NOTES FROM ACADEME

Sailor's Delight

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Annapolis, Md.

The more Grant Walker tells you about the armada of antique British ship models on the lower floor of the United States Naval Academy's museum, the easier it is to understand how collectors as varied as Samuel Pepys and J.P. Morgan came to covet models like these. Mr. Walker, a retired Army major who is a research associate at the museum, moves...

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