The Titanic's last lunch menu sold at auction for $88,000 last Wednesday.
The Titanic&apos;s last lunch menu, saved by a first-class passenger who climbed aboard a lifeboat whose crew was said to have been bribed to row away instead of rescue more people, sold at auction for $88,000 on Wednesday.
The online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs offered the menu and two other previously unknown artifacts from Lifeboat 1, according to the Associated Press.
Abraham Lincoln Salomon was among a handful of first-class passengers who boarded the lifeboat, dubbed the Money Boat or Millionaire&apos;s Boat by the press because of unfounded rumors that one of them bribed seven crewmembers to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ocean liner.
The menu, which lists items that include fillets of brill, grilled mutton chops and egg a l’argenteuil, is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped on another lifeboat. It&apos;s believed the two men lunched together on that fateful day in 1912.
Salomon also took away a printed ticket from the Titanic&apos;s opulent Turkish baths, which recorded a person&apos;s weight when seated in a specially designed upholstered lounge chair. The ticket bears the names of three of the five other first-class passengers with him on Lifeboat 1. One of four weighing chair tickets known to exist, it sold for $11,000.
A letter written by Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York&apos;s Plaza Hotel stationery six months after the disaster fetched $7,500, according to the AP.
Francatelli had climbed into Lifeboat 1 with her employer, aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her Scottish husband, Lord Cosmo Duff-Gordon, who was rumored to have bribed the crew to row them to safety in the boat, which had a capacity of 40.
The Duff-Gordons, the only passengers to testify about the disaster, were cleared by the British Wreck Commissioner&apos;s inquiry, which determined that they did not deter the crew from attempting to rescue other people but that others might have been saved if the boat had turned around.