Titanic Silk Postcard

On board the Titanic, if you wanted to drop a quick note or chose not spend as much on postage, you sent a postcard.  If you had more to say, you wrote a letter on the stationary available throughout the public spaces.  If you wanted send something special to someone special, you spent a little extra to purchase a silk postcard in the barber shop which had souvenirs available for purchase.  Silk postcards at the time were available on many ships advertising the ships they were on, typically depicting either a profile view of the ship or "hands across the sea" which depicted two hands meeting with flags representing the country of origin and the country which the ship was destined to (typically American and British).

This is a postcard made for the Titanic to be sold in her barbershop.  There aren't very many of these out there, but there's a good bit for something only meant for a ship that sank on her maiden voyage.  At least 3 were sent out from the ship.  I speculate there was a box or two either left over from the ship or kept in storage to restock the Titanic when she returned to the UK.  These are very rare to come across and very desirable amongst collectors today.