Wooden Barrel "From The Decking Of The Mauretania" suffragette 3mm (23mm including chain)

3mm (23mm including chain)

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The moulded tortoise shell has been expertly inlayed with a gold and silver floral spray to the centre

"The Colossus of Nero"

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Wooden Barrel "From The Decking Of The Mauretania" suffragette 3mm (23mm including chain)DATE: Art Deco, c. 1935 A wooden barrel paperweight desk inkwell ornament carved "from the decking of the Mauretania, The Old Lady of the Atlantic". The RMS Mauritania (1906 1935) was an ocean liner built for the Cunard Line, capturing the Blue Riband on the return leg of her maiden voyage in 1907. She was built during the golden age of Atlantic seafaring, a time when Cunard and the White Star line were continuously trying to outdo each other by