Oldest Titanic Memorabilia On Sale

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Monday, February 16, 2009, 15:38

Millvina Dean is the only living survivor of the Titanic disaster in the year 1912. Only nine weeks old, at the time when the giant ship sank, Dean is now selling her priceless Titanic memorabilia.

The 97-year old woman is living at the The Woodlands Ridge Nursing Home on the outskirts of Southampton. This is the same place from where Titanic made its historic journey. Her memorabilia consists of a postbag in which Dean was bundled off at the time when the ship was sinking, it could fetch a five figure price.

"It was a very cold night when the Titanic sank and I suppose in the rush I was bundled into whatever was most handy," the Sun quoted Dean as saying.

"That happened to be a mail sack. And it did a fine job of keeping me warm and dry. For years my mother held on to such a canvas bag and it could be the one I was put in when the Titanic went down."

"I'm also selling a one-off Waterford Crystal Titanic model presented to me when I visited the factory in the late Nineties."

"The Titanic's builders, Harland & Wolff in Belfast, gave me a large picture of the ship with my name on a plaque below it in April 1996. That's going too. I don't want to part with my possessions, but given the circumstances, I have no choice," she added.AGENCIES