14 DAY TRIAL // This past Wednesday, September 30, a lunch menu saved from the sunken Titanic was auctioned off in New York City. It sold for an impressive $88,000 (roughly €78,600), even though auction house Lion Heart Autographs only expected it to fetch $50,000 (€44,300) tops.
In an interview after the auction, Lion Heart Autographs said that the menu had been passed down to the person who sold it by a family member. However, it refused to disclose their identity, Sky News reports. The buyer wasn't named either.
This Titanic lunch menu that was auctioned off in New York City just the other day is dated April 14, 1912, the day before the vessel sunk after having collided with the iceberg. It lists dishes like roast beef, meat pie and grilled mutton chops.
The menu was inadvertently saved from ending up at the bottom of the ocean by a man by the name of Abraham Lincoln Solomon, who happened to have it in his pocket when the Titanic began to sink and he jumped into a boat to be rescued.
A wealthy, privileged man, Abraham Lincoln Solomon was saved by the so-called Money Boat, which was launched with just 12 people aboard despite having enough room to rescue at least 40.
These survivors were all rich individuals who paid the crew to row away and take them to safety rather than wait for more people to make it aboard the boat.
