a tin alloy with a small percentage of antimony, the masts and the rudder are also in golden white metal, steel wire tops. In excellent condition, length 66 cm - 26 inches, height 55 cm - 21.7 inches, width 11 cm - 4.3 inches.
Since the beginning of the 18th century, Cutters have been used as fishing boats, as smuggling boats due to their speed, postal ships and coast guard ships; they were also used as boats that facilitated communications between larger ships of military fleets.
Naval modeling was born for religious reasons. Not content with the banality of his own life, man wants another and an eternal one, but the soul - by definition immaterial - needs a means to reach the afterlife; he has to cross a river, and to do so he needs a boat. The oldest model is a silver vessel measuring about sixty centimeters found in the excavations of Ur in Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, and dates back to 2,000 BC. Model making was reborn in the 15th century again for religious reasons, but this time as an ex-voto, even if the most important and precious models were those built by shipyards: in fact until the 17th century ships were not designed with a drawing; we decided on the length, width, masts, armament and then we entrusted ourselves to a trusted shipyard which "by eye" built the ship according to the instructions received. To convince the sovereign or the minister that he had to finance the construction, however, it was necessary to show him something, and to show him what the ship would have been like, an often large model was built, and the more well it was made, the better it responded to the marketing of the time ; often the king fell in love with the model and kept it for himself, and this is why many of these models - true works of art - have come down to us and are all jealously guarded in the various naval museums.
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Code 57561 Cutter
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