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TITANIC.....*DOWN WENT THE SHP, UP CAME THE PRICES---*
After James Cameron's movie TITANIC *became the all time highest-grosser and reached home with 11 Oscars, the price of even the most obscure memorablia rom the real *Titanic shot up. Often, according to experts, by as much as six times the pre-movie price!
At a British auction held in January-1999 (in the town of Devizes in Wiltshire), a coffee-table leg that had been made out of driftwood from the ship--sold for Stg.800/-. Two coat hangers went for Stg.150/-. A letter written by one of the disaster's survivor fetched Stg.8000/-