16 SHIELDS STOLEN
Claymores Anti Pistols Taken
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WELLINGTON, March 12. Heraldic shields, flintlock pistols and claymores (broad swords) have been taken by souvenir hunters since it was announced that the Dominion Monarch was to go to the breakers. Sixteen heraldic shields in the smokeroom were taken during the last outward voyage. To prevent further loss the Shaw Savill Line, its owners, took down the remaining 22. Painted in striking colours, the shields were of noble houses in England. They helped give the room an atmosphere of an old Tudor mansion.
The flintlock pistols, several hundreds of years old, also disappeared from the smokeroom. Efforts to trace them have been unsuccessful, although at one stage a second hand dealer’s shop in Christchurch was visited following a report that they had been seen in the window. But they were not the same pistols. Two claymores were removed and have not been found. Two other claymores and a pike and halbert have since been put in safe keeping.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29770, 13 March 1962, Page 18
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