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Britain
framing suggestion:
You don't see these ships- or boats- figureheads as often now as you used to, and I don't
recall seeing any in a marina anywhere for many a year. But in maritime or naval museums
throughout the UK they abound, either as preserved examples or in miniature on ships models
or in design drawings. Their variety is astounding, but its always as some form of carved charm
that is to bring luck or fortune to the seafarers in their respective vessels, or a means of
preserving the prestigious name of the vessel. Highly decorative and often gaudily - even
grotesquely - coloured, and often with gold incorporated somewhere, as here, they would
preserve the ship's identity and aid its recognition. Many a seaman has only found his own ship
after a few hours ashore by the the sight of his looming Neptune or Ariadne hanging off the
bowsprit. He may not be sober, but at least he's 'home'. Most Napoleonic-era 'wooden-wall'
battleships, of both Britain and France (and many other nations) would have had beautifully
sculpted figureheads, often being preserved from ship to ship as they were rebuilt with later
designs. But come the era of the ironclad and the Dreadnoughts of WW1, there was no place
for them and their colourful history was at an end, to be replaced by ships' badges mounted on
the superstructure.
You don't see these ships- or boats- figureheads as often now as you used to, and I don't recall
seeing any in a marina anywhere for many a year. But in maritime or naval museums throughout
the UK they abound, either as preserved examples or in miniature on ships models or in design
drawings. Their variety is astounding, but its always as some form of carved charm that is to bring
luck or fortune to the seafarers in their respective vessels, or a means of preserving the
prestigious name of the vessel. Highly decorative and often gaudily - even grotesquely - coloured,
and often with gold incorporated somewhere, as here, they would preserve the ship's identity and
aid its recognition. Many a seaman has only found his own ship after a few hours ashore by the
the sight of his looming Neptune or Ariadne hanging off the bowsprit. He may not be sober, but at
least he's 'home'. Most Napoleonic-era 'wooden-wall' battleships, of both Britain and France (and
many other nations) would have had beautifully sculpted figureheads, often being preserved from
ship to ship as they were rebuilt with later designs. But come the era of the ironclad and the
Dreadnoughts of WW1, there was no place for them and their colourful history was at an end, to
be replaced by ships' badges mounted on the superstructure.

Figurehead

Classic polished dark-wood round moulding

Classic polished dark-wood round moulding

Britain

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