Titanic Artifacts Shatter Records, Captivate Collectors

0:00Europe news today, powered by AI bringing you what matters across Europe, I'm Corey with the story. A survivor's life jacket from the Titanic just shattered auction records, pulling in 670,000 pounds. Warned by first-class passenger Laura Mabel Frankatelli on Lifeboat No. 1, it signed by 8 fellow survivors, including crew-like firemen and Enable Seaman. That same auction saw a pocket watch from Drowned Businessman, Frederick Sutton, fetched 180,000 pounds. The 18-karat goal piece, dented, and with its second hand frozen from icy waters, came from a wealthy New Jersey property owner heading back, from England. Then there's the Lifeboat Seat Cushion, complete with a white star plaque, which sold for 390,000 pounds. It hailed from one of the boats that ferried survivors to safety on the Carpathia, originally snapped up by a grieving friend of a lost tea importer. The sale at Henry Aldridge and Sun in Devise's Wildshire featured 344 lots, with prices including buyers premiums.

1:02The cushion headed straight to the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and Branson, Missouri, for public display. These massive halls proved the Titanic saga still captivates, turning personal relics into timeless testaments of that April 1912 nightmare, and everyone aboard.