The master key belonging to one of the 'pantrymen' is expected to fetch at least $100,000 when it goes up for auction in Boston on Saturday. The key was discovered on the body of 1st class steward Alfred Arnold Deeble. His body was found by the Mackay-Bennett cable-laying ship that recovered many of the bodies from the 1912 disaster. Deeble was located on an ice-berg in the aftermath of the sinking. From there, his body was taken to be buried in Nova Scotia. Later, his US-based sister, Lily, wrote to White Star Line in Southampton to ask for his belongings to be returned to her, among those belongings was the master key.
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