A fine large early 20th-century RMS Mauretania (built for the Cunard Line in 1906) hand-painted wooden blanket box

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A fine large early 20th-century RMS Mauretania (built for the Cunard Line in 1906) hand-painted wooden blanket box, featuring a large colourful painting of RMS Mauretania within an oval rope-rimmed vignette to the top, surrounded by floral detailing, having a larger 'Cunard Line Southampton and Cairo' script to the front-facing side around a central painting of the Egyptian pyramids and a camel with a rider in traditional dress. To either side it reads in gilt script 'Henry Baxter Ships Carpenter', having a hinged lid, 80cm x 40cm and 56cm in height, condition consistent with age and use, with some visible areas of surface wear and small areas of scuffing and chipping to the corners. RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner built for the Cunard Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend on the River Tyne, England, and launched in 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910. The liner was requisitioned by the British Government for military service during the First World War, serving as both a hospital ship and troopship, and was returned to Cunard in 1919. Mauretania remained in service until September 1934, when Cunard-White Star retired her, and she was scrapped in 1935 at Rosyth.