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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 [...]

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Among more than 370 lots in the Titanic sale is a locket from a First Class passenger, Helen Churchill Candee, who was travelling to see her son who had had an accident in the US.
She gave the 19th century gilt portrait miniature of her mother to a friend as the ship was sinking [...]

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H&H’S automobilia sale of April 11 at Buxton was especially well attended and achieved very impressive results, with the vast majority of the lots finding new homes.
Of particular note were the battery-powered Bugatti child’s car that made over £1,900, the pre-war Exide showroom lightbox that fetched nearly £1,700, the Minerva 8-litre bonnet mascot [...]

Medals, letters and parliamentary papers regarding Ireland’s fight for independence from British rule in the early 20th century exceeded estimates at auction, signaling growing interest in Irish historical artifacts.
Around 95 percent of the items sold at auctioneers James Adam & Sons in Dublin late yesterday achieved higher than forecast prices, director Stuart Cole said. The [...]

A deckchair removed from the Titanic just moments before it set sail from Cork could fetch up to around £57,000 when it goes under the hammer, experts predicted last night.
Specialists with Bonhams and Butterfields in the US expect the chair, taken from the first-class Promenade deck of the Belfast-built liner, to go for between $$75-100,000 [...]