女王の名前を冠した船、クイーンエリザベス号をモチーフにしています。映画「007」にも登場したこの船は1940年にキュナード汽船会社によって造られ、当時最大の大きさを誇り、それは48年間破られることのない記録でした。軍用としての兵員輸送船から旅客用として大西洋を渡る遠洋定期船へと時代を経て幅広く活躍しました。最後はSeawise大学へと姿を変える最中に火災で香港の港に沈みました。船旅のお土産として、喜ばれた一品です。

A compact that takes as its motif the RMS Queen Elizabeth, an ocean liner named after Elizabeth, the wife of Britain's King George VI. Featured in a James Bond film, and well-known even in Japan, the ship, made by Cunard, went into service in 1940. It was the largest ship ever built, a record that remained unbroken for 48 years. Used as a troop carrier in WWII, it went on to serve for many years as a transatlantic liner before being retired to Hong Kong to be converted into the floating Seawise University, but a fire destroyed it during the conversion works in 1972, and it sank in Hong Kong Harbor. These compacts were very popular as cruise souvenirs.