Titanic goods bring Titanic prices

In 2013, the violin that belonged to Wallace Hartley, the violinist who attempted to comfort passengers on the sinking Titanic sold at an auction in Wiltshire England for 900,000 pounds, or in U.S Dollars $1.7 million. This is the higest price of any item so far recovered from the Titanic.

None of the members of the small band of musicians who played during the sinking of the ship survived.  Hartley was found with his violin case strapped to his back.  The owner who sold the violin and the buyer who purchased it have not been identified.

The violin was authenticated in part through the use of salt deposits in the wood grains of the violin.