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DESCRIPTION -- This item is from the 1960’s and is a souvenir china dish from the Blue Funnel Line shipping company. A Royal Worcester piece it is in an excellent condition and the size is 4" (10cm).
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- To many people, Alfred Holt's Blue Funnel Line was the finest shipping company of them all. It certainly did build fine ships, had noble traditions of service in war and peace, and set standards by which other companies were judged. But adulation needs to be tempered with realism, as the company had times of brilliant achievement and periods when it seemed to have lost the plot.
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DESCRIPTION -- Superb rare to find souvenir dish from the vessel the Agamemnon of the Blue Funnel Line, showing the vessel and name in the centre and the size is 4" (10cm) wide and it is in an excellent condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- The Agamemnon sailed from Liverpool on 19th April, 1866 and became not only the first of Ocean Steamship's Blue Funnel vessels to sail for China but also the first steamship to forge a link between Britain and the Far East.
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DESCRIPTION -- From the Blue Funnel Line shipping company this is an as used on board dining knife and fork and the items are in a very good condition and a rare find (click on the picture to see a close up of the emblem on the end).
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CONDITION -- Very Good
HISTORY -- Alfred and Philip Holt established the Blue Funnel Line in 1865 to run steamers, equipped with Alfred's own design of compound engines, from Liverpool to Asia. After initial difficulties the company achieved success when the Suez Canal was opened in 1869. The Suez reduced the long voyage and gave Blue Funnel steamships an advantage over their sailing contemporaries, to which the Suez Canal was not accessible.
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)DESCRIPTION -- Pair of souvenir Royal Worcester display dishes showing a maritime theme on each and the Blue Funnel Line vessels the Orestes and the Agamemnon. They are presented in a presentation box and are in a fantastic condition.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- Maritime China
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DESCRIPTION -- B/W photograph of the Blue Funnel Line vessel The Adastrus which is in a great condition and early photograph.
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CONDITION -- Excellent
HISTORY -- Alfred Holt and Company, marketed as the Blue Funnel Line, was founded by Alfred Holt on 16 January 1866. The main operating subsidiary was the Ocean Steam Ship Company, which owned and operated the majority of the company's vessels. A Dutch subsidiary, the Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij Oceaan, was founded in 1891, as was the East India Ocean Steam Ship Company, operated from Singapore. This latter was sold in 1899 to Norddeutscher Lloyd.
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