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The only known surviving first class ticket for the White Star liner Titanic

Archive reference DX/1063/R

a picture of the ticket, it is brown in colour with some red typed wrting and some hand written text

This ticket belonged to Reverend Stuart Holden. His wife became ill the day before the Titanic sailed, forcing him to cancel his voyage. Reverend Holden had the ticket mounted and kept it above his desk until his death in 1934.

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