by Hans Jurgen Hansen, Clas Broder Hansen · Schiffer Publishing Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780887402999
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«Ships' Figureheads» is the historical essay by Hans Jurgen Hansen and Clas Broder Hansen on ship figureheads, in hardback (128 pages, in English).
Reference work on ship figureheads, the wooden carvings that adorned ships in the age of sail. It details the types —lions, dragon heads— and the sculptors who made them, from court carvers to independent carvers, as well as 19th-century figureheads.
Contains 117 photographs: 31 in colour and 86 in black and white. The subtitle is «The Decorative Bow Figures of Ships».
For naval history enthusiasts, classic boat lovers, antique collectors and decorative sculpture admirers.
