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UNSEEN UNUSUAL UNEQUALLED ARTIFACTS & OTHER TREASURES !

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TO THIS DAY NOT DOCUMENTED IN ANY BOOK, NOR MUSEUM, NOR COLLECTION !
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namur vedette maas meuse photo card titanic 1912

Boat is 'named' Titanic. Bridge in background was partially destroyed in 1914 (WW1), restored in 1922-1923.

Namur, Belgium: cruise on river boat 'TITANIC', promo card 1922

Size: 10.2 x 14.7 cm (4.0 x 5.8 in) ☆

NEVER SEEN ! NUTS ! TITANIC 10TH ANNIVERSARY: JOY ON THE RIVER MEUSE !

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reese brass lockedge stencil letters adjustable cargo baggage titanic 1912

S.W. Reese patented his S-fold lockedge stencil in 1876; manufacture till the 1950s (design hardly changed).

7‑letter brass 'TITANIC' paint stencil, used for marking her cargo

Size: 7.6 x 28.5 cm (3.0 x 11.25 in) ☆

UNSEEN ! SURELY THE ONLY 1 EXISTING ! SOUTHAMPTON DOCKHAND LEGACY !

Incredible find ! Its significance & overall value can not be overstated !

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sand castle postcard wareham littlehampton rppc real photo postcard titanic 1912

Tip of 1st funnel is only just visible. Note the UK flags aside some paper tag with text unreadable (too faint).

Sand castle contest in UK, with sinking of Titanic, RPPC ca.1912

Size: 8.8 x 14.0 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in) ☆

UNSEEN PICTURE ! FASCINATING DOCUMENT OF 'TITANIC' IN EVERYDAY LIFE !

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reverse glass painting diamond shape pre sinking titanic 1912

Back of glass partially hand painted, also using mother-of-pearl. Then glued onto velvet-covered cardboard.

Titanic reverse glass painting, onboard souvenir, ca. early 1912

Size (H x W): 35.5 x 35.5 cm (14 x 14 in) ☆

NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ! SOLD IN BARBER SHOP ON TITANIC (&OLYMPIC?) !

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affectionate remembrance souvenir sheet poetry music titanic 1912

1912 machine copy. Skillful typesetting and graphic design. Ship picture is also seen on the 'paper napkin'.

Souvenir leaflet with texts and poetry on the disaster, UK 1912

Size: 28.9 x 22.3 cm (11.4 x 8.8 in) ☆

INCREDIBLY SCARCE ! ISSUED FOR FUNDRAISING AND/OR FOR A GATHERING !

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chicago examiner rppc souvenir real photo postcard titanic 1912

"Taken on the night of April the 16th 1912 Souvenir of (Titanic) disaster". Chicago newspaper of that evening.

Private RPPC (Chicago, USA): red hot record from 'the day after'

Size: 13.9 x 8.8 cm (5.5 x 3.5 in) ☆

NEVER SEEN ! MOST UNUSUAL POST-SINKING POSTCARD WITHOUT DOUBT !

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blind evangelist e h smith souvenir leaflet song music titanic 1912

Photograph: Titanic at Belfast, Ireland, UK. Mr. E.H. Smith lived at "82 Lennox Road, Hillsborough, Sheffield".

Memorial song sheet, by "The Blind Evangelist" mr. E.H. Smith

Size: 25.4 x 15.7 cm (10.0 x 6.2 in) ☆

NOT SEEN ANOTHER ! ULTRA RARE SURVIVOR OF THROWAWAY EPHEMERA !

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cherbourg france real photo postcard rppc carte postale rare rarest most valuable titanic 1912

Among the rarest pre-sinking postcards. "10 avril 1912. Le Titanic de passage à Cherbourg. Coulé le 15/4 1912".

CRAZY SCARCE ACQUISITION ! 1 OF JUST 2 OF THIS TITANIC-AT-CHERBOURG POSTCARD KNOWN TO EXIST !

"Titanic photo du me[r]credi 10 Avril 1912, 7 heur du soir". The (partial) postmark is likely from 19 April 1912.

INSANELY RARE POSTCARD OF TITANIC AT CHERBOURG ! 1 OF JUST 6 KNOWN TO EXIST UNTIL THIS DAY !

Titanic en route anchored at Cherbourg, 1912 real photo pc (2x)

Size: 8.9 x 13.9 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in) ☆

UTMOST UNKNOWN ! TWO MOST RARE & SPECIAL & VALUABLE TITANIC RPPC !

