Pacific Coast Ship China identifies and dates shipping china used along the Pacific coast of North America. It covers china used on vessels and in-shore establishments of shipping organizations registered in Alaska, the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Hawaii; it describes patterns used in coastal, intercoastal and transpacific services. In addition to passenger vessels, it documents the china used by freighter operations, oil companies, government services and yacht clubs.
This easy-to-use guide identifies more than 280 china patterns. It provides collectors, museum technicians, divers, history buffs and anyone else interested in identifying and dating Pacific Coast ship china with all the information they need. It also includes brief descriptions of 59 Pacific Coast shipping companies.
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At the height of Pacific-coast steamship travel in the late 1800s and early 1900s, passengers enjoyed a sit-down dinner served on china with silver flatware. Today, the only places you can still find this china is at flea markets and antique shops or by diving at old dock sites and on shipwrecks.
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Jacques Marc has spent 25 years diving on and documenting historic shipwrecks around the province of British Columbia. His interest in ship china began in the mid 1980s when he found a Canadian Pacific Steamship cup while diving under an abandoned dock site. To prepare for writing this book, he visited several maritime museums and private collectors to document their holdings.
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Shipboard travel of any distance usually involved a voyage of several to many days. And on those days the passengers had to be fed. In the heyday of travel, say from the mid 1800 until the airlines took over passenger travel in the mid 1900's passengers enjoyed a sit down dinner served with china marked by the shipping company.
Until now this has been a neglected area of study. This book is the first I've found on china used on board. It is a fairly all encompassing book, it has: o coverage of some 280 china patterns including hundreds of color photographs o a short description of some 75 companies that provided passenger travel in the Pacific o identification of some two dozen US Navy china patterns o listings of the major china manufacturers, often identifying their customers. As a first volume on the subject, this is an excellent effort and will probably become the standard reference work on the subject.
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