The ship hanging from the celing in the study is a galeas, a small trade vessel. What defines it as a galeas is its rigging. Axel Haartman asked an old seaman to rig it as a galeas in the 1930s. He needed it as a model, because at the time he depicted a lot of the trading vessels that sailed along the coast outside his summer house in Kimito.

The vessel belonged to his father, Hugo Haartman, and is probably made in Högsar in Nagu in the southwestern Finnish archipelago. The ship’s name has always been Gustaf Adolf.