Gerry
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This one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250737053220&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT just sold on ebay for £360|!!!!
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Walker knot master ---- how much ??
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Ubergeekian
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That's an Excelsior, much older than the Knotmaster and extremely unusual to turn up in such good nick and so complete. £360 is a pretty good price.
Poignard
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That looks too nice to use!
I wonder if it will ever get wet or will it just end up as another nautical antique; along with Titanic postcards, bells, brass lamps, serving-mallets, boatswains' whistles, scrimshaw and other relics of a bygone age; to be drooled over by smock-clad beardie-blokes .
I wonder if it will ever get wet or will it just end up as another nautical antique; along with Titanic postcards, bells, brass lamps, serving-mallets, boatswains' whistles, scrimshaw and other relics of a bygone age; to be drooled over by smock-clad beardie-blokes .
BrianH
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I've still got my Walker Excelsior Mk IV somewhere but it doesn't look all shiny like that one, nor is it complete with two spinners and the box is long gone. I think that model must be a very special de luxe version for an exclusive 'Gentleman's Yacht'. Mine is black painted over bronze, a real working-like, hefty piece of kit.
For some reason the white, enamelled face became chipped and parts of it fell off, which I Araldited back, but it never looked the same but didn't matter much being protected by the opening faceplate.
I don't even bother to store it aboard any more, it sits in the cellar with my old Bendix bubble sextant (octant, actually) - sans bubble so I could use it at sea.
The Walker, being big and heavy, rather than use the deck plates, I preferred using the body lanyard to lash and hang from the lower pushpit rail - that way the lanyard takes all the movement and the unit was always precisely aligned to the streamed spinner.
Bosun Higgs
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Obviously a man who wears braces as well as a belt and staples his kecks to his shirt just in case.
