Builder's half model of sloop RISING SUN

builder's half model

MODELS - VESSELS - HALF
Saunders, John A. I
USA: Rhode Island: South Kingstown
1820
3.50 x 24.50 x 0

Builder's half model for sloop RISING SUN [built 1820 by John Aldrich Saunders I, 49.7 x 18.2. x 5 1.5]; polished wood, port side, 5 lifts, secured with nails; quarterdeck, 13 stations, 1/2-inch scale; hull painted dark green below waterline; half model illustrated in Summer 1973 issue of 'Newport History'.

1996.59.1