Find anything you save across the site in your account Find anything you save across the site in your account By Oren Hartov On April 15, 1912, John Jacob Astor IV, one of the world’s wealthiest ...
The gold watch worn by the Titanic’s richest passenger, John Jacob Astor, has set an auction record as the most expensive item of Titanic memorabilia. A private collector in the U.S. paid $1.5 ...
A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the richest man aboard the Titanic, sold for a record-breaking £1.175 million ($1.485 million) at auction on ...
On April 15th, 1912, John Jacob Astor IV—a member of the renowned Astor family and one of the world’s wealthiest men—helped his young, pregnant wife, Madeleine, into lifeboat No. 4 on the ...