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To: Sam Biller who wrote (141)	4/11/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: Jonathan Feins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217

Titanic Boarding Pass Auctioned A.P. INDEXES: TOP STORIES \| NEWS \| SPORTS \| BUSINESS \| TECHNOLOGY \| ENTERTAINMENT Filed at 5:21 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- An $8 Titanic boarding pass that survived the ill-fated voyage along with its passenger has fetched $100,000 at an auction. The buyer was Jeffrey Trainer, an Allentown, Pa. collector who is in the trading card business. The price began at $5,000 on Saturday and zoomed to $100,000 in less than a minute, said Cheryl Gorsuch, co-owner of the Tacoma antique store where the auction was held. Trainer said he would ''hoard the ticket for a little while and enjoy it.'' The passenger, Anna Sofia Sjoblom, had ''kept it for a while, so I may, too,'' he said. The document -- an undamaged immigrant inspection card that served as a boarding pass for Titanic's third-class passengers-- is believed to be the only such ticket in existence. Its price on Saturday makes it among the most valued of the ship's memorabilia. Sjoblom, of Finland, had pinned the boarding pass inside her jacket for the 1912 voyage. She had borrowed the $8 Titanic fare after she and three friends were bumped from the Adriatic, another ship in the White Star Line. Titanic sunk on Sjoblom's 18th birthday. She made it onto a lifeboat that also reportedly carried White Star Line chairman J. Bruce Ismay. The pass, still pinned inside her jacket, stayed dry. Sjoblom's three friends died. When she arrived in America, Sjoblom headed west with her uncle, finally settling in Tacoma. She married and raised two children in Olympia, and died in 1975. Her pass had been packed away with old photographs and postcards until a widower of Sjoblom's grandniece sold it to the antique store about six months ago, Gorsuch said. She would not say how much she paid or anything else about the seller. But how it got to such a distant relation has left Sjoblom's direct descendants perplexed. Their varying theories have the pass vanishing long ago with Sjoblom's first husband, or being taken by a curious high school student whom Sjoblom lent a box of voyage keepsakes sometime in the 1960s. ''We never saw him again,'' said Sjoblom's daughter, Evelyn Hendrickson, 84, who attended the auction. Relatives considered making a bid to bring the ticket back into the family, but William Hendrickson, Sjoblom's grandson, said the family couldn't afford it. ''Sometimes I think all the luck in our gene pool was used up when my grandmother got on that lifeboat,'' he told The News Tribune of Tacoma.