2024 Auction Items
It is Time to Refuel the Frank Knox!
Our annual WHITE ELEPHANT AUCTION is on-line this year. Auction will begin Monday, 20 May 2024 at 0900 Central Time (9:00 am) and ends Memorial Day Monday, 27 May 2022 at 2000 Central Time (8:00 pm). Don Landers is the auction manager again this year. His contact information is 817-723-7654 and email is [email protected]. (Please note the underline in Don's email address.) Bid increments of $5. All bids should be by text or email. Please note minimum bids and let's "Refuel the Knox" coffers. A daily email to all members defining the daily status on bidding will be sent. If you do not desire the auction updates, please reply to this email and state "opt out" and your contact information will be deleted.
Best Regards to All Frank Knox Reunion Members,
Click on picture to enlarge
Ladies and Tin Can Sailors and all others,
This concludes the annual Frank Knox Reunion Organization annual fundraising online auction. Want to thank those who donated the various items which were offered in the auction. Also want to especially thank those who made bids for items. A total of $960.00 was raised which should keep the coffers in good condition for a while.
Following is the final tally raised for each item
ITEM TITLE $ BID PERSON
1 Navigation Watch 150.00 Donald L.
2 Life Membership 100.00 Ken G.
3 CO Ashtray 50.00 Don Y.
4 Frank Knox Puzzle 50.00 Don Y.
5 Lanyard 0
6 Handmade Blanket 50.00 Vaughan K.
7 F, Knox Blueprints 150.00 Bob S.
8 Hampshire Poster 100.00 Tom S.
9 Sec. Frank Knox Photo 0
10 F. Knox Ship Matchbook 25.00 Tom S.
11 F. Knox Patches 50.00 Richard S.
12 San Diego Navy Book 100.00 Larry P.
13 World in Air Book 0
14 Frank Knox Zippo 75.00 Harry C.
15 Misc. Lighters 60.00 Don. S.
#1 Hamilton, 22 Jewel, AN-5740 Navigation Master Watch, 24-hour format. G.C.T. is Greenwich Civil Time. The plain military case, with contract number, encases a high grade 4992B Hamilton movement. Used aboard P-2v, PB4Y-2, PBY Catalina long range search aircraft.
Donated by Steve Cross 619-992-9449
Opening Bid $100
Donated by Steve Cross 619-992-9449
Opening Bid $100
    |
#2 Life Membership - # 100 – Numbered Pin, WWII photo of USS Frank Knox DD-742 during Standardization Trials, December 2, 1944, Rockland Maine. Custom certificate of recognition signed by FKRA Board members.
Donated by FKRA Board Opening Bid $50 |
|
#3 PERSONALIZED ASHTRAY MADE FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER. Donated By Bill Atkinson Opening Bid $ 25 |
|
#4 A JIGSAW PUZZLE OF THE FRANK KNOX.
Donated By Bill Atkinson Opening Bid $ 25 |
|
# 5 THIS IS A LANYARD USED IN THE LAUNCHING OF THE FRANK KNOX AND WAS PURCHASED FROM THE ESTATE OF JC FORD, FIRST COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE SHIP .
Donated By Bill Atkinson Opening Bid $ 100 |
# 6 THIS A HANDMADE BLANKET MADE FOR THE FRANK KNOX REUNION IN NEW ORLEANS.
Donated By Bill Atkinson
Opening Bid $ 50
Donated By Bill Atkinson
Opening Bid $ 50
#7 THESE ARE COMPLETE BLUEPRINTS OF THE FRANK KNOX FROM THE BATH SHIPYARDS, BATH MAINE.
Donated By Bill Atkinson
Opening Bid $ 100
Donated By Bill Atkinson
Opening Bid $ 100
|
75
# 8 HAMPSHIRE POSTER SOLICITING NEW FUNDS FOR THE FRANK KNOX 1944. Donated By Bill Atkinson Opening Bid $ 75 |
|
# 9 ORIGINAL PHOTO OF SEC. FRANK KNOX WITH SIGNATURE. Donated By Bill Atkinson Opening Bid $ 50 |
|
#10 THESE ARE MATCHBOOKS FROM THE FRANK KNOX (1940'S & 50'S). Donated By Bill Atkinson Opening Bid $ 25 |
  |
# 11 FRANK KNOX PATCHES.
Donated By Bill Atkinson Opening Bid $ 50 |
|
# 12 Book – San Diego’s Navy – Coffee table book by Bruce Linder, published 2001, and details the illustrated history of our U.S. Navy’s interest in San Diego from 1846 to 2000. Moments of triumph and tragedy as San Diego grew into a vital Navy Fleet HQ and home port for USS Frank Knox. Donated by Steve Cross, 619-992-9449. Opening Bid $ 45 |
   |
# 13 Book – The World in the Air – Francis T. Miller, published 1930, and contains hundreds of photos of aviation milestones across the globe. The photos of aviation pioneers like Wilber and Orville Wright, Glen Curtis, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindberg were all signed before printing. I found a record of a friend’s grandfather, Earl Freeman Johnson, one of the Navy’s flying Lieutenants 1912. His photo is on page 250 before participating in a record-breaking cross Pacific flight. Donated by Steve Cross 619-992-9449 Opening Bid $ 50 |
# 14 Rick ordered and commissioned the lighter last year. Hand drawn by a young man in Ohio. It is new and has the in-tacked seal on the back.
Donated by Richard Swaney
Opening Bid $ 50
Donated by Richard Swaney
Opening Bid $ 50
#15 The Knox lighter in the lower right corner of the photo with the lettering only is not a zippo. The Knox lighter with the ship includes the box above it. I asked Bill to review the photos and here's his response: "Harry: These are nice lighters....The two Knox lighters are especially nice...the one with the ship on it is the best....the other with just the engravings on it, is not as much except that it is a Zippo. There are lots of Zippo Lighter collectors. The others are fine, especially the Diego Garcia one....that is a high security base on a little island in the Indian Ocean....we visited the island in 1964 on the First Concord Expedition. One is a submarine....hard to find and the USS Coontz is special because we traveled with the Coontz to Australia/New Zealand in 1968."
Donated by Kenny Arthurs
Opening Bid $ 50
Donated by Kenny Arthurs
Opening Bid $ 50