A Look at the Titanic Artifacts Going to Auction This Week
The items come from the so-called “Money Boat,” whose passengers were accused of bribing crew members not to save others.
When the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic slipped below the North Atlantic in 1912, it took fifteen hundred people with it. Today, that tragedy lives on through the possessions and stories of those who were there—stories of laudable courage and, in some cases, lamentable cowardice. This Wednesday, Lion Heart Autographs will auction three artifacts from the disaster.
The items in Wednesday’s auction come from passengers who fled the sinking ship on Lifeboat No.1. They are: a letter, a ticket from the ship’s Turkish baths, and a menu from the last lunch served on the boat. The ticket and menu were carried away on the lifeboat that night, and the letter was written six months later.
These items are valuable because of their
