Posted by admin on Apr 17, 2009
The last survivor of the Titanic, 97-year-old Millvina Dean, is auctioning off her remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills.
The auction, which is expected to raise up to $50,000 for her, is set to take place Saturday near her home in England.
It is the second auction in less than a year for Dean, who was a 9-week-old when the ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.
Among the items going under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Son is a canvas bag that might have been used to lift the infant Dean from a lifeboat to a rescue ship, said Alan Aldridge of the auction house.
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