London CNN —A rare first-class menu from the Titanic sold for £83,000 ($102,000) on Saturday as part of an auction of memorabilia associated with the doomed ocean liner.
The ultimately salvaged menu details the first dinner on board after the Titanic set sail from Queenstown, Belfast and reveals the opulence that the ship’s first-class passengers would have experienced.
There seem to be no other surviving examples of the first-class menu for that specific night, the auction house found after consulting museums with Titanic collections and speaking to leading memorabilia collectors.
Other items in the auction offer a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the 2,223 passengers and crew on board the Titanic, of whom just 706 survived.
It fetched £97,000 ($119,000) to become the most expensive lot sold at Saturday’s auction.
Persons:
Henry Aldridge, Sinai Kantor, Son, Frederick Toppin
Organizations:
London CNN, Titanic, Son Ltd
Locations:
Queenstown, Belfast, Victoria, New York, Russian, United States