A letter written on the Titanic ship before selling it about $ 400,000 at the auction – WSVN 7NEWS | Miami News, weather, sports
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LONDON (AP)-A letter made by one of the most famous survivors in Titanic was sold on board the ship, days before it sank, for 300,000 pounds (399,000 dollars) at a public auction.
In the observation, I wrote to the great uncle of the seller on April 10, 1912, first -class passengers, Archibald Grace, wrote about the fateful ship: “It is a wonderful ship, but I will wait for my end before he issued the judgment on it.”
The message was sold to a private mosque from the United States on Saturday, according to the auction house Henry Aldridge and Ibn Wiltshir, England. The hammer price exceeded the initial estimate price of 60,000 pounds.
The message is believed to be the only example of Gracie from ONBODARD The Titanic, which was drowned in Newfoundland after hitting an iceberg, killing about 1500 people on its first trip.
Andrew Al -Draidge described it as a “exceptional piece”.
Grace, who jumped from the ship and managed to scramble on a folding boat, was rescued by other passengers on a Najat boat and transported to RMS Carpathia. “The truth about Titanic” went on, a narration of his experiences, when he returned to New York City.
Grace Titanic resigned in Southampton on April 10, 1912, and he was appointed to the C51 first -class cabin. Aldridge said that his book is seen as one of the most detailed novels of the night events in which the ship sank. Grace did not fully recover from the decrease in the body heat he suffered, and died due to the complications of diabetes in late 1912.
The message was the Coinzown, Ireland, one of the two Titanic stations before drowning.
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