A hard-tack biscuit that was originally part of a lifeboat survival kit from the Titanic has sold for £15,000, or around $23,000 United States dollars, at an auction in the UK. Fenwick preserved the costly biscuit in an envelope and labeled it “Pilot biscuit from Titanic lifeboat April 1912”.
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“Will the buyer take a bite out of the biscuit?” asked auctioneer Andrew Aldridge. Also included in the auction were photographic negatives and a journal providing a unique snapshot into the rescue of the Titanic survivors.
He explained that the biscuit has survived all these years because it’s similar in composition to a hot cross bun.
“If you get one of those and leave it out, it will dry and it will fossilize”.
This infatuation with old food from popular yesteryear venues continues today with a Titanic biscuit that was sold at auction over the weekend. The man who took the photo had no idea that the Titanic had sunk mere hours before and reported seeing red paint along its side, Sky News added.
A collector in Greece purchased the biscuit for $23,000, which was $8,000 more than expected. He wrote of being woken at 5 a.m.to save as numerous Titanic’s passengers as they could.
It was among 200 items in the Fenwick collection sold through the British auction house.
A ceremony for Captain Rostron and his crew was held a month after the sinking of the Titanic in New York.
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The Titanic, a supposedly “unsinkable” ship, struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sank.
