Watch Of Belarusian, Who Died On 'Titanic', To Be Sold At Auction
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Bidding on the lot will start at £30,000.
British auction house Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd has put up for auction the pocket watch of Sinai Kantor - emigrant from Vitsebsk, heading in April 1912 to America on board the Titanic liner, writes the "Belarus and the World".
The auction will be held in the town of Devizes in the British county of Wiltshire on November 11. Bidding on the lot number 288 starts at £ 30 thousand. But it is expected that they could be sold for between £50,000 and £80,000.

Sinai Kantor and his wife Miriam were among 285 second class passengers on the Titanic. After colliding with the iceberg, Miriam was put into a boat and was rescued. Sinai, however, died, his body pulled from the icy water.
The wife was later able to claim the property found with her husband. It included a watch, as well as clothes, a passport of the Russian Empire, a notebook, money, wallets, a pocket telescope and a corkscrew.
The watch was first offered for sale at the American Heritage Auctions in August 2018. They were provided by the descendants of Sinai Kantor. And the lot was bought for 57.5 thousand US dollars by chronometer collector John Miottel.