Cutty Sark
Description
“CUTTY SARK 1869”
Numbered model delivered with a certificate of authenticity.
• Very fast clipper designed by the architect Hercule LINTON and built in Dumbarton in Scotland. This sailboat was intended to bring back the new tea harvest from China. After the opening of the Suez Canal, the transport of tea by clippers lost all economic interest and “Cutty Sark” was devoted to cabotage in the Indian Ocean and the Far East, before ;transport wool from Australia. In 1922, she became a training ship and in June 1957, Queen Elizabeth II opened the “Cutty Sark” Museum in Greenwich to the public.
Size
Scale
Finish
Working time
114cm
1/75e
Rosewood
300 H
For the pleasure to smell the smell of the liquid bees-wax, a light pasage annual on the wood; for the dust removal, if you possess one sandbank – hairdryer ( cold air) biweekly will be completed. If, unfortunately, you broke sometimes something on your model, to contacted the Association of close Designer from your home.
Each of our models is numbered. Each model is unique, thanks to its entirely handcrafted nature (every small part is made by hand or on a lathe, in wood, aluminum, copper, etc.), the shade of its rosewood, etc. A certificate of authenticity is enclosed with each model.
Since 1984, very numerous collectors rely on us: LIMITED COMPANY Prince Albert of Monaco, Realm of Spain, Head of state and of governments, Ambassador, admiralty, personalities of the world of the arts and the business, Enlightened amateur private, numerous museums.
