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Church Ship - George F. Harding Museum

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $15.95

Stock #:895632
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Chicago
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Cook,
Publisher: Curt Teich & Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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Early 16th Century - This finely detailed model, seven feet in length, which was fashioned by sailors as a votive offering to their patron saint, is the oldest church ship known to collectors. It hangs from the ceiling of the Old Gallery chamber of the museum just as it did in an English seacoast church more than 400 years ago. 4853 Lake Park Avenue - Exhibitions of medieval armor, weapons and art; early firearms, historic musical instruments, old sailing ship models, Frederic Remington paintings and sculptures, renaissance furniture, modern paintings and objects of art.

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