Titanic menu provided to first class passengers on the evening of April 11, 1912. /Henry Aldridge & Son
The British daily Guardian reported on the 11th (local time) that the dinner menu provided to first-class passengers three days before the Titanic sank was sold for 83,000 pounds (about 130 million won).
According to the Guardian, the sale of the menu was carried out on this day by the British auction house ‘Henry Aldridge & Son’. This menu was served to first class passengers at dinner on April 11, 1912, three days before the sinking of the Titanic. At the time, the Titanic was leaving Queenstown, Ireland, and was heading to New York, USA.
Looking at the menu, various types of meat were served for dinner that day, including beef, baby pigeons, duck, and chicken. Seafood such as oysters and salmon were also served. Each menu was served with different garnishes and sauces to match. Puree and rice made from parsnip, a root vegetable similar to carrots, were also served. Dessert was Victoria pudding and French ice cream made by mixing flour, brandy, apples, cherries, and other ingredients with spices. Regarding this, CNN commented, “It shows the splendor that the ship’s first-class passengers must have experienced.”
The size of the menu on which all of these foods are introduced is 4.25 inches (10.795 cm) wide and 6.25 inches (15.875 cm) tall, and it is known that Len Stevenson, a historian from Nova Scotia, Canada, kept it in a photo album in the 1960s. It is said that Stevenson’s daughter, Mary Anita, discovered it while sorting out his belongings after he died in 2017. There are traces of being wet and drying, and the logo of White Star Line, the shipping company that built the Titanic, is drawn in the top center of the menu board.
Menu provided to first class passengers on the Titanic on the evening of April 11, 1912. /Henry Aldridge & Son
Originally, this menu board was scheduled to be sold for up to 70,000 pounds (approximately 113 million won), but it was sold for 83,000 pounds, 13,000 pounds more than that, the Guardian reported. “Nothing is known about the dinner, although other menu items survived the disaster that killed 1,500 people,” said auction house manager Andrew Aldridge. “They said they couldn’t find the same menu.”
Meanwhile, some are criticizing the fact that items derived from the tragic accident in which numerous passengers lost their lives are being traded between individuals for large amounts of money. Harry Bennett, an associate professor of maritime history at the University of Plymouth, told the New York Times that owning items believed to have been recovered from victims’ bodies was a “moral issue.” “It would be better to have it in a museum rather than in a private collection,” Bennett said. “Because at least the moral issues about buying and selling for money disappear, and you can have some kind of legitimacy.”
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2023-11-12 14:41:00
