from a 1930's manual on chip carving my chip carving knives Small boat box Eagle head modeled on the one on the Constitution's boarding plan large, thin cherry bowl - So, the number 158 yielded relatively few illustrations, but ones I like. The first is from a 1930s booklet that my wife's Great-Grandfather owned. He …
A Schooner’s Story
what's the story behind the diorama? That's the thing about this type of presentation: there is a story.
Eagle Heads
Figureheads get lots of attention in maritime museum exhibits. There are even museum collections of figureheads lost at sea. Often, the names of the ships they graced are unknown. If we knew, we could reconstruct a travelogue of all the ports they'd seen. But many ships lacked figureheads. The old figure went overboard in a …

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