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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 3203921, member: 76221&quot;]What a fun thing to bring to the table <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie77" alt=":pompous:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, no pun intended.&nbsp; Very nice work, patina can be found everywhere. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know this posting can be viewed as off the subject; however, the nature of a forum such as ours has room for objects we enjoy as well as the voyages we take in life.</p><p><br /></p><p>The planking pick attached is from the teak deck of the USS New Jersey now a museum in Camden Yards New Jersey across the river from Philadelphia.&nbsp; The ship like other ships had teak planking as it was so impervious to rot and weather as long as it was cleaned. I was there this past August at the ANA Convention and had to see it. The insect was a bonus, hence the term &quot;shutterbug&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many a sailor was put to work at the task of cleaning the decks with a special brick that would be used to scrub off the surface, and then swabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatics takes us on many pathways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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