Wooden Barrel "From The Decking Of The Mauretania" hessonite garnet Stamped PLAT

Stamped PLAT

The two-tone metal effect is quite stunning

The coins each feature two bails

which came in and out of fashion through the 18th and 19th Centuries

with English hallmarks that date it to the year 1938

Wooden Barrel "From The Decking Of The Mauretania" hessonite garnet Stamped PLATDATE: 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