Trying to date this little ship wheel I got last week. Some sites have this exact same wheel and say it's early 1900's and some say 1950's. Trying to date it by the mark. It looks like an elongated "C" with "VV" inside it. Or, if upside down, an enlongated circle with "AA." I only got it because it has barnacles all over it and was clearly in the water for a period of time, which I thought was pretty cool. Most of the barnacles were scraped off before I got it. The shop owner said that he bought it from a man at the base of Rainier. He was in his 90's and said his now deceased brother brought it back from Alaska, where he was a fisherman many years ago.