SS Imperator 1913 silverplated wine coasters, JP Kayser Sohne German silverplate, rose swag pierced, engraved at front, 'Imperator HAPAG Blohm & Voss Hamburg 1913' (The Imperator-class was a series of three large ocean liners designed and built for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Envisaged by HAPAG chairman, Albert Ballin, the three ships - Imperator, launched in 1912; Vaterland, launched in 1913; and Bismarck, launched in 1914 - each displaced over 50,000 tons, with each successively holding the title of the world's largest passenger ship. All three were interred by the United States during the First World War, and were turned over to the Allies as reparations following the war's end.)

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