Life jacket worn by a passenger who survived the Titanic auctioned off for over $900,000
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Key Points:
- A life jacket worn by Titanic passenger Laura Mabel Francatelli sold at auction for £670,000 ($906,000), far exceeding its presale estimate of £250,000-£350,000.
- The life jacket is signed by Francatelli and other survivors from the same lifeboat, making it a highly significant piece of Titanic memorabilia.
- A seat cushion from a Titanic lifeboat also sold for £390,000 ($527,000) to owners of Titanic museums in Tennessee and Missouri.
- The auction highlights ongoing public fascination with the Titanic disaster, which claimed around 1,500 lives when the ship sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg.
- The highest price ever paid for Titanic memorabilia remains £1.56 million for a gold pocket watch from the RMS Carpathia captain, the ship that rescued survivors.
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