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Message: [QUOTE="Eric Sauder, post: 227089, member: 138503"] Daniel wrote: "The smoke room panelling was never sold off and lay about until the 50's or 60 until it was finally used for firewood ... or so I read. I can't remember who said this but if they're still around I'm sure they'll elaborate on that." Well, it was I. And to clarify the story a bit.... Back in the 1980s, I was told by a former employee of Thomas Ward (the shipbreaker) that the paneling from the Smoking Room did not sell and lay in storage for many years. He said that it was finally disposed of in the 1950s for use as firewood for the locals. (Keep in mind the Smoking Room ceiling is at a paint factory in Northern England.) Now whether the story is actually true or not, I don't know. I only repeated what I had been told by someone who was there (which in hindsight may have been an error on my part). I can't vouch for the veracity of the story because no evidence has presented itself which either confirms or denies it. Daniel, I'm also curious about your thinking that the stained-glass panels in the Smoking Room on Olympic were different from the ones on Titanic. Do you have any evidence for this, or is it just speculation? Off the top of my head, I can't think of any artwork that we know for a fact that was different, one ship from the other. Call me skeptical, but until I see some hard evidence that the panels were indeed different, I'll have to believe they were the same. I know that some of the leaded edges of the panels were found in Titanic's debris field (and they are identical to what was on Olympic), but I don't recall if any pattern of stained glass has been seen or found. To satisfy my own curiosity, I'll check with Ken Marschall when he comes back from his trans-Atlantic crossing to see if he can shed any light on it from his detailed study of the Woods Hole or Cameron debris field photos. Anyone else care to weigh in? Eric Sauder [/QUOTE]

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