Olympia (1953), Chair

There are so many wonderful things to say about the old Greek liner Olympia.  You might know her as the cruise ship Regal Empress.  I was lucky enough to sail on her 3 times, and as many of you know, she was stunning inside and out.  Built on the Clyde in Scotland, she was the Greek Line's only new build,…

Chair, First-Class Dining Room

One of the most beautiful and stylish (not to mention desirable) ocean-liner chairs available anywhere.  A first-class dining-room chair from the Queen Mary.  Recently restored, this chair is made of solid sycamore and now glows just like it did when the QM was in service.  Something that not many people know is that there were actually two sizes of dining…

Caronia (1949) Cabin Telephone

A phone by GEC and made for the most luxurious ship Cunard ever operated, the RMS Caronia. "You can telephone to any part of the world whilst at sea."  Can you imagine being in the middle of the North Atlantic and sitting in your cabin on an ocean liner talking to people back home?  It must have seemed like the …

Oregon, Dinner Plate

Impressive and rare intact dinner plate brought up from the wreck of the ss Oregon in the 1990s.  This is the last of the four plates I bought that is not broken.  A wonderful and hard-to-find addition to any Cunard Steam Ship Company collection. Until you handle a lot of Cunard 19th century china (and there are precious few people…

Chair, First-Class Suite

One of the most exciting aspects about this passion of ours is learning new things, and this chair is a good example.  Based on all my years of research, I thought this was simply a rare surviving item from one of Cunard’s two greatest money earners, the RMS Queen Elizabeth, because similar chairs show up in photos of her best…