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#13 - Rare WW2 Era Office Window Pane - YARDS & DOCKS SUPPLY OFFICE - PORT HUENEME CALIFORNIA

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 350.00 USD
#13 - Rare WW2 Era Office Window Pane - YARDS & DOCKS SUPPLY OFFICE - PORT HUENEME CALIFORNIA
Auction Information

“HORSESHOE COINS & ANTIQUES AUCTION"

Horseshoe Coins & Antiques, LLC

Location: Horseshoe Bldg., Blaine, Washington

Also, won’t be able to invoice and pack till after this weekend, into next week!

Please be patient, must be away from computer till Tuesday next week.

Good luck on any bids and have fun!


Here is another very rare, and possibly the only one in existance of a office door window pane this from from State side, off the YARDS & DOCKS SUPPLY OFFICE, office door, in PORT HUENEME CALIFORNIA. (Home of the Navy Seabees)

It is in very good condition, artwork on decal shows large global land mass map, from way above the Arctic Circle perspective, with a large thumb tack, placed on the Port location, concentric land mass lines, much like a topographic map, emanate out from the land masses in the ocean. Very colorful.

The border around in a circle shows black lettering on a white background with red and blue lines on either side, below the name of the supply office and location is a brass scale, with Supply on one side and Demand on the other.

A Oak Leaf and acorns on the left of the scale and another type of plant leaf on the right?
Surrounding all is a coiled rope border, It is in excellent overall condition, save for some very minor edge dings. See pics.

Overall measurements are 15.25 in height and 13 in width. Thickness is about 1/8 inch.

Also included is a small 60s postcard of the port.

Some information below from Wikipedia:

Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme is the West Coast homeport of the Navys Seabees (from "C.B.", the initials for "Construction Battalion").

Port Hueneme (pronounced "Why-nee-mee"), supports the training and mobilization requirements for more than 2,600 active-duty personnel. The CBC also operates the 1,600-acre (6.5 km2) Naval Base Ventura County - Port Hueneme installation. The CBC is located on the vast agricultural Oxnard Plain, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Los Angeles, on the Southern California coast.

In 2000, the center merged with nearby Naval Air Station Point Mugu to form Naval Base Ventura County.

History:

1942: The start of the Second World War sent naval survey teams up and down the Pacific coast looking for new locations for naval facilities.

One team was looking for a site to build a naval base to support naval construction activities at advanced bases in the Pacific.

The team came to Port Hueneme, California and recognized it as an ideal port, because it was the only Pacific deep water port between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Word of the discovery was sent to Admiral Ben Moreell, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, who was busily putting together the new construction battalions.

Port Hueneme therefore was tentatively selected as the site for the advanced base depot on the Pacific coast. On February 16, 1942, Admiral Moreell sent his recommendations to the Chief of Naval Operations and it was speedily approved."

The facility at Port Hueneme was built as a temporary depot to train, stage, and supply the newly created Seabees. The base was officially established and began operating May 18, 1942 as an Advance Base Depot (ABD). In 1945 the Advance Base Depot was renamed as a Naval Construction Battalion Center.

During the Korean War, almost all Navy construction equipment and supplies for the war were routed through CBC Port Hueneme.

Apparently quite a museum there to see, this also from Wikipedia:

Located on Naval Base Ventura County is the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum, one of fifteen official U.S. Navy museums.

The museum is the principal repository for the Seabees operational history. The Seabee Archive contains various operational records, battalion histories, manuscripts, oral histories, biographies, and personal papers pertaining to the Seabees.

Not often you run across something special like this, would look great framed and hung in the window, or add to your collection. (Perhaps this will end up in the museum?)