Ocean Liner Collectibles

Front Cover, Ocean Liner Collectibles with Price Guide by Myra Yellin Outwater, Photographs by Eric Boe Outwater, 1998. GGA Image ID # 20918d7aa0

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Table of Contents

• Acknowledgement
• Introduction
• At Sea, or Why Collect?
• How Much Is It Worth? A Suggested Value Analysis and Price Guide
• A Bit of History Sails By, or Get it While It's Still Out There
• Chapter 1—The Ships: Great Floating Palaces of the Seas Lithographs, Photographs, Models, and Postcards
• Chapter 2—Advertising and Promotional Materials Posters, Calendars, Brochures, Log Cards, and Itineraries
• Chapter 3—Bon Voyage- Sailing Away Tickets, Passenger Lists, Baggage Tags, Steamer Trunks, and Cabin Keys
• Chapter 4—Inside Your Cabin Furnishings, Soaps, Towels, and Stationary
• Chapter 5—Inside the Dining Room Menus, China, Kosher Service, Glass, and Silver
• Chapter 6—Inside the Public Rooms Ashtrays, Matches, Lighters, Playing Cards, and Cocktail Napkins
• Chapter 7—Shipboard Festivities Invitations, Games, Gala Ribbons, Party Hats, Certificates, Tambourines
• Chapter 8—Gift Items Bottles, Commemorative Plates, Compacts, Models, Toys, Medallions, Medals, and Pins
• Chapter 9—Dolls Norah Wellings and Other Doll Makers
• Chapter 10—The Disaster Ships The Maine, the Titanic, the Lusitania, the Normandie, the Morro Castle, and the Andrea Doria
• Chapter 11—All Around the Ship Life Jackets, Rivets, Night Lights, Charts
• Bibliography

Back Cover, Ocean Liner Collectibles with Price Guide by Myra Yellin Outwater, Photographs by Eric Boe Outwater, 1998. GGA Image ID # 2091eb1932

From the Back Cover

Man has always been fascinated by the sea. Once it was easy to go to sea, but today the number of passenger ships is declining and fewer and fewer people are able to take an ocean voyage.

This book recreates the ambiance of the ocean linereraby showing the actual objects used on board. Each piece of ocean-liner memorabilia is like an aladdin's lamp, releasing wondrous memories of that grand style of travel.

Beginning in the late 1 890s, shipping lines forged their identities by commissioning unique furnitureChinasilverware, glassware, vases, ashtrays, playing cards, menus, and stationery. These types of items characterized the different ocean liners, from the Normandie with her elegant art deco furnishings, to the stainless steel gleam of the s.SUnited Statesto the old-world luxury of the queens.

It is hard to describe that special feeling of anticipation, that first step up the gangplank, the excitement of hearing the sound of the sail-a way foghorn. Cunard promised that "getting there is half the fun." we think that the next best thing to being on the queenmary the queenelizabeth or the raffaello, is having a piece of them at home. Welcome aboard!

About the Author

Myra Yellin Outwater spent summers at the Connecticut seashore as a child. Her first oceangoing trips were on the Block Island, Nantucket, Fishers Island, and Martha's Vineyard ferries. She made her first crossing on the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1971.

Since then, she has crossed the ocean seven more times on QE2, sailed twice on the SS France, including its last westbound crossing, and sailed on the Raffaello. She had one brief visit aboard the SS United States and still regrets a lost opportunity to sail on the Shalom.

She has been collecting ocean-liner collectibles since the 1970s when she brought home postcards and an ashtray for her son after a trip on the QE2. Then, one evening, standing on the deck, looking out at the moonlit horizon, and listening to the lap of the waves, she realized that she was experiencing the same sensations as millions of sailors through time and history. It was at that point that a serious ship buff was born.

Eric Outwater comes from a Norwegian ship-owning family and, as a child, crossed the North Sea twenty-eight times. He made the first of eleven Atlantic crossings on the Manhattan.

Since their marriage, the Outwaters have crossed the Atlantic four times on QE2, cruised on the Vistafjord and the Royal Viking Sun, and sailed the rivers of Europe on Peter Deilmann's EuropAmerica Omises' MS Mozart, the MS Dresden, the MS Princesse de Provence, and the MS Prussian Princess. Recently, they sailed down the coast of Norway on Bergen Lines' M.S. Richard With.

The Outwaters are members of the Ocean Liner Society and the Steamship Historical Society of America. Avid collectors of ocean liner memorabilia, they still have many ports to discover.

In 1996, the Outwaters wrote their first book for Schiffer Publishing, Advertising Dolls.

Due to space considerations, this book deals only with those ships that belong to the old "crossing" tradition and only those cruise ships that are part of this tradition will be included.

