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Silver, six shields, ship number 1
This is a 'footed salt' style, with one crossbar, and front and back supports. This ship has two dragon heads, and a clear glass liner. The six shields are bidirectional. The ship is 3 1/8 inches long (dragon nose to nose), the base is slightly longer. Height at dragon head is 2 inches. I do not know if this ship is supposed to come with a spoon.
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This is a closeup of the shields.
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This is mark that is stamped into the upper side near the shields. "830S" is for silver content, the "LO" mark is for Brødrene Lohne.
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This is a closeup of a dragon head, showing the detail along the ship's edge and some of the base also.
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This is a front view of the ship, to show the detail on the single crosspiece at the base.
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This is clear glass liner that came with this ship. Notice the scallops along the edge.
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Silver, six shields, ship number 2
This ship has a dragon head and tail. The shields are unidirectional, oriented with the dragon head as the front. It came with a clear glass liner, which has a flat rim that is slightly hand-beveled along the outside edge. I do not know if this ship is supposed to come with a spoon.
A ship very similar to this has been seen, with a cobalt blue glass liner, cobalt blue glass spoon, and no scene in the bottom, marked underneath with "STERLING SWEDEN".
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This is a closeup of the shields, they are all identical.
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This is a closeup of the dragon head.
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There are two serpents near the rim of the ship on each side, with each serpent facing the shields.
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This is the inside bottom of the ship. Embossed from underneath is a scene of cliffs by a sea, with a sun (for a similar scene, see silver 5-shield ship #5). The scene is of the North Cape Cliffs and the "midnight sun". Stamped into the inside bottom (from the inside) are the words "NORDKAP" (at the top), and "NORGE" (at the bottom). 'NORDKAP' is Norwegian for 'North Cape', an area in northernmost Norway, a popular tourist destination since the late 1800's. To the left of the word NORGE is the mark for silver content. It appears to have been stamped "925", and then restamped "830S" directly over top of that. To the right of the word NORGE is stamped an oval-shaped mark that includes 7 dots, with a upwards-pointing arrow inside it (possibly the mark of Kristian M. Hestenes).
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Silver, six shields, ship number 3
This ship has two identical dragon heads. The shields are bidirectional. It came with a clear glass liner, which has a flat rim that is very slightly beveled along the outside edge. This ship appears to be siver-plated. I do not know if this ship is supposed to come with a spoon.
This ship may possibly come in sterling, as a virtually identical ship with a clear glass liner is shown in H&J (#4263), and the description notes that it is sterling and hallmarked Sweden. H&J also shows a spoon with that ship, somewhat similar to the spoon with the silver 5-shield #6 ship, but with vertical grooves running along the handle from the ship to the bowl.
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This is a closeup of the shields, they are all identical.
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This is a closeup of a dragon head. Some of the detail is a little less distinct on some of the other dragon heads, due to variations in manufacture.
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This is the mark stamped into the underside of the ship (actually lightly double-stamped). It reads "IMAN·S".
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Silver, six shields, ship number 4
This ship has two identical heads. The shields are bidirectional. It came with a clear glass liner, which has a flat rim that is slightly beveled along both the outside and inside edges. I do not know if this ship is supposed to come with a spoon.
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This is a closeup of the shields, they are all identical (and strikingly similar to the silver 6-shield ship number 3, above).
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This is a closeup of a head. To me, they look somewhat bird or serpent-like, but notice the teeth!
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This is the mark stamped into the underside of the ship. It reads "830S" and "WP.".
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