Here's a site with a mess kit and mug. No price listed but one could write
and ask.
http://www.martifacts.com/newsletter/062003/



"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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I'm looking for some traditional Navy coffee mugs, the large, thick
porcelain mugs WITHOUT handles or decoration that one used to find
aboard ships of the line. There are plenty of purveyors of what they are
calling "Navy coffee mugs" but these are just white mugs with handles -
NOT what I want. I'm looking for the real deal.

These are to be a gift for an old retired salt friend of mine who is
under the weather.



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Not another 23 kb post from The K Meister!!

Fredo

Everett wrote:
Here's a site with a mess kit and mug. No price listed but one could write
and ask.
http://www.martifacts.com/newsletter/062003/



"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for some traditional Navy coffee mugs, the large, thick
porcelain mugs WITHOUT handles or decoration that one used to find
aboard ships of the line. There are plenty of purveyors of what they are
calling "Navy coffee mugs" but these are just white mugs with handles -
NOT what I want. I'm looking for the real deal.

These are to be a gift for an old retired salt friend of mine who is
under the weather.



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Harry Krause wrote in message ...
UglyDan®©™ wrote:

The salt, and eggshells too, were supposed to remove the bitterness in
the coffee. UD

I certainly recall the eggshell bit; lots of people did that, and maybe
still do. The salt thing, though...I'd not encountered anyone outside
the Navy who did that.

Me and the Mama got it from some waitress, at some truckstop, bouncin'
around this great county, some many years ago. Don't really bother
anymore, just bought a real Bunn! Gooooood coffee...
Scotty

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Dear stupid person:
How can you call me a coward? How do you know me, and how do you know
of my character? You can't. But, this is how you operate, I see it
here daily. You don't live in this country, but try to act like you
know more than this country's citizens. You don't know people, but you
think you can make blind, and ignorant statements about them, and
present those statements as fact. You've been busted about design and
patent of a diesel outboard, and for that you are just a bitter, old
nasty hag.

The salt, and eggshells too, were supposed to remove the bitterness in
the coffee. UD

Steve wrote:
No matter if you use salt or eggshells there is no way to make bad coffee
(navy mess coffee) taste better..

Yep. Salt (yuck!!) does nothing to help bad coffee. Eggshells might remove
some of the bitterness but if you are talking about one of those 10 gallon
urns of mess decks coffee, it's going to take a LOT of eggshells to make any
noticable difference.


It is bitter because of the type of
brewing method.. The water is too hot and then the coffee is left to stand
in the urns for hours, sometime the mess cook doesn't remove the old
grounds.. We could take the same coffee back to a shop pot and make great
coffee..

Yep again. Another common problem, and not just on Navy mess decks, is that
coffee percolators (or whatever you fancy) should be clean. Usually they are
left with tarry nasty gunk all over the insides until you could put cold tap
water in and it would come out brown and bitter. And sometimes, people do
indeed clean them but use a variety of inappropriate materials & methods.

I was fortunate, the ships I was on had pretty good chow and good coffee too.
But I've had many a cup of battery acid disguised as "coffee."

Regards
Doug King

About a year ago they were selling mugs as you describe on eBay. They were
twenty dollars each. However, these were newly manufactured reproductions.
I do not know if they are still on. I did find one that was made from the
50's made by pyrex or corning. The URL for it is he
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...532897 5&rd=1
and is described as a WW2 Corning Army Navy Military shaving mug cup WWII
Item number: 6535328975. It has 19 hours before end of auction. You can
also buy one with the navy logo on it from this URL:
https://www.mysticarmynavy.com/item....es=no&ID=4 52
Hope that this helps and I hope that your friend made it. I lost my Father
a retired Chief M/Sgt in the Air Force 28 Dec. 2003. He was 81 at the
time. He loved these mugs to.
Take Care
Thegrayghost

About a year ago they were selling mugs as you describe on eBay. They were
twenty dollars each. However, these were newly manufactured reproductions.
I do not know if they are still on. I did find one that was made from the
50's made by pyrex or corning. The URL for it is he
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...532897 5&rd=1
and is described as a WW2 Corning Army Navy Military shaving mug cup WWII
Item number: 6535328975. It has 19 hours before end of auction. You can
also buy one with the navy logo on it from this URL:
https://www.mysticarmynavy.com/item....es=no&ID=4 52
Hope that this helps and I hope that your friend made it. I lost my Father
a retired Chief M/Sgt in the Air Force 28 Dec. 2003. He was 81 at the
time. He loved these mugs to.
Take Care
Thegrayghost