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Auction of Titanic, White Star, Transport and Icons of the 20th Century.

The Old Emporium

6/7 St John Street

Devizes, Wiltshire

SN10 1BD

United Kingdom

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R.M.S. Titanic : AN EXCEPTIONAL POSTAL FACING SLIP FROM TITANIC INTENDED NEW YORK. This postal facing slip was recovered from the body of Titanic postal clerk Oscar Scott Woody by the crew of the cable ship Mackay-Bennett on April 22, 1912, being a single page slip, buff, measuring 5ins. x 3ins., denoting mail destination "Sealed Distributions Customs, Second Div. N.Y.P.O. 8 From SEA POST LETTERS," with the "8" handwritten in blue wax pencil. Stamped "O.S. Woody" and " TITANIC ," Woody has "bumped" the slip with Titanic's unique transatlantic postal cancellation which reads, "TRANSATLANTIC POST OFFICE 7, AP 10, [19] 12." The "7" refers to the number assigned to Titanic's on-board post office within the transatlantic postal system. The number was retired by the service after Titanic was lost. Titanic was transporting over 3000 sacks of mail containing an estimated 7 million letters. As part of the sorting process each of Titanic's five postal clerks, including Woody, would place a facing slip on a bundle of sacks to denote their intended destination. It is believed that there were more than 30 different pre-marked destinations contained on Titanic's facing slips; however, only certain of those have been documented since only examples found on Woody's body have been recovered. Perhaps Woody had taken them for safeguarding believing that mail sorting on the ship would ultimately be resumed. While this example appears to be the eighth facing slip Woody had designated as intended for the New York Post Office, we are not aware of any other specific examples available for public sale and know of only one other such example extant. Woody's No. 9 N.Y.P.O. facing slip can be seen on the Smithsonian Institution's on-line postal museum here: <https://postalmuseum.si.edu/fireandice/titanicsmailclerks.html>. The facing slip offered here, which contains the handwritten No. 8, thus appears to be unique. All five postal clerks died in the disaster. Only the bodies of Woody and fellow American postal clerk John Starr March were recovered. According to the logbook of the MacKay-Bennett , the entry for August 22, 1912 indicates that 27 bodies were recovered that day, all of which had lifebelts and floated very high in the water. While these facts obviously contributed to the survival of this facing slip, there is nevertheless a water stain within the top one-third of the slip evidencing its submersion in the North Atlantic. Woody's body No. 167 was returned to his widow along with a stencilled canvas bag containing his personal effects. The contents thereof, including this facing slip, were donated to the Freemasons branch of which Woody had been a member. It was thereafter sold to raise funds. Henry Aldridge and Son sold Woody's postal keys for over £100000 in 2007, still a record sum for a set of keys. These are now part of the Smithsonian collection. This is an incredibly rare and unique opportunity to acquire an important part of Titanic's story as well as an important piece of postal history. This facing slip was on Titanic , in the North Atlantic and on the recovery ship MacKay-Bennett and contains an original ink stamp of Titanic's special on-board postmark representing one of the clearest known strikes of Titanic's sea post No. 7, as well as evidence of its submersion in the water.

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R.M.S. Titanic : Superb postcard of Titanic's Swimming Bath written by Second-Class Passenger Marion Wright to her sister Marjorie. The card is postmarked Queenstown 3.45pm. Thursday 11th April 1912 twice with two half penny stamps. It reads “How would you like a bath in this big bath on the ship. I have been talking to some French gentlemen and ladies at my table this morning, love to you. Marie.’ The eldest of four sisters, Marion was a prolific postcard writer often sending cards to each sister on her travels. Prior to her voyage on the Titanic Marion had agreed to take Arthur Woolcott's hand in marriage. A fruit farmer from Yeovil who had settled in the United States, he met Marion raising funds to purchase his own farm. They were to marry in America, with Marion to move to the States. In February 1912, she had booked her passage, a second-class ticket on the brand-new liner R.M.S. Titanic . After the terrible news of the disaster there was much confusion for the Wright family over whether she had survived, her name was not included in the initial list of accounted for passengers. A vigil was held in her village and the townspeople mourned. Eventually on April 16th Marion’s brother, Bertram, was able to confirm at the White Star Line Office that Marion was indeed one of the survivors. In the meantime, her husband-to-be Arthur Woolcott was waiting for the same news to break in New York. Whilst her family was waiting anxiously, Marion was writing to them onboard the rescue ship S.S. Carpathia. When she arrived into New York on the 18th April she was met by chaos, she was unable to find Arthur amongst the crowd. Eventually they found each other and they married at the Episcopal Church of St. Christopher’s, just eight days after the Titanic sank. Their romantic story about heartbreak, her near miss with Arthur at the New York dock before being re-united caught the attention on both sides of the Atlantic. Their story was picked up by the American press and the couple garnered celebrity status. Marion kept in regular contact with her family in England, frequently writing and sending picture postcards. Marion and Arthur lived in their home Cottage Grove for the remainder of their lives. It was a happy ending to what proved to be an unbelievable love story. The card itself is in excellent condition with perforated edge, this shows it originally came from one of the books of postcards that were sold onboard Titanic in the Barber's shop.

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R.M.S. Titanic : Second Class Bedroom Steward Harold Phillimore’s Continuous Certificate of Discharge documenting his voyage on Titanic with notation “Renewal Book, Original Lost through Shipwreck”. The first entry is for the Adriatic in 1909, he was also onboard Olympic for her maiden voyage, Olympic’s collision for HMS Hawke and Titanic . Also included are six further Discharge books for the rest of his career which culminated in a final voyage on Queen Mary on the 15 th July 1955 a remarkable 46 years his first voyage. Purportedly also on the delivery trip of Titanic from Belfast to Southampton, when he signed-on to the Titanic , on 4 April 1912, Harold gave his address as 72 Priory Road, (Southampton). He had transferred from the Olympic and received monthly wages of £3, 15s. Harold remained on the Titanic during her final throes and managed to climb aboard some floating wreckage where he spent time with another man who later died of exposure. He was one of only a very few men rescued from the water by lifeboat 14 which had, under the command of Fifth Officer Harold Lowe, distributed its passengers to other boats and returned to the scene of the sinking amid hundreds of floating bodies to search for survivors. Phillimore spied the boat approaching and called out, with Lowe and his crew responding by travelling towards him and extending out an oar for him to grasp. Such was his frozen condition though that he was unable to grasp it but he was eventually hauled into boat 14. Photo with lot shows Phillimore, left, in an embrace with fellow Southampton crew survivor Alfred Pugh in 1958. Steward Pugh was playing cards at the time of the collision. The lot also includes copies of Titanic related documents and various items relating to the families history. A number of early Continuous Certificates from the late 1890’s from John Podesta, father of Titanic fireman Alfred John Podesta. There are also a number of shipping postcards showing Titanic , Olympic and other vessels Harold served on.

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