Titanic menu sells for £84,000 at UK auction

LONDON, Nov 12 (AFP): A first-class dinner menu from the Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage offering oysters, beef and mallard duck has sold for œ84,0000 ($103,000), the UK auction house responsible for its sale said Sunday.
The menu, for a meal served on April 11, 1912, is decorated with a red White Star Line burgee but the original gilt lettering is no longer visible.
More than 1,500 passengers and crew died when the vessel sank after hitting an iceberg on the evening of April 14, 1912.
The menu "shows signs of water immersion having been partially erased, the reverse of the menu also clearly displays further evidence of this," said auctioneer Andrew Aldridge.