This is on an eBay auction right now.  I don't know much about these factory enameled ones.  Is this one real, and does anyone have any tips for spotting fakes of this style?

If you spent some time at it, you may be able to very much narrow down what ship this was from. The start point would be the Korean PUC. I don’t imagine a hole lot of Navy ships received that award. Figure that list out, then match up the Korean War campaign stars and then the WW2 stars on the PTO ribbon.    It might be possible to narrow the list way down at least?

We've all seen this photo. Good place to post it up!    

3500....incredible! Great items throughout your photos. Thank you for sharing.

Love the embroidery.   Anything in the cuffs?

Thanks Chris. Yeah, I've looked for a long time to get some of those pieces, and I've been pretty successful at it. Right now due to space limitations and some other unforeseen factors I'm starting to diversify the flock. Not sure how much I'll be able to keep when I get all done but we'll see. It'll be a long process.    Here's a few more items I've got....   #1 there is a USN heel clinometer Type II, it measures how far a ship or sub goes from side to side. The other two are both WW2 vintage units, the first pendulum unit is more prevalent on USN ships and the second from anecdotal info I have from veterans was found more on the merchant fleet and auxiliary ships (Tanker, oiler, cargo, etc...). Little anecdotal info on the second clinometer (the Fee & Stermwedel one), they used this on the 585 class of Nuclear submarines as a heel indicator on the Ships Control Panel. I have a picture of the SCP on a Skipjack class with one of these front & center. Taken by General Dynamics no less!   The Engine Order Telegraph is a SigTrans dating from appx. 1980, apparently the Ship Parts Control Center at Mechanicsburg, PA had some of these excess. I saw one of these for the first time when I was on an expedition to Norfolk to pick up some surplus, I found the actual telegraph at a house in Pennsylvania - they were running a Craigslist ad for selling the piece and I used a Volvo station wagon to haul it from Pennsylvania to Central Florida. It is in really nice shape, the bell works, the backlighting works, and I put a synchro tester on it and got the answer indicators to move. This one was another never used, surplus deal from what I was able to gather.    And the last one with the red light on it is also very rare. This is a USN Weapons Security Alarm annunciator box for circuit ZA, in normal use it alarms when someone monkeys around with access to the Special Weapons on board ship. If you've ever been underway and hear an announcement "Security Alert, Security Alert, all hands stand fast!" and see the response team running really fast with M-16's this box just went off. It had an external tone generator located elsewhere (which I did not get) and alarmed through a speaker, but I played around with the configuration to get it working somewhat. My wife is more or less disabled and I use it as a bedroom alarm with a wireless switch around her neck with a lanyard. The wireless switch triggers a 120VAC switch also powering an internal Wheelock fire alarm sounder that rings a LOUD electronic bell where the speaker would normally go and sets off the red alarm light. So, I can be anywhere in the house and hear this go off. Don't have to worry about security as I don't have any nukes in storage, lol!

Very nice collection.   Does most of it come from people locally?

I sent you a pm. I'm interested in that pdf.

A 60s Theater Made USAF NAME Tape, that is as we see Chain Stitched, Chain Stitching is a common German thing so maybe German Made???   This was the only image I seen of this,  it's sewn to a Field Jacket, but whole image of jacket was not saved from this sold item, so really can't see where it was made, that is if this FJ had PPs that could give us clue, like say FJ did indeed have a U.S. Air Force Europe PP on it etc