Rare Collection (page 4)

RMS Titanic - items from Erik Jaer Archive
RMS Titanic - items from the Erik Jaer Archive. Mr Jaer was a Norwegian man working in the United States in 1912. The archive comprises letters and photographs of Mr Jaer, and newspaper cuttings

RMS Titanic - Harland and Wolff drawing of floating crane
RMS Titanic - extremely rare Harland and Wolff linen backed scale drawing of the 150-200 ton 1- 80 scale floating crane, designed by Bertha Krupps and fabricated by Benrather Maschinenfabrik AG

RMS Titanic - The Shipbuilders, foldout page
RMS Titanic - red bound volume of The Shipbuilders, showing foldout page with deck layouts. Date: 1911-1912

RMS Olympic and Titanic - The Shipbuilders volume
RMS Olympic and Titanic - red bound volume of The Shipbuilders, souvenir number, showing colour plate of the Olympic. Date: 1911-1912

RMS Titanic - Nearer My God to Thee postcard with music
RMS Titanic - rare coloured postcard, Nearer My God to Thee, by B.T. Meachan, Petersburg, Virginia. Postally unused

Theatre poster - The Great Ocean Catastrophe
Theatre poster - rare early 20th century, advertising the King's Hall, Gloucester for a production of the Great Ocean Catastrophe. Date: early 20th century

Harland & Wolff - rare diary with handwritten entries, written by a member of the drawing office describing the events in the yard in 1880

White Star Line/Dominion Line - side plate with gilt rim
White Star/Dominion Line: rare First Class side plate with gilt rim and intertwined WSL initials in blue at the centre, Stonier and Co. 7.5 inches

RMS Olympic - crystal light fitting
RMS Olympic - rare smoking room crystal light fitting in excellent condition with brass fitting. 8 inches

RMS Olympic - document regarding blades
RMS Olympic - Harland & Wolff document relating to the brazing of turbine blades and the chipping and dressing of propeller blades, dated 6 February 1913. Date: 1913

RMS Olympic - First Class lounge window, ex White Star Memories and Cobwebs. Although in need of some restoration, the window retains its original catches and period patina. 31.5 x 74.5 inches

RMS Lusitania - Archibald correspondence
RMS Lusitania - archive of correspondence relating to the sinking of the Lusitania. The letters date from 18 May 1915 and relate to a painting by Rubens, The Holy Family

RMS Lusitania - handwritten letter on printed stationery
RMS Lusitania - letter written on board the Lusitania by Stewardess Ann Roberts on the outward leg of the journey that would culminate in the loss of the Lusitania

RMS Lusitania - ledger listing supplies prior to sailing
RMS Lusitania - rare hardbound ledger dated 28 June 1907 to 26 August 1907 relating to supplies and provisions for the Lusitania prior to sailing

Rare Chernikeeff submerged radar log C662R4, maker's plate to the front no. 27806. 15 inches

RMS Titanic - poster, Spanish version of SOS Titanic film
RMS Titanic: rare Spanish colour poster for the film SOS Titanic, 28 x 42 inches. They said that not even God could sink it! Date: 1979

Cunard ceramics, stoneware jar, MV Molliette
Cunard ceramics - rare stoneware jar relating to the MV Molliette, Britain's first concrete ship

RMS Titanic and RMS Carpathia
RMS Titanic (top and bottom), and RMS Carpathia (middle). The Carpathia rescued 706 passengers from the sinking Titanic

La Rue des Mauvais Garcons
This proof on Chinese paper, shows two dark figures, conversing in a shadowed street in France. (The street of the bad boys). A very rare example, purchased by Mr

Saint Catherine Figure
A rare English Nottingham 15th century alabaster figure of Saint Catherine standing, crowned, upon the prostrate figure of the Emperor Maximin who has been impaled by his dagger. Date: circa 1929

Music cover, So Rare, Cavan O'Connor
Music cover, So Rare, words by Jack Sharpe, music by Jerry Herst, sung Cavan O'Connor. Date: 1937

A Rabbi - Constantinople, Turkey. Date: 1909

Famous conjoined sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton
The Brighton United Twins - famous conjoined sisters Daisy and Violet Hilton (1908-1969). The twins were exhibited in Europe as children, and toured the United States sideshow

Bjornstjerne Bjornson
A portrait of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910). A Norwegian writer and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry

Downy woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Edwin Sheppard from Thomas George Gentrys Nests and Eggs of the Birds of the United States, J.A

Creve-coeur breed, endangered
Creve-coeur or crevecoeur breed chickens, cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. Endangered French breed from Crevecoeur-en-Auge, Normandy. Bred by R. B

Chairman of the Ypres Last Post Committee with bugles
The Ceremony of the Last Post, in which firemen buglers play the Last Post under the Menin Gate at 8pm each night is, in its simplicity, one of the most moving acts of Remembrance in the world

Hong Kong, Happy Valley Golf Clubhouse and pavilions with race course bend to the right. Date: circa 1890s

Sea unicorn or narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Rare specimen with double tusks. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Bootlace worm, Lineus longissimus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804

Leech, Hirudo circulans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804

Candystick tellina shell, Tellina similis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London

Slender grasshopper, Tetrix subulata (Awl-shaped acrydium, Acrydium subulatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Green grasshopper, Omocestus viridulus (Gryllus viridulus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Ctenicera cuprea beetle (Elater chalybeus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London

Bugulina avicularia (Flustra avicularis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London

Arran brown, Erebia ligea (Papilio ligea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London

Copepod parasite on a sprat, Lernaeenicus sprattae
Blood-feeding copepod parasite on a sprats eye, Lernaeenicus sprattae (Lernaea sprattae). And another strange worm found on an oyster shell

Sand worm with crimson feelers, Amphitrite rosea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects

Larva of the Hemerobius lacewing in lichen, and mites
Larva of the Hemerobius (lacewing) clothed in lichen, with mite, Acarus amictus and little basket mite, Acarus corbicula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British

Field cricket, Gryllus campestris (Acheta campestris). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Grey bush cricket, Platycleis grisea (Gray locust, Locusta grisea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Sea star or starfish, Hippasteria phrygiana (Asterias equestris?). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Greater scaup duck, Aythya marila, female (White-faced duck, Anas fraenata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Sponge, Haliclona cinerea (Cancellated sponge, Spongia cancellata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Harlequin duck, Histrionicus histrionicus (Anas histrionica). Male and female. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Ground beetle, Drypta dentata (Golden-mouthed carabus, Carabus chrysostomos). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare

Sarosesthes fulminans beetle (Cerambyx fulminans). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects

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