-items as small as a hairpin and the size of a piece of Titanic's hull 5000 is one of the most famous objects from the shipwreck in the world to be auctioned in April, close to the one hundredth anniversary of the disaster.
Nearly a century after the April 15, 1912, sinking of ships of icebergs in the North Atlantic hit, is a New York auction is being prepared by Guernsey's Auctioneers & Brokers.
This auction has been getting headlines in the past with historic sites such as the sale of appreciated Beatles pictures, jewelry famous late Princess Diana, the beloved Jerry Garcia's guitar and police motorcycles used in the column Texas when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. But nothing is known as a collection of Titanic Titanic.
On 11 April, all items are saved should be offered as a lot of what President Arlan Ettinger of Guernsey describes as the most important auction ever handled by the house.
"Who on this planet does not know the story of the Titanic and was fascinated by it?" he asked. "Could Hollywood have written a story is more tragic or goose-bump-raising of what really happened on that ship?"
"It is pathetic to 12 years my son and me and me for generations There is no end to the appeal of .."
Auction will be 100 years plus one day after the Titanic departed from Southampton, England, started its maiden voyage to New York to determine, as a goal.
Collection in 2007 valued at $ 189,000,000, including some of the intellectual property, in addition to a variety of items selected by a remote-controlled probe the depths of darkness, and about 2 1 / 2 miles beneath the ocean surface.
These artifacts are part of the plane called "The Big Piece", as well as personal belongings of passengers and crew, including a mesh pocket and eyeglasses. A bronze cherub that once graced the Grand Staircase is also among the collection, such as fine china, table, bottle and ship equipment - even the country where the ship's wheel.
By court order, the goods are not sold separately and must be paid to the buyer who agrees to maintain the collection and available to be used occasionally in public. The sale is subject to court approval.
Ettinger and officials with RMS Titanic Inc., artifacts rescued from the wreck of the Titanic, speaks with The Associated Press in front of the media preview Thursday in New York. The first AP report on the December 29 auction, according to financial reports with the RMS Titanic.
The planned sales may also contain a wealth of archaeological data and images of shipwrecks and other detailed maps of the ocean floor where all the artifacts that are scattered after the sinking of the Titanic.
Titanic sinking claimed the lives of more than 1,500 of the 2228 passengers and crew. An international team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard located the wreck in 1985, about 400 miles from Newfoundland, Canada.
Study materials can be a roadmap for future expeditions to save as a result of new information they provide about the accident will.
"We are opening doors of opportunity for the future of the Titanic," said Brian Wainger, a spokesman for Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions Inc., which is a division of the RMS Titanic.
But the clock is ticking for thousands of artifacts that are more embedded in the 3-by-five miles of seabed around the wreck, a field where a century of ocean conditions such as extreme cold temperatures and dangerous currents.
"I think it is fair to say that we are only touching the surface," said Wainger.
The giant ship Titanic is deteriorating forbidden to store.
Auction subject to approval by a federal judge in Virginia who has a supervisory jurisdiction in legal matters concerning the rescue of the Titanic. Titanic treasures are accumulated in seven risky and expensive journey to an accident.
U. S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, who has overseen the Norfolk court case, called the Titanic an "international treasure." He has approved the agreement and condition of the company who previously worked with the federal government, including a ban on the sale of the collection by piece.
The Court also requires that the condition subsequent owners with artifacts that are available "for present and future generations for public exhibition and exhibition history, and scientific research and educational purposes."
Wainger and Ettinger declined to speculate about who will bid on the collection.
"You hate to be in the position of an astrologer or a psychic," says Ettinger. "I, for one, would be very surprised if there is no international interest."
Wainger said: "Anyone can fall in love with one of the few artifacts because so many of them in person If you are the personal stories that you recognize the tragedy to read .."
Premier Exhibitions is a display of Titanic artifacts in exhibitions around the world. Items that are recovered from the shipwreck expeditions in 1987,, 1993 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2004.
RMS Titanic, which has overseen the artifacts for 18 years, said the corporation decided to auction the collection in response to shareholder demands that "the company to go out and make money."
"It's better in the hands of private institutions rather than at the same advantages in the short-term commitment of a public limited company," he said.
In 2010, RMS Titanic with some of the world's leading experts in the most technologically advanced expedition to Titanic, the commitment of the first comprehensive overview map of the ship with 3-D images from bow to stern.
The most striking images involving 3-D tour of the Stern Titanic, which is 2000 meters from the arc.
A camera in unmanned underwater vehicles lean over the stern, apparently transports viewers through jagged rusticles screen grows from the deck, the length of the chain, main bathroom, and wood elements that scientists previously believed to have disappeared in the neighborhood, in the harsh sea.
The expedition actually mapped the accident, documenting the entire debris field for the first time.
"Titanic" director James Cameron also led the team to the wreck to the bow and stern to take.
Titanic exhibition is among the few operated by Premier Exhibitions, which bills itself as "a major provider of museum quality touring exhibitions." Offerings have included sports memorabilia, traveling Star Trek homage and "Body", an anatomical exhibition of human corpses preserved .-
