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Lu, I wonder if it could be either a promotional model, a salesman's sample, or
a patent model. Sometimes scale models were made (of many products) to submit
with a patent application, or for salesmen to carry around with them instead of
large bulky objects--which anchors certainly could be.<G>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lu Abel" <lunav@abelhome.net>
To: <NavList@fer3.com>
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:03 PM
Subject: [NavList 1241] Weird "anchor"


> Okay, it's a bit off-topic, but a librarian friend of mine sent the
> photo and wondered if I could identify it.  It's clearly way too small
> to be any sort of functional anchor, and the shackles in the middle and
> bottom would seem to have little use in the real world (admittedly,
> anchors sometimes have a shackle at the fluke end of the shank to assist
> in weighing a fouled anchor), so I can't imagine that it's even a scale
> model.  My best guess is that it might be part of a lamp or other
> decorative item, where now missing parts attached at the shackles -- but
> I'll bet this smart, world-wide crowd might have other ideas.
>
> Lu Abel
>
>
> >


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