The article below appeared in The Daily Mail on 29th December. The auction will be timed to coincide with the anniversary. No doubt this will help push prices higher. I think its a huge shame the wreck is being treated in this way. Imagine the outcry if this had happened to The Mary Rose. None of the items can tell anyone anything about 1912 that we don't already know - the value is purely in the association with Titanic. The wreck is sinking into the mud, but maybe it should have been left to the forces of nature, it remains a grave site. Dr Ballard who found Titanic has expressed his view that cameras could have been used to show images, instead she has been vandalised and torn apart for profit, very sad to see.
Largest collection of Titanic artefacts worth $189m to go under the hammer... to coincide with 100th anniversary of disasterOver 5,500 items from sunken luxury liner to go on sale
Auction result will be revealed on April 15 next year - the 100th anniversary of disaster
By Chris Parsons - The Daily Mail 29/12/11
The largest collection of artefacts from the Titanic is to go up for auction as one giant lot next year to mark the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck.
Over 5,500 items including fine china, ship fittings and even portions of the luxury liner's hull recovered from the ocean will go on sale with an estimated value of $189 million (£122 million).
Also included in the huge collection are personal belongings of the doomed liner's passengers following seven separate dives to the site....
Contributors: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581 2012 Anniversary RMS Titanic Illustrated Lecture Series now available, please enquire.
Largest collection of Titanic artefacts worth $189m to go under the hammer... to coincide with 100th anniversary of disasterOver 5,500 items from sunken luxury liner to go on sale
Auction result will be revealed on April 15 next year - the 100th anniversary of disaster
By Chris Parsons - The Daily Mail 29/12/11
The largest collection of artefacts from the Titanic is to go up for auction as one giant lot next year to mark the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck.
Over 5,500 items including fine china, ship fittings and even portions of the luxury liner's hull recovered from the ocean will go on sale with an estimated value of $189 million (£122 million).
Also included in the huge collection are personal belongings of the doomed liner's passengers following seven separate dives to the site....
Contributors: Morag Irving BA (OPEN)., Dip.Lit. e-mail: moragirvinguk@aol.com Tel:01733 345581 Julian Bray MCIPR NUJ Equity Tel:01733 345581 2012 Anniversary RMS Titanic Illustrated Lecture Series now available, please enquire.