Allan Line

• Corsican 1907-1915
• Grampian 1907-1925
• Hesperian 1907-1915
• Victorian 1904-1929
• Virginian 1904-1920

American Export Lines

• Atlantic 1982
• Constitution 1951-1997
• Independence 1951
• Savannah 1964. (The first and only commercial nuclear passenger ship, currently in mothballs.)

American President Lines (Formerly the Dollar Line)

• President Cleveland 1947
• President Coolidge 1938
• President Wilson 1948
• President Hoover 1957
• President Jackson 1940
• President Monroe 1940
• President Polk 1940
• President Wilson 1948

Anchor Line

• Columbia 1906
• Lancastria 1922
• Tuscania 1922
• T.S.S California 1923

The Bergen Line

• Richard With 1995

Canadian Pacific Line

• Empress of Britain 1906
• Empress of Britain 1931
• Empress of Britain 1956
• Empress of Japan 1930-1966
• Empress of Scotland 1942

The Collins Line

• Arctic 1852
• Atlantic 1856
• Baltic 1857
• Pacific 1857

The Cunard Steamship Company / Cunard Line

• Alaunia 1925
• Albania 1911
• Albania 1921
• Andes 1852
• Aquitania 1914-1949
• Arabia 1852
• Arcadia 1840
• Asia 1850-1867
• Aurania 1925-1957
• Ascania 1911
• Ascania 1925
• Ausonia 1911
• Berengaria (Launched as the Imperator in 1913 and given to Great Britain as war reparations in 1918. It was renamed and refitted in 1920 and served until 1938.)
• Brittania 1840-1848. (Sunk as a target ship in 1880.)
• Caldonia 1840
• Campania 1893-1914
• Carinthia 1925
• Carinthia 1950s
• Carmania 1893-1914
• Carmania 1905-1931
• Carpathia 1903-1918 (The first ship to reach the Titanic survivors. She carried 705 of them to New York.)
• Caronia 1905-1933
• Caronia 1948-1967
• Columbia 1840
• China 1862-1879
• Cunard Adventurer 1971
• Cunard Countess 1976
• Cunard Princess 1976
• Etruria 1884
• Europa 1848
• Franconia 1911-1916
• Ivemia 1900
• Ivemia 1923
• Ivemia 1950s
• Laconia 1911
• Laconia 1922
• Lucania 1893-1909
• Lusitania 1907 (In 1915 she was torpedoed by a German U- boat and sunk off Kinsale, Ireland.)
• Mauretania 1907 (Scrapped in 1935)
• Mauretania 1939-1965
• Media 1947-1989
• Niagara 1848
• Oregon 1883 (Sunk in 1886)
• Parthia 1947-1948
• Pannonia 1903
• Persia 1852
• QE2 1967-present (Official maiden voyage in 1969)
• Queen Elizabeth 1946-1968 (Burned in Hong King harbor in 1972, scrapped in 1974)
• Queen Mary 1936-1967 (Currently a floating hotel in Long Beach, California)
• Sagafjord 1983 (Bought from Norwegian American Lines)
• Samaria 1922-1956
• Saxonia 1900
• Saxonia 1954
• Scythia 1921-1958
• Servia 1881-1901
• Sea Goddess 1 and II 1986
• Slavonia 1903 -1909
• Sylvania 1957
• Ultonia 1898-1917
• Umbria 1884-1910
• Vistafjord 1983 (Bought from Norwegian American Lines)

Dollar Line, founded in 1901

• President Coolidge 1931
• President Fillmore 1929
• President Garfield
• President Harrison
• President Hoover 1931
• President Hayes
• President Johnson 1929
• President Monroe
• President van Buren
• President Wilson

Furness-Bermuda Lines

• Bermuda 1927
• Fort Victoria 1920
• Queen of Bermuda 1933

The French Line Compagnie Generale Transatlantique

• Colombie 1931-1966
• The France 1863
• The France 1912 (Scrapped in 1935.)
• De Grasse 1924 (Became the Empress of Australia in 1953.)
• Flandre 1952
• France 1961-1974 (Renamed and still in service as the Norway.)
• Ile de France 1927-1959 (Rescued the survivors of the Andrea Doria in 1956.)
• Lafayette 1930-1938
• L'Atlantique 1931 (Burned at sea in the English Channel in 1933.)
• La Bretagne 1888
• La Champagne 1891
• La Gastogne 1886
• La Normandie 1885
• La Provence 1906
• La Touraine 1891
• Liberte 1946-1962 (Originally launched as the Europa in 1929, but was given to France as war reparations for the loss of the Normandie.)
• Normandie 1935 (Burned in 1942, scrapped 1946-1947.)
• Paris 1921-1939

