A TITANIC brooch gifted to a maid by a cabin steward may sell for £60,000.
Roberta Maioni and the crewman’s four-day romance echoes that of Jack and Rose (Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) in the 1997 film.
When the ship hit an iceberg in April 1912, the steward escorted Roberta, 20, to lifeboat No8 and gave her the star-shaped badge from his uniform.
He died but Roberta and her boss, the Countess of Rothes, were saved.
A collector bought the brooch from Roberta’s family and it will be sold in Devizes, Wilts, on April 23.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: “Roberta told her family the brooch was a token of his love or something to remember him by as he realised his fate.”
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Other lots from her £75,000 archive include her typed account of the tragedy, and a letter from White Star Line to her mum confirming her survival.
Roberta died in 1963 aged 71.
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