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  • Posts Tagged ‘Gustav Wilhelm Wolff’

    PRESENTATION CASKET WITH TITANIC ASSOCIATIONS AT AUCTION

    Thursday, January 10th, 2019

    A silver presentation given to Gustav Wilhelm Wolff (1834-1913), one of the founders of the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, comes up at an auction in Surrey next February 27.  Presented in 1911, a year before Titanic set sail from the shipyard, it comes up at Catherine Southon’s sale at Farleigh Court Golf Club at Selsdon in England.  Wolff served as a Belfast Harbour Commissioner and founded Belfast Ropeworks in the early 1870’s. Like Edward Harland he served as a member of parliament for Belfast East from 1892 to 1910. In 1911 he was awarded the freedom of Belfast.

    UPDATE:  The silver casket sold for £9,728 over a top estimate of £3,000.