J000358 (IJA/IJN) AIRCRAFT GAUGE. What is most likely an electricity gauge, whose appearance is typical of those found on aircraft, with a black bakelite housing 1 3/4" in diameter, and a square collar just beyond its window which is perforated at each corner to accommodate attachment screws. Its glass window is semi-circular, and has a screw to the bakelite at its base. Visible beneath its window, a series of eleven, small kanji characters arch along the top of the gauge. Two larger characters, in brown, are immediately beneath these, and the arching scale which the needle would travel across, graded from "0" to "150" along its top, and from "0" to "10" along its bottom, is immediately beneath those. Brown markings are to the scale from about twenty to sixty along its top, and between six and eight along its bottom. Two more larger characters, in brown, are beneath the scale, and an underlined "V," also in brown, is beneath those. "MO-17" followed by the character for "model," beneath which are two more characters followed by "3000 V," is to the lower left of the gauge, alongside of which arches a "Showa era 17th year 7th month" (July, 1942) indication, followed by the characters for "manufactured." To the lower right of the gauge is a character followed by "R21428," and the character for "number," beneath which are three more characters, with two beneath that, and "856" is to the base. Some of the interior workings of the gauge may be seen through the opening at the needle’s anchor point. To its reverse are two posts, with brass hex nuts threaded unto them, and alloy "ribbons" proceeding away from them, both of which feed into either side of a 5/8" square, brown bakelite housing. Embossed to the top of this housing are the kanji characters for "1" and "number," then the western letter "C," followed by the character for "model," and, lastly, encircled figures which must be the maker’s mark. ".01 u F" is beneath the aforementioned, "1000 V.D.C." is beneath that, and blank spaces followed by the characters for "year" and "month" are embossed to the base of the housing. A pair of cut wires, one red, the other black, are connected to either post, and exit from beneath the housing. Excluding the posts and housing to the reverse, the gauge is 1 5/16" deep. The black bakelite housing of the gauge itself is lightly surface scratched and age soiled, and its window is similarly soiled. All of its components appear to be intact.

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