There were oysters, salmon with hollandaise sauce, beef, pigeon, duck, chicken, peas, potatoes, bread and Victoria pudding. The varied menu gives a glimpse of what first class passengers have on board Titanic They had time for dinner on April 11, 1912, as the ship left Queenstown, Ireland, bound for New York.
The menu, a historic item popular with collectors, was auctioned in England for almost $100,000, the equivalent of R$490,000. The event took place last Saturday (11) at Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd in the South West of England.
Andrew Aldridge, managing director of the auction house, told The New York Times on Thursday that while some of the ship’s menus still survive, this is the only known example from the night of April 11. “After speaking to leading Titanic memorabilia collectors around the world and consulting several museums with collections from the ship, we cannot find any other surviving examples of a worldclass April 11 dinner menu.”
The menu was originally found in a 1960s photo album by the daughter and soninlaw of the late historian Len Stephenson. He lived in Dominion, Nova Scotia and kept many records about the ship.
The auction also included a White Star Line checkered blanket recovered from a Titanic lifeboat and a pocket watch that belonged to a secondclass passenger, a Russian immigrant, who did not survive the sinking.
Over the years, some simpler Titanic menus have been auctioned off and fetched high prices. A prime menu from the ship’s last luncheon sold for $120,000 in 2012. Three years later, a menu from the final dinner served to first class passengers sold for more than $118,000.