Ocean Liner Items Collecting

[The Lonely Navigator]

Hello,

Does anyone here collect ocean liner items? I have quite a few HAPAG (Hamburg Amerika Linie) items that I got either through eBay or through http://www.oceanliner.com/ site.

Some of my favorites are the HAPAG flag that was worn on the uniform cap, and a deck of cards that I love to use. (Sorry I can't get any pictures up of these, as I don't have a digital camera.) I would have to say the third would be the HAPAG U.S. Pacific Coast Service fee brochure. It shows the layouts of the ships: Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland and Tacoma (I think I remembered them all right), and has the prices, departure ports and dates. The one I have is from 1934.

Sincerely,

Prien

 

[Miss 1929]

Queen Mary stuff!

I have the compact, two candy boxes, a blank telegram form, the 1st class accommodations map (handy if going to stay there, as those rooms are now the hotel rooms) and a lot of books about her!
I yearn for the cube tea set but it's very pricey. And the deck chairs are outrageous.

 

[Mojito]

I'm not a tremendous collector of ocean liner related material, but due to the nature of my research and my job I seem to inevitably pick up pieces. They're usually connected with the lines that the mercantile marine officers I've worked on were associated with.

I have quite a few pieces of china and cutlery from the White Star, Elder Dempster and Blue Funnel lines...everything from fairly large dishes to a pickle fork. From the White State Line I also have a collection of menus, passenger lists and other ephemera from the early 00s through to the early thirties (pre-Cunard merger) - many associated with OCEANIC II, a shot glass souvenier set from a White Star Liner (RMS LAURENTIC II from memory), goodness knows how many postcards, and lots of other bits and bobs including a signed photograph from one of the TITANIC's deck officers given to me by his family. Perhaps one of the more unusual items is a styrofoam cup a colleague working on a doco decorated for me and carried down to the TITANIC's wrecksite on the outside of their DSV - the pressure shrinks these cups to the size of a thimble. From the Blue Funnel line I have a jewelry box with an enamelled house flag sold on board as a souveneir. I'm fond of other little oddities, like my Elder Dempster coasters - not a valuable item, but I love it!

 

[cookie]

FWIW there were some repro Art Deco oceanliner postcards at the Melbourne Art Deco Exhibition as a bought some for a friend.

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

Hello,

Cool!

I also, mysteriously, found a mug of the Blue Star Line in my mom's cupboard. I have no idea how it got there - it was just there for awhile (I don't live near the sea, and no one has gone on any Blue Star Line ships).

The reason I thought it peculiar was because the Arandora Star, was sunk by the U 47 - which was a liner of the Blue Star Line.

So, I now keep the mug, and bought a postcard of the Arandora Star in her white paint scheme to go with the mug and have them sitting inside the china cabinet.

Prien

 

[Story]

Two dozen photos from the SS Atlantic, on a Havana cruise, wintertime 1952 to 1955
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,754242,00.html

See also
http://www.ssmaritime.com/malolo-matsonia.htm

 

[Mr. Hallack]

I have a deck plan, map, whatever it's called for a ship called SS Yarmouth. It's from a travel agency and has a date stamped March 21, 1963. Not sure if this was the same boat as SS Yarmouth Castle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Yarmouth_Castle

 

[Argee]

My girlfriend picked up a chrome carafe from the SS United States, because she knew I would have if I had been there.

 

[DNO]

Though I'm not a collector of liner memorabilia, I do have a couple of things. Several years ago, I found a handkerchief with S.S. Athenia stitched into the corner. A souvenir of the ship, I assume.

At a recent house contents sale I found a water jug, about 9" high, from Canadian Pacific Ships. CP operated quite a few liners in its day, including the Empress of Ireland which sank in the St. Lawrence in 1914 with a considerable loss of life.

 

[Lucky Strike]

Some of my family travelled quite a bit across the Atlantic in the late forties and fifities, so I have some trinkets of the "passenger souvenir" type - pocket knives, matchbooks, luggage tags, etc., mostly from The Norwegian America Line. A lot of it was thrown out when we cleared up my grandparents' house, I'm afraid.

The ships seem to have handed out a fair lot of "goodies" to the passengers, I remember finding about ten leather passport/ticket wallets in a drawer once, all marked with various shipping lines or ships' names.

The only really good piece that i have is this silver-plated bucket from the Italian Line's SS "Italia". It's made by Broggi in Milan, - the royal crown above the name places it on the pre-war "Italia", rather than its later namesake. After Italy gave Vittorio Emmanuele II the boot (haha) after WWII, the Italian Line switched the royal crown for a "crenellation", similar to those often seen on municipal crests.

I bought it on a whim, because the seller insisted that it came from the airship "Italia" - I tried reasoning with her, telling her that a wine cooler was probably the last thing anyone would bring on a polar expedition - even an Italian - but she stuck to her story, and the price was low enough that I took a chance...I paid around $150.

(Anything to do with the famous polar expeditions is big $$$ among collectors here in Norway, so on the off-chance that her story held true, I would have made out big...oh, well.)

 

[djd]

It's a beautiful object! Great value for that price I'd say

 

[Lucky Strike]

It's a beautiful object! Great value for that price I'd say

Thanks! I have no regrets about buying it - the price was quite good for what it turned out to be.

 

[dhermann1]

I have one or two items left over from my mother's trip to Europe in 1937 on the great Italian liner, The Rex. Maybe a post card or two. She spoke about it all her life.
She in turn took us on a cruise in the Mediterranean 35 years later, on a wonderful little Greek liner, the TSS Agamemnon. It was only 10,000 tons. She kept a scrapbook of the trip, which contains many nice little items, like the travel agency's original bruchure, menus, and a few of the hundreds of checks for 25 cents that my brother and I signed for coca cola on while board.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

http://www.themagazineantiques.com/...2010-02-18/art-deco-design-and-the-normandie/


Short Colour film of the french Liner 'Normandie'

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[John in Covina]

There is a shop on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach that has ocean liner items for sale. I usually just peek at the stuff.

Here is their website.

http://www.pasttimescollectiblesonline.com/

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

There is a shop on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach that has ocean liner items for sale. I usually just peek at the stuff.

Here is their website.

http://www.pasttimescollectiblesonline.com/

Back in the '70s the Queen Mary had either a toy shop or a souvenir shop that sold these diecast waterline models that were made in England by Triang Minic.

I know cause I still have mine.

 

[Red Tractors]

My parents have a few items from the S.S. United States, my Great Aunt was a crew member for it's entire length of service.