The plain cracker, sold by Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers in Devizes in Wiltshire, fetched 5,000 ($7656) more than was expected. It was bought by a collector in Greece, the BBC reported.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge told The Salisbury Journal: `It is the world`s most valuable biscuit. We don`t know which lifeboat the biscuit came from but there are no other Titanic lifeboat biscuits in existence to my knowledge.`
The Spillers and Bakers `Pilot` biscuit survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 in which over 1,500 people died after the `unsinkable` ship hit an iceberg.
According to auctioneers, the sweet was part of a survival kit that was stored within one of the ill-fated ocean liner`s lifeboats.
James Fenwick, a passenger onboard the SS Carpathia, which went to the aid of survivors from the ship kept it as a `souvenir` of the disaster.
He put the snack in a Kodak photographic envelope and wrote a note which stated `Pilot biscuit from Titanic lifeboat April 1912`.
Aldridge added: `It is incredible that this biscuit has survived such a dramatic event - the sinking of the world`s largest ocean liner - costing 1,500 lives.
`In terms of precedence, a few years ago a biscuit from one of Shackleton`s expeditions sold for about £3,000 ($4,593) and there is a biscuit from the Lusitania in a museum in the Republic of Ireland.
`So we have put an estimate of between £8,000 ($12,259) and £10,000 ($15,312) which makes it the most valuable biscuit in the world.`
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A biscuit cracker that survived the sinking of the Titanic has sold for
