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'Remarkable' Titanic menu sells for £84,000 at Wiltshire auction

An evening dinner menu from the RMS Titanic's first-class section was sold for £84,000 at an auction conducted by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire.

12 November 2023 · 22:09 UTC

The menu, dated 11 April 1912, featured items like oysters, beef, spring lamb, and mallard duck. The Titanic famously sank on 14 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg, resulting in over 1,500 deaths.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge described the menu as a remarkable survivor from the most famous ocean liner. It bore the embossed White Star Line flag and showed signs of water immersion, suggesting it might have been exposed to the North Atlantic waters during the disaster.

The auction also included other Titanic-related items, such as a Swiss-made pocket watch belonging to a second-class passenger, which sold for £97,000, and a first-class tartan-patterned deck blanket, possibly used during passenger rescue, which fetched £96,000.

Henry Aldridge & Son is noted for selling Titanic memorabilia, including a fur coat owned by a first-class stewardess that sold for £150,000 in 2017.