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Wednesday 10 April 1912 at noon Titanic departed from Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage. This departure however was delayed for about an hour because of a near-collision. When Titanic moved away from the dockside, the huge water displacement from her 3 propellers caused all 6 mooring ropes of SS New York to break and a collision was avoided by about only 4 ft (1.2 m). Perhaps roughly 5 hours later, around or just after 6:30pm, Titanic reached the first of two stopovers: Cherbourg in Normandie (France). As this port was not equipped to accommodate ships of this gigantic size, Titanic dropped anchor just off shore. Roughly 275 Cherbourg passengers who had been waiting for about an hour were transferred to Titanic by two White Star Line tenders (ferry boats). Subsequently some 23 Titanic passengers disembarked, and the tenders transferred them, as well as mail and cargo, to the dockside. About 1.5 hours later, just past 8:00pm, not long after sunset, Titanic raised anchor and set off for Queenstown in Ireland where she would arrive the next morning around 11:30am.

Both these postcards are an actual photographic print from a negative, thus showing great detail, and these were produced either that very same "Cherbourg" day, 10 April 1912, or the following day. On the back the lines and generic texts are applied by printing press. A real photographic postcard (RPPC) in most cases is (extremely) rare, as not too many quality prints could be obtained from the negative. Furthermore, for higher print runs the printing press was the better and cheaper way for reproducing images. Only few photographs exist of Titanic en route, meaning the two stopovers: Cherbourg (France) and Queenstown (Ireland). The bulk of photographs however depict the ship at and near Belfast (2 April: sea trials) and of course at and near Southampton (3-10 April), but then again that is not really to be considered Titanic en route. Until now only two different photographic views of Titanic at Cherbourg are known to exist; occasionally these are seen in French period-newspapers, and in these two exceedingly rare real photographic postcards. This rarity of only two known photographic views is not surprising, since the stopover was in the evening and off the shore and only for 1.5 hours. (From those two photos, also a heavily touched up version was created, showing Titanic with "lights" during "night". One of these two altered photos was also issued as a regular (printed) postcard; that is the one derived from my postcard's photograph having the postage stamp affixed bottom right. Also that postcard with the touched up ship image is extremely rare, extremely difficult to come across.) ... more

There are a number of (very) rare RPPCs of Titanic at Belfast and Southampton; these will show up every once in a while and may then sell for considerable amounts. Then there is this sort of holy grail postcard, which is a series, of Titanic's anchor, constructed by Noah Hingley in Netherton. The anchor is seen in front of the workshop and also on a cart with 20 horses prior to and also during transportation to Dudley Railway Station, and these postcards sometimes sell for a high price. Also there are these two "silk" (partially woven) postcards and several "anchor chain makers" postcards also having a high market value. Yet even much more rare, top of the line, virtually never entering the sale market, are the "sectional view" (deck arrangement drawing) postcard and several "launch" postcards, of which by the way one was auctioned in 2013 for a very high sum. Whereas the internet yields quite a number of sources and references on the aforementioned "silk" and "anchor (chain)" postcards, and only several on the "sectional view" and "launch" postcards, this "Cherbourg" postcard with the postage stamp affixed top right, in my collection, was the first one I had ever seen and as such I did not know of its existence. Only recently I encountered a 1 other specimen known to exist. In regards the other "Cherbourg" postcard, with the postage stamp affixed bottom right, there are currenty only 5 more known to exist. This shows how rare and unknown these two significant RPPC of Titanic en route at Cherbourg actually are. Even a series of online auctioneer catalogues that I went through did not return any instance of these cards ever being auctioned. Then again these postcards may have been auctioned/sold at some point in the past, but that should have been an extremely rare occasion.

Unfortunately the vague/partial postmarks are not clear about the send date (and the apparently duplicate postmark going off the one card's side is even less revealing). Still on the one card, with stamp bottom right, I can read "19", which for this Cherbourg stamp means the day of a particular month. Almost undoubtedly that month was April, thus "19 April 1912", four days after the sinking. Since on that card there is no handwritten mentioning of the terrible disaster of 14-15 April, it is very well possible that the postcard was written on and posted 18 or 19 April with the sender yet ignorant of the latest news on the fate of Titanic. Still, the only real certainty is the postmark's day of the month, "19". On the other card, and this is really puzzling, oddly enough there is no recipient address, although there is a postage stamp with postmark. Did the sender maybe forget to write down the address and subsequently the postcard was never delivered? The 10 Centimes postage stamp seems to indicate that the postcard had, or was meant for, a foreign destination outside of France.

These postcards' photos have not been mirrored (flipped) accidentally or intentionally, which sometimes is the case with photographic prints from a negative. To be able to exclude any possible mirroring, on the one card (with postage stamp bottom right) I found clear evidence in the main deck's distribution of the round portholes near the 2nd funnel (there, the porthole distribution differs from starboard side). Now I wonder how many more of these two postcards still exist or are known to exist. ☆

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