Hello!
I've spend the half day to find out more about tableware and cutlery on the titanic. I'm specially interested in the makers / suppliers of Titanics tableware. But as far as I can tell, information on that topic is pretty rare. I just found that some of the cutlery was made by "Arthur...
I picked up this cup and saucer recently. It appears to be of the same design as those on the Olympic and Titantic. It has the typical Brown & Turquoise design with the White Star Lines flag. The bottom of the cup is painted with what appears to be 4488, however I'm not 100% on that first #4...
The D deck partition of the recovered "Big Piece" was once a wall of a room in the D deck 1st class galley, listed as a 'glass room'.
Do we know what kind of glass was stored in this room? Plates? carraffes? Drinking glasses?
Regards
tarn Stephanos