Show Off Your Naval Treen.

[simong]

@verporchting: Funny you should mention that since he sold me one as well along with an unpublished manuscript by Oscar Wild entitled 'Stretching Your Friends. A Complete Guide to Putting Large Things in Small Holes' apparently 'Big Bouncing Butch' Oscar dedicated the book to him when they were lovers!

Stretching your friends? Lol
You’re a better read man than myself, would you say he was the wittiest woofter of the late Victorian era?
Poor old Oscar, the sharpest wit & literacy’s brightest light…..outed & cancelled by the Condor! Lol

 

[Streeper541]

You have a key?

Could be worth a couple of thou.

The chronometer itself is actually English. Southwest Instrument was just the retailer.

Yes, I have the keys to it. I also know what ship it came off of. I have my grandfathers discharge papers from all his ships and all his mariner documents as well.

 

[Zack Miller]

Not exactly naval treen, but more of a souvenir that sailors of the Great White Fleet Purchased when visiting Japan in the early 1900’s.
This is one of several images that were available to sailors. The original George Washington Company catalogue described this piece as "Embroidered with Silk and pure Gold Thread on the best quality Satin. Other examples included actual ships along with inserted photos of the sailor and notables of the time such as Admiral Dewey.

if you could inspect the crew close up, you would see their eyes are of Asian character.