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Titanic Passenger's Life Jacket Sells for £670,000 at Auction
The flotation device is signed by Francatelli and other survivors from her lifeboat, underscoring rare Titanic provenance and collector demand.
- On Saturday, a life jacket worn by Titanic survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli sold at auction for £670,000 , bearing signatures of eight fellow lifeboat survivors.
- Francatelli boarded Lifeboat 1 with 12 people despite its 40-person capacity, and the vessel's failure to return for survivors in frigid water became a source of controversy.
- A seat cushion from a Titanic lifeboat sold at the same auction for £390,000 to the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and Branson, Missouri.
- Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the "record-breaking prices illustrate the continuing interest in the Titanic story, and the respect for the passengers and crew" immortalized by these items.
- Since March 2025, the Titanic Museum Attraction has displayed five of the 14 known surviving life jackets, while the ship's sinking on April 15, 1912, claimed 1,500 lives.
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The flotation device was used by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class transatlantic passenger, and is signed by her and other survivors of the same lifeboat.
The proceeds were approximately twice as high as the auction house had expected beforehand.
A lifejacket worn by a Titanic survivor was auctioned in the United Kingdom on Saturday 18 April. A collector bought it for more than €760,000, almost double its starting price. - "In an ideal world, everything would be in a museum": a lifejacket worn by a Titanic survivor sold at auction for more than double its value (Traditions and Heritage).
The garment was purchased at an auction organized by the British house Henry Aldridge and Son. It belonged to Laura Mabel Francatelli, one of the survivors of the shipwreck in the Atlantic in April 1912.
The life jacket that saved the life of a first-class passenger will be part of a rare collection of items associated with the legendary ship.
Titanic survivor's life jacket sells for over $900K at auction, far exceeding price expectations
A Titanic life jacket worn by survivor Laura Mabel Francatelli sold for roughly $906,000 at auction Saturday, far exceeding its estimated sale price of up to $475,000.
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