Site Index Subscribe Shop Search Top 15 Most Popular Stories NEWS Environment Health Offbeat ... Video in the News SPECIAL SERIES Pulse of the Planet National Geographic Channel RESOURCES Contact Us Front Page Titanic Artifacts Set for Auction Block This Week Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News June 7, 2004 Watch the TV premiere of Return to Titanic Monday, June 7, at 9 p.m. ET/PT only on the National Geographic Channel The ill-fated luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic never made it to New York. But on Thursday the largest ever selection of the ship's artifacts and memorabilia will go on the auction block the city's South Street Seaport Museum, just steps from the New York Titanic memorial. The event, hosted by New York auction house Guernsey's, will sell items from other famous ocean, such as the Normandie, the Olympic, the Andrea Doria, and the Lusitania. But there can be no doubt of the main attraction. "It's far and away the biggest assemblage of Titanic material ever to come to sale," said Arlan Ettinger, President of Guernsey's. The auction's lots range from the quirky to the awe inspiring to the slightly macabre. | |
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