14 DAY TRIAL // A menu from the last lunch served on the Titanic before the vessel sank on the morning on April 15, 1912, will be auctioned off in New York City a few weeks from now, on September 30.
The menu, all yellowish and crumpled, was inadvertently salvaged by a first-class passenger by the name of Abraham Lincoln Solomon, who happened to have it in one of his pockets when the ship was lost.
Together with other privileged people, Abraham Lincoln Solomon was rescued by the so-called Money Boat, the fourth boat launched from the Titanic about an hour after the vessel had collided with the iceberg.
Although the boat had a capacity of 40, it was launched with just 12 people aboard. Most of them were men, despite Captain Smith's orders that women and children be the first saved from the sinking ship.
Lion Heart Autographs expects the decades-old menu, dated April 14, 1912, the day the Titanic was hit by the iceberg, will fetch about $50,000 (roughly €44,300), maybe even more.
The artifact, a photo of which is available below, lists dishes like potted shrimp and dumplings, grilled mutton chops, roast beef and meat pie. So, yes, the last lunch served on the Titanic was quite a feast.
Many other artifacts will be auctioned off
Several other artifacts and historic documents salvaged from or linked to the Titanic will be sold at the same auction, among them a ticket from a weighing chair expected to sell for $10,000 (nearly €8,900).
There's also a letter sent to fashion designer and Money Boat passenger Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, which Lion Heart Autographs hopes will sell for no less than $4,000 (about €3,500).
Then there are many other documents having to do with important events in modern history, such as a letter that Albert Einstein sent to a man in Florida in an attempt to discourage him from pursuing a career in mathematics.
All in all, the auction will include dozens of documents and letters written, received or linked to historic figures or occurrences that shaped the world as we know it.
