The dinner menu on the Titanic was sold for 2.5 billion VND
Nov 13, 2023
Washington [US], November 13: The dinner menu on the Titanic more than a century ago has just been auctioned in the UK.
The first-class dinner menu on the Titanic
The menu includes dishes served on April 11, 1912, with the flag of the British shipping company White Star Line printed on it, but the gilded lettering has faded. On the menu there are many dishes such as oysters, beef and wild duck meat.
"The menu shows signs of being partially faded in water, and the back of the menu also clearly shows further evidence of this," according to expert Andrew Aldridge of auction house Henry Aldridge & Son.
"This suggests that the menu was exposed to conditions in the icy North Atlantic on the morning of April 15, 1912. It may have left the ship with a survivor in the cold sea water or been recovered from one person is missing," he judged.
This is believed to be the only remaining menu from the first-class dinner
Other items up for auction included a Swiss-made pocket watch belonging to passenger Sinai Kantor, which sold for £97,000, and a striped blanket that may have been used in the campaign salvage for £96,000.
The Titanic
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper