Anybody here into collecting maritime themed art, artifacts, or item with a maritime historical significance?
Starting this new thread as a place for shearing pictures, histories and facts about such things.
To start it off, here is an illustration that was hanging on the wall in Maritime Schools, Shipping offices and even onboard many Norwegian ships in my young days:
Likewise for several varieties of this displays:
There are some good models on here, including 2 that I have worked on!
I have one of those Sulzer Fuel Nozzels as well 
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They make awesome paperweights and pencil holders. I had this one nickle plated, like the valves, but it obviously needs a polish.
I have a much smaller version that I got for free. Threw some chain on the end of it and one of these days will learn how to weld and make it into a handrail for my porch.
I have a couple of sailboat half hull models, a knot display board (homemade), and an anchor light hung from my ceiling on a switch. Plus a number of maritime-themed paintings. The really cool stuff seems mostly out of my price range but I keep an eye open.
That’ll be awesome, I like cool, nautical themed stuff like that too.
I just joined a Facebook group for Maritime Collectible:
PS: Don’t know if it is open to non-members, or if it is possible to buy and sell items outside of Norway through this group.
I had to laugh when I saw the bearing stand, you old thief! How’d you get that?
I have a friend with a chandlery business that serves a couple of major ports. He hauls the old stuff away when it is replaced and he lets me sift through the junk before he sorts it for scrapping. Every once in a while I find little treasures. I bought the pelorus separately from another source.
The azimuth circle was made by Lionel (the toy train company) for the Navy in 1943.
I took a useless inclinometer from the engine room while in port in Boston to the Sail Loft down the road as I thought it was an appropriate donation considering the flooring there. Traded it for a round of drinks for the crew. It was still there 5 years later serving a much more useful purpose.
Very cool! I once went prowling through a bunch of laid-up ships at Norfolk when mine was in for a tank repair, but only found a 40s-era question and answer book for deck officers in a chart drawer, still have it.
I used to do RRF jobs in Oakland and Hunters Point. At the time they docked some of the ships pulled out of the Suisun anchorage at Alameda to make them available for scavenging before they were sold for scrap. Those ships were gold mines but we had to justify everything we took and the paper trail made souvenir hunting and personal collecting impossible. I heard MARAD has warehouses filled with wheels and telegraphs and shiny stuff enough to take your breath away. It was kind of sad to wander through those ships knowing where they were headed.
Yeah, my head was filled with an image of me running down the dock with a big wooden wheel in my hands. At that time, every ship I joined had a big wooden wheel, but they were not for the taking.
