Wooden Barrel "From The Decking Of The Mauretania" suffragette with grape bunches and leaved

with grape bunches and leaved variously arranged around the face

3mm (23mm including chain)

when swine were considered a sign of prosperity

Padlock clasp: 1

open culet

Wooden Barrel "From The Decking Of The Mauretania" suffragette with grape bunches and leavedDATE: Art Deco, c. 1935 A wooden barrel paperweight desk inkwell ornament carved "from the decking of the Mauretania, The Old Lady of the Atlantic". The RMS Mauritania (1906 1935) was an ocean liner built for the Cunard Line, capturing the Blue Riband on the return leg of her maiden voyage in 1907. She was built during the golden age of Atlantic seafaring, a time when Cunard and the White Star line were continuously trying to outdo each other by