A brandy flask given to Titanic passenger as disaster struck sells for almost $100,000
Helen Churchill Candee owned the flask, which was engraved with her family's coat of arms and ominous motto,"Faithful but unfortunate."
The flask remained in Churchill Candee's family until 2005, when it was sold by UK-based Henry Aldridge & Son, regarded as a leading authority on all things Titanic. Emerging again for sale this year, the flask attracted bids from around the world by telephone and online. The winning bid came from an unidentified private buyer in Britain.
"Principally, I think it's the human side of the story," explained Aldridge."Every man, woman and child on that ship had a story to tell and those stories are told through the memorabilia."The flask is a prime example of this. On the face of it, it's a fairly unremarkable piece that without this connection might be worth a couple of hundred pounds."
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