On lid: The arms of the City on a raised roundel, the shield of the Baltic Exchange raised on each end, a sailing ship embossed, blue and gold corner feet: dolphins, 1944  

Inscribed on the outside of the lid:

Presented to

The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights

by Sir Frank S Alexander, Bart.

1953

(City arms in full colour on raised roundel)

                                  Prime Warden

                                          1944

and on the inside of the lid:

PRESENTED TO

SIR FRANK SAMUEL ALEXANDER, KT, JP,

BY THE DIRECTORS AND MEMBERS OF THE BALTIC EXCHANGE

AS A TOKEN OF THEIR REGARD AND ESTEEM …

… AND TO COMMEMORATE HIS HOLDING THE OFFICE OF

LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON

DURING HIS CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE BALTIC EXCHANGE 

LONDON

NOV.9.1944

The box was presented to Sir Frank by the Baltic Exchange during the year 1944 in which he was uniquely simultaneously Lord Mayor of London, Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights and Chairman of the Baltic Exchange;  and by him to the Company in commemoration of that year. He was the second person to be Lord Mayor and Second Master of the Company at the same time, the other being Sir George Rowland Blades (Lord Ebbisham).

(092/1953)

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