The limo was reportedly sent for upgrades to a Cincinnati company after the assassination in November 1963, and the plates could have been lost forever if they had not been scooped up Willard Hess and stored for decades.
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The plates had belonged to Jane Walker, who had kept them in her kitchen junk drawer for years after inheriting them from her father, Willard Hess.
The plates, which were once picked out of the garbage by the owner of retrofitting the auto, are being offered by Heritage Auctions on Saturday in Dallas and the opening bid is $40,000.
Number plates of President John F. Kennedy’s limousine on the day he was assassinated.
The menu from the last dinner that was served to first-class passengers at Titanic before the luxury ocean liner sank in 1912 has summoned almost $US120,000 (nearly $NZ184,000) at the same auction.
Heritage Auctions named the first class passengers as Edward P. Calderhead of New York City, Spencer V. Silverthorne of St. Louis, George E. Graham from Winnipeg, Canada; James R. McGough, from Philadelphia; and John Irwin Flynn of Brooklyn. He asked the agent, ‘Is it all right if I take these?’ The agent said, ‘What do you want them for?’ He said, ‘I’d like to have them for my files.’ The guy said, ‘Fine.
The telegram informed officials that the Titanic had struck an iceberg and was in trouble, the auction house said.
The license plates on JFK’s limo when he was assassinated are now in the hands of a new mysterious owner. According to Irish Central, an anonymous collector put it up for auction and reportedly the menu is the last one in existence to survive from the April 14, 1912 dinner.
“Sinking fast – come to our assistance”, read the message, which the company said never arrived.
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Also, according to the auction house, five businessmen had written their addresses on the menu while sharing a dinner table the night before it sank.
