Tryworks

DateCirca 1967

Mediumwood, copper, metal, rubber

Dimensions13 3/4 × 34 × 32 in. (34.9 × 86.4 × 81.3 cm)

Donor credit lineKendall Whaling Museum Collection Transfer

Object number2001.100.1670

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionDetailed scale model of a typical American shipboard tryworks of brick, mortar, iron, and copper, complete with two smokestacks, two try-pots, firedoors, cooling tank alongside, rubber drainage hoses, and additional boxed pieces of tryworks equipment (whalecraft). Mounted on an indigenous platform base. Scale: 1 1/2" : 1'ProvenanceKWM commission, 1967. Antonio della Monica, Della Monica & Son, Salem, Mass. 03/29/1967

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