Life jacket worn by a passenger who survived the Titanic auctioned off for over $900K
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LONDON (AP) — A life jacket worn by a passenger on RMS Titanic as she escaped the sinking steamship on a lifeboat sold at auction on Saturday for 670,00 pounds — $906,108 in U.S. dollars. The flotation device was worn by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class passenger on the doomed ocean liner, and…
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Titanic survivor life jacket heads to rare auction
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Life jacket worn by a passenger who survived the Titanic auctioned off for over $900K
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A life jacket worn by a survivor of the Titanic sold for £670,000 (around $904,500) at an auction Saturday, far exceeding expectations in what was billed as a “once in a generation” sale.
On April 18, the auction company Henry Aldrich & Sons held an auction with dozens of fascinating items from the Titanic disaster. The ship sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, in the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes after striking an iceberg.
LONDON (AP) — A life jacket worn by a passenger on RMS Titanic as she escaped the sinking steamship on a lifeboat sold at auction on Saturday for 670,00 pounds — $906,108 in U.S. dollars. The flotation device was worn by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class passenger on the doomed ocean liner, and…
