Investors are continuing to snap up items salvaged from the Titanic. A menu from the ship has been sold for £19,550 sterling (€29,661) at Christie's in London, well above the expected purchase price. Art dealer Mr Richard Mintzer from New York purchased the six-inch piece of card which contained the menu for first class passengers on the doomed vessel.

Auctioneers described the card, which escaped shipwreck in the pocket of Manchester-based survivor, Mr Adolphe Saalfield, as an unique relic of the disaster. Its sale was the highlight of an auction of a collection of Titanic memorabilia which raised a total of £85,000.

Another menu for the crew of the vessel was sold for £10,350, while memorabilia that once belonged to the Titanic's captain, EJ Smith, also attracted interests from collectors all over the world.

A silver locket containing a portrait of Captain Smith sold for £4,600, and his gold pocket knife brought a bid of £3,600. Four unused tickets for Turkish baths on the ship were bought for £4,600 and a Titanic baggage receipt was sold for £5,520. A bell belonging to the Mackay Bennett, a ship involved in the rescue of Titanic passengers, went for £14,950. Four copies of the Daily Mirror from the time of the tragedy sold for between £320 and £740.