German-Atlantic Line

• Hanseatic 1930
• Hamburg 1926

Grace Lines

• Santa Rosa 1932
• Santa Paula 1932
• Santa Elena
• Santa Maria 1928
• Santa Rita 1932
• Santa Clara
• Santa Barbara
• Santa Inez
• Capac
• Condof
• Coya
• Cusco
• Charcas
• Chipana
• Curaca

Hamburg Atlantic Line

• Hanseatic 1930 (Former Empress of Japan)

Hamburg Amerika Line

• Albert Ballin 1923 (Renamed Hansa in 1935.)
• Amerika 1905
• Deutschland 1900
• Imperator 1913 (Became the Berengaria in 1920, scrapped in 1946.)
• Kaiserin Auguste Victoria 1906
• Vaterland 1914 (Became the Leviathan, scrapped in 1938.)
• Bismarck 1914-22 (Sold to White Star after World War 1 and became the Majestic Hansa in 1923)

Holland America Line

• Maasdam 1952
• Nieuw Amsterdam 1938-1974
• Noordan 1984
• Rotterdam 1959-1997
• Statendam 1929
• Westerdam 1986 (Previously the Homeric)
• Ryndam/Waterman 1984
• Veedam 1929
• Volendam 1922-52

Home Lines

• Brasil 1945
• Doric 1973
• Homeric 1986

The Italian Line

• Andrea Doria 1952 (Sank in 1956 in a collision with the Stockholm.)
• Augustus 1928
• Augustus 1951
• Conte Biancamano 1925
• Conte di Savoia 1932 (The first ship to test the use of stabilizers, sunk in 1943)
• Conte Grande 1927-1961
• Cristoforo Colombo 1954-1983
• Guilio Cesare 1951-1973
• Flavia 1947-1989
• Raffaello 1965-1975 (Scrapped in 1983)
• Leonardo Da Vinci 1960
• Michelangelo 1965-1975 (Scrapped in 1983)
• Rex 1932 (Burned in 1944, scrapped 1947-1958)
• Saturnia 1925
• Vulcania 1926

Matson Line

• Lurline 1932
• Malolo 1927
• Manoa 1913
• Mariposa 1932
• Matsonia 1913
• Monterey 1932

Moore-McCormack Line

• Argentina 1938
• Argentina 1958
• Brasil 1938
• Brasil 1958
• Montara 1913
• Uruguay 1938
• Uruguay 1958

North German Lloyd

• Berlin 1909
• Berlin 1925
• Bremen 1858
• Bremen 1896-1929
• Bremen 1922
• Bremen 1929 (Destroyed by fire in 1941)
• Bremen 1959
• Columbus 1924
• Europa 1930 (Given to the French in 1946 as war reparations and renamed the Liberté)
• Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 1897-1914
• Kronprinz Wilhelm 1901
• Kaiser Wilhelm II 1903
• Kronprinzessin Cecilie 1907
• George Washington 1909 (Destroyed by fire in 1951)
• Homeric 1913 (Later bought by White Star)
• Stuttgart

Norwegian America Lines

• Stavangerfjord 1918-1964
• Oslofjord 1938
• Oslofjord II 1949
• Bergensfjord 1956
• Sagafjord 1965 (Sold to Cunard in 1983)
• Vistafjord 1973 (Sold to Cunard in 1983)

Peter Deilmann EuropAmerica Cruises

• Berlin 1990
• Deutschland 1998
• M.S. Dresden 1989
• Konigstein 1998
• M.S. Lili Marleen 1994
• M.S. Mozart 1989
• M.S. Princesse de Provence 1987
• M.S. Prussian Princess 1987

The Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&0)

• Canberra 1961
• Oriana 1960
• Star Princess 1989
• Strathmore 1935
• Strathnaver 1931
• Viceroy of India 1929

Royal Viking Line (Now Cunard)

• Royal Viking Sea 1973
• Royal Viking Sky 1973
• Royal Viking Star 1972
• Royal Viking Sun 1988
• Royal Viking Queen 1987

Swedish American Line

• Drottningholm 1904-1946
• Gripsholm I 1925

Library of Congress Catalog Listing

• Personal name: Outwater, Myra Yellin.
• Main title: Ocean liner collectibles / Myra Yellin Outwater ; photography by Eric Boe Outwater.
• Published/Created: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., c1998.
• Description: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
• ISBN: 0764305816
• LC Classification: NK8552 .O88 1998
• Related names: Outwater, Eric Boe.
• LC Subjects: Ocean liners--Collectibles--Catalogs.
• Notes: "With price guide"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160).
• Series: A Schiffer book for collectors
• LCCN: 98084404
• Type of material:Book