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  • The vest belonging to a third class passenger named William Henry Allen found in the Titanic wreckage is among a sampling of Titanic artifacts on preview Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 in New York. The complete collection of artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the RMS Titanic will be auctioned by Guernsey's Auction House in April. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
  • A logometer, for displaying a ship's speed, found in the Titanic wreckage, is previewed among a sampling of Titanic artifacts on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 in New York. The complete collection of artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the RMS Titanic will be auctioned by Guernsey's Auction House in April. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
  • This October 19, 2011 image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. shows a candy dish from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy. The piece, along with 5,000 other artifacts, will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship. (AP Photo/RMS Titanic, Inc.)
  • The giant propeller of the sunken Titanic lies on the floor of the North Atlantic in this undated photo. The propeller and other portions of the famed ship were viewed by the first tourists to visit the wreck site in September 1998. (AP Photo/Ralph White)
  • This is a photo of the bow of the RMS Titanic, which sank off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. The Nauticus maritime museum in Norfolk, Va., began displaying 32 artifacts recovered in August from the ship's wreckage 400 miles south of Newfoundland, in a display title
  • FILE - First class tea cup china used by passengers is a part of the artifacts collection of the Titanic which is in a secret hiding place in Atlanta, in this Aug 15, 2008 file photo being prepared for shipping to the Georgia Aquarium for the public to see later. The owner of the largest trove of artifacts salvaged from the Titanic is putting the vast collection up for auction as a single lot in 2012, the 100th anniversary of the world's most famous shipwreck. The auction is scheduled for April 1 by Guernsey's, a New York City auction house, according to filings by Premier Exhibitions Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A spokeswoman for the auction house and Premier Exhibitions declined Wednesday Dec. 28, 2011 to discuss the auction with The Associated Press until a formal announcement in January. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary, File)
  • **FILE** In a Friday, Aug 15, 2008 file photo, currency, part of the artifacts collection of the Titanic, is shown at a warehouse in Atlanta. After years of litigation over the wreck and its artifacts, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith is expected to rule soon on the largest collection of Titanic salvage. The judgment _ in one of the nation's top maritime courts _ is intended to ensure the 5,900 pieces of china, ship fittings and personal belongings won't end up in a collector's hands or in a London auction house, where some Titanic artifacts have landed. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary, File)
  • **ADVANCE FOR TURSDAY AUG 21** These are the work boots of passenger Edgar Andrews and is a part of the artifacts collection of the Titanic which is in a secret hiding place in Atlanta, Friday, Aug 15, 2008 being prepared for shipping to the Georgia Aquarium for the public to see later. The tanning process they used back then helped to preserve the boots on the bottom of the ocean all these years. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary)
  • A Champagne bottle which is part of the artifacts collection of the Titanic which is in a secret hiding place in Atlanta, Friday, Aug 15, 2008 being prepared for shipping to the Georgia Aquarium for the public to see later. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary)
  • These are slippers found in the belongings of passenger Edgar Andrews and is a part of the artifacts collection of the Titanic which is in a secret hiding place in Atlanta, Friday, Aug 15, 2008 being prepared for shipping to the Georgia Aquarium for the public to see later. These were covered in silk, but did not survive the preservation process because they were in too poor of condition from the elements on the ocean floor. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary)
  • Dozens of au gratin dishes are exhibited as they were found during one of RMS Titanic Inc.'s expeditions to the Titanic debris field at
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  • One of Titanic's life vests sits in front of a period poster advertising the White Star Line Thursday, Jan. 15, 1998, as part of the Titanic exhibit at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Va. The show, opening Saturday, Jan. 24, will feature numerous displays chronicling Titanic's fateful maiden voyage and the efforts undertaken to rescue passengers from the sinking ship. (AP Photo/Philip Holman)
