Brooch from Titanic with Jack and Rose-like love story up for auction
nypost.comDaily Mail. “She is said to have fallen in love with him and he with her.”“Although she never revealed his name to anyone — maybe because she was married by that time — she kept hold of this little brooch,” he continued.Maioni, however, told her family some details about the unnamed gentleman. “She told her family that the steward gave it to her, either as a token of love or something to remember him by as he probably realized his fate,” Aldridge explained. “Either way, it is an incredibly poignant item and one that has a direct connection with the Titanic.”Maioni scribed in her journals that she had been listening to music at the salon before going to her cabin on the night of the tragedy.According to Maioni’s written account, the man sought her out once the ship started going down and urged her to get into lifeboat No.
8 to ensure her safety.As she climbed into the lifeboat, the man handed her the brooch from his uniform. She was rescued by the RMS Carpathia shortly after the boat’s sinking.She wrote, “I was about to get up when a steward came and said, ‘Miss, we have struck an iceberg but I don’t think there’s any danger.
Should there be, I’ll come back and let you know.’ In a few minutes the steward was back again, telling me not to be afraid but to dress quickly, put on my life belt and go on deck.”Once she was seated in a lifeboat, she put on a life jacket and they rowed away to safety.“Then I heard the terrible cries of the twelve hundred men, women and children left upon her.
And then came an awful silence, more terrible than the sound that had gone before,” Maioni recalled in her report.The auction is set to be held on April 23..
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