It’s stained with salt and looks a little fragile. But what would you expect from a violin that survived the most famous sinking of all time.
The instrument was owned by bandmaster Wallace Hartley and reports say he was playing "Nearer, My God, to Thee" with the eight man group as the ship was sinking.
The violin was found 10 days afterwards still strapped to Hartley's floating body. The instrument was in a leather case with Hartley's initials.
The violin changed hands four times since it was recovered with the latest owner finding it in his mother's attic seven years ago.
Experts spend seven years making sure it was the genuine article. Once it was proven an auctioneer said "it is the most important artifact relating to the Titanic to ever emerge, and probably the most valuable."
Estimates are the instrument will draw six figures.
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