64 h. ago Titanic passenger’s pocket watch sold for record £1.78m at auction

The 18-carat Jules Jurgensen gold watch belonged to Isidor Straus, who along with his wife lost his life when ship sankA gold pocket watch that belonged to a man who died onboard the Titanic when it sank has sold for a record sum.The watch, which belonged to 67-year-old Isidor Straus, went for £1.78m at auction, the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia. He was given the watch – an engraved 18-carat Jules Jurgensen – as a gift on his 43rd birthday in 1888. Continue reading...

Economics

3 d. ago Titanic gold pocket watch recovered from elderly couple who drowned in disaster sells for record £1.78million at auction

Auctioneers confirmed it eclipsed the previous £1.56million record set last year for a gold watch presented to the captain of the ship that rescued more than 700 survivors.

Economics

3 d. ago Titanic couple’s gold pocket watch sells for record £1.78m at auction

It was the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia, the auctioneers said.

Economics

4 d. ago Truth, justice and a whole lot of money: Family’s attic comic book find becomes $9M windfall

The comic book shattered the previous record set last year when a comic book sold for $6 million

Society

7 d. ago Gustav Klimt portrait sells for $236.4m, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auctionA painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a record-breaking $236.4m (£179.7m, A$364m) with fees, making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the most expensive work of modern art sold at auction.The six-foot-tall painting, titled Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, was painted by the Austrian painter between 1914 and 1916 and shows Lederer, a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons, draped in a Chinese robe. Continue reading...

Economics

7 d. ago The Titanic's real Jack pining for his 'Rose': Incredible letter reveals tragic third class passenger had a 'good cry' over lost love on doomed vessel before perishing in 1912 disaster

According to a never-before-seen letter, third class passenger Ernest Tomlin had seemingly been left heartbroken by the break-up of a relationship with a woman called Rose.

Events

7 d. ago The Titanic's real Jack pining for his 'Rose': Incredible letter reveals tragic third class passenger had a 'good cry' over lost love from doomed vessel before perishing in 1912 disaster

According to a never-before-seen letter, third class passenger Ernest Tomlin had seemingly been left heartbroken by the break-up of a relationship with a woman called Rose.

Events

1 week ago Titanic couple’s gold pocket watch could sell for £800,000 at auction

First class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus were portrayed in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic movie

Economics

1 week ago Titanic gold pocket watch recovered from body of one of its richest passengers is set to fetch £1m

Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were immortalised in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster movie as the elderly couple holding each other on their bed as the Titanic sank.

Economics

4 w. ago Titanic passenger’s archive set to sell for more than £100,000

Among the items included in the sale is the only first class passenger list from the stricken liner to have survived.

Economics