Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1092

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21 March 2001

Hammer Price:
£210

Great Britain, White Star Line, c.1911, a pair of openwork white glass enamelled plates, for HMS Olympic (2), one re-named HMS Titanic, both 188mm [2]. Fine or better; the re-named piece probably a contemporary alteration, an interesting pair of White Star souvenirs (£100-150)

Provenance:
James Blewitt, Boxted Hall, Colchester.

HMS
Olympic, built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast, and launched on 20 Oct. 1910; entered service on the Southampton-New York run, 14 June 1911; became a troop transport, 1915-18; refitted Aug. 1919, served on the North Atlantic until 1935