Random Extremely Valuable Items That Went Down With The Titanic (12 items)

(#3) A 1912 Renault Type CB Coupe De Ville

The Renault CB coupe owned by first-class passenger William Carter was the only automobile thought to be brought onto the ship. Both Carter and his family survived the sinking, and he later made a $5,000 insurance claim for his brand-new automobile.
Historians say the Renault was held in a cargo hold on the front of the ship, which remains mostly intact on the ocean floor. While the value of the actual recovered vehicle is unknown, in 2003 a similar Renault was sold at auction for $269, 500. The real version, if ever recovered, would surely fetch millions.
(#6) Five Steinway Grand Pianos

Underwater footage of the Titanic wreck shows a still standing and mostly intact grand piano. In fact, there were five grand pianos on the ship, three of which were for first class passengers. Among those three was Steinway's crown jewel, the Model B, which was specially customized for the ship. There was also a Model R, which was discontinued in 1942, and a Model K, which remains in production to this day.
A 1912 refurbished Model M from Steinway was recently put up for auction for nearly $35,000 dollars; imagine how much the actual sunken pianos are worth.
(#4) Four Cases Of Opium

John Jacob Astor IV, one of the world's richest men, also went down with the Titanic. The American Astor family made their fortune in fur trading, and later, opium. In 1909, though, the US Congress outlawed "smoking opium."
Somehow, four cases of opium presumably belonging to Astor still made it onto the Titanic – only to wind up on the bottom of the Atlantic.
(#1) Wallace Hartley's Violin

While Titanic sank, violinist Wallace Hartley and his fellow musicians continued playing. Their final song was reported to be "Nearer My God To Thee," performed until they could no longer remain above water. A surviving passenger claimed Hartley's last words to his bandmates were, "Gentlemen, I bid you farewell."
When Hartley finally went into the water, he reportedly tried used his leather bag as a floatation device and put the violin, a gift from his fiancée Maria Robinson, inside it. The bow was too long to fit inside. Hartley's body was found 10 days later, along with his water-damaged violin. Robinson requested it back, though the instrument was presumed lost.
In 2006, the violin was discovered in Robinson's attic by an amateur musician. The old instrument still had an engraved plaque on it that read, "For Wallace on the occasion of our engagement. From Maria." After seven years of study, it was verified authentic, and went up for auction in 2013. The violin fetched a whopping $1.7 million, and is considered to be one of the most important artifacts ever recovered from the Titanic.
(#2) A Jewel-Encrusted Edition Of The Rubáiyát

The Rubáiyát is a book of poems by Medieval Persian philosopher and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1131 CE). English writer and poet Edward Fitzgerald translated the poems to English for the first time in 1860, and they were published to great acclaim.
In 1911, the publishing house Sangorski & Sutcliffe made a particularly lavish copy of The Rubáiyát. It featured a Moroccan leather cover, decorated with embroidered peacocks and more than a thousand gems set in gold. The impressive volume went on exhibition in England before being auctioned off to an American buyer for a little over $2,000. It was loaded onto the Titanic to be shipped to its new owner.
In the unlikely event The Rubáiyát is recovered from the ocean, it would be worth an estimated $120,000.
(#11) China Plates And Cups

Each class on the Titanic had a different set of china, and many of the dishes are still intact at the bottom of the ocean.
Reproductions of Titanic dishes are a hot commodity for collectors. When some genuine recovered plates and tea cups went up for auction with some other items in 2012, the value of the entire collection was estimated at a whopping $189 million dollars.