US EditionTitanic Lifeboat Cushion With Plaque Heads to Wiltshire Auction
The canvas cushion includes its original White Star plaque and rope, and auctioneers say it could fetch up to £180,000.
- On April 18, Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, will auction a Titanic lifeboat seat cushion expected to fetch up to £180,000, complete with its original White Star plaque.
- London tea importer Richard William Smith died in the 1912 North Atlantic disaster while traveling to meet friend TG Matthews in Brooklyn; Matthews subsequently purchased the cushion from Meyer-Forest Corporation.
- A signed statement by George Meyer confirms the cushion was a "Titanic Lifeboat Seat taken from one of the thirteen lifeboats brought here by the rescue ship SS Carpathia along with the lucky survivors picked up the next morning."
- Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge described the sale as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," noting the artifact appears in a period photograph of Lifeboat 2 aboard the Titanic.
- Matthews kept the item until passing it to his grandson, George Matthews Byers, in 1926; Byers sold it in 1987, and it has since changed hands twice before the current anonymous owner consigned it for auction.
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A rare Titanic cushion is up for auction in Devizes. Henry Aldridge & Son is preparing to auction an original seat cushion from one of the lifeboats of the RMS Titanic on April 18 in Devizes, with expectations that it will fetch up to £180,000.
A seating money from one of the Titanic's rescue boats will be taken from the sale of Henry Aldridge & Son house in the city of Devizes, England, on April 18, and it is estimated to be sold with up to 180,000 pounds (266,000 euros), according to BBC. "It's really...
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Titanic cushion with 'tragic link' to victim set to fetch thousands at auction
Artefacts from one of the Titanic’s lifeboats that has a tragic link to one of the victims is expected to fetch up to £180,000 at auction in…
A seat cushion that decorated a lifeboat of the Titanic, when the famous ship sank in the Atlantic in 1912, will be auctioned on 18 April in London. The starting point is 180,000 pounds, or just over 200,000 euros. ...
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