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A silver cased hunter lever pocket watch
inscribed on the inner dust cover Presented to Arthur Rostron by a few friends aboard the 'Maurey' the white enamel dial signed T. Fattoroni, Bolton & Skipton; a silver engine-turned rectangular shaped card case inscribed 1915 - From The Black Squad - 1926; a small mottled green stone -- 2¾in. (7cm.) long representation of an Egyptian mummy; a copy of 'Home from the Sea' by Sir Arthur Rostron, K.B.E., R.D., R.N.R. Cassell & Company Ltd. 1931; and two cabinet card photographs said to be of Arthur Rostron, one taken by Chas. Pettingell, the other by A. & G. Taylor both of Liverpool
By repute the watch and card case both belonged to Captain Rostron. Also by repute the mummy was a tailsman carried by Mrs J.M. Brown, a first class passenger in the Titanic. It is said that when she was saved by the Carpathia she gave it to Captain Rostron. (6)
inscribed on the inner dust cover Presented to Arthur Rostron by a few friends aboard the 'Maurey' the white enamel dial signed T. Fattoroni, Bolton & Skipton; a silver engine-turned rectangular shaped card case inscribed 1915 - From The Black Squad - 1926; a small mottled green stone -- 2¾in. (7cm.) long representation of an Egyptian mummy; a copy of 'Home from the Sea' by Sir Arthur Rostron, K.B.E., R.D., R.N.R. Cassell & Company Ltd. 1931; and two cabinet card photographs said to be of Arthur Rostron, one taken by Chas. Pettingell, the other by A. & G. Taylor both of Liverpool
By repute the watch and card case both belonged to Captain Rostron. Also by repute the mummy was a tailsman carried by Mrs J.M. Brown, a first class passenger in the Titanic. It is said that when she was saved by the Carpathia she gave it to Captain Rostron. (6)