Title:
Christening Bottle, LST-242
Object ID:
2016.082.08
Object Name:
Bottle
Date:
07/1943
Description:
Stored inside wooden storage box [2016.082.07]
Glass champagne bottle inside metal cage, wrapped in red, white, and blue ribbons used in the christening of USS LST-242 by Mrs. Barbara Duskey at the Evansville Shipyard on July 3, 1943. Presented to her and later donated to the USS LST Ship Memorial as part of set with silver ceremonial bowl and ribbons inside wooden storage box. Glass bottle is shattered (from christening ceremony) inside cage and ribbons, smallest pieces of glass have slipped through and are in the bottom of the storage box.
Glass champagne bottle inside metal cage, wrapped in red, white, and blue ribbons used in the christening of USS LST-242 by Mrs. Barbara Duskey at the Evansville Shipyard on July 3, 1943. Presented to her and later donated to the USS LST Ship Memorial as part of set with silver ceremonial bowl and ribbons inside wooden storage box. Glass bottle is shattered (from christening ceremony) inside cage and ribbons, smallest pieces of glass have slipped through and are in the bottom of the storage box.
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Full Christening Bottle
Bottle Top
Full Christening Bottle
Bottle Top