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Strange thing. Doesn't look as any of the French bomb fuzes I've seen - but Paul Garnier was a indeed watchclock maker who produced quite a lot of instruments for the French navy at the end of the 19th century and till the 1930s. So a ww1 bomb fuze is a possibility.
I don;t think it's a torpedo fuze - Although this propeller has some similarity with the one at the tip of some French torpedo fuzes, the intermediary part is tptally different.
It has indeed the look of a bomb fuze - broadly reminiscent of the Skoda bomb fuzes from the 1930s.
Not sure about this. Is the brass "body" a detonator or gaine - it does not look like either - or does it house gearing, wch might indicate that it is part of a ship's towed log.
Alan1
Paul Garnier was a well-known watchmaker in the 19th century and, in addition to his watchmaking, had several patents on mechanical speed measuring devices for steam engines, speedometers for locomotives and loggers for ships.
The latter will be a mechanical logger for measuring the speed of a ship through the water, so the anchor fits under its name!
Hi Fusse2004,
With that background I'll double my stake on it being a ship's log. But the only way to be sure is to see what is in the brass tube. If it's gearing or similar it's a log, if it has a striker yr search continues.
Alan1
Morn Fusse2004,
Mny thnks pics, still does not provide positive id, but the fact that a gear wheel projects out of the "body" looks very much like it drives a calculating mechanism. My money is still on the log theory, but very much a guess. One of the big naval museums might be able to help further, or one specializing in underwater exploration - Science Museum here in London has a comprehensive collection of research instruments for sampling water at depth etc.
Alan1
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