3-011-635 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Silver-gilt nef; the hull, with two tiers of guns; the deck, which takes off as a cover, is rigged with two masts and sails; on it are musketeers and officers, two sailors in the rigging; on the foresail is a coat of arms, party per pale; dexter, the merchant's mark of Valentine Jeger, with initials V. J. in chief impaling a bugle horn stringed; crest, a bugle horn. Above the crest the following inscription: I "Valentin Ieger, A° 1661." The vessel is supported by a merman blowing a conch, on an oval stand of embossed shells. Height, 2ft. 2in. Baron L. de Rothschild'. A nef was a large medieval sailing ship. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.