Cutty Sark Sextant Model from the National Maritime Historical Society Anniv. Collection, 1997 Height about 6 inches

Height about 6 inches

and understood by both the artisans themselves and tourist visitors in the context of cross-cultural contact and global interconnections

It makes a remarkable showpiece - the best I've seen

Width 10 inches

Cutty Sark Sextant Model from the National Maritime Historical Society Anniv. Collection, 1997 Height about 6 inchesThis sextant was issued by the National Maritime Historical Society to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the legendary Cutty Sark tea clipper. The Cutty Sark is one of the last of the great British clipper ships built to race across the globe from China to London for the tea trade in 1869, before the opening of the Suez Canal created a much shorter route. Cutty Sark went from the tea trade to trading in wool from Sydney to London where she held the