  • Justin McCarthy, of Westford, Mass., left, Zach Balomenos, 14, of Kennebunkport, Maine, and Robert McKittrick, of Westford, Mass., right, look at a deck chair from the Titanic, Saturday, May 6, 2006 at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Mass. The chair is scheduled to be auctioned Sunday and the estimated value is between $75,000 and $100,000. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
  • A workman's shadow is cast on a giant section of the hull of the RMS Titanic Wednesday Feb. 16, 2000, at Chicago's Museun of Science and Industry. The 20-foot-long hunk of riveted steel weighs 13 tons, and is the largest piece of the exhibit which includes many pieces of recovered wreckage. (AP Photo/Stephen J. Carrera)
  • This August 31, 2011 image provided by RMS Titanic, Inc., a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc. shows a gladstone bag from the RMS Titanic which was recovered from the ocean floor during an expedition to the site of the tragedy, on display. The piece, along with 5,000 other artifacts, will be auctioned as a single collection on April 11, 2012, 100 years after the sinking of the ship. (AP Photo/RMS Titanic, Inc.,)
  • This pocket watch with a mail key and chain was recovered from the body of American postal clerk Oscar Scott Woody, one of five mail clerks who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and is on exhibit at the Natonal Postal Museum in Washington Friday Sept. 17, 1999. Woody and four colleagues gave their lives trying to save heavy bags of mail on the doomed RMS Titanic; the
  • This is an undated photo showing the bow of the Titanic at rest on the bottom of the North Atlantic, about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland. The first tourists to see the bow up close viewed it from the portholes of a tiny submersible in early September. (AP Photo/Ralph White)
  • This August 2010 photo provided by RMS Titanic Inc., shows Captain Smith's Bathtub aboard the sunken ship. The plumbing allowed the Captain a choice of salt or fresh water, hot or cold. Scientists were in court in Norfolk Va. revealing never-before-seen images of the Titanic and the ocean bottom where the violently strewn remnants of the world's most famous shipwreck rest nearly a century after it sank on its maiden voyage. (zu dapd-Text) Foto: RMS Titanic Inc./dapd
  • This photo August 2010 provided by RMS Titanic Inc., shows First Class Window: This photo taken at Titanic's wreck site displays two windows from first-class cabins. The window on the left leads to Stateroom W, while the window on the right leads to Stateroom U Scientists were in court in Norfolk Va. revealing never-before-seen images of the Titanic and the ocean bottom where the violently strewn remnants of the world's most famous shipwreck rest nearly a century after it sank on its maiden voyage. (AP Photo/RMS Titanic Inc.)
  • This is the actual life vest worn by Madeline Astor, wife of John Jacob Astor IV, is seen on display at the Titanic Museum in Springfield, Mass., April 3, 2001. Astor, who was 18 at the time, is shown with her husband, 48 at the time, in the photograph at right. She survived the sinking of the Titanic on April 12, 1912, aboard one of the lifeboats. (AP Photo/Nancy Palmieri)
  • Faucet for a public rest room, which is part of the artifacts collection of the Titanic is in a secret hiding place in Atlanta, Friday, Aug 15, 2008 being prepared for shipping to the Georgia Aquarium for the public to see later. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary)
  • Tom Zaller, the exhibition manager, adjusts the bell from the crow's nest of the Titanic which is on display during a preview of a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, Thursday May 15, 2003. The bell was rung by seaman Fredrick Fleet to warn the ship that an iceberg was ahead on its ill-fated maiden voyage. The exhibition takes visitors on a chronological journey through the life of the Titanic, from its conception and construction, to life on board and its sinking in the Atlantic in April 1912. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
  • A gold plated Waltham American pocket watch, the property of Carl Asplund, is seen at Henry Aldridge and Son auctioneers, in Devizes, Wiltshire, England, Thursday, April 3, 2008. The watch, expected to reach 15,000- 20,000 pounds, euro19, 000-25,000, US$30,000- 39,000 was recovered from the body of Carl Asplund who drowned on the Titanic and is part of the Lillian Asplund collection, the last American survivor of the disaster, 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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