Titanic's final lunch menu could fetch $160,000

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Titanic's final lunch menu could fetch $160,000

The Associated Press Published Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:39AM EDT

In this May 22, 2007 file photo, an original manuscript written by Titanic survivor Helen Churchill Candee, left, is seen displayed next to an original menu served aboard the Titanic, dated April 12, 1912, at the Paris Museum of Letters and Manuscripts. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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LONDON- British auctioneers are offering a first class menu from the Titanic's last lunch, an item they claim offers a unique window on the doomed ship's Edwardian splendor.

The menu, kept by a prominent San Francisco banker, bears the date April 12, 1912, days before the reputedly unsinkable cruiser hit an iceberg and fell to the bottom of the Atlantic.

Devizes, England-based auctioneer Henry Aldrige & Son say that the menu is one of the "rarest items of Titanic memorabilia to be sold in recent years" and expects it to fetch up to 100,000 pounds (about $160,000) when it's offered later Saturday.

Among the 40 options on the historic menu: Chicken a la Maryland and Consomme Fermier.