One-of-a-kind Titanic ticket expected to fetch £50,000 at auction

• A rare Titanic visitor's card that allowed a mother to watch the ship set sail from Southampton is expected to fetch up to £50,000 at auction.
• The ticket belonged to Eliza Dibden, whose 18-year-old son William was a second-class passenger who perished in the disaster.
• Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge described the item as the only ticket of its type ever to be offered for auction.
• The boarding card is being sold alongside Mr Dibden's first communion certificate, which dates from Easter 1908.
• The lot is scheduled to go under the hammer in Devizes, Wiltshire, on 21 November.

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Titanic day ticket from mother who watched son sail to his death up for auction