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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 22125, member: 111&quot;]Maybe my eyesight is totally shot, but the plate on the monkey carving appears to read &#039;L.S.M 40<b>6</b>&#039; - assuming it refers to a naval vessel, on a Wiki page on the rescue/salvage ship USS Reclaimer, there is mention of the 1967 &quot;salvage of South Vietnamese LSM-406 aground at Phan Thiết&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t make out the second word, but if the first word is &#039;Hinh&#039;, might mean &#039;sculpture&#039; or &#039;model&#039;; if &#039;Kinh&#039;, in addition to being the name of the largest ethnic group in Vietnam, it also has other meanings, some relating to business, trade, economy, etc., but also including &#039;canal&#039;...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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