people have always been fascinated by the Titanic,
it is believed only three of them from the ship exist today, with two in private collections and this one now on the open market, it survived the sinking as the plan was in the possession of the Straus' maid Ellen Bird who survived the disaster, despite its age and fragile condition the delicate piece of tissue paper has remained in one piece over the last 99 years, it has been given a pre-sale estimate of between £40,000 to £50,000,
Andrew Aldridge commented further, 'Isadore Straus was one of the wealthiest people on the ship and original material relating to his and his party's time on board Titanic is practically non-existent, to have something directly related to Straus which was on the ship is a collector's dream, looking at the condition of the deck plan, it must have been stored in a book and kept somewhere dark and out of sunlight,' so you never know, lurking in a book some where near you could be another treasure!
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