Group Five Menus (2 results)

Ice bucket: 5.5 x 6.75" (not including handles), decorative bands top and bottom, stamped on bottom "Reed and Barton silver soldered 5715-S 72 OZ", no lid, scratches, pitting, interior is heavily pitted and abraded else good to very good condition. Doorknob: 7" long, knobs 2.25" and one is stamped with the Statler crest, well worn and rubbed else good. Menus: "Hotel Statler" 6.5 x 9", turquoise and cream, "Club Dinner" 8 x 5", black lettering on a cream background, Statler crest, dated 9-4-1933 (only dated item), both menus have some soiling and spotting else good. Flatware: 1 demitasse, 2 teaspoons, one tablespoon, one pickle fork, all have the Statler crest except one teaspoon which has the Statler "S". Size ranges from 4.5" to 7.1", all Reed and Barton, tablespoon is stamped "silver applied", one teaspoon stamped "SF", all are stamped on the reverse "Hotels Statler", scratches, rubbing, teaspoon with the "S" is pitted, lettering rubbed and well worn, overall condition of flatware is good to very good. The Hotel Statler opened in January 1915 on the site of former Governor Bagley's house. In 1954 it was sold to the Hilton Hotel chain and was known as the Statler Hilton. One of its most famous guests was Harry Houdini who stayed there in October 1926, on October 24th he suffered an injury during a performance and died from peritonitis on October 31st in Detroit's Grace Hospital. A total of nine items, sold as a lot only.

The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique's best known and largest ocean liner was launched by this French firm in 1916 and this "Aristocrat of the Ocean" crossed from Le Havre, France to New York with cruises elsewhere until 1939. Collection of five menus, each small 4to (8½" X 11", opening to 17" X 11"), with 1936 issue dates of 1 July, 16 July (two, with differing front covers) and 3 May (two, with differing front covers). Very good. Bits of minor wear only. Front covers are all pictorial, with inner left bearing the day's menu in French and inner right the same in English -- down the center appears the "Menu Suggestion." Those from July 1st and July 16th both note they are "Raymond-Whitcomb Cruise." July 1st cover depicts a woodblock engraving of a 3-masted ship labeled "Navire Du XVIe Siècle" (Ship of the 16th Century) and those from July 16th and May 3rd are color reproductions from the "Les Costumes Normands de jadis" French women's fashion series: "Jeune fille de St. Valéry en Caux," "Jeune fille de Cherbourg," "Fermière d'Harcourt, près Caën" and "Jeune fille des environs de Dieppe." A superb quintette from the most famous luxury ocean liner afloat in the 1930s.