Lot no. 390
"CUTTY SARK (1869)
1/100 scale model
XX-XXIth centuries
L. 85 cm (shell)
An English three-masted clipper built in 1869 in Dumbarton, Scotland. Known as one of the last "Tea clippers", her main routes were China and above all Australia, where she held the speed record for 10 years. She was bought by a Portuguese merchant in 1895 and renamed Ferreira, before becoming a museum ship at the National Maritime Museum in London, where she can still be seen today.
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