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In Britain, the letter from the Titanic sold for a round sum

В Британии письмо с «Титаника» продали за круглую суммуThe amount was a record.

One of the latest discovered letters written aboard Titanic sold at auction for a record $ 126 thousand pounds (about 166 thousand dollars).

The letter was written by the legendary passenger liner, American businessman Oscar Halverson and was intended to his mother.

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Collectors hunting this letter because it was written 13 April 1912 – the day before built at the shipyards of Belfast ocean liner collided with an iceberg.

As far as we know, this is the only letter written on the letterhead of the Titanic and gone down into the waters of the Atlantic, but surviving.

This historic document with a divorce from seawater have been sold at auction Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire to the buyer from the UK who was bidding by telephone.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge described this anonymous buyer as a person who collects a unique historical items.

The author, a successful entrepreneur Oscar Holverson, wrote to his mother, traveling on the doomed to death ship with his wife Mary.

The couple boarded the Titanic in Southampton, hoping to swim to his native new York.

Halverson, as is evident from the letter obviously was in awe of everything around, describing the mother, “this giant ship, equipped like a luxury hotel”.

Possessing a peculiar manner the entrepreneur also talks about how he saw on Board the ship “the richest man” of that time – John Jacob Astor and his wife.

“It looks absolutely like a normal person, despite the fact that he’s got millions. They sit on the deck with the rest of us”, – writes Halverson.

The letter was auctioned with a starting price of 60-80 thousand pounds.

The unsinkable letter

Before the start of Saturday which consisted of trading Andrew Aldridge said that even if the letter consisted of one blank sheet, it still would be extremely valuable lot because of the special paper, distinctive signs and accompanying history.

Aldridge, twenty years engaged in the sale of relics from the Titanic, noted that the content of the writing brings this lot to a new level due to standing on it a special date, personal observations of its author and the fact that it has been in the waters of the Atlantic.

One prophetic remark from a letter of Halverson never came true: “If all goes well, we will arrive in new York on Wednesday morning”.

Oscar Holverson died on Board of the Titanic, John Astor and more than 1,500 people, however, his wife Mary Halverson managed to escape.

When the body of Halverson got out of the water, when it found a notebook, the pages of which was this letter.

It still has traces of seawater and logo of the shipping company White Star.

The letter eventually fell into the hands of the mother of Halverson that was buried woodlawn cemetery in new York..

As noted by the auctioneer, it may be the only letter written on Board the ship the victim of a shipwreck and delivered to the addressee without payment of postage.

Aldridge also sold a bunch of keys from the Titanic for 85 thousand pounds ($112 thousand) and violin, which was played in a shipwreck, over 1 million 100 thousand pounds (1 million 451 thousand dollars), said enthusiastically engaged in this lot.

“This is one of the most unique and important artifacts from the Titanic ever to fall at the auction, which shows that interest in the ship and its passengers still sohranyaetsya” he said.

In addition to the letter on acuzine was sold a bunch of keys one of the stewards of the first class – it was purchased for the sold over 76 thousand pounds (100 thousand dollars), as well as two previously unpublished photo of the Titanic, who went for 24 thousand pounds.

See also: In France a pleasure boat crashed into a buoy: there are dead and wounded

In the past the highest amount in correspondence with the “Titanic” was obtained at auction in April 2014, when a letter written a few hours before the ship collides with an iceberg, went for 119 thousand pounds ($156 900).

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