‘Engraved with initials’: Titanic passenger’s gold pocket watch sold for 1.78m pounds; memorabilia auction sets new record

Image source: X/@LivesandLores A gold pocket watch belonging to a Titanic victim sold for a record 1.78 million pounds at an auction in Wiltshire, setting the highest price ever paid for Titanic memorabilia, according to Henry Aldridge & Son. The 18-karat gold watch sold on Saturday belonged to Isidor Straus, the Macy’s co-owner who was […]

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Titanic survivor’s haunting letter written days before sinking sells for record £300,000 at auction; here’s what it said

A rare letter penned by Colonel Archibald Gracie, one of the Titanic’s most distinguished survivors, has fetched a record £300,000, a fivefold increase on its estimated price, at an auction in Wiltshire, as a new high price for Titanic correspondence was smashed.The letter, dated April 10, 1912, the very day Gracie boarded the Titanic, offers […]

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