If you are a military historian or just interested in Old inkwell/pen rests...
I'd really be interested in any comments you may have . Concerning either the piece or the Naval Battles.
Researching it on the web, turned up this link.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...soft:*%26sa%3DG


I uploaded a bunch of photos here:

http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj85/pe...pagne_d_Orient/

The pen is a Paul Wirt over-feed eyedropper.

Thanks. I hope you find it as interesting as I do.

Steve

Steve, these links really lead nowhere, can you fix that, please. It sounds like you posted this somewhere else on the board also by the title, but I'm too lazy to nose around.

links fixed
Thanks for the heads up

Interesting, both the history and the pen rest. Thanks.

The "thing", for lack of a better word, on the rest, looks like a deactivated fuse from a shell. Don't know for sure but a nice thing to own if you're into military/naval history. The cross theme being pens goes without saying.

Steve,

That is a seriously cool pen rest. It could certainly be a shell fuse; then again, I suppose it could be some other random gizmo from a vessel of the era.

Very interesting, in any case. One might think of it as naval "trench art."

Cheers,

Jon

I agree about the fuze (see for example: http://www.gwpda.org/naval/usn3fz1l.jpg). The various indentations etc would be for setting the fuze with a fuze wrench. Anyway, it's a very interesting piece. I'll guess that this was given to an officer (perhaps the ship's gunnery officer) when he was reassigned and was made either by his sailors or fellow officers (though this is just conjecture, such practices are common in the military - I have several unit plaques etc from my service).


Dave

I recently saw an interesting desk set that had two pens (not sure make) on either side of a bomb fuse with a cut-away that showed the innards of the fuse. It was made by the Ingersoll-Waterbury watch factory in Connecticutt, to commemorate their conversion to producing those fuses during WWII.

John

That is seriously cool (speaking as someone who slept through the passage through the Dardanelles last spring).