A public index of Ocean Liner Curator pages. First-time Visitors: Start Here. For readers looking to jump right in to collecting help, the best starting point is Ocean Liner Collecting: A Curated Guide.
Jump to: Essays · Short Answers · Shipping Lines · Reference · Collector's Notebook · Project
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Essays ↩︎
- What Are Ocean Liners? Definitions and context: what ocean liners are (and aren’t), and why the distinction matters.
- Ocean Liner Collecting: A Curated Guide The central hub: evidence standards, provenance pitfalls, and responsible attribution workflow.
- Ocean Liner Research: Sources, Methods, and Evidence A practical guide to researching ocean liners with evidence, restraint, and documented sources.
- What Counts as Evidence in Ocean Liner Collecting? How to weigh marks, documentation, photos, and stories without over-claiming.
- How to Identify Authentic Ocean Liner Memorabilia A step-by-step approach to identifying and evaluating objects in the wild.
- Common Problems With “Provenance” in Maritime Collecting Why provenance often collapses—and how to treat gaps honestly.
- Why Most Ocean Liner Artifacts Cannot Be Reliably Attributed Why ship-specific claims are hard, and what “restraint” looks like in practice.
- When Evidence Is Limited: Why “Unknown” Is a Responsible Conclusion Why “unknown” isn’t a shrug—it’s a defensible boundary aligned to the record.
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Short Answers ↩︎
- Why “Ship-Identified” Ocean Liner Artifacts Are So Rare Most surviving ocean liner objects are authentic but not ship-specific.
- Certificates of Authenticity What They Mean—and Don’t.
- Common Misattributions in Ocean Liner Collecting Common attribution errors and why they occur.
- How Value Is Determined in Ocean Liner Collecting Understanding valuation as a research process.
- What Was the Golden Age of Ocean Liners? Defines the term, marks the main phases, and explains what it means for artifacts and collecting.
- Ocean Liner vs Cruise Ship: What’s the Difference? A practical comparison: function first, then design priorities and why “crossing an ocean” isn’t the definition.
- Is This Really From Titanic? The most common question—what would count as evidence, and why most Titanic claims stop short.
- Is White Star Line the Same as Titanic? Clarifies line vs ship: what “White Star Line” means (and what it doesn’t).
- Does Similarity Count as Evidence? Similarity is a clue worth investigating—but rarely proof on its own.
- What Does “Attributed To” Mean? Explains attribution language and how to read seller descriptions with care.
- What Does “Estate Sale” Actually Mean as Provenance? Estate sales describes how an item entered the market—not where it originated.
- How to Identify Fake Ocean Liner Memorabilia Fake includes accepting an unsupported story as evidence.
- Queen Mary: What Can Be Proven? A practical, evidence-first framework for collecting memorabilia of the RMS Queen Mary.
- Collecting SS United States Memorabilia A curator-minded guide to collecting SS United States memorabilia.
- Ocean Liners Are Ships — But Not All Ships Are Ocean Liners“Ship” is a broad category. “Ocean liner” is a precise one.
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Shipping Lines ↩︎
- History of the White Star Line A brief history of the White Star Line.
- History of the Cunard Line A brief history of the Cunard Line.
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Reference ↩︎
- Reference Objects Grounded, evidence-first object records showing what can (and cannot) be responsibly claimed.
- Photos Curated photo references: ships, interiors, objects, and historical documentation.
- Sources & Standards Source list and research references used across the project.
- External References Other sites and resources.
- Definitive Guide to Research Standards A long-form reference hub for deeper reading and structured collecting notes.
- Glossary A practical, curator-minded glossary for ocean liner history and responsible collecting.
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Collector's Notebook ↩︎
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A field notebook for ocean liner collecting: repeatable signals, marks, materials, pattern families,
and attribution boundaries—written with restraint and clarity.
- Materials & Manufacturing
- Materials & Manufacturing — overview
- Silverplate vs sterling
- Pressed vs cut glass
- Marks, Stamps & Labels
- Marks, Stamps & Labels — overview
- Maker’s mark vs ship mark
- Why date marks aren’t ship IDs
- Patterns & Motifs
- Patterns & Motifs — overview
- Stars in White Star material culture
- Art Deco vs Edwardian signals
- Provenance Pitfalls
- Provenance Pitfalls — overview
- Handwritten tags: when they help, when they don’t
- Auction descriptions as secondary sources
- Attribution Boundaries
- Attribution Boundaries — overview
- When to stop narrowing
- “Unknown” as a conclusion
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Project ↩︎
- About What Ocean Liner Curator is, and how to use it.
- Ocean Liner GPT & AI Methodology About Ocean Liner GPT and its methodology.
- How Ocean Liner GPT Is Stress Tested How Ocean Liner GPT is evaluated under real-world, high-risk scenarios.
- AI Interpretation Policy How AI is used and interpreted on this website.
- Project Scope What this project covers, what it intentionally excludes, and why boundaries matter.
- Contact How to get in touch.