White Star Line

Lovely on-board souvenir sugar “duster” spoon as purchased in the barbershop on Adriatic.  Likely pre war.  Excellent condition with no loss of silver or damage to the enamel.  Not a ship we see many souvenirs… read more ›

Here’s a special list!  There is so much to make this a stunning list for any White Star Line collector.  Let’s start with the cover, which is the same as used on RMS Titanic.  It… read more ›

This spoon really surprised me when I polished it.  The gold wash in the bowl and the hand-painted ship with enamel funnels really popped and display the quality and skills with which it was made… read more ›

A fine sterling silver and enamel souvenir spoon for RMS Baltic.  Coming into service in 1904 as the largest liner in the world she would be commanded on her maiden voyage by E.J. Smith of… read more ›

Britannic was to become more important than ever to White Star Line’s future in 1914 and 1915, but as we know, it was not to be.  Her interiors were largely completed, however, and much was… read more ›

The best advertising piece Cunard White Star ever did for the Britannic.  It is good to see the White Star liner that lasted longest with Cunard was not treated as a red-headed step child within… read more ›

Return-to-service brochure produced for the Cunard White Star Liner Britannic in 1947.  “The Britannic is not only British in name, from keel to masthead she embodies the traditional skill of British craftsmen.”  I’ll say!  She… read more ›

Abstract of log from Britannic’s April 9, 1949, crossing.  She had not yet been back in post-war service a full year.  In excellent condition.

Probably my favorite of all the gift-shop items ever stocked.  Beautiful reverse-painted butterfly-wing pin dish for White Star Line’s last-serving liner.  This is only the second one I have carried for Britannic.  In mint condition.

One of White Star’s most lavish brochures created in the midst of the depression.  This would be one of the last brochures for Adriatic and Baltic.  Celtic and Cedric having already gone.  Runs 24 pages… read more ›

Gala farewell dinner menu for a “Boring” cruise.  When I first found out that James Boring mounted many cruises in the interwar years, I was a bit surprised by his name to say the least. … read more ›

A second-class passenger list for the RMS Cedric’s crossing from Liverpool to New York, Valentines Day, February 14, 1906.  Captain Cameron in command, and the surgeon is W.F.N. O’Loughlin of Titanic fame.  The cover is… read more ›

White Star Line used several different covers on their passenger lists with styles changing every few years or so in keeping with the styles of the era. 19th Century lists have a very 19th Century… read more ›

White Star Line was beginning to think of the luxury market over that of speed records by the late 1890s.  Cymric is a link in a long chain leading to Olympic and Titanic.  She was… read more ›

Souvenir cigarette box for White Star Line’s RMS Doric.  Unusual cedar-lined cigarette box with reverse-painted butterfly wing artwork on top.  The Doric was a handsome liner built for the White Star Line Canadian service in… read more ›

Hard-to-find 19th Century second-class passenger list RMS Majestic.  19th Century White Star Line are tough to source, and those for second class are even more so.  Bruce Ismay is listed on the cover as New… read more ›

The Worlds Largest Ship!  Majestic and Leviathan were not just vying with each other for the title of the largest ship in the world, they were also vying for speed records.  Here is how that… read more ›

“The World’s Largest Ship.”  Wait, shouldn’t that be the United States Lines’s Leviathan?  At the time, it depended on if who you ask was from the US or the UK!  Both ships were pretty evenly… read more ›

Stunning color cut-away of White Star Line’s RMS Majestic.  In many ways, Majestic was a forerunner to ships such as ss Normandie (with divided uptakes, every public room being double height, etc.).  White Star cut-aways… read more ›

Bow-on real photo post card of Majestic in the King George V Graving Dock.  These appear to be a part of a set taken all during the same dry docking.  This image is number 36… read more ›

Amazing real photo postcard of Majestic in the King George V Graving Dock.  She looks massive because she was!  Unused and in excellent condition.  This is image 37 from the set.

A real photo postcard in the style of Hoffman showing Majestic’s altar.  Like Olympic, it seems the altar was setup in second class on Majestic.  Interestingly, many of Majestic’s religious artifacts ended up on the… read more ›

Perhaps the best swimming pool ever put in a liner.  This was no simple plunge bath, this is positively Pompeian!  Unused and in excellent condition.

