It was 30 years ago on September 30 that the wreckage of the doomed Titanic ocean liner was discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. To commemorate the anniversary, an online auctioneer in New York is offering the final lunch menu that was served to passengers before that fateful night when the ship struck an iceberg.
The Associated Press reported the auctioneer, Lion Heart Autographs, is putting the menu up for auction, which was saved by a passenger who boarded Lifeboat 1. The lifeboat is also called the “Money Boat” due to rumors that a passenger bribed crew members to escape rather than go back for other survivors.
Abraham Lincoln Salomon was the survivor who had the lunch menu, which has food listings for dumplings, corned beef, and cheeses among other items.
Another item Salomon saved was a printed ticket he had received from the ship’s Turkish baths, which apparently made a record of the person’s weight when they sat in a lounge chair that was specially designed. The ticket also has the names of other passengers who survived in Lifeboat 1.
The third item from Salomon is a letter he had received six months after they survived the sinking from fellow survivor Mabel Francatelli, who was employed by Lord Cosmo and Lucy Duff-Gordon.
A man whose father had reportedly received the items from a survivor’s descendent was selling the items. It is expected the lunch menu will sell for at least $50,000 and up to $70,000.
Titanic's last lunch menu, 2 other previously unknown artifacts going to auction. http://t.co/Fz9Zu2JRRD pic.twitter.com/P22HzOTnFt
— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) August 31, 2015
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