Nautical Ephemera, Books and Scrimshaws
A 19th Century Edward Massey Ship's Log, of torpedo shape with tail fins, signed lengthwise thereon EDWD MASSEY'S NEW LLL PATENT YACHT LOG 16035, rotating slide shutter covering white enamel register compising three 'distance run' dials - (for tens of miles, miles and quarter miles') and inscribed NEW YACHT LOG "EDWD MASSEY" LLL (FOR "Log, Lead and Look Out") with length of towing line, in wooden storage box with series of Edward Massey trade labels there in -- 15½in (445mm) long
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A 19th Century Edward Massey Ship's Log, of torpedo shape with tail fins, signed lengthwise thereon EDWD MASSEY'S NEW LLL PATENT YACHT LOG 16035, rotating slide shutter covering white enamel register compising three 'distance run' dials - (for tens of miles, miles and quarter miles') and inscribed NEW YACHT LOG "EDWD MASSEY" LLL (FOR "Log, Lead and Look Out") with length of towing line, in wooden storage box with series of Edward Massey trade labels there in -- 15½in (445mm) long
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