🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Any idea what this brass tag was attached to?

[cudamark]

It says Accounting No. 246 up top and US. Navy Property down below.

 

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[ARC]

Locker... or instrument / gear box imo.

 

[cudamark]

Found in a baseball field.

 

[invent4hir]

There must be a record somewhere that explains what Accounting No. 246 is/was. I'd check with the naval base there. Perhaps they have a historian and/or archive.

 

[CREATURE850]

It says Accounting No. 246 up top and US. Navy Property down below.View attachment 2167131

Probably a foot locker.

 

[sprailroad]

Found in a baseball field.

I have found out of place vintage things in ball fields, many have fill dirt dumped there to help make the ball field.

 

[ncsuwolf]

Locker... or instrument / gear box imo.

Agree with gear box, or motor…..something that had moving parts. If you look at the top of the 8 and 0 there appears to be a bit of safety yellow left. That likely means whatever it came off of was yellow, unless they just used that to highlight the numbers. If it is safety yellow I don’t think the tag is that old.

 

[cudamark]

Thanks for all the guesses!

 

[Retired Sarge]

One has to remember that military Ground Support Equipment was painted yellow for a time period.

Seen some WWII GSE up to the Vietnam era that was painted yellow. Don't know when they officially went to the OD scheme.