Lot Essay
very few menus survive from the actual night of the Disaster, fewer yet are First Class. Of the two known examples, neither are from the Caf Parisien making this example possibly unique.
Details
An important First Class passenger menu from the R.M.S. Titanic Caf Parisien, 14th April 1912
with printed monochrome House cover with inset depicting the Caf Parisien, opening upwards with menu listed inside (old staining and wear) -- 5.10/16 x 46in. (14.2 x 11cm.)
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with printed monochrome House cover with inset depicting the Caf Parisien, opening upwards with menu listed inside (old staining and wear) -- 5.10/16 x 46in. (14.2 x 11cm.)
See illustrations
Provenance
Adolphe Saalfeld, a First Class passenger from Victoria Park, Manchester to Mr Lissberger, an accountant at his company Saalfeld & Co. Ltd and thence by descent