Luxury Collection (page 41)

Mercedes car touring the countryside
A Mercedes car touring the countryside. 1935

Central Touring Hotel - Algiers, Algeria
The Central Touring Hotel - Algiers, Algeria. The Most comfortable, the most important, the best located - 130 bedrooms, 30 bathrooms and... electric lifts! Date: circa 1910s

ON GOLDEN ARROW FERRY
A smartly dressed couple stroll along the deck of the Golden Arrow ferry, connecting luxury trains between Dover and Calais. Date: 1947

Interior, Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland
View of the spacious sitting room of the Hotel Bonivard, Montreux, Switzerland. Date: 1950s

Bathroom in the Ritz
The RITZ HOTEL offers its pampered guests every conceivable luxury, as can be seen in this sumptuous bathroom fitted out with the most up-to-date equipment. Date: 1910

Grand Hotel Excelsior - Lido - Venice
The exterior of the Grand Hotel Excelsior - Lido - Venice, showing the beach and beach huts circa 1920s

The Imperial wedding at St. Petersburg
Guests pass up the grand staircase of the Winter Palace on their way to the wedding of Emperor Nicholas II to the Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Alix of Hesse. 26th November 1894

Galley kitchen on an LNWR restaurant car, UK
View inside a galley kitchen on an LNWR (London and North Western Railway) restaurant car, with a chef at work and two uniformed waiters waiting to serve food to their customers

Production and Plunder, campaigning statistics
A slide entitled Production & Plunder, used for a lecture about the South Wales Miners Federation. Statistics are listed, comparing the royalties on the use of coal on the luxury steamer

Cairo to the Cape, a Cruise Tour by Thomas Cook
Cover illustration for Cairo to the Cape, a Cruise Tour including the Mediterranean and South America, Thomas Cook and Son. A map of Africa and South America shows the route across sea and land

Cooks Arrangements for Egypt and the Nile
A Nubian Egyptian man stands in the foreground, with a River Nile steamer in the background, on the cover of Cooks Arrangements for Egypt and the Nile

Winter Sports with Thomas Cook & Son
Cover illustration for Winter Sports in France, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Sweden and Canada, under the management of Thomas Cook & Son Ltd

Egypt, the Nile and Palestine, 1928-1929 Season, showing a Nile Steamer (The Arabia) at Aswan, with Elephantine Island in the background

White Star Line cup and plate
A cup and a plate bearing the White Star Line name and flag. Date: early 20th century

Pringle advertisement
Pringle of Scotland is one of the oldest luxury good labels in the world and was founded by Robert Pringle in 1815. Here they are advertising their sweater collection

Car controls / W H Robinson
A salesman explains the controls to a potential purchaser. This model has the luxury of a cigarette cabinet and an alarm clock

Scenes at the Shanghai Country Club
The amenities of European life in China, showing various aspects of the Shanghai country club: the front entrance of the clubhouse; in the general conversation room; looking across the pond to

At the Sporting Club, Monte Carlo
A gala at the sporting club at Monte Carlo during the Christmas season

Poster advertising St Raphael Valescure, France
Poster advertising St Raphael Valescure, a French seaside resort on the Cote d Azur

Poster advertising Blue Star Line Mediterranean cruises on the Queen of cruising liners, the Arandora Star

Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre cruises
Poster advertising Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre luxury cruises to the West African coast via Marseilles

Berliet Automobile
A fabulous Berliet car with a full compliment of passengers

Jaguar 3. 5 Litre 4-door Saloon
A magnificent Jaguar 3.5 Litre 4-door Saloon

Bentall 16 / 20 Tourer
The magnificent luxury of a Bentall 16/20 Tourer

Out for an excusion in new sports car
A French gentleman impresses his two lady companions with a ride in his brand new open top luxury sports car

Poster advertising Norway via Royal Mail
Poster for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, advertising trips to Norway and northern capitals. Luxury cruises on the SS Arcadian

Titanic In Memoriam card
An In Memoriam card for RMS Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg, 15 April 1912

Queen Mary items
A commemorative clock with a model of the RMS Queen Mary, and a Meccano Dinky Toy no.52, both marking the launch of the Cunard cruise ship in 1935

Envelope from the Titanic
An envelope, postmarked Southampton, 10 April 1912, addressed to Irvine Aitchison Esq of Sherwood, Beckenham, Kent. It contained a letter from his fiancee on White Star Line RMS Titanic headed paper

White Star Line 1st and 2nd Class booklet
Title page of the First and Second Class Accommodation passenger booklet for White Star Line Olympic and Titanic cruises

Letter headed paper from the Titanic
A blank sheet of letter headed paper from the RMS Titanic, with the White Star Line logo at the top left and the date partially completed in print on the right

White Star Line paper napkin
A White Star Line paper napkin, embossed with an ornate design and the name of the luxury cruise line

William Nutbean, Certificate of Discharge
Certificate of Discharge of William Nutbean, a Fireman/Stoker on the ill-fated maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic. Nutbean survived, and this is a replacement document

White Star Line linen napkin
A White Star Line linen napkin, embossed with an ornate design and the name of the luxury cruise line

RMS Olympic, Queens Hotel Queenstown
Two items relating to the RMS Olympic luxury cruise liner. An information card for the Queens Hotel, Queenstown (on the southern coast of Ireland) boasts of redecoration

Titanic Third Class Smoke Room
The Third Class Smoke Room on the ill-fated Titanic, which sank on 15 April 1912

White Star Line, SS Olympic window sketches
A White Star Line handwritten booklet entitled Particulars of Oceanic Steam Navigation Co, SS Olympic, May 1911. The vessel returned to the shipyard in Belfast in October 1911 for alterations

Titanic Reading and Writing Room
The Reading and Writing Room on the ill-fated Titanic, which sank on 15 April 1912

Titanic Ismay silver tray
A circular silver tray for letters and calling cards, engraved with the names of Joseph Bruce Ismay and his wife. Ismay was Managing Director of the White Star Line

Titanic blueprint (part)
Part of the blueprint of the SS Titanic, showing first, second and third class passenger areas, crew rooms and boiler rooms

Titanic news report and sheet music
A Daily Sketch item dated 20 April 1912, with a full page photograph of Captain Smith, who went down with his ship when the Titanic sank on 15 April 1912

RMS Titanic and iceberg
Artists impression of RMS Titanic at the moment it hit the fatal iceberg on 15 April 1912

Funnel of an unidentified steamship
The funnel of an unidentified steamship. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Titanic carver chair
A Chippendale style wooden carver chair from the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912

RMS Olympic spoons
A set of six RMS Olympic spoons in two different designs, in a presentation box

Titanic launch menu card
A menu card for the luncheon to mark the launch of the RMS Titanic, held on 31 May 1911 at the Grand Central Hotel, Belfast. It is signed by GF Morrell

Titanic silverware
Two oval shaped silver dishes from the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912

Queen Mary medal
A commemorative medal made by the Royal Mint, marking the launch of the Queen Mary cruise ship in 1935

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