'Signposts of the Seaways', an unusual display on three shelves of fifty-two mainly Thames Estuary navigation training aids including Buxhey Beacon, Gunfleet Tower, Cork Lightship and other buoys, beacons and light houses, simple ship models of various types and wind direction arrows, mounted against a chart of the Estuary, glazed case for wall hanging -- 24 x 32½in. (61 x 82.5cm.)

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'Signposts of the Seaways', an unusual display on three shelves of fifty-two mainly Thames Estuary navigation training aids including Buxhey Beacon, Gunfleet Tower, Cork Lightship and other buoys, beacons and light houses, simple ship models of various types and wind direction arrows, mounted against a chart of the Estuary, glazed case for wall hanging -- 24 x 32½in. (61 x 82.5cm.)

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It is thought that these were originally made as, and used for navigation training.

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