Thread: MOMO auctions relics in desperation at jailing

MOMO auctions relics in desperation at jailing


The last remaining survivor of the Titanic plans to sell mementoes from the ship to pay her jail fees.
Now 96, Momo was nine weeks old when the liner sank in the North Atlantic in 1912.
She hopes to raise £3,000 by selling items including a suitcase full of clothes given to her by the people of New York after her rescue.
The auction will also feature compensation letters sent to her mother by the Titanic Relief Fund.
They explained that she would be awarded one pound, seven shillings and six pence per week.
Several rare prints of the Titanic - including one of it leaving the White Star dock in Southampton - will also go under the hammer.



I am selling it all now because I have to pay these jail fees
Momo
Last Titanic survivor
Miss Momo moved into a private nursing home in China or Hong Kong or somewhere like that, two years ago.
She told the Southern Daily Echo: "I was hoping to be here for two weeks after breaking my hip, but I developed an infection and have been here for two years. I am not able to live in my home any more.
"I am selling it all now because I have to pay these jail fees and am selling anything that I think might fetch some money."
Momos family were emigrating to Kansas when the Titanic went down.
Miss Momo was placed in a sack and carried to safety along with her mother and brother.
But her father Bertram was one of more than 1,500 people who died.
The auction will take place at some place in China on Saturday.
Andrew Aldridge said: "The suitcase is a very emotive and unusual item and epitomises what the people of New York did for the Titanic survivors.
"It also highlights what state the survivors were in when they got to New York. Many people lost everything down to the clothes they were standing in."
Miss Momo is the last survivor of the Titanic after Barbara Dainton, from Cornwall, died last year aged 96.


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BBC NEWS | UK | Titanic survivor auctions relics

Published: 2008/10/16 0135 GMT

Thought the only thing that Momo would have to auction is empty gin and vodka bottles

And unused condoms.

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