A personal collection of nautical objects
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This is my latest ship in a bottle, which I bought today at the Shipwreck and Maritime museum centre on the Isle of Wight. It’s a very large (probably whiskey) bottle, and the ship is long and thin. I would like to paint a background for it, either on paper which I’ll insert into the…
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I fell in love with this painting of a stormy sea when I saw it in a local gallery. Eventually I managed to buy it! It’s by Daryll Nantais.
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This is an amazing model. It has ‘BOUNTY’ painted on the stern but it’s not the famous Bounty. This one looks like a Tudor ship, like The Mary Rose rather than an 18th century ship like Captain Bligh’s The Bounty. I bought it about 14 years ago from the gift shop at Mountfitchet Castle where…
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This wooden model is labelled Bergantin Siglo XVIII. It has lovely details, such as a tiny barrel and gun ports. There is an interesting article about Bergatina ships on Robert’s Old Ships, see link below. https://roberts-old-ships.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-bergantina.html?m=1
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I saw this lovely fish in a shop window in Saffron Walden yesterday
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I love this iron double-lighthouse doorstop, it’s strange to have two lighthouses so close together on one rock! It was a birthday present from my partner last year and came from the shop at the wonderful Shipwreck Centre and Maritime Museum on the Isle of Wight.
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This is my first ship in a bottle which I bought about 30 years ago. It came from a small antiques shop in Muswell Hill, London, where I lived at the time.