本月我们看起来非常相似，但也是非常不同的，我们在Mariners的博物馆拥有这里。我们收集中有两个缆车，一个威尼斯金匠的微型工作，衡量2和1/8“长，并且一个全尺寸的缆车，衡量35英尺和8英寸长，重约1,100磅。

微型缩小为约1：192，船上包含两个灯台。常设的吊舱是3/8英寸，而第二个吊舱正在坐下，在铰接的树冠面前，可以打开。坐着的船长是在1791年之前的贡多拉风格的独特之处，当时努力威尼斯国家必须改变一名男子缆车，以减轻支出和省钱。（这是50％的缩小率！）小缆车由18克拉金组成，用金银丝装饰。The Mariners’ Museum purchased it from the Bodley Book Shop in New York in 1939, and while the exact goldsmith who created it is unknown, it is thought to have been made around 1840. In 1996, The Mariners’ Museum based a Christmas ornament on the miniature as part of a series of ornaments that were designed after pieces of the collection. The ornament was coated in 24 carat gold and available for purchase in the Gift store.阅读更多