Lol, it didn't really cross my mind to start collecting cruise ship tea spoons, but it keeps happening!
It started last year when I went into a charity shop and noticed a teaspoon with the name "SS Ocean Monarch"
on it and I knew it had to be a ship so I bought it just for the sake of it because knowing it has a lot of history people been on it. For only 50p!
And then I looked it up at home and it's history, but I found an exactly the same teaspoon on the internet for sale, at 80$ Mines, in mint condition but surely it could never be worth that much
And then only today I went into another charity shop, and the lady there knows I love ships and she saves me everything! Once before shes given me a very old wooden coat hangar with "Cunard Line" printed in the wood in blue!
But today she gave me two very spectacular tea spoons, and I was amazed to see that they were from the SS Canberra of P&O line!
One is really old and has lost the silver but the other is in reasonable condition.
I haven't found these on the internet yet but I will keep looking!
This was the SS Canberra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0MBNZhtV9E
And this is the SS Ocean Monarch (and spoon!):
http://www.rubylane.com/item/160319-5210/Shaw-Savill-Albion-S-S
And also from the charity shop I found a really old postcard written by a passenger on Blue Funnel Line's Pegasus? I believe it is.
So my point is, keep an eye out in charity shops, you never know what you will find!!!
