Marine antiques - Curiosities

 

19th-century travel kit, silver, crystal, tortoiseshell

Each object is inscribed with the Des Cars family coat of arms and motto:
"Fais ce que dois, Advienne que pourra"
("Do what must be done, Whatever will come will come")
Model of the Pontoon "L'ATALANTE"

Length: 62 cm, height: 51 cm, width: 19 cm
Made by prisoners
during the Napoleonic Wars

 Figurehead

Bearded Scotsman.
Oak. Inscribed with the date 1803.
Height 145 cm.
Very colorful.

 Period figurehead, 18th century

Life size. Turbanned black servant
in 18th-century dress.
Dutch work.