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The Taffrail

A taffrail is a railing at the stern of the ship or the handrail around the open deck area at the stern of a ship or boat. The term is a shortening of taffarel, the original name for this ornament.

The stern of the Prins Willem with a wooden carved taffrail and a Captain on the Poop deck taffrail, by William Heysmann Overend (1851-1898) (x) (x)

Sometimes the railing refers only to the curved wooden top of the stern of a sailing ship or an East Indian ship.  It could also be a complete handrail along the poop deck. The rail of these wooden sailing ships usually had hand-carved wooden mouldings, which were often highly ornamented.

Russian Treasure Island - Russian Long John Silver Boris Andreev. My favorite film.

Janissary's sword (Janitscharenschwert) mod. 1729. Saxony. Introduced by Augustus the Strong, who had a select unit of "Janissaries" modeled after the Ottomans.

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Soviet marine artist Evgeny Voishvillo (1907-1993). Tea clipper "Thermopylae". "Marine Fleet Magazine" No.8, 1981