A pair of the last cards printed for Majestic.  The White Star version and the Cunard White Star overprint from 1935.  Both unused, the CWS version has an ink spot on the front and some… read more ›

Great real photo postcard of the Caledonia, ex-Majestic, arriving in the Firth of Forth.  Note her cut-down masts.  This was done in order to get the ship under the amazing Firth of Fourth Bridge.  Unused… read more ›

Superb graphics on the cover of this passenger list for White Star’s finest 19th Century ship, the RMS Oceanic.  The last ship conceived and built under the guidance of the line’s founder, Thomas Ismay, Oceanic… read more ›

A rarity these days!  A pre-sinking postcard for this, perhaps history’s most famous pair of steamships.  No message (and given the recent incident perhaps no message was required) but has been addressed and is dated… read more ›

The best first-class deck plan I have ever carried for the “Old Reliable.”  Interestingly, it is dated July, 1913, and reprinted after the war in 1920, listing the à la carte restaurant simply as the… read more ›

Ultra rare tourist-third-class deck plan for the White Star Liner RMS Olympic, dated June, 1931.  In very good condition and measures about 23″ x 34.5″. Did you know many Edwardian liners became four-class ships late… read more ›

Unused and unusual gummed sticker for mail posted on Olympic.  Measures about 2″ long.  Excellent condition.  A small quantity available.

An American artist-rendering post card of our favorite liner RMS Olympic.  Not produced by the White Star Line, the card mentions Titanic’s loss on the back, and I believe dates to the pre-war era.  Bumped… read more ›

A rare and stunning real-photographic postcard of the RMS Olympic after her collision with the HMS Hawke in the Solent on September 20, 1911.  The flank of the huge liner stretches on and on in… read more ›

Touching the River Lagan for the first time, Olympic is in her natural element.  She was at this point undergoing the most stress she would ever experience in her career, and I think it would… read more ›

A rarely seen photo of RMS Olympic off the Dardanelles, I believe, early in the war as a troop ship.  She’s impressive to say the least.  I would hate to be the fellow who had… read more ›

Cool and iconic color artist card imagining RMS Olympic compared to various buildings of her time.  Written and posted in April, 1922–the gravy years for this beloved White Star Liner.

Interesting photo of the famous floating dry dock in Southampton, the largest in the world.  Remnants of the brick docking piers used to keep this dry dock in place are still visible in Southampton to… read more ›

Huge real photo postcard of RMS Olympic in Book Post format.  Measures  about 5.5″ x 10.25″.  Some curling at edges, but these should press out fine.  One small crease on left side.

Real photo card of the first-class smoking room on board White’s Star’s Olympic.  This image shows the room after her 1919 refit and reentry into service.  Extremely clear!  Unused and in excellent condition. Did you… read more ›

Beautifully patterned linoleum floor tiles in alternating shades of green and cream as used mostly in second-class areas of RMS Olympic.  Archival photographs of the liner’s interior show these tiles in use in the barber… read more ›

Way back in 1987, artifacts from the wreck of the White Star liner Republic, which sank dramatically in 1909, were salvaged.  Claims of massive amounts of gold, wild-goose chases, and tails of sad tragic drama have… read more ›

I don’t recall the last time I had a “Tea” menu from a White Star liner, but I know that in second and third class this afternoon meal was much more hearty than the beverages… read more ›

White Star Line silver is sure getting tough to find.  This sugar bowl is the LARGER size of the two made for tables and measures 7″ from handle to handle and stands 2½”.  In the… read more ›

I have always considered White Star’s Teutonic to be the first ocean liner.  She was more reliable (and some say safer) because she had twin screws and didn’t need sails.  She was also big enough… read more ›

RMS Olymipc, Homeric, and Majestic brochure from around 1925.  The finest brochure ever done for White Star Line’s post-war trio of ships.  20 pages of full color covering all 3 ships.  RMS Majestic as the… read more ›

Want to own some shares in your favorite ocean-liner corporation?  Here is your chance.  The White Star Line became a British owned firm again when IMM sold the company to Royal Mail Line in 1927. … read more ›