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Drop everything and run to the Naval Museum

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Ukhta, Paris. Is it possible for you sometimes, please contact regarding this museum itself? Unless of course you really drop everything and run so far before him. "Well this is a joke, of course. But some serious moments in this posting to museums to understand the topic is. This is the time associated with the "sites" where you can see the important things of this art. Of course, apart from the competition the largest museums in the country with a long maritime history and traditions: France, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Holland, Russia. It is in the museums of these countries can look at models that 250-300 years. And that relate to the period that Michael Bezverhny characterizes the ship modeling as a flowering of art. In which the harmony of the highest artistic level of performance and technical reliability of the spacecraft. The museums are accessible to the public. There are some models that were in private collections. For example such as the "Collection of the British Admiralty family models Krigshtayn" In this article we look at the largest private collection of the British Admiralty models. The collection was compiled jointly by Roman Krigshtayna and his twin sons Arnold and Henry.

According to them, the original intention was to gather a collection of ship models from the bones, dating back to the Napoleonic wars. And the first such model was acquired in 1974. In the same year at Sotheby's, held in the estate of Glen Cove, (NY), sold a collection of models Admiralty collected D. Morgan. At this auction family Krigshtayn acquired model Coronation and after that time more than a single model of the bones in the collection did not appear. Over the years they have managed to acquire more than a dozen other Admiralty models, including three others from the already mentioned the collection of D. Morgan (models 3, 9 and 13). When collecting collection Krigshatynami it was decided to concentrate on the first century (1650-1750 Gg.) When the construction of models in England began to develop rapidly. The collection has expanded not only through the Admiralty models, but also augmented paintings, ship's drawings, books, manuscripts, etc. In the framework of this article, we confine ourselves to the core collection, namely the Admiralty models. At least one of which refers to the time of the Restoration of Charles II. Causes of the so-called Admiralty models are still uncertain. The most common view is based on the fact that the model is part of the shipbuilding process in the royal dockyards 17th-18th centuries. CoP-melting, that the models were built as prototypes and provided Lord of the Admiralty for approval of the project of construction of the ship. However, this interpretation is not entirely justified, since it does not take into account the points that the models were based on traditional methods, most of which did not coincide with the true technology of shipbuilding, also ignored the fact that the construction of the model required a significant amount of time, and records the time regarding the schedule of construction of ships, could not allow such liberties, as there is no evidence that the models were stored at the shipyards as references to assist in building a real ship, well, and, finally, there is no record of the model shop and model craftsmen in the shipyards. What we do know, so is that these models were built by ship masters and to the members of the Admiralty Board. By the appearance of several remaining showcases for such models can be said that the decorative value and accuracy of a scale model of a warship were of great importance for the people of that time. In cases where we have been able to trace the fate of the model up to its first owner at the time of construction of the model, it turns out to be a full member of the Admiralty Board. It is possible that the models were made and passed to senior functionaries of the fleet in anticipation of favors or gratitude.

Whatever the root cause of building models, which have survived, not only do they "delight the eye, but through careful study, can find a large number of previously unknown aspects of shipbuilding at that time.
Photo models from this collection.