One of the last four remaining tickets for the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage sold at auction for £33,000.
The ticket, sold by auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, was part of a collection of Titanic memorabilia belonging to one of the last survivors of the disaster, Lillian Asplund.
Miss Asplund died on May 6 2006, aged 99, and left the collection to her second cousin from Massachusetts, US, who sold everything today.
A pocket watch that stopped at the exact moment the Titanic sunk sold for £31,000 and a unique emigrant forwarding order went for £27,000.
Other items auctioned included two pocket books owned by Miss Asplund's father Carl, which sold for £5,000, a photo of him and his wife Selma, which sold for £5,000, and his gold wedding ring, which sold for £3,000.
Bidders called in from around the world and about 150 crammed into the Devizes salesroom yesterday for the auction, which lasted nearly five hours.
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