Tuesday, 22nd April 2008 (274 views)

A gold ring kept in a shoe box by a Titanic survivor has been sold at auction for £3000.

The item was among an array of memorabilia from the fated ship auctioned at the weekend for a collective value of £100,000, reports the BBC.

Lillian Asplund's treasures included a pocket watch that stopped at the exact moment the ship sank and sold for £31,000.

Meanwhile, the gold ring was the wedding band that belonged to Miss Asplund's father, Carl, who was in a photo with his wife that sold for £5,000.

Andrew Aldridge, who runs Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, Wiltshire with his father Alan, told the publication: "There were bidders from China, America, Sweden, Ireland and the UK calling in and the room itself was so packed we had to fetch more chairs."

The Titanic disaster in 1912 resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people, after the ship struck an iceberg and sank.

 

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