UK Auction Info
A collection of poignant Titanic memorabilia which went on show in Belfast to 20,000 people broke a world record at auction.
Among 370 items that went under the hammer was a miniature portrait retrieved from the depths which sold for £58,000, and a letter written onboard by 1st class passenger Stanley May, in which he calls the Titanic a “Floating Palace” and mentions the near miss with the liner “New York” as the Titanic left Southampton Water on the April 10. That sold for £22,000.
The sale was held by Henry Aldridge and Son of Devizes, Wiltshire, the leading auctioneers of Titanic and White Star Line memorabilia in the world.
One hundred and fifty people attended the Devizes auction and bidders from across the globe jammed seven phone lines.

Posted: 05|2|06 at 8:46 am. Filed under: Collectables.