Onassis OLYMPIC CHALLENGER souvenir catalogue - Lardex

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8 Representation photo album “OLYMPIC WHALING” n.p. [Hamburg], n.d. [1952] Blue cloth, 29.5 x 21.5 cm, with impressed gilt company supralibro, 42 album leaves pre-printed with German captions in brown, with ca. 260 b/w and colour photos glued in. Whaleman Ferdinand Krügel (1925-2008) furnished the pre-printed albums with prints made from negatives submitted by several participants in the 1950/51 and 1951/52 whaling seasons. Crewmembers could buy albums with or without photos and would then supplement them with their own photos. Olympic Whaling Company also distributed these albums as gifts. There are said to exist a few representation albums in larger de-luxe format. Barthelmess Whaling Collection. Illustrated are the title page, fol 25 verso-26 recto, and two colour arial photos on fol 10, taken from the “Hiller 360” helicopter, which OLYMPIC CHALLENGER had on board in the 1950/51 season for ice reconnaisance and spotting whales. In autumn 1951 it was used for spotting whales off the coast of Peru only.
Two Olympic Whaling Company promotional postcards. Produced after the first season, they are captioned in German: “OLYMPIC CHALLENGER passing through the North-Sea-Baltic-Canal” and “Provisioning the whale catchers in Montevideo roadstead”. Dedecke Whaling Collection 9 Olympic Whaling Company whiskey and schnapps glasses. Blown and cut glass with transfer-printed, white company house mark. 10.2 and 5.8 cm high. Olympic Whaling Company crew’s mess tableware. Barthelmess & Dedecke Whaling Collections Alpaca (German silver), embossed with company logo, marked “NEOVEDA ROSTFREI”. Dedecke Whaling Collection
Page 1 and 2: The Arts and Crafts of OLYMPIC CHAL
Page 3 and 4: Arts and crafts As house flag, Onas
Page 5 and 6: Official Olympic Whaling Company pr
Page 7: Black plastic matchbook cover with
Page 11 and 12: The Onassis ‘flat-S’ scrimshand
Page 13 and 14: The OMIROS baleen scribe: Sail boat
Page 15 and 16: Walter Sievers: Model of a Bofors h
Page 17: Acknowledgements I wish to thank -

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