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THE MOST INCREDIBLE UNKNOWN UNSEEN TITANIC ARTIFACT YOU HAVE EVER SEEN !
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Please contact me if you can provide any information on the following very 'unknown' historical artifact:
RMS Carpathia onboard notebook with handwritten list of personal properties from Titanic survivors
(thus not being the well-known "List or Manifest of Alien Passengers etc" from the port of New York City).
The ca 5-page list mentions Titanic's lifeboats in order of arrival at RMS Carpathia and for every lifeboat an array of personal effects. For lifeboat #11 for example, 14 items are listed. For lifeboat #12 (snippet): "small knife, some coins". The list is said to not feature any survivors names. This Carpathia notebook is said to have been publicized on the internet for only a brief time-period in 2012. $ 500 reward for any tip leading to my accessing the list (for purpose of research).
BEWARE OF TITANIC FAKE 'ARTIFACTS' & 'SOUVENIRS' ACCOMPANIED BY A 'KEN SCHULTZ RECEIPT' AND/OR A 'WALTER LORD LETTER'! EVERYTHING MAY LOOK REAL BUT IS ONLY FAKE! JUNK KEEPS APPEARING!
FAKES SOLD 7 DEC 2019, GOLDIN AUCTIONS: 'LIGHTOLLER POCKET WATCH' $173,430.00 ; 'TITANIC DECK CHAIR' $36,900.00 ; 'BLACKMARR MEDICAL BAG'(*) $5,227.50 (* UNSOLD ON 18 APR 2020 AT AUCTIONEER J ADAMS )
SCHULTZ NEVER USED HIS ORDER FORM (AN INSERT WITH HIS PRODUCT CATALOGUES) AS A SALE RECEIPT!
(ALSO BEWARE OF FAKE 'RMS OLYMPIC' ITEMS WITH FAKE 'THOMAS WARD' LABEL/MARKING/PROVENANCE!)
This is about a very extraordinary, not widely known episode in the history of Titanic. Initially her maiden voyage was scheduled for 20 March instead of 10 April, 1912. This delay of exactly 3 weeks was due to an incident with her elder sister Olympic. On 20 September 1911, starting her 5th voyage, closeby Isle of Wight (UK), Olympic collided with Royal Navy ship Hawke. Olympic suffered 3 vertically aligned holes at her rear's starboard side, but was able to return to Southampton for temporary patching up. Hawke however was damaged maybe even more extensively: her bow was completely squashed. In the aftermath Olympic, commanded by the later Titanic captain E.J. Smith (!), was blamed for a bad steering maneuver, and White Star Line suffered huge costs and claims. Financially it became much worse, as Olympic was taken out of service many weeks for repairs in Belfast. For speeding up and getting Olympic back in service sooner, her damaged starboard propeller crankshaft (and also starboard propeller blades?) was replaced by that of Titanic, however at the cost of delaying Titanic's completion date and subsequent maiden voyage. The patching up in Southampton and the following permanent repairs in Belfast had taken 2 months in total. Olympic was back in service 29 November, but in February 1912 lost a port side propeller blade after hitting an unidentified object while returning from New York. Again for speeding up repairs, resources of Titanic (a propeller blade) were used for Olympic. (Yet already in October 1911, the month after the first incident, the one with Hawke, it was decided by White Star Line to postpone Titanic's completion date and subsequent maiden voyage by 3 weeks.)
