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A rare lunch menu from the Titanic that was saved by a survivor is up for auction in New York and is expected to fetch as much as $70,000.

Abraham Lincoln Saloman, a first class passenger, saved the menu after he escaped the doomed ship before it sank with the loss of 1,522 lives.

The menu, which listed corned beef, dumplings and other savory items, is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped on another lifeboat.

It is believed that the two men lunched together on that fateful day in 1912.

Saloman, boarded lifeboat No. 1 nicknamed 'the Money Boat' by the press who reported at the time that one of the passengers bribed seven crew members to row the boat away quickly from the sinking ship rather than rescue others. This rescue vessel was full of a handful of millionaires.

The menu, which gives a fascinating insight, is being sold by online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs.

The auction house is also two other previously unknown artifacts from Lifeboat No. 1 which will go up on the block on September 30.

The auction marks the 30th anniversary of the wreckage's discovery at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Salomon also took away a printed ticket from the Titanic's opulent Turkish baths, which recorded a person's weight when seated in a specially designed upholstered lounge chair.