£2,000 - £3,000
R.M.S. TITANIC: Wood fragment, 3ins × 7⁄8 ins, originally sold at Bonhams/Butterfields as a piece of moulding removed from the top rear left side of Titanic lifeboat #6, with copy of ticket to 1986 Atlantic City antiques show at which # 6 was displayed and offered for sale. Framed with inscribed card survivor Edwina MacKenzie and newspaper photo of Lifeboat #6. These fragments were originally offered as a limited edition of 25.
Lifeboat #6 is perhaps the most famous of all Titanic lifeboats: the first lowered on the port side, it is the one that carried the “Unsinkable” Molly Brown, who forced her crewman to turn back and search for survivors. In 1986, #6 was offered for sale at an antique exposition in Atlantic City, where it was identified as the last surviving lifeboat from the disaster. However it was subsequently found to be Lifeboat No. 6 from the 1953 Fox movie Titanic. The lifeboat sold in the 1971 Fox auction and was displayed at Movieworld in Buena Park, CA for many years. It was sold to a collector named Harry Hand, who exhibited them in Atlantic City. Ex Bonhams/Butterfields San Francisco Lot 1372 17th Feb 2008.
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