A letter found among the things of a man who died in the sinking of the Titanic was sold for $ 166,000!
This is, as Reuters reported, a record price for the letters that have been sold so far from the Titanic. It is a letter that Titanic's first-class Alexander Oscar Holverson wrote to his mother and is one of the last letters known to have survived the accident.
The letter has a header with the inscribed name of the Titanic, and in it Holverson writes about the impressions of the ship and praises food and music.
"If everything goes well, we will arrive in New York on Wednesday morning," wrote Holverson the day before the fatal Titanic encounter with the iceberg.
Holverson was a Minnesota trader, and on Titanic traveled with his wife, Mary Alis, who survived the disaster. In his letter, he also delivers impressions of the trip, "side by side" with one of Titanic's most famous passengers.
"John Jacob Astor is on board. He looks like every other human being, even though he has millions." They sit on deck with us, "wrote Holverson, speaking of an American businessman who at the time was one of the richest people in the world. The letter is one of the last items that are known to have been preserved after the sinking of the ship, still has traces of time it took at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Titanic was one of the largest overseas passenger ships when he hit the iceberg and sank on April 14, 1912, on a journey from Southampton to New York. At that time, 1,500 people died.
The letter was sold at auction by Holverson's family in the south of England. Keys made of titanium iron are sold for 76,000 pounds. Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge has said that these prices show that interest for Titanic, as well as the passengers and crew of the ship, is not declining.
This is amazing, great news. Thanks!
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How could it be so preserved?
I guess it was in some kind of waterproof box
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