A dinner menu for first class passengers on the Titanic has sold at auction for more than £80,000.
The 15.8 by 10.8 centimeter menu has an embossed red frame and originally featured the gilded initials of the owner company OSNC next to the letters “RMS Titanic”.
“The letters have signs of water immersion and are partially obliterated, and the back of the menu also clearly shows further evidence of this,” auctioneer Andrew Eldridge said, adding that this indicated the menu had been exposed to the icy waters of the North Atlantic.
The dinner, which featured oysters, beef, lamb and duck, was served on April 11, 1912, after the ship left Queenstown, Ireland for New York on its fateful maiden voyage.
More than 1,500 passengers and crew members died when the Titanic struck an iceberg on the evening of April 14, 1912, and sank the next day.
The menu was discovered in a photo album from the 1960s after the death of Len Stevenson, and was found by his daughter and son-in-law.
As an avid historian in Nova Scotia, Stevenson collected and preserved many records.
