Titanic’s last lunch menu sells for $88,000

A MENU from the last luncheon aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic exceeded expectations by fetching $88,000 in an online auction.

The menu, which was saved from the 1912 sinking by first-class passenger and New York businessman Abraham Lincoln Salomon, sold for a high bid of $88,000 to a private collector during Lion Heart Autographs’ online auction.

The New York auction house had earlier expected the menu to sell for up to $70,000. The menu was one of three items up for auction from the so-called ‘Money Boat,’ the Titanic’s Lifeboat 1, which carried just five wealthy passengers and seven crew despite being designed to hold up to 40 people.

A printed ticket from the ship’s Turkish Baths weighing chair sold for $11,000, while a letter written by survivor Mabel Francatelli, who allegedly paid off the ‘Money Boat’ crew to paddle away from the wreckage instead of picking up survivors, sold for $7,500.

HASBRO Studios President Stephen J. Davis announced last week that there are plans in the works, not just for a fifth Transformers but for a sixth, seventh and eighth.

The most recent, last year’s Transformers: Age of Extinction made more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office (the first four have grossed close to $4 billion), so it’s no wonder Hasbro and Paramount Pictures want to keep their cash cow going, whether the star is Shia LaBeouf, Mark Wahlberg or someone else. After all, the CGI robots are the real draw.

As for whether Michael Bay will return for a fifth time in the director’s chair, that’s still up in the air.