{"id":18504,"date":"2014-12-04T03:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T11:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18504"},"modified":"2014-12-04T03:51:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T11:51:14","slug":"antiques-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/antiques-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiques of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/saisell.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Erik Bakker, owner of Antiques of the Sea, holds a spear and sign which says, &#8220;FLOGGING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazing Nautical Gifts at Antiques of the Sea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>SUNSET BEACH, CA&#8211;If you\u2019re looking for a fabulous, unique gift, you might want to visit Antiques of the Sea. It\u2019s truly one of the most unusual stores I\u2019ve ever seen, made up of the 40-year antique marine collection of Eric Bakker. Located across the street from Capt. Jack\u2019s Restaurant (at 16811 Pacific Coast Highway), Bakker\u2019s business, which looks like a museum, is chock full of everything nautically imaginable\u2014from authentic World War II Navy Ships&#8217; Wheels, a 300-year-old bronze Lantaka Cannon, a 1990 Russian copper and brass Diving Helmet to figurehead bow ornaments, ancient pistols, boarding pikes (long wooden shafts with iron or steel spears used by sailors to keep enemies from boarding their ship) and a giant brass bell from the Queen Mary. There\u2019s even a huge giant harpoon, one of the most expensive things in his store. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/shopping\/antiques-of-the-sea.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Bakker, owner of Antiques of the Sea, holds a spear and sign which says, &#8220;FLOGGING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES&#8221;. Amazing Nautical Gifts at Antiques of the Sea By C. MacDonald SUNSET BEACH, CA&#8211;If you\u2019re looking for a fabulous, unique gift, you might want to visit Antiques of the Sea. It\u2019s truly one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}