Cherub on grandstair

[Kathy A. Miles]

Hi folks, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the cherub from the forward grandstair. I've gone a bit bonkers and started a large woodburning project of the grandstair. This usually means I'm working on it surrounded by books with pictures, as well as the computer monitor with more images. I like to try and get the details right. Problem is, many of the best images I have are from Cameron's Titanic explorer. I have one image supposedly of Titanic's grandstair, though it could well be Olympics. The cherub in the photo is not that clear and rather dark, so I'm stuck relying on Cameron. But for starters, it looks different from the one in the image. The light is on the same side, but the other arm looks different. In the photo it looks like the right arm is bent across the chest supporting the left arm. In Cameron's stuff, it looks like the right arm is just held out and up. I've looked at the recovered cherub from the aftstair and other than being smaller, and having the light on the other side, it looks exactly like the one in the photo.

Can anyone shed some light on this? I figured it's possible that the photo IS of Olympic, and that Titanic's cherub was a bit different. I want to get it right, as I've already spent a great deal of time on the thing. For every 30 minutes of actual burning, I end up spending it seems, two hours double checking images and books. So, I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Kathy

 

[Pat Cook]

Hi Kathy,

I saw this on ebay recently and thought it may help you.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3312177441&category=790

Since you're using Cameron already, this may give you some different views.

Best regards,
Cook

 

[Daniel Klistorner]

Kathy,

ET has very limited picture hosting capabilities, so I uploaded the pictures for you in high resolution.

This picture is from Olympic's fore staircase:

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/pubimage.asp?id_=1700983

And this one is from the aft:

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/pubimage.asp?id_=1700984

So far as I know, there are no pictures of Titanic's staircase or cherub. You might also want to use the staircase photo in the Fr. Browne album book (it's toward the end of the book). "Idiot's Guide to Titanic" (I think that's what the book is called) also has a nice photo of Olympic's fore staircase.

Daniel.

 

[Kyrila Scully]

Uh, as far as I know (and I visit the TSOD a lot!) that cherub Jack is selling is still on display at TSOD. They haven't started dismantling yet, as they have an Anniversary Tour planned for April 14th, which I will be attending. I'm going to have to email Jack and ask him about this.

Kyrila

 

[Kathy A. Miles]

Thanks very much guys, those links were big helps! In fact, one of the images Daniel supplied has helped me see another area which I've been having a bit of trouble with. When I started this, I took dozens of screen shots from Cameron's TE and cropped, cut, pasted and enlarged various areas to use as reference, but there's always some little spot...... Daniel, perchance do you have a view further down that center post below the cherub? Everything I've got it either dark or fuzzy. I think that's the only other spot I'm having trouble with.
Thanks again folks,
Kathy

 

[Daniel Klistorner]

Kathy,

Once again, the fore staircase:

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/pubimage.asp?id_=1705801

And the aft:

http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/pubimage.asp?id_=1705802

Daniel.

 

[Kathy A. Miles]

Daniel, thanks so much, those are a great help! If you like, I'll send you an image of the woodburned piece when it's done.
Cheers,
Kathy

 

[Daniel Klistorner]

Kathy,

Thank you, I would appreciate that.

Regards,

Daniel.

 

[Kyrila Scully]

I just heard from Jack and am happy to report that he says there were two cherubs recovered from the movie set - the one he sold to TSOD and the other one he's currently offering on EBAY which isn't as nice as the one he sold to TSOD. It apparently needs much more repair than the first.

Kyrila