Sailors' art

Sailors used to make use of their spare time to make crafts. Here are a few examples:

The masts of this model are made of whale bones.

This is a ship in a bottle, possibly the barque Belmont, donated by Miss Kathryn Ladd.

This doll house was built by an unknown seaman around seventy yeas ago. It is made of cigar boxes.

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