RE: (TFT) Philips Deep Sea Float

["Chris Nicole" <chris_nicole@operamail.com>]

Jay,
This seems like too much of a coincidence...
If you were trying to get my attention it worked.
:o)

I live in Kingston upon Hull on the north bank of the Humber estuary. 
Grimsby is about 20 miles away SE across the Humber.
Almost on a direct line in the opposite direction, another 20 miles away is Goodmanham, the site of Coifi's temple of Woden.
There are significant prehistoric remains in the area but no trace of Coifi's heathen temple.

Your Philips deep sea float may have been in the water a long time.
I have been unable to find a current record of the company. They may have gone out of business in the 1970's when the fishing industry crashed. They were active betwen 1935 and the 1960's at least.

Philips deep sea floats turn up regularly on E-bay.
I also found a poem in Japanese about a PDSF that turned up on a beach there...

Funny old world...

Regards,

Chris in Hull


----- Original Message -----
From: "maou_tsaou1@netzero.net" 
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: RE: (TFT) TFT Mapping
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:20:04 GMT


(putting the interruption in front of the stuff it interrupted)

Major interruption!
So a friend shows up with their new puppy.
"Let's walk the dogs!"
Makes sense, I live next to the beach.
"Sure, TINKERBELL! Wanna go bye-bye?!?"
So I find stuff, and it's usually the most variety after a good gusty storm.
Well, we had one yesterday (and will tomorrow from what I hear...)
One of the more common "rare" finds are floats.
I've found over a dozen now, including 2 glass ones.
Today I found a cast aluminum, or pot metal float.
VERY neat says I and I fetch it home.
Well it' s got writing on it, actually raised letters in the cast.
I brush off some of the salt and algae on one side.

< PHILLIPS Deep Sea Model - Guaranteed >

PHILLIPS?
Electric?

I brush off the other side.

< Manufacturers - PHILLIPS Trawl Products - Grimsby England >

Really?

...

REALLY!?!

Humberside is North Sea no?
How did this get just south of the mouth of the Columbia?
And if I recall Kingston upon Hull, which is just across the bay...

?
< humms Synchronicity >




Chris Nicole
www.loran.karoo.net/


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