File:Painting the Battleship on a Stick (1914 by Elstner Hilton).jpg

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This, I imagine, is an example of Japanese cottage industry in the early decades of the last century.

I bet little boys had fun playing with these boats. Exactly how they played with them is a bit of a mystery. Unless the battleships were designed to come off the sticks easily, all a kid could do was parade around holding his warship in the air.

However, there may be another explanation for the sticks: rather than remaining affixed to the battleship's hulls, perhaps the sticks were used as an aid in the manufacturing process.

Given the ship's relatively small size, it might have been more convenient and faster to assemble and paint the ships on a stick. The final step would be to remove the finished boat from its assembly stick.

This photo is from an album Elstner Hilton compiled in Japan between 1914 and 1918.

Elstner was my spouse's uncle.

While Uncle Elstner sometimes annotated photos that required an explanation, he never dated the pictures. So all we know is they were taken between January, 1914 and December, 1918.
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Author A.Davey from Portland, Oregon, EE UU
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  • Japan 1914 - 1918
    I own the originals of these unpublished family photos. ... As a salesman for Atkins Saw Company, Elstner Hilton traveled to the Far East to sell commercial sawmills in the early years of the 20th century. ... Elstner Hilton was my father-in-law Frank Hilton's* brother, which makes him my spouse's uncle. ...
    * Elstner Hilton's brother Frank Hilton compiled a scrapbook of photographs, clippings and other ephemera at Stanford University between 1907 and 1911. ...
    ps: I now have reason to believe that the photos of Japan may be stock photos that Uncle Elstner purchased and pasted into his album. There may be some exceptions: the images of his sister, Miriam, and photos of logging operations in the Phillippines.

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