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Millvina Dean Youngest & Last Titanic Survivor 2008

Signed to me in sepia Sharpie. I chose this original 1924 photograph, unique hand-tint too, because it was taken aboard the Adriatic and that was the ship that brought Miss Dean and her mother back to the UK after this disaster in 1912. Also, most importantly, in 1907 Captain Smith, later of the Titanic in 1912, brought this Adriatic over on her maiden voyage. During an interview in NYC at her arrival, he said that his life 'was boring, he had never seen a wreck or been wrecked and that modern shipbuilding had gone beyond such things". Not quite...correct. I have been interested in this subject since 1975 or so, and have been involved with many books, exhibits and the authentication of ocean liner items from the lost liners since C. 2000,, so this is a very special item for me. Very personal. Never did I think I would have correspondence with a Titanic survivor. Most did this in the 1970's. But, I was lucky. Unfortunately, she died just a few months later. This item burst from its mailer and was lost for months. For good, no? I mean, it says what it is. The following summer, I received this in an unmarked envelope.

Eric

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