5 items found relating to : Jewellery
| THOMAS MULLIN WATCH Thomas Mullin's pocket watch pictured in an East Grinstead jewellery store.... |
29th November 2011 | ||||
| LADY DUFF GORDON Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon wearing a pair of 18th century emerald and pearl cross-shaped earrings that were lost in the sinking of the Titanic. They were Duff Gordon family heirlooms given to her by her husband as a present on their wedding in 1900. The ... |
1904 | ||||
| nationalpost.com | STEALING THE TITANIC: ARTIFACTS AUCTION DRAWS ACCUSATIONS OF GRAVE ROBBERY On April 15, on the 100th anniversary of the RMS Titanic’s sinking, an auction house in New York will sell off $185-million-worth of items salvaged from the wreck: Eye-glasses, antique currency, jewellery, clothing and — the pièce de resistance — a 17-tonne section of the hull ripped clean in the ship’s final violent moments. In Halifax, the burial place of 150 Titanic victims, news of the auction prompted disgust. “We’re into preserving and documenting — not into pillaging,” Lynn-Marie Richard, registrar for the city’s Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, told The Chronicle Herald. The man who located the Titanic sitting upright at the bottom of the Atlantic would agree.... |
28th January 2012 | |||
| Chicago Daily Tribune | SAILED IN '70S WITH TITANIC'S CAPTAIN Page 6 [Photo] Capt. J. R. Mullet Capt. J. R. Mullet, a veteran seaman, retired ten years ago on a pension from the White Star lines after thirty-five years of faithful service, yesterday recalled the days when he and C... |
17th April 1912 | |||
| Doncaster Evening Post | SAVED FROM OCEAN THANKS TO A TOY PIG Shirley Davenport A PROMISE and a toy pig saved an American woman from drowning on the Titanic's maiden voyage 62 years ago.... |
7th June 1974 | |||