White Star Line Shipping Company, Elkington Flatware Silver Plate, 11 Piece Cutlery Place Setting

Dubarry Design, as used on the RMS Titanic / Olympic and other White Star Line Ships.

This listing includes 1 of each of the following cutlery items

Table knife

Table fork

Dessert knife

Dessert folk

Dessert spoon

Soup spoon

Teaspoon

Fish blade / knife

Fish fork

Coffee spoon

Table serving spoon. 

Further quantities are available, which can be purchased separately.

New old stock, with the White Star Line 'flag & star' house flag cypher crest stamped to the handle. Dated around 1990's / 2000's and supplies in their original cellophane wrappers. Potentially manufactured as film props, for the 1997's Titanic movie.

Silver Plate

Elkington & Co (Sheffield) marked on each item, who were one of the original supplies of cutlery to the White Star Line.

Elkington & Co silver plate. (Established 1830's until 1963, thereafter incorporated into British Silver Co)

The principal supplier to the White Star Line, from its inception until its demise in 1934, also supplying the company's main rival, the Cunard Steamship Co ltd, and from 1934 onwards.

Elkington made everything imaginable for the shipping Line, flatware, hollowware, duck press's, table burners, champagne buckets etc.

No ship rivalled the Titanic’s luxury.  Built to service the highly competitive trans-Atlantic route, the Titanic was designed by her owners, the White Star Line, to be the largest and most opulent luxury ocean liner in the world.   The ship was lavishly decorated with exotic woods, luxury fabrics and expensive furnishings.  Her grand staircases, great ballrooms, dining rooms, libraries, reading rooms,  and luxury staterooms were decorated in opulent period continental styles.   The first-class lounge was decorated in the style of the Palace of Versailles and the grand state-rooms were in the style of the Italian Renaissance. 

The Titanic had three main dining rooms for first, second and third-class passengers.   Each dining room was with outfitted china, crystal and silver that coordinated with the theme of each room.   The first and second-class dining rooms were grand in scale.  The third-class dining room, while spartan by comparison, was bright, comfortable and spacious. 

The luxury appointments of the first-class dining room extended to even the smallest details of the dining tables.  Hand-cut crystal drinking glasses were supplied by Stuart Crystal.  Various Stoke on Trent pottery firms supplied the fine gold-rimmed china.  The flatware used in the dining rooms was silver-plated and a variety of patterns were supplied predominately by Elkington. When it sank, the Titanic carried over 44,000 pieces of cutlery!

Dubarry pattern shares its name with the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France, Dubarry is in fact a Victorian British design. Inspired by the free flowing architecture of cabinetry made by famous furniture designer, Thomas Chippendale, this pattern features a fine threaded edging on the handle as well as an elegant curved design.  Dubarry is probably most famous however, for being the pattern chosen for the formal dining room on the most luxurious liner of it’s time, including RMS Titanic. 

Very good ‘as new’ condition, with only superficial storage related superficial scratches and tarnishing, on a few uncovered items.