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| ONE of the last tickets for the doomed maiden voyage of the Titanic and a pocket watch which stopped when it sank have been sold by a relative of a survivor. The ticket sold for £33,000 ($70,680), while the pocket watch fetched £31,000 at a sale on Saturday at auction house Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes in Wiltshire. The items had belonged to Lillian Asplund, who died aged 99 in 2006. She kept them in a shoebox at her home in the US until her death, when they were left to a second cousin who sold them. Ms Asplund was five when she, her parents and four brothers boarded the ship in 1912 to emigrate from Sweden to the US. She, her mother and one of her brothers survived when they were thrown into a lifeboat but her father and three other brothers drowned. More than 1500 people died when the Titanic hit an iceberg on its way from Southampton to New York. |