The chandlery
Five shelves
Everything we carry, and why it is here rather than something else.
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3 pieces
Model Ship Kits
Plank-on-frame kits for the patient, snap-together hulls for a first weekend. Every box is opened and counted against the parts list before it leaves us.
3 pieces
Instruments
Compasses, sextants and telescopes in solid brass with working movements and real optics. Checked on the bench — needles damped, arcs true, glass collimated.
3 pieces
Chandlery
Wheels, anchors and fittings. Weighty things for a study wall or a hallway, in brass and blackened iron.
2 pieces
Lighting
Copper and brass lanterns, wired for the house or left for the wick. Unlacquered, so they age.
1 pieces
Display Cases
Glass-front cases with hardwood plinths, sized for a finished clipper and sealed against dust.
“We would rather carry forty things worth owning than four hundred that are not.”— the buying rule