BRUCE_LEE1 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Posted August 31, 2015 AP A letter by one of the survivors of the sinking of the Titanic written six months after the disaster, which could fetch $4,000 to $6,000. The auction marks the 30th anniversary of the wreckage’s discovery at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. TOPICS human interest The menu was saved by a passenger who escaped in the "Money Boat" before the ocean liner went down. The Titanic’s last lunch menu is going to auction and is estimated to bring $50,000 to $70,000. Online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs is offering it along with two other previously unknown artifacts from Lifeboat 1 on September 30. The menu was saved by a passenger who escaped in the “Money Boat” before the ocean liner went down. The lifeboat got its nickname because of unfounded rumours that one of the first-class passengers bribed crew members to row away with 12 people on a boat with a capacity of 40. A letter by one of its survivors written six months later could fetch $4,000 to $6,000. A printed ticket from the Titanic’s opulent Turkish baths that recorded a person’s weight when seated in a specially designed chair could bring $7,500 to $10,000.
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