woodhornbirder
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"Another star of the sale was a set of keys belonging to an officer transferred from the Titanic at the last minute, which fetched £54,000.
The keys - bearing a brass tag engraved with the words "binocular box" - were kept by officer David Blair and would have been stored in a teak box on the bulwark of the bridge.
Mr Blair sailed with the ship from Belfast to Southampton, but was moved onto another ship at short notice, taking the bunch of keys with him - a move which may well have saved him.
Mr Aldridge said: "Mr Blair was without doubt one of the luckiest men alive because this decision almost certainly saved his life."
from:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100418/twl-intimate-titanic-letter-fetches-new-3fd0ae9.html
It may have saved his bloody life, but cost the lives of everbody else!
As you may recall the lookout crew spotted the iceberg too late to stear aroudn it.
SO this pair of bins(locked in the box) would have been worth the lives of 1000 people= priceless!
The keys - bearing a brass tag engraved with the words "binocular box" - were kept by officer David Blair and would have been stored in a teak box on the bulwark of the bridge.
Mr Blair sailed with the ship from Belfast to Southampton, but was moved onto another ship at short notice, taking the bunch of keys with him - a move which may well have saved him.
Mr Aldridge said: "Mr Blair was without doubt one of the luckiest men alive because this decision almost certainly saved his life."
from:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100418/twl-intimate-titanic-letter-fetches-new-3fd0ae9.html
It may have saved his bloody life, but cost the lives of everbody else!
As you may recall the lookout crew spotted the iceberg too late to stear aroudn it.
SO this pair of bins(locked in the box) would have been worth the lives of 1000 people= priceless!