Pocket watch found on Titanic victim to go on sale in UK
- A pocket watch and personal items of Titanic victim Hans Christensen Givard will be auctioned in the UK on April 26.
- Givard, a Danish second-class passenger, died when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.
- His body was discovered in the North Atlantic and buried in Halifax, Canada, on May 10, 1912.
- The watch, which is frozen in time, is expected to sell for around £50,000 at the auction.
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A pocket watch from a Titanic victim goes to auction in the UK
A pocket watch, tickets and coins found among the belongings of the victims of the Titanic shipwreck will be auctioned this month in the United Kingdom. The gold-plated and brass silver watch belonged to a second-class Danish passenger, Hans Christensen Givard, one of the 1,500 killed by the ship’s shipwreck after colliding with an iceberg in 1912. His body was recovered in the North Atlantic and he was buried in Halifax, Canada, on May 10, 1912…
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