The worst thing in all this now: Olympic's collision with Hawke on 20 September 1911 had specifically caused the postponement of Titanic's maiden voyage and, as such, her subsequent collision with an iceberg, resulting in the sinking disaster on 15 April 1912. Even more ironically, or even cynically: with the bad steering maneuver under his command, the later Titanic captain, E.J. Smith, essentially had initiated his own and countless others' unfortunate passing away, as well as the unimaginable loss of the world's largest and finest ship, on its maiden voyage, with all the invested man hours, resources, contents, furnishings, fittings, supplies, (mail) cargo, etc. etc. Titanic's sinking was the most severe (peacetime) maritime catastrophe in history thusfar and still resonating to this day. ☆
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Known are the harsh "xerox" electrostatic black toner rigging plan photocopies from 1980s-1990s produced by Harland & Wolff upon ordering by collectors, researchers, modelmakers, etc. This one in my collection however is a H&W reprographic "contact" copy, a photo-chemical reproductive style that has become obsolete gradually over time. A chemically sensitized paper was laid under the (translucent) linen cloth drawing plan and this was then exposed to a strong UV light source. (My copy was made while using an intermediate cloth, also showing brush marks from a wax treatment or such. Possibly this extra cloth served to protect the original drawing cloth against the paper's sensitizing chemicals. See detail image nr 4.) Then the paper was developed/fixated with either ammonia gas (diazo print, a "dry" process) or an acidic bath (aniline print, a "wet" process). This presumably either diazo print or aniline print displays smooth close-up detail and nuance, and even also the weave pattern of both fabrics. After WW2, but before their "xerox" blackline copies, H&W would occasionally produce "contact" copies off a much used folded original 1910/1911 "contact" copy from their archive, having 1 horizontal and 7 vertical fold creases. Also known is a 1963 chemical copy from the original linen plan, produced for a drawing artist named Laurence Dunn, and which has dark blue linework and is stamped by H&W with "3 July 1963". Unknown is if H&W's later "xerox" copies were derived from the original linen cloth drawing plan and/or from a copy of that.
The rigging plan in my collection is a very rarely seen H&W "chemical" copy, much less c1910 copy, however age yet not fully conclusive. Its paper has slightly darkened (yellowed) and has by no means become brittle. Also the very fine and smooth fiber structure suggests that the paper was entirely made from plant fibers (linen, hemp, cotton) rather than wood pulp. (Around the year 1910, still ca.10% of all paper supply was made from rags. Nowadays, only currency banknotes, and such, are made from plant fiber: for strength, durability, etc.) Only just noticeable, the paper's back has a ribbed texture, which was impressed by either a "pull roll(er)" or a "dandy roll(er)" (cylinder) during the paperstock manufacture; ca.40 ribs per inch (ca.16 ribs per cm). At the time, this ribbing was typically performed by a copper wire with diameter of thus ca.1/40 inch (ca. 0.625 mm) which was spiraled around the said steel cylindrical roller. This very subtle, almost unnoticeable ribbing effect should ultimately be a key element in dating this paper sheet respectively this rigging plan. Altogether, also because of the imagery having discolored into a violet color, I suspect that this rigging plan copy dates from 1910-1911; however, still not to be fully excluded is 1960s-1970s (although for that time-period the paperstock will be typically wood pulp based). In my mind, neither the aforementioned copper wire spiraling nor the plant fiber paperstock were still (commonly) at use in the 1960s-1970s, much less the combination! The imagery's discoloration into a purple (violet), which originally was probably dark blue or "black", is typical for the aging, over time, of diazotype and anilinetype. After my rigging plan purchase, I also managed to get hold of and inspect a ca. late 1970s rigging plan copy that was obtained from THS (Titanic Historical Society) back in the same time-period: ca. late 1970s. That copy was produced by Harland & Wolff, using the aforementioned folded rigging plan copy from 1910/1911 in their archive, hence showing many folding creases. Its identical purple imagery color again suggests either diazotype or anilinetype duplicating, however the sheet's feel and fiber structure clearly indicate wood pulp based paper, and furthermore the sheet lacks the fine ribbed structure on the back. ... more
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The lifeboats inventory list's "stretcher", "$ 0.75", is totally different from the also listed wooden "foot stretcher", "$ 0.05", thus a 15 times value difference.
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Titanic post-disaster lifeboats contents inventory, typewriter docs, late 1912 :
Version 1 (4.6MB hi-res 3-page PDF) or web page US National Archives
Version 2 (6.7MB hi-res 5-page PDF) or web page US National Archives
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11 Nov 2011 an identical one sold at Swann Auction Galleries for the then record sum $ 72,000 incl tax/premium
20 Oct 2018 an identical other went at Henry Aldridge & Son for the new record price $ 81,000 incl tax/premium
Aldridge & Son to Irish Mirror, 17 Oct 2018 :
"[...] only a handful of these posters exist. You can count them on one hand."
