US EditionGold Pocket Watch Owned by Jewish Titanic Victims Who Gave up Lifeboat Spots to Save Others Goes to Auction
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Titanic Passenger's Pocket Watch Expected To Fetch £1m At Auction
Curtis Lancaster and Danai Nesta Kupemba BNPS The pocket stopped at the moment the Titanic disappeared beneath the waves A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the richest passengers on the Titanic is expected to fetch £1m ($1.3m) at auction. Isidor Straus and his wife Ida were among the more than 1,500 people who died when the vessel travelling from Southampton to New York sank after hitting an iceberg on 14 April 1912. His bod…
The golden pocket watch of one of Titanic's richest passengers, Isidor Strauss, will be auctioned with an initial estimate of 1 million pounds.
Isidor Strauss' gold pocket watch. Photo: BNPS A gold pocket watch found on the body of one of the richest passengers of the Titanic, Isidor Strauss, is set to be sold at auction for a million pounds sterling ($1.3 million). The BBC and New York Post report this. The auction will take place on November 22. Isidor Strauss, a native of Bavaria, was a co-owner of the New York department store Macy's, a businessman and politician. Together with his …
In London, a watch soon comes under the hammer, which belongs to one of the most famous Titanic passengers: Isidor Strauss. She was a gift from his wife, he had her with him during the misfortune. A sign of love, almost as in James Cameron's film.
Gold pocket watch of Jewish Titanic couple for sale at auction
A gold pocket watch recovered from an elderly couple who drowned during the sinking of the Titanic is expected to fetch at least £800,000 (over $1,000,000) when it is sold at auction. Born into a Jewish family in Otterberg, Bavaria, in 1845, Mr Straus emigrated to the US with his family in 1854. First class passengers Isidor and Ida Straus were portrayed in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic movie as the couple cradling each other as the s…
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