Hebrew pocket watch, frozen in time of Titanic wreck, headed for auction
Time stopped on the watch minutes after the "unsinkable" ship went underwater
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Breaking News Hebrew Watch From Titanic Sells For Triple Its Original Bid At Auction
(JTA) — A pocket watch with Hebrew letters on its face that belonged to a Jewish Russian immigrant who died aboard the Titanic sold at auction for $57,500. Heritage Auctions offered the pocket watch — for a starting bid of only $20,000 — at its headquarters in Dallas on Saturday in a public auction of…
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The Schmooze Titanic Victim’s Hebrew Pocket Watch Hits Auction Block For $20K
Every few years since the Titanic sank in 1912, a new bundle of artifacts resurface. Just recently, a Hebrew inscribed timepiece, that belonged to Sinai Kantor — a Russian immigrant who perished along with 1503 other passengers aboard the doomed ship — was put up for auction. This coming Saturday, the century-old watch, will sell…
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