One of the Expensive Titanic Memorabilia

The date April 15, 1912 will always remember etched in people’s memories as one of the greatest tragedies documented, actually took place on the day. The legendary passenger ship, the Titanic sank, and out of the 2,228 people on board, around 1,500 of them lost their lives in the tragic event. Since then, all memorabilia related to the incident has managed to garner much attention from collectors, which has resulted in many of them fetching premium prices at auctions. Some of the items which form the Titanic memorabilia were a diamond bracelet, a letter from one of the passengers of the ill fated ship to one of his business colleagues, Titanic ship blue print for official enquiry, Titanic life jacket and many   more that have left the auction bazaar shoot escalating prices because  these bids bring  infuse some memoirs to the world about one of the  worst  tragedies of the 19^th century.

The collectible in news now is the letter written by  passenger George Graham of Harriston, Canada  who was a sales manager to Eaton’ s Departmental Store .The Graham was a first class passenger onboard of the Titanic. The letter was written by Graham to his business colleague in Berlin and mainly explained reasons for Graham replying late and  the  later’s  intentions to see the associate and his wife the following year. Graham also wished them good health. The next page  folds closed to form a postal cover with White Star's logo on verso of cover and a 2-1/2 penny stamp on the address leaf.  Uneven toning to first page and address page from prior display. Four plastic tape remnants on verso of first page and five on recto of second page, all at edges and none affecting readability. On her maiden voyage the Titanic struck a North Atlantic iceberg and sank within hours early on the morning of April 14, 1912.  The letter in the auction was placed in the mail from Southampton, England just prior to the ship's departure on April 10 for its never-completed trans-Atlantic crossing to New York City. Graham did not survive the sinking. 
   "Hours before the ship struck an iceberg, Graham wired his wife back in Canada saying he was well and indicating he would be in New York City on Wednesday. 
    She received the wire on Tuesday morning, when news of the disaster was on everyone's lips, and mistakenly took it to mean her husband survived," explained Litzenberger. Days later she was informed his body had been recovered from the North Atlantic. Letters written aboard the Titanic are among the most scarce and desirable articles connected with the tragedy.

One of the Titanic memorabilia also includes the elaborate menus the passenger had on board with four different courses  for the lunch  and each section offering the passengers a plethora of options. The four days in the ship  might have left the guest having a an experience of a lifetime which ended up as their last  happy moments of life following the tragedy. Another one was a handwritten letter written by Adolphe Saafeld to his wife describing how wonderful a journey he had. In fact, he detailed out the ship’s interior decoration and ornamentation, along with the elaborate menu that went with it. Little did he know, that only 5 days later, tragedy would strike the ship and most people aboard would sink to death. It had earlier changed hands in 2010, for a sum of $87,914 (£55,000) Spink  is the world's leading auctioneer of coins, stamps, medals, banknotes, bonds, share certificates and autographs, with offices in London, Singapore, New York and Dallas. 

The most expensive letter from Titanic was worth $16,100 and was set by Spink Smythe which was the letter written by George  Graham to his Business associate in Berlin on April 10,1912.The letter was sold in an auction in New York, United States of America on February 23,2009.