25/10/2026
🔴 NOW SOLD 🔴
Good morning everyone, say hello to the “beast”. Finally got around to polishing this monumental White Star Line soup tureen. This was the largest of three sizes produced by Elkington, and is by far the rarest piece of White Star silver produced by that firm. I’ve only had one other in 30 odd years, I’ve seen two more on the open market in that time, they just don’t survive. It came to me black with heavy verdigris (pictured), I figured it would need re-plating, but after four hours of perseverance and heavy cleaning, it slowly came back to life. It’s identical to an example recovered from the Titanic wreck site, as seen displayed at the Ulster Folk Museum (last pictures). Just like that example, this is also marked “EM” under the burgee, thought to indicate used within the engineers’ mess. No date mark present but likely c-1911.
Exceptionally rare, museum-worthy.
THE PURSERS LOCKER 🇬🇧
