Handmade Wooden Nautical Dial (for Teaching Sailing?) Royal Copenhagen Baca series just a couple of small

just a couple of small brown stains that show against the white gaze on the back side

This fabulous

enhancing the immediacy of the figures and giving them a bit of a sculptural quality

4 1/2” wide x 2 1/4” tall

Handmade Wooden Nautical Dial (for Teaching Sailing?) Royal Copenhagen Baca series just a couple of smallI'm not a sailor, but I think this interesting old handmade dial would be instructive if a novice like me were to try to put it to use. The black "boat" at the center is annotated with Port and Starboard (missing the first few letters), Forward and Aft, and then depending on which direction one points to boat, there are notes on the middle disk relative to positions of bow and beam. At least this is what I think is going on here! Mostly, I just think