• Titanic’s first-class dinner menu, featuring oysters and more, auctioned for £84,000.
• Tragic Titanic sinking claimed 1,500 lives on April 14, 1912.
• Auction by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, on Saturday.

A lavish first-class dinner menu from the RMS Titanic, featuring delicacies such as oysters, beef, spring lamb, and mallard duck on April 11, 1912, has been auctioned for a staggering £84,000.

The tragic sinking of the Titanic claimed over 1,500 lives on April 14, 1912. The auction, conducted by Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, took place this Saturday.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: “The menu is a remarkable survivor from the most famous ocean liner of all time.”

The menu bears an embossed White Star Line flag and would have originally shown gilt lettering depicting the initials OSNC (Ocean Steamship Navigation Company) alongside the lettering “RMS Titanic”.

According to Mr. Aldridge, the menu exhibited evidence of water exposure, with portions of the text partially erased.

“This would point to the menu having been subjected to the icy North Atlantic waters on the morning of April 15 either having left the ship with a survivor who was exposed to those cold sea waters or recovered on the person of one of those lost.

“Having spoken to the leading collectors of Titanic memorabilia globally and consulted with numerous museums with Titanic collections, we can find no other surviving examples of a first-class April 11 dinner menu.”

Among the auctioned items was a Swiss-made pocket watch once belonging to second-class Titanic passenger Sinai Kantor, which fetched £97,000.

Additionally, a tartan-patterned deck blanket from the first-class, possibly used in passenger rescues, was sold for £96,000.

The auctioneer, renowned for dealing in memorabilia from the ill-fated ship, had previously sold a first-class stewardess’s fur coat for £150,000 in 2017.

In that same year, a letter penned by Titanic passenger Oscar Holverson was auctioned for £126,000.

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