Original U.S. WWII Captured Japanese Aircraft Aluminum Fragment with Soldier’s Inscription & Partial Meatball Insignia on Reverse Browning LMG Seth Thomas Clock Company filed

Seth Thomas Clock Company filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for trademark protection of the Seth Thomas brand with regard to clocks

This has features of an early coat such as the small pocket flaps and early brass domed buttons (all marked PIPPY CO NY)

This design is very similar to the Feng Shui Ba-Gua board

The butt cap is loose

and definitely saw extensive service

Original U.S. WWII Captured Japanese Aircraft Aluminum Fragment with Soldier’s Inscription & Partial Meatball Insignia on Reverse Browning LMG Seth Thomas Clock Company filedOriginal Item. One of a Kind. This is a really fantastic display piece, a captured fragment of aircraft skin off of a Japanese fighter plane shot down in the Philippines, namely around Leyte. The soldier who captured this piece used it to write a letter home, and from his mention of fighting at Okinawa, he may have been a Marine. The piece of aluminum measures roughly 4 x 7 and depicts part of the edge of the Meatball insignia painted on the side of