Description:
Wooden model of the steamboat with "Pocumtuck" on both sides, painted in white, red, black, green, and gold. The previous owner, John B. Friend of Shelburne, Mass., found the model in a auction in Colrain, Mass. in the late 1950s. He wrote: "It was in poor repair, so I took it apart and reglued it, adding only the spars. The heavy spar in the stern was the type used as a derrick for handling heavy weights. It will be noticed that the "ladies' cabin" in the rear has elegant green velvet "drapes" with tassels, something I remember from my youth when I lived on the Great Lakes and often rode on vessels almost as old as this one. I wrote to R. Loren Graham, vice president of the Steamship Historical Society of America, and he was kind enough to write to the Bureau of Navigation of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. Their files unfortunately showed no registered ship of this name. So I assume that someone hereabouts made a model and gave it a local name, It is of quite a different type from what we know of the steamer "Greenfield" (at least as she was reconstructed in the fertile imagination of the late Charles E. Winslow). This model seems to be of the sort of ship built about 1870. It is certainly earlier than the old "Ticonderoga" up at Shelburne, Vt. I am glad that this ship will be moored forevermore in Deerfield."
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