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RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/2/2010 10:29:09 AM    towhead Posts: 2615 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: MINNESOTA Status: offline It screws into the end of a curtain rod and came off of a luxury cruise ship that sank back in 1810. -Julie (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 21

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/2/2010 10:43:36 AM    California Dream N   Posts: 291 Joined: 12/28/2006 Status: offline It is illegal to own ferrets in California and always has been as far as I know. Because of the fear that they may escape and start colonies that will negatively effect the native wildlife.. Some people smuggle them in but they get confiscated and destroyed if found..:( (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 22

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/2/2010 8:04:48 PM    blobbottlebob Posts: 3351 Joined: 12/20/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Hey Julie, The ship either totally disintegrated (or it was really small) because this was apparently all that was left of it to find. (in reply to towhead) Post #: 23

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/2/2010 8:07:48 PM    blobbottlebob Posts: 3351 Joined: 12/20/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Dreaming, Are there like ferret police? An undercover operation to expose the illicit barter of ferrets? Do they have ferret vice? (Nice idea for a TV series there). Seriously, ferrets. Their ashes would fit in a tiny little snuff jar (or spitoon). (in reply to California Dream N) Post #: 24

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/2/2010 8:09:49 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 11879 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online It was on this vessel.. I forget the name of it, but I remember those curtian rods like it was what I had for breakfast yesterday, which was.... I'll get back to you.. Attachment (1) (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 25

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/2/2010 10:33:10 PM    blobbottlebob Posts: 3351 Joined: 12/20/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Is that something you made Chuck? It's pretty cool. (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 26

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/2/2010 10:59:06 PM    California Dream N   Posts: 291 Joined: 12/28/2006 Status: offline "Ferret Vice" Showing Every Sunday at 5:00 Pm on channel 3..... I love it..lol.... Local animal control officers tend to turn more of a blind eye to ferret ownership but Ca. Dept. of Fish and Game are Gung Ho....Only in Callie... (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 27

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/3/2010 11:26:01 AM    blobbottlebob Posts: 3351 Joined: 12/20/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Quote from an early episode, "You dirty rat. I'll get you for that." "I'm a ferret damn it. Don't you forget it." (in reply to California Dream N) Post #: 28

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/3/2010 3:45:11 PM    glass man Posts: 7551 Joined: 1/30/2008 From: GEORGIA Status: offline YOU FOUND MY UNCLE JIM...!! THANK YOU!! _____________________________ LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED ! IF YOU NEED A BLESSING OR A SONG THAT WILL PICK YOU UP PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SONG FROM"VAN THE MAN"MORRISON! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4R2YXv_AE (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 29

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/3/2010 10:07:52 PM    blobbottlebob Posts: 3351 Joined: 12/20/2005 From: Wisconsin Status: offline "I'm going to save myself and go stateside." "What you gonna do, turn rat-fink?" "That's ferret fink, buddy." < Message edited by blobbottlebob -- 9/3/2010 10:08:19 PM > (in reply to glass man) Post #: 30

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/3/2010 10:55:29 PM    California Dream N   Posts: 291 Joined: 12/28/2006 Status: offline I am cracking up here..lol..Norene (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 31

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/3/2010 11:25:41 PM    bottle_head9 Posts: 1084 Joined: 4/3/2009 From: new england Status: offline I think it`s an Urn of some sort.You could still keep just a spoonful of your loved one.LOL < Message edited by bottle_head9 -- 9/3/2010 11:26:21 PM > (in reply to California Dream N) Post #: 32

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/4/2010 12:21:19 PM    GEEMAN   Posts: 37 Joined: 2/15/2008 From: Wisconsin Status: offline Hey Bob ! It looks like something off an OLD outboard motor. Then again, it might be the business end from a "fishing buddy be good stick" (a club) too? LOL Sent you a PM. (in reply to bottle_head9) Post #: 33

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/4/2010 12:34:57 PM    bottle109 Posts: 199 Joined: 2/24/2006 From: West Bridgewater, Mass Status: offline small oil tiki lamp? (in reply to GEEMAN) Post #: 34

RE: Please help ID a brass thing - 9/4/2010 8:33:35 PM    Lineman3   Posts: 35 Joined: 8/17/2010 From: Northeast PA. Status: offline Looks like a poison contianer you would see in old movies that one person would have tied around their neck or in a pocket to poison their fow Lineman3 (in reply to blobbottlebob) Post #: 35

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