Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd. auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, often has items from the Titanic on the block. On Saturday, a water-stained menu from Titanic’s first-class restaurant, dated April 11, 1912, four days before the ship sank, went up for auction for $73,000. Pictured is auctioneer Andrew Aldridge holding the menu.

It’s the only one known to exist from that date and is thought to have been recovered from one of the Titanic victim’s bodies. The fare listed such luxuries as oysters, squab a la godard, spring lamb, tournedos of beef a la Victoria, mallard duck and apricots bourdaloue.

One of the diners sampling such fare could easily have been John Jacob Astor IV, great-grandson of Astoria’s namesake, who was traveling with his pregnant wife, Madeleine.

Astor went down with the ship, and his body was later recovered. Madeleine survived and later gave birth to John Jacob Astor VI.

The menu belonged to historian Len Stephenson of Nova Scotia, Canada, where the bodies that were retrieved from the water after the sinking were taken. Stephenson died in 2017, but the menu was only found recently by his daughter. Before that, no one in the family even knew he had it.

The value of the historic item greatly exceeded expectations at auction: It sold for $102,600. (Photo: Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd.)