£600
A TWIN-HANDLED CUP MADE OF SILVER RECOVERED FROM THE P&O LINER EGYPT, SUNK 1922
hallmarked for Atkins Brothers, Sheffield, 1938, with presentation inscriptions above leafy-cut card work reading Made from an Ingot of Silver / recovered from the wreck of the / S/S "Egypt" and Presented by / C. Peter Sandberg and James Swinburne / to / Captain Beck C.B.E. D.S.O. R.N. / who was their Representative during the / whole of the salvage operations / during 1929-1938, leaf-capped scroll handles on piedouche -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) high; 748g.
The Honourable Company of Master Mariners.
One of five sister liners built by P&O for the Indian and Australian service (the others being India, China, Arabia and Persia) they were the largest additions yet made when completed in 1897. Surviving the Great War (unlike Persia, India and Arabia which were all torpedoed) she was unfortunate in colliding in fog with the French ship Seine off Ushant. She sank 20th May, 1922, in 20 minutes with the loss of eighty-six souls and bullion then valued at £1,054,000 (about £49 million today). By 1935 most of this had been salvaged by the Italian salvage vessel Artiglio.
Fine overall condition
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