£170
A box with approximately 148 shipping cards either loose or in plastic sleeves. Around 142 are standard size cards with the others modern - the latter including a nice stamped repro of Titanic. This interesting lot is generally in good condition and contains a few old sailing vessels. The cards photographed include the RMS Lusitania - the British ocean liner sunk in 1915 by a German U-boat off Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew; the RMS Oceanic in Graving Dock at Liverpool; two real photographic cards of the P&O Liner Stratheden; Latchford Locks Ship Canal; Captain Scott's 'Discovery'; sectional views of Cunard's RMS Aquitania; and the launch of the Queen Mary at Clydebank in 1934.
The other cards are a mix of photographic, art and printed, and feature various shipping lines such as Orient, P&O, Cunard, Canadian Pacific, with a good selection of White Star. The publishers include Valentine, Kingsway, Salmon, FGO Stuart, Hoffman of Southampton, and a Photochrom of the Cutty Sark at sea at Falmouth. Some of the cards are internal views of the liners. A number are postally used.
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