Maritime Shipping etc.
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#1586 Boxed Set of Art Deco Dancing Sailors Shot Glasses, circa 1940s - 1950s
Only 1 left in stockCondition: very good - some wear to the enamel decoraton but no damages and complete with their original box.
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#1596 Early 20th Century Sailor Doll, circa 1920-1940 **SOLD** through our Liverpool shop July 2017
Only 1 left in stockA painted bisque porcelain headed sailor doll clothed in wool suit with bell bottom trousers and mother of pearl buttons.
This item was made in the inter war years during either the 1920s or the 1930s.
Condition: there is wear and old paint splshes to the trousers.
29cm (11.3 inches) long
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#1673 Victorian Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Commemorative "Scrimshaw" Shell S.S. Great Eastern, circa 1866 **Sold** February 2018
Only 1 left in stockA rare dedicated souvenir "Turban Shell" (Latin: Turbo Marmoratus) hand engraved, onboard ship, "with a penknife" by C H Wood.
This presentation piece was commisioned by the ship's Chief Engineer William Driver, for his brother Charles in 1866, to commemorate the laying of the transatlantc telegraph cable.
The Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was an iron steam sailing ship which, from it's 1858 launch until 1899, was the largest ship ever built.
The inscriptions, in addition to the ship's dimensions, read:
"A Present from the Gt Eastern (Lying in the River Mersey)."
"To Charles Driver from his brother William"
"As a gratifying remembrance of laying the submarine Telegraph Cable of 1866 from England and America, and recovering the last Cable of 1865. And with triumphant success accomplished the laying of that also"
"J Anderson Commander" (Sir James Anderson was Captain of the Great Eastern from 1865 to 1866)
"W Driver Chief Engineer S crew"
signed Eng "With a penknife by C Wood.
Condition: very good. There is a crack to the inside of the mouth which, for the most part, is not visible on the outside. There have been no repairs or restoration.
13cm / 5 inches long
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#1759 Framed Photograph R.M.S. Aquitania Liverpool, circa 1939 **Sold** May 2019
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#1823 World War Two Troopship Mileage Book, circa 1930s - 1940s **Sold**
Only 1 left in stockIssued to troops when being transported by sea.
12 cm x 9 cm
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#1843 "The Cube" Sugar Bowl Cunard Steamship Retailed, circa 1920s
Only 1 left in stockRetailed by Reynolds & Son, Liverpool, who probably had shops onboard Cunard Liners where these items were sold to passengers as souvenirs.
Cunard Steamship Company Limited back stamp.
Minton China " Cuckoo" Pattern.
The Cube design (no. 693783) registered in 1922.
5 cm square; 4 cm high.