Titanic Movie violin for sale

[David Alex Tricot]

a collector item 

 

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/henryaldridgeandsonltd/catalogue-id-henry-10063/lot-e21a0e4b-b350-4b0d-aa52-b2ab010183ec?queryId=0c924e3ac896e0d6bc15431ab01a8c1b

[Televet]

Hmm, that seems a pretty optimistic estimate, but I guess you'll never know if you don't try...

[Shelbow]

It will be curious to see what happens. Anything is possible with big movie fans.

A Nigel Harris violin is about £15k or so at retail.

[GeorgeH]

A lot cheaper than the original (supposedly) one:

"The violin believed to be the one played by bandmaster Wallace Hartley as Titanic sank the night of April 14th, 1912, has sold at auction for a record £900,000 ($1,454,000) hammer price, £1.1 million ($1,778,000) including buyer’s premium and taxes. The previous record price for Titanic memorabilia was just set in May of 2011 when the 33-foot-long plan of the ship made for the British Board of Trade’s inquiry into the disaster sold for £220,000 ($363,000).

The buyer is a British collector of Titanic artifacts who has of course chosen to remain anonymous. It took less than two minutes for the bids to go from £50 — an artificially low opening point that was a gift from auctioneer Alan Aldridge to two of his friends who just wanted to get a bid in — to £100,000. Within 10 minutes the final two buyers standing, both anonymous phone bidders, had battled it out to the rousing £900,000 finale.

There was a great deal of interest in this piece, not all of it approving. The circumstances of its survival and rediscovery read more like fiction than reality, so much so that an elaborate hoax seems at least as possible as it being Hartley’s violin."

More here:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/27566

 

[GeorgeH]

The violin bag sold for sold for 290,000 pounds.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-28/titanic-watch-violin-bag-sold-at-auction/103778058