Vintage 16th Century Galleon Ship Boat Nautical Brass Door Knocker

This is a brass cast figural door knocker. The item is identified as a 16th century Galleon ship on the front (see photos). The item is made of Yellow Brass and it could be polished by you to a bright and shiny finish (see photos). The item is vintage and it has a nice nautical theme (see photos and decide the age, the origin and the maker). The item has some wear (see photos and / or written description for the condition of this item). This item in total measures about 6 inches high, it is about 1 and 1/2 inches from the front edge to the back side and it is about 3 and 1/2 inches wide. 

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 vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-1600s.[3] 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 . In 1588, the bulk of the English fleet comprised 500-tonne race-built galleons designed primarily as floating gun-platforms.