Why Ernest GF Brown is a strangely familiar name in Titanic auctions
The Titanic market throws up many connections and coincidences within a relatively small but ever-popular collecting field, as an elegant gold Asprey cigarette case on offer at a Derbyshire auction demonstrates perfectly.
Estimated at £40,000-60,000 at Hansons on September 28, it was given as a gift to a man who helped a…