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OT: Finally, bits of Titanic!
I have been looking for this for long time.
Collected when the "Big Piece" (prior to restoration/conservation etc.) was moved from the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, NJ in July 1999. I have a few more larger fragments for myself. These are 3/4 gone.
This will go nicely with my horse hair insulation from the same piece! It was mounted in a first edition copy of Col. Archibald Gracie's book about the sinking. He died shortly afterward.
The Adriatic was the liner that took Dean and her brother and mother took home to England after losing her husband. This is a hand tinted photograph taken aboard in 1923 that I had selected instead of the usual postcard people sent in. It is unique.
It was also the ship that Titanic's future Captain took over on her MV and upon arrival was quoted as saying that he had never seen a wreck, had never been wrecked and that modern shipbuilding "had gone beyond that". Well...
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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Sorry, I messed up the image when posting. Fixed.
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Thanks for the likes guys!
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These are custom made full scale reproductions cast from the originals; the last one is of such quality the maker supplied the movie Titanic with the gold details on the Grand Staircase - this is a rosette. The others from top down are a hull rivet, the C Deck sign at the base of the Grand Staircase, a First Glass grille, a light fixture as used in the First Class Gymnasium, and the plaque from the Purser's safe.
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Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed looking at this stuff. I find is fascinating since I was a child. Never did I think it would be possible to own parts of it beyond the common coal of which I have a much larger piece:
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Permalink Reply by JMS1223 on
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Is there anything like this where I can buy small parts of it that I can purchase? I am very interested.
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Permalink Reply by JK on
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I don't recall the year (although pre-2000) but at a Titanic exhibit in Boston there was a large piece of the Titanic on display (presumably the one pictured here) while it was undergoing some sort of desalination process. I was able to reach over and touch it. So, I've touched the Titanic. 😎
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Cool! Long ago, I had the opportunity to try and lift a lifeboat davit. No chance! Yes, I was invited to that but skipped. It was supposed to be originally in the New York Athletic Club but that was when they initially dropped it back down and damaged it. My guess is you saw it being prepared for display in Vegas. The insulation was saved from that process or it would have been discarded - they were only told to worry about the metal but ,not the bits still clinging on since 1912...
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Things are VERY different now. I think you are able to touch a heavily waxed bit with one finger through a plexiglass box. Not quite the same.
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Sounds like at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where I touched a tiny slice of moon rock through a similar plexiglass contraption.
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I remember touching a tiny slice of moon rock with one finger through plexiglass at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum back in 1998. I also remember there being a long line to do this. Waited 30 minutes. It was still kind of neat. I then thought of how worn down that moon rock would get with all those kids and people touching it.
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