(A professional auctioneer would never declare "only a handful exist" but "only a handful are known to exist"!)
"The Victoria & Albert Museum have one for its Speed & Style exhibition but this one is in better condition."
Aldridge & Son at live auction, 20 Oct 2018 : "There is 4 of these known to exist."
False statements! 7 are traceable (not counting my nr 8) and the one at V&A was in a very good condition (see the above image nr 5) !
JustCollecting News, 10 Oct 2018,
"Titanic return journey poster could set new auction record" :
news.justcollecting.com/... (new window)
BBC News, 20 Oct 2018,
"Rare Titanic poster sold for £ 62,000 [ $ 81,000 ] at auction" :
bbc.com/news/... (new window)
5 Oct 2018 03:01 "I have no problem shipping you the frame as long as you pay for the shipment but you already stated you would." 9 Oct 2018 01:37 "It's 735 pm here in Pennsylvania. I'll be shipping tomorrow about 11am." THEN AFTER 18 DAYS OF NO RESPONSE: 27 Oct 2018 09:17 "Enjoying my spam folder? 🤔😂 " THEN AFTER 24 MORE DAYS OF AGAIN NO RESPONSE: 20 Nov 2018 19:05 "I tossed that frame in the fireplace." THEN 6 HOURS (!) LATER, UPON OFFERING HIM MONEY FOR THE FRAME: 21 Nov 2018 01:17 "I can ship it out still as I'd never burn something or destroy anything. As I'm sure you knew that too. [ HE IS TAKING A TURN ONLY FOR THE MONEY ]." 24 Nov 2018 12:10 "I can ship it out Wednesday morning is that's ok." 26 Nov 2018 12:39 "I would be able to ship it today but like I said i don't have the money to cover shipping until Wednesday." 26 Nov 2018 15:01 "If you could send $15 to this account [ PAYPAL OF HIS WIFE ] via 'friends and family' I would be able to access it and use it today to ship it with. [ HIS OWN PAYPAL ACCOUNT WAS SUSPENDED DUE TO HIS CONTINUALLY NEGLECTING HIS MANY BUYERS OF MAINLY SECOND HAND KIDS DVDS ]." 27 Nov 2018 02:21 "I'll be able to get to the post office tomorrow around 4pm." THEN AFTER 22 DAYS OF AGAIN NO RESPONSE: 19 Dec 2018 11:52 "That frame is LONG GONE. [ HE MEANS: LONG DISCARDED ]." SUCH A M***N AND R****D IN ALL REGARDS ! BUT IF HE ONLY KNEW HE SOLD ME AN INCREDIBLY SCARCE PRICELESS ORIGINAL ICONIC POSTER AND FOR ALMOST NO MONEY ! "🤔😂 "
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EPIC FAIL by 4 of the foremost experts (authors) on Titanic build/history :
"Much like the work of a child (*) [...] worthless [...] of very little to no interest to a serious collector"
"Stay away from this. it is not a good buy"
"I'm not really sure what I can offer you in the way of a comment"
"This is a fake [ or wordings to that effect ]"
(In order to protect their identity and respect their reputation, the names of the 4 experts (authors) have been omitted.)
(*) The colorized area of bow & stern is only 1/4 respectively 1/3 the size of a credit card ! ; the work of an expert !
This item came from the Ken(neth) Schultz Collection (and no, it was not accompanied by a fake 'receipt'). So it may have been featured in his 1970s-2000s catalogues. Please contact me if you know more!
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Large image (15000 x 6075): Front (3.6MB)
Extra large image (30000 x 12150): Front (7.7MB)
Bow detail image (12150 x 7500): Detail (2.1MB)
Back side image (4420 x 1800): Back (0.6MB)
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