A first-class dinner menu from the Titanic’s ill-fated maiden voyage offering oysters, beef and mallard duck has sold for 84,000 pounds ($103,000), the U.K. auction house responsible for its sale said on Nov. 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The menu, for a meal served on April 11, 1912, is decorated with a red White Star Line burgee but the original gilt lettering is no longer visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 1,500 passengers and crew died when the vessel sank after hitting an iceberg on the evening of April 14, 1912.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The menu “shows signs of water immersion having been partially erased,the reverse of the menu also clearly displays further evidence of this,” said auctioneer Andrew Aldridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This would point to the menu having been subjected to the icy North Atlantic waters on the morning of April 15 either having left the ship with a survivor who was exposed to those cold sea waters or recovered on the person of one of those lost,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is believed to be the only surviving copy of a first-class April 11 dinner menu and was discovered in a photo album belonging to late Canadian amateur historian Len Stephenson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The menu was sold on Nov. 11 at Henry Aldridge & Son auction house in Wiltshire, south west England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other items in the sale included a Swiss-made pocket watch recovered from passenger Sinai Kantor, which sold for 97,000 pounds, while a tartan-patterned deck blanket likely used during the rescue operation fetched 96,000 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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