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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MARITIME.) Collection of material on the transatlantic telegraph cable and the SS Great Eastern. 6 items in one box and one sleeve; condition as described. Various places, circa 1858-1860 and undated
Pair of stock certificates for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches; embossed seal, minor foxing. London, 22 February 1858. With provenance letters dated 1966.
Segment of the first transatlantic cable, 4 inches long and just under 3/4 inches round, banded at each end, with metal presentation label: "Atlantic Telegraph Cable, Guaranteed by Tiffany & Co., Broadway, New York"; light surface rust. Tiffany and other entrepreneurs bought up miles of unused or salvaged cable for sale as souvenirs. New York, [1858]. In a presentation box from the American Cable & Radio Corporation for sale at the 1939 World's Fair.
Early copy print photograph, 5 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; chipped on top edge, laid down on later board with pencil caption and later inked collector's name on verso. "Great Eastern SS crew that laid the cable between England & America. 2nd man from left, 2nd row is grandfather Newton. Gladys." No other examples of this image traced. No place, image circa 1866.
"The Great Eastern Leaving Southampton Water for New York on her First Voyage," double-page engraving from an issue of the Illustrated London News, 15 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches, 23 June 1860.
"The Great Eastern Steamship Coming up the Narrows into the Harbor of New York," double-page engraving from an issue of Harper's Weekly, 16 x 21 3/4 inches, 7 July 1860.
