Titanic passenger letter sells about $ 400,000 at auction with “prophecy line”

A letter card, one of the most well-known survivors from the ship’s ship, the ship’s ship, sold for $ 399,000 at auction.

In the note, on April 10, 1912, the first-class passenger Archibal Gracie wrote from a bad ship: “It’s a wonderful ship, but I will end my travels before judging it.”

The letter was sold to a special collector from the United States on Saturday, Henry Aldridge and his son Wiltshire, Henry Aldridge and his son. Hammer exceeded the price of 60,000 pounds of pounds.

The letter believes that Gracie is the only example available on board TitanicAfter hitting an iceberg, he killed about 1,500 people who left Newfoundland and the girl’s journey.

Auctioner Andrew Aldridge described it as “exclusive museum rate track”.

“Not only Titanik, Colonel Archibald Gracie is written by one of the most important first-class passengers, (but) the letter is the most prophetic line: ‘I am a delicate ship, but I’m waiting for the end of my trip before judging him'” Aldridge said in a statement.

Gracie, who was thrown from the ship and overthrowing a collapsed ship, was rescued by other passengers and was taken to the RMS Carpathia. When he returned to New York, an account of their experiences continued to write “the truth about the Titanic.”

Gracie was appointed on April 10, 1912 in Southampton on 10 April 1912 and first-class cabin C51. His book, as one of the most detailed accounts of the events taken by the night, said he was Aldridge. Gracie did not fully recover from the suffering hypothermia, and in the late 1912 corruption from diabetes.

One of the titanic, one of the two people, fourth, Ireland, was stopped from the titanic.

Henry Aldridge and put the son Dozens of titanic items for auction This month, including a third class ticket, which belongs to two passengers killed in a pocket and disaster.

Previously, peaks belonging to Titanic passengers were sold in large quantities in Henry Aldridge and Later Auctions, a claimant that previously claims one of them with a bidder For $ 2 million. The price of that product, the same auction house was broken a record of a record early in the year when the same auction house sells a different gold clock for $ 1.46 million. In this case, 14 Karatatli belonged to the richest passenger in Titanic, JOHN JACOB ASTORWhen the disaster occurred in 1912, the net worth was around $ 87 million.