Lot 143: SILVER PLATED TEA STRAINER FROM CUNARD LINE VESSEL FRANCONIA

From the Cunard Line Shipping Company vessel the Franconia a silver-plated tea strainer, which shows at the top the ships name on a clear blue belt design and also the Kings crown emblem with the size being 6" (16.5cm) long.

[The RMS Ivernia was a Saxonia class ocean liner, built in 1955 by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland for Cunard Line, for their transatlantic passenger service between the UK and Canada. In 1963 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and renamed RMS Franconia, after the famous pre-war liner RMS Franconia. She continued to sail for Cunard until being withdrawn from service and laid up in 1971. In 1973 she was sold to the Soviet Union’s Far Eastern Shipping Company and, renamed SS Fedor Shalyapin, cruised around Australia and the far East.]