LiveAuctionTalk.com Highlights Titanic Memorabilia in its Weekly Free Article
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[USPRwire, Fri Sep 22 2006] She was “unsinkable” and somehow she sank. To add insult to injury the largest vessel in the world went down on her maiden voyage with a passenger list of some of the richest and most powerful people in the world.
Other ships sunk. Other tragedies happened. Why does the Titanic stand out?
“The event which not only made the world rub its eyes and awake, but woke it with a start...To my mind the world of today awoke April 15, 1912." said Titanic survivor, John Thayer.
The Titanic is the classic tale of man trying to rule nature and coming up short.
The human cargo that went into the sea that day didn’t drown, they froze to death.
The Inspector General of the Federal Steamboat Inspection Service expressed the opinion that the Titanic struck the berg with such violence the impact, "buckled her to pieces.”
In an eerily-interesting way, artifacts from the infamous Titanic command attention and cash now at auction. Take for example the lifeboats.
Lifeboats from the Titanic were identified with name boards posted on each side of the bow. The name S.S. Titanic and the house flags were displayed on the port side. The name and port of call showed up on the starboard side.
A 14 inch by 17 inch painted, cast-bronze house flag and name board from one of Titanic’s lifeboats sold at Christie’s, New York on June 1 for $72,000. A 10 inch by 18 inch painted, cast-bronze name board and port sign brought $60,000.
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