Nautical Antiques & Tropical Decor
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Our shipment of shipment of salvage from Turkey is here!  In this shipment are all salvaged pieces, mostly from Turkish and Greek passenger and Cambodian, Panamanian, Balkan and even one from Barbados working ships. 
Salvage includes: liferings, lifeboat oars, ship doors (these will be finished in-house; they're smaller than the doors we typically get out of the India yards and they're all really beautiful, unique pieces), large metal ship logos, rope fenders, wood fenders, metal fenders, rope, life jackets, aluminum portholes, brass builder's plates, salvaged ship TELEPHONES (this is the first time we've found these pieces and they're really interesting!), brass bulkhead lights (also a style we've never carried or found prior to this shipment), radio antenna instrument, a very nice repeater compass, Jacob's ladder, and a few other salvaged bits.

Some of the ship names from which these pieces came include: M/V Deniz Ay (Turkish oil/chem tanker), Tanzanite (Panamanian general cargo), MV Bilkar I (Romanian gen cargo), Pella (Joranian Ro-Ro and passenger ship), Maximos (Syrian container ship), Sea Energy, Sea Crystal (general cargo), Filippos (Greek Ro-Ro), M/V Lotos, Samothraki (Greek passenger ship), Zehra VIII (Panamanian bulk carrier), Suvorovo (Cambodian passenger ship), Ticaret, Alex King (Panamanian bulk carrier), Athina (Barbados flagged cargo ship), and Aegean IV (Greek oil/chem tanker).

It made it - there was a LOT of shifting, but no breakage!

 
 

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DOUBLE door 1;
 
door 3: left to right: front BEFORE refinishing, front AFTER refinishing, back BEFORE, back AFTER (refinishing completed 10/12/14)
likely salvaged from the PELLA, a Ro-Ro and passenger ship from Jordan (appx dimensions; WITH frame 67" x 28", DOOR only 63" x 24 1/2")

above left 2 photos: door #4 (pics on left, #"63" plaque) -
above right 2 photos: door #5 (#"52" plaque) -
*above 2 doors likely

and door 6, SAMOTHRAKI with plaque #"57" (73" x 32") -
 
 
We visited Turkey during our last buying trip November 2013; one of our favorite parts of the trip was riding one of the Sehir Hatlari Istanbul ferries along the Bosphorus River.  You might recognize the crossed anchor logos in some of the photos below as one of the salvaged pieces we just got in.  You might also recognize some of the ship doors used on board the ferry still in operation - they're very similar to those we've salvaged from other passenger ships...

above left: "Sehir Hatlari" is the Turkish Ferry Line with the crossed anchor logo; on board, you can see the liferings around the deck of the ferry with the binocular set, Michael standing next to one of the sets of double portole doors, and when open you can see into the parlor of the ferry.
 
above left to right: the "funnel" of the ferry line with mast in background, postlight above the shipping line flag, the ship's bow bell and the rear of the searchlight (note: onboard it is painted; we typically have the brass and copper pieces stripped and polished after we salvage them), and the yellow cowling or air vent on the port bow of the ship.
 
left to right: main door to the bridge; note the passageway light to the top right and the elevated location of the door from the deck, another shot into one of the parlors on board, the clear double stacked stern light (note: this is a newer ship, so they've used fiberglass for the navigational lights rather than brass or copper fixtures which are more expensive), and on the right a beautiful mahogany hand rail; we've had a few of these in the shop as well - they're great for residential use too!