Round vintage tin with a picture of a galleon and Indian tribes

Round vintage tin with a picture of a galleon and Indian tribes.

• Manufacturer: ...
• Manufacturing date: 1940 - 1950

Description
Round vintage tin box with a separate lid. The tin has a seamed longitudinal seam on the back. The decoration of this tin consists of a weathered background with scenes of an Indian tribe from North and South America. On the lid an image of a galleon. Both the decorations on the tin and on the lid are in relief.

Condition
This tin is in an original vintage condition with various traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of the description.

Size

• Height: 8 cm.
• Diameter: 14 cm.

Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships first used as armed cargo carriers by European states from the 16th to 18th centuries during the age of sail and were the principal fleet units drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-1600s. Galleons generally carried three or more masts with a lateen fore-and-aft rig on the rear masts, were carvel built with a prominent squared off raised stern, and used square-rigged sail plans on their fore-mast and main-masts.

Such ships were the mainstay of maritime commerce into the early 19th century, and were often drafted into use as auxiliary naval war vessels—indeed, were the mainstay of contending fleets through most of the 150 years of the Age of Exploration—before the Anglo-Dutch wars brought purpose-built ship-rigged warships that thereafter dominated war at sea during the remainder of the age of sail.

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