No. 18779675

Titanic head
No. 18779675

Titanic head
Having been exhibited in a Museum in Spain, this doll head extracted from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is offered today. Media from around the world, press, radio and television have echoed this discovery. A descriptive note of its extraction is added:
A sailor of the Argenbel company (Maritima Argentinian ad Belgian Societ) for 40 years. In an expedition in the waters of the Atlantic in 1977, rescued from the networks this wrist head which was 2000 meters deep.
He recounted the strange feeling that night when he was fishing tuna in the cold waters of the ocean, checking the nets, suddenly a "thing" rolled up after giving him a kick thinking it was a stone ... he could not sleep, he went out on deck. He went back to her and it was then that he realized that this was a head, not a rock, he put it aside and continued his work. When he got home, he cleaned her of the corals and seaweed and took great care of her for the rest of her life until her death in 1992.
The head made of porcelain corresponds to the mold: Shoenau & Hoffmeister 1906, and being an unusual mold, the coincidence of being the same doll head that carried a passenger of the transatlantic Titanic vanished.
• Its manufacture is contemporary since it is the 1906 model made at that time
• As it is a circular object, it has easily been able to navigate marine currents.
• After detailed studies there is no news of other wrecks of passenger ships in that area, with the exception of the Lusitania, three years later, the rest have been war shipmen.
• Carrying out a detailed study of the passengers who were able to carry dolls on the Titanic, we found two passengers who, even though they belonged to families with a purchasing level, traveled in second class, Eva Hart and Marjorie Collyer.
It is mentioned that Marjorie's doll, of which there is also a photographic document along with her notes of the trip, was found in one of the expeditions among the wreckage of the ship, at present if so, there is no news of said head, but the head of Eva's wrist, never appeared, and just this mold is the same that she carried.
Eva Hart, seven years old, she wore this doll when she boarded and carried her those few days of traverse until her shipwreck, the doll was lost in the shipwreck, Eva until her death, (1905-1996), always referred to that doll that he lost.
In the photograph, Eva with her doll, the same mold that this head found in 1977 after having remained almost 70 years at sea.
(After a detailed study of photography, the doll that the girl wears is a SHOENAU AND HOFFMEISTER, this mold was created in 1906 and was on sale for some years during the first decade of the last century. (Documentation included in the memoirs of the Mrs. Eva Hart in which she refers in her book The Shadow of the Itanic, Story of a survivor to the existence of her doll during the trip.
We will always have the mystery, there is only respect and affection for a doll that made a girl happy.
(you can find in the written and visual press the news made known through the EFE Agency, echoing it, all over the world)
It is a unique and worthy piece of a MUSEUM. For this reason it will be received with the revolving base of rotating glass with light (220w), for its exhibition, metal base for its support and wooden chest.
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