MATARÓ ship model
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 9:07 pm
The MATARÓ is the oldest ship model of the Western European culture, she was a carvel built ship of the type in which Columbus in 1492 sailed over the Atlantic to the New World.
The model is made of the wood of the cork tree, and recent research by the University of Utrecht through radiocarbon dating, gives that the wood of which the model is made comes from a tree that was felled around 1470.
The model is believed to come from a church in the Catalan town of Mataró north of Barcelona; the model is since 1929 in possession of the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.
It is assumed that the model is called a nave, an ex-voto. In many churches in Europe were in the late medieval period ship models, often models that sailors were given to the church in thanks for a prosperous voyage or that they were rescued from a shipwreck.
St Maarten 2011 60c sg?, scott?
Netherlands 2015 first class mail sg?, scott?
Source: Internet.
More info on the model is given in the URL below.
http://www.iemed.org/dossiers-en/dossie ... o/anau.pdf
The model is made of the wood of the cork tree, and recent research by the University of Utrecht through radiocarbon dating, gives that the wood of which the model is made comes from a tree that was felled around 1470.
The model is believed to come from a church in the Catalan town of Mataró north of Barcelona; the model is since 1929 in possession of the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.
It is assumed that the model is called a nave, an ex-voto. In many churches in Europe were in the late medieval period ship models, often models that sailors were given to the church in thanks for a prosperous voyage or that they were rescued from a shipwreck.
St Maarten 2011 60c sg?, scott?
Netherlands 2015 first class mail sg?, scott?
Source: Internet.
More info on the model is given in the URL below.
http://www.iemed.org/dossiers-en/dossie ... o/anau.pdf