Titanic Passenger’s Gold Watged item expected to fetch more than $1m at auction – National
The ANG-KARAT Gold Pocket Watch found on the body of one of the richest and largest Titanic passengers is expected to sell for more than US $ 1 million at auction, according to a British house.
More than a century old timepiep, who, along with his wife, Ida, was aboard the famous ship when it went down the Atlantic after hitting the ice on the way to April 14, 1912.
In the days following the disaster, his body was found in the Atlantic, and his property was signed, returned to his son, Jesse, along with his other belongings. Among them was his Jelulses engraved julensen in the package, which stopped at 2: 20 in the morning, according to the auction house, later the Titanic was believed to have died.
His wife’s last wish was also remembered in James Cameron’s film Titanc As the elderly couple clung to each other in their bed as the ship disappeared under the water. The auction house that sells the artifact, Henry Aldridge and Son, noted this Hollywood connection on its website, adding that IDA is believed to have refused a place on the lifeboat, saying that she might die by her husband’s side.
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Isididor is also believed to have refused a place in the lifeboat because there were still women and children on board, auctioning Andrew Aldridge.
In an appearance on BBC Radio Wiltshire, Aldridge said the watch is ‘a piece of Memoria.’
The heirloom was passed down through the generations before it was restored by Kenneth Horlister Straus, Straus’ great-grandson. The auction will take place on November 22.
Family bonding in time
In 2023, Stockton Rush, the CEO of the ocean exploration company Ceep-Sea Oceanate, died along with four others when the company’s Titan sank during a failed Titanic dive. In an incredible connection, Swift was married to Wendy Weil, the great-granddaughter of Sidor and Ida Straus.
The singer-songwriter Mikaela Mullaneus, better known by her name King Princess, is also the great granddaughter of Sidor and Ida Straus.
The Straus family is now selling a watch for the first time. It is likely to be one of the most expensive Titanic pieces of art ever to be sold. It will be auctioned alongside a handwritten letter written by Ida on board the ill-fated ship shortly after leaving Southampton on April 10, 1912.
Written on Titanic-embossed notepaper, it read: “The ship! So great and so chosen.
“The size seems to bring its worries. Who is Mr. Straus, who was in the paper when it first appeared, and now we have looked, and now we have aimed, and now we have aimed, and now we have aimed, and now we are facing a collision between two stations, HWSKE of HWWU and RMSympic in 1911.
Whether it was the watch or the book he had seen before, it was the auction house.
Based on the recording, it is believed that Ida gave her husband the watch on his 43rd birthday in February 1888.
The couple died on the Titanic along with 1,520 other people, including first-class passengers John Jacob Astor, a member of a famous capitalist family, who is a member of a famous capitalist family killed by art and aviation.
Ida’s body was never found.
Other items for sale from the Titanic include the Gold Pocket Watch belonging to the captain of the Carpathia, the ship responsible for adding more than 700 bandmasters, where the ship Astor, which sold 2024 for 900,000 Euros.
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