Kirsty Wigglesworth | published: April 13, 2012
A unique emigrant inland forwarding order to the White Star office in New York, is seen at Henry Aldridge and Son auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire, England Thursday, April 3, 2008. The order, expected to fetch 20,000-30,000 pounds, US$ 39,000-59,000, euro25,000-38,000, was recovered from the body of Carl Asplund who drowned on the Titanic and is part of the Lillian Asplund collection of Titanic related items which go on auction on April 19. Asplund was 5 in April 1912, when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from England to New York. Her father and three siblings were among 1,500 people who died. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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