From the April 9th Bulletin.
Besides the extreme difficulty in getting artifacts up from two and a half miles deep, salvors are further hampered in that they can only recover things from the area known as the "debris field." It is outside of the two main parts of the ship.
Nothing can be taken from the inside.
The Murdoch items are part of some 5,500 artifacts to be auctioned as one lot including clothing, fine china, gold coins, silverware and "The Big Piece" a 17-ton section of the Titanic's hull. Many of these are part of several exhibits around the United States and one in Singapore.
I didn't hear about it, but the winning bid was to be announced April 11th. The collection was appraised at $189 million in 2007.
Hopefully, with the whole collection going at once, whoever gets it will keep it on display somewhere.
Making Money After All These Years. --Cooter
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