Builder's half model of centerboard sloop built by William Gould Saunders

builder's half model

MODELS - VESSELS - HALF
Saunders, William Gould
USA: Rhode Island: Wickford; USA: Rhode Island: North Kingstown
Circa 1900
4.50 x 19.31 x 4.25

Builder's half model for unidentified sail vessel, probably centerboard sloop, [built circa 1900 by William Gould Saunders, Wickford RI]; wood, port side, 6 lifts, 15 [?] stations, model screwed to backboard which rises in crescent shape amidships, hole drilled for display; lifts originally secured with wood pegs; some losses where screws were inserted and removed; adhesive label on centerline reads "WGS #12".

UNIDENTIFIED sloop
1996.59.14