It is understood a Greek company bought it at the auction held at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire.
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The cracker was found by James and Mabel Fenwick, who were passengers on board the ‘SS Carpathia, ‘ which went to the aid of survivors from the ship.
The biscuit was sold to a collector in Greece, far exceeding its presale estimate of between 8,000 pounds and 10,000 pounds.
He popped the snack in a Kodak photographic envelope – complete with original notation “Pilot biscuit from Titanic lifeboat April 1912” – as a souvenir.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge told Sky News: “The prices reflect the eternal interest in the Titanic story and the iconic nature of the objects concerned”. More than 1,500 people died in the Titanic’s wreckage.
“We don’t know which lifeboat the biscuit came from but there are no other Titanic lifeboat biscuits in existence, to my knowledge”.
“In terms of precedence, a few years ago a biscuit from one of Shackleton’s expeditions sold for about #3,000 and there is a biscuit from the Lusitania in a museum in the Republic of Ireland”. Awakened by hearing man’s voice Titanic gone down.
“This is time to be up and doing”.
This coming Saturday, October 24, Henry Aldridge and Son will be auctioning off a decades-old photo said to show the very iceberg that hit the Titanic in April 1912.
The “world’s most valuable biscuit”, which survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, has fetched a whopping 15,000 pounds at an auction in the United Kingdom, while a photograph believed to be that of the iceberg which sank the liner sold for 21,000 pounds.
Though there is no definite answer as to which iceberg was the one involved in the historic disaster, the photograph to be sold this weekend represents an integral part of history and will surely be a prized addition to any historian’s collection.
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Brown – who became one of the Titanic’s most famous survivors – presented the sterling silver cup to Sir Arthur in a ceremony in New York the following month.
