A first-class menu from the Titanic's last lunch sold Saturday for 76,000 pounds, about $120,000, the auction house said. The menu bears the date April 14, the day in 1912 that the reputedly unsinkable ship hit an iceberg and fell to the bottom of the Atlantic. The disaster left 1,500 people dead. Devizes, England-based auctioneer Henry Aldrige & Son said the menu is one of the "rarest items of Titanic memorabilia to be sold in recent years," adding it made its way off the ship in purse of the wife of prominent San Francisco banker Washington Dodge. The BBC said that the menu was on the table of first-class passengers and that Dodge's wife, Ruth, had it in her purse when she escaped on a lifeboat with her son.
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