Lubbock’s earlier White Star flag has a six-pointed star. It was included in the sale to Ismay, although the successor’s flag has five points.
The earlier Australian-trade concern was founded by Henry Threlfall Wilson and John Pilkington in 1845; Liverpool Shipping gives 1852, perhaps its first sailing. Pilkington was replaced by James Chambers, dated 1863 or 1865, and Chambers by John Cunningham in 1865. Principally a sailing concern, it also operated steamships in 1862–1866. Its short-lived 1864 combination with Black Ball and Eagle Lines is called Australian and Eastern Navigation in this account.
Another contributor account instead calls the combination Liverpool, Melbourne and Oriental Steam Navigation and uses Aberdeen White Star for the earlier concern. The source records failure of the Royal Bank of Liverpool in October 1867, revealing White Star’s £527,000 debt, followed by bankruptcy and sale in January 1868. These differing names and dates are retained rather than reconciled.
UK, Liverpool.
Keep the explicit scope label independent; no alias or company identity is inferred.