Sale 1469
New York
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16 June 2004
Price realised
USD 1,434
Estimate
This lot is offered without a reserve
A section of the pump rod from S.S. Sirius in brass and inscribed 'cut from the pump rod of the S.S. Sirius the first passenger steamer to cross the Atlantic. She left Cork on the 3rd and reached New York on the 22nd of April 1838. In June 1847 she was lost and after lying for 51 years was salvaged and her metal work purchased by Mason B'ham who present this souvenir 3½ in. (9 cm.), diameter
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