Ocean Liner & Steamship Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a Clyde Ship Line baggage tag numbered 306 for Boston. VINTAGE: Circa 1910s. SIZE: About 1-11/16" in width by 1-15/16" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Stamped brass with white painted lettering. ATTACHMENT: Hole...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1900 souvenir paperweight for the Fall River Lines Steamer Plymouth. The glass paperweight has an original New York maker label on the reverse. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 4-1/4" in length and 2-7/8" in width...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880s or 1890s Dominion Line Steamship china double egg cup. The Dominion Line was a trans-Atlantic line operating between Liverpool, England and some New England and eastern Canadian ports in late nineteenth until 192The floral...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1870's fine crystal wine glass for the Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) shipping line. Established in 1872, CSAV is the oldest Chilean shipping line and now the largest one in Latin America. This glass would have been...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautifully made enameled pin for a French steamship line. It shows a blue anchor crossed with a white flag showing a small red ball and with the words: Cie. Gle. TRANSATque. All of this is surrounded by a shield-shaped red wreath...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa early 1900s enameled brooch showing the White Star Lines RMS Celtic at center. Launched from Belfast on April 4, 1901, the Celtic had a record-setting gross tonnage, one of four sister ships known as "The Big Four"...

ARTIFACT: This is a pin for the New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Company, also called the Ward Line, after its founder, James Otis Ward. The company initially ran routes from New York to Havana and Nassau, and later expanded to include the "Mexican...

ARTIFACT: This is an unusual United States Merchant Marine officer's overseas cap badge from World War II. The badge is in gilt sterling silver, and has no hallmark but has great details. VINTAGE: Circa World War II. SIZE: Approximately 1-5/16" in...

ARTIFACT: This is an extremely rare sterling silver 1943 United States Merchant Marine Union "Torpedoed" lapel pin. The pin reads SMEA 1943 and shows a torpedo at the center. The SMEA was the Sun Marine Employees' Association, the association for the...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War II Port of New York International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) photo identification badge. The ILA, a labor union representing longshoremen working the Eastern U.S. coast, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes and Puerto...

ARTIFACT: This is an original United Kingdom Propaganda Display about the May 7, 1915 sinking of the Cunard Lines R.M.S. Lusitania off Ireland by a German Submarine / U-Boat, The U-20, which includes 2 copies, appearing to be in cast iron, of the...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce pair of World War I UK named War Service and Mercantile Marine medals on ribbons. Both medals are named along the bottom edge to Oscar Sjostrom, born in 1887 at Helsingborg, Sweden. They are accompanied by corresponding...