{"id":9072799940889,"title":"Various: pre-war - Circa 1900 North German Lloyd portrait fork from Steerage","handle":"various-pre-war-circa-1900-north-german-lloyd-portrait-fork-from-steerage","description":"North German Lloyd: A pressed metal fork with an art nouveau design including a four-stack ship portrait from North German Lloyd.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn one side of the 7.75\" long fork is the line name in German and home port of Bremen along with the key-and-anchor logo. On the other side is a four-stack express liner of the late 19th or early 20th centuries.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI believe this fork was used in Steerage. Both North German Lloyd and Hamburg American sold emigrants supply kits for their voyage that included eating utensils. No shipping company in history would dare place something this attractive in front of a passenger without making them pay for it first! 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