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The Sailors Valentine heritage craft has been confirmed as being developed in Barbados in the mid-1800’s likely as an entrepreneurial response to a growing market of sailors looking for gifts to take back home to their loved ones. Based on Barbados’ position as the most easterly of the Caribbean isles, the island was a strategic last stop for replenishment of fresh water and other stores to equip the various British whaling ships before their last journey back home. Sailors