A "Titanic" survivor, specifically a cracker which survived the disaster, is now worth thousands of dollars. The cracker, called was reportedly sold for the price of $22,968 at an England auction recently.
The simple and plain cracker was sold by auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes in Wiltshire and the selling price of $22,968 was $7656 more than what they expected, reported The Daily Mail.
The Spillers and Bakers Pilot cracker was saved through a lifeboat survival pack. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge has now dubbed it the "world's most valuable biscuit."
"It is the world's most valuable biscuit. We don't know which lifeboat the biscuit came from but there are no other Titanic lifeboat biscuits in existence to my knowledge," Aldridge told The Salisbury Journal.
"It is incredible that this biscuit has survived such a dramatic event - the sinking of the world's largest ocean liner - costing 1,500 lives. In terms of precedence, a few years ago a biscuit from one of Shackleton's expeditions sold for about £3,000 ($4,593) and there is a biscuit from the Lusitania in a museum in the Republic of Ireland," he added.
"So we have put an estimate of between £8,000 ($12,259) and £10,000 ($15,312) which makes it the most valuable biscuit in the world," Aldridge also said.
The "Titanic" biscuit, now the "world's most valuable biscuit," was bought by a collector in Greece, according to the BBC.
Items which also went up for auction include photographs from the sunken ship.
The "unsinkable" "Titanic" sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912. The tragedy killed over 1,500 people. The Spillers and Bakers 'Pilot' biscuit was preserved in an envelope by Carpathia passenger Fenwick. He wrote the words "Pilot biscuit from Titanic lifeboat April 1912" on the envelope, keeping the cracker as a souvenir.
The Carpathia was a ship that helped pick up survivors, according to Yahoo Food.
Fenwick kept it as a 'souvenir' from the tragic event.
According to the auctioneers, the "Titanic" biscuit survived because it was kept inside one of ocean liner's lifeboats.
Other infamous crackers are outmatched by the price of the Spillers and Bakers Pilot cracker.
A few years ago, a cracker from polar explorer Ernest Shackleton sold for $4,600, and an Ireland museum also keeps a $12,290 to $15,364 cracker from passenger ship Lusitania, which was torpedoed in 1915 by a German U-boat, Aldridge told the Salisbury Journal in the U.K.
