Today the sports world celebrates Jackie Robinson Day - as well it should - but April 15 also marks the anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking. That makes it fitting to revisit what I believe may be one of the most remarkable pre-disaster collectibles ever produced: The 1911 Cadbury Titanic card.

Issued as part of Cadbury’s “Largest Steamers in the World” series, the card was created while the Titanic was still under construction in Belfast - capturing the ship at a time when it symbolized the very peak of human achievement. In the early 20th century, massive engineering projects like Titanic weren’t just impressive - they were proof that industrial progress and innovation were reshaping the world. The Titanic, alongside its sister Olympic, was viewed as a marvel of scale, luxury, and design - so advanced that it fed into the popular notion of being essentially the kind of ship "even God couldn’t sink."

That’s what I think makes this card so powerful. It presents Titanic not as a tragedy, but as a triumph - an icon of optimism, ambition, and confidence in technology. Distributed in Cadbury chocolate, it brought that sense of wonder into everyday life. Today, especially on this anniversary, the card stands as a striking snapshot of a moment just before everything changed - when Titanic represented not loss, but the future.