Lot 4099

Description

Last Titanic survivor's signature, in black felt tip pen on colour glossy photo (approx 45.5x30cm) of an artist's portrait of the R.M.S.Titanic being docked by three tugs, top right signed, 'Millvina Dean, youngest survivor of the R.M.S.Titanic'. Very fine.

With letter of authenticity of PSA/DNA Autograph Authentication Team and certificate of authenticity of RR Auction.

Millvina Dean (2 February 1912-31 May 2009), full name Elizabeth Gladys Millvina Dean, was a British civil servant and cartographer. She was only two months old and the youngest passenger on board the Titanic when it sank on 15 April 1912 claiming the life of her father who had been in the process of taking his family from England to America to join his brother in a business enterprise in Wichita, Kansas. After the tragedy the family returned to England. During the voyage, Millvina was very popular with the other passengers to the extent that a time limit of ten minutes had to be put on the first and second class passengers as they all wanted to nurse the adorable little baby. In October 2007 Dean became the last remaining survivor. She died two years later on 31 May 2009 aged 97.