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I would love something from the ship, I come from Southampton & 100 years ago a great many families lost a crew member, or knew someone who did. The last survivor "Minerva Dean" recently died at a local nursing home, she was a baby when the ship sank. Southampton are only now creating an exhibition in the city. We have two memorials, a main one depicting the engine room but over the road a plaque on a building commemorates the heroic bandsmen who played as the ship sank.
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John, when the large piece of keel was brought up, it was hanging in the Boston Exhibition. It had rusticles droppping off the piece onto the floor,and I scooped some up.....you only have my word, that thay came form the real thing, but, wouldnt it be fitting, for thoise ructicles to go back home to Southhampton....I would love to send them across the pond to you.
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In Pigeon Forge and Branson Missouri there are permanent historically accurate depictions duplicating sections of the Titanic (the private for profit project through which a tour guide leads you), memorabilia from the vessel itself and it even replicates a section of "deck" that is kept at the temperature at the time of the ship's sinking as it's passing a wall of ice meant to be the iceberg. Actually the museum itself is inside a building that is constructed as to replicate at 2/3rds size) the bow of the Titanic as it's passing across the ocean. Either one are truly not to be missed if at all possible.
I think it appropriate that the day most of we taxpayers dread, is also the day the Titanic went down, which is of course April 15th.
Hmmmm... I wonder if...
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John, when the large piece of keel was brought up, it was hanging in the Boston Exhibition. It had rusticles droppping off the piece onto the floor,and I scooped some up.....you only have my word, that thay came form the real thing, but, wouldnt it be fitting, for thoise ructicles to go back home to Southhampton....I would love to send them across the pond to you.
How interesting...how big are these "rusticles" maybe the exhibit in Southampton would want them. Very kind offer.
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John, because there is no provenance atttached to these rusticles, except my own...no museum/exhibition, would accept them, I'm afraid... they could say to you, what rusty 57 chevy did you get these from?
What I have is a small baggy.
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I just read in a New York paper, this auction, of more than 5500 artifacts will be sold as one lot, to keep it together. It ws appraised in 2007, for 189 million. Part of this auction is the hull piece I saw in Boston, from which my rusticles were part of I wonder where it all will end up. I would have loved one of those teacups
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That the musicians stayed and played harkens back to days long gone by.
This would not happen as it did then, in this day and age......They deserve a memorial to the fact, they did what they did.
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Titanic artifacts to be auctioned .....
I wonder where it all will end up. I would have loved one of those teacups
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