We already know the passions raised by the mythical Titanic, In fact, in this blog we have talked about both its history and the replicas that are being built by the Chinese government, like an Australian millionaire. You can read the article here.
Well now The menu taken by the first-class travelers of the Titanic goes up for auction, that night of April 14, 1912. This will be the star object of the auction and it is expected to obtain more than $62.000. Three years ago a collector already paid for a menu from the Titanic around 107.000 euros.
This menu It consisted of lamb chops, jerky, roasted potatoes with skin, veal and ham pie, apple meringue puff pastry… and so on to more than twenty gastronomic delights.
Una english auction house has decided to auction the menu sheet, along with a letter sent by two survivors and another curious object: a ticket from the scale that was in the Turkish baths of the ocean liner.
These objects will go up for auction at the end of September, on the 30th, and curiously they have not been found at the bottom of the sea, but their history goes back to the night of the sinking itself. The menu belonged to Abraham Lincoln Solomon, wholesaler of stationery in New York who was saved from the tragedy in lifeboat number 1, until he accidentally carried the sheet in one of his pockets. Surely that night he had dinner with another distinguished passenger, the lawyer Issac Gerald Frauenthal, who was also saved although in boat number 5 and whose signature appears on the back of the menu.