Ocean Liner & Steamship Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Late 1950's – early 1960's Eastern Steamship Lines S.S. Ariadne shipboard cufflink tray. Eastern Steamship Co. was established in 1901 by Charles Wyman Morse through the merge and consolidation of three shipping companies that controlled a...

ARTIFACT: Great, 1950's Matson Lines souvenir cigarette lighter from the Steamship Matsonia. The public shipping company was established in the late 1880's with initial routes to the Hawaiian Islands. The steamship was instrumental in the growth of...

ARTIFACT: Great, 1950's Matson Lines souvenir cigarette lighter from the Steamship Lurline. The public shipping company was established in the late 1880's with initial routes to the Hawaiian Islands. The steamship was instrumental in the growth of...

ARTIFACT: Nice circa 1955 Norddeutscher Lloyd Steamship Line salad plate by Rosenthal China. Norddeutscher Lloyd was a German shipping line that was established in 1857 and became one of the most important shipping companies of the 19th and 20th century...

ARTIFACT: Beautiful 1930's - 1940's Union Steam Ship Company (USS Co.) of New Zealand enameled officer's hat badge. Also known as the Union Line, the USS Co. was once one of the largest shipping companies in the Southern Hemisphere. Founded in 1875, the...

ARTIFACT: This is a an old celluloid pin for a steamship line the name of which I do not know. It is for a ship of that line called the "POLONIA". It is of a size common to celluloid pins, but has an attachment similar to a stickpin. This item came with...

ARTIFACT: This is an old celluloid pin for a steamship line the name of which I do not know. It is of a size common to celluloid pins, but has an attachment similar to a stick pin. This item came with a similar pin for the "POLONIA" dated 1928...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1920s Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart-Maatschappij (Netherlands-American Steam Navigation Company), or NASM for short, Established in April 1873, this company became known as the Holland-America Line, and had an official...

ARTIFACT: This is a great 1920s promotional celluloid pin from the Meseck Steamship Line. The pin features the S.S. Westchester. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: Approximately 1-1/4" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Celluloid-wrapped tin...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa 1920s or 1930s shipping hat badge for Watts, Watts & Company, a British shipping lines. Originally Watts, Ward & Co., the company was in business as early as 1885 with its name change happening in 189The badge...

ARTIFACT: This is a pair of circa 1930s-1940s Matson Steamship Lines collar insignia. Established in 1926 upon the purchase of Oceanic Steamship Company, Matson ran routes all over the Pacific. Each insignia is a red flag bearing the letter M at center...

ARTIFACT: Great 1930's Texaco Oil Company Shipping Fleet Captain hat badge. The badge shows a nicely embroidered company flag logo in silk with a bullion wreath embellishment surrounding it and reads: "CAPTAIN" across the top in bullion detail. The...