Description: Vintage timber ship’s wheel with eight turned spokes and turned handles. The rim has a brass band and the hub has a brass dome cap, with brass caps on the ends of some handles. The back of the hub has a 3.5 cm centre boss with a threaded hole and two keyway slots, so this was a working wheel fitted to a shaft, not a decorative copy.
Lovely aged timber with a warm reddish brown colour, a few small marks and some paint specks, and a bit of wear on the brass.
It measures 61 cm in diameter, is 12 cm deep and weighs 6 kg.
No maker’s mark seen. Would look great on a wall, in a bar, a boat shed or a coastal home.
Pick up Thornleigh NSW 2120, or postage available.