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'If all goes well...' Titanic victim's letter expected to sell for thousands
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:42 pm
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LONDON (Reuters) - A hand-written letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic is expected to fetch up to £80,000 ($105,000) at auction on Saturday.
The letter, written by first-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson to his mother on embossed Titanic "on-board" stationary, describes his impressions of the palatial ship, praising the food and music.
"If all goes well we will arrive in New York Wednesday A.M.," Holverson wrote the day before the ship's fateful encounter with an iceberg.
Holverson was a Minnesota-born salesman, who was traveling on the ship with his wife, Mary Alice, who survived the sinking.
In the letter, he also describes his experiences rubbing shoulders with one of the ship's most famous passengers.
"John Jacob Astor is on this ship," he said of the American financier and real-estate investor, who was one of the world's richest men at the time.
"He looks like any other human being even though he has millions of money. They sit out on deck with the rest of us."
The letter is one of the last known to have survived the sinking - it still carries stains from its time in the Atlantic.
The Titanic was the largest ocean liner in service when it struck an iceberg on April 14th 1912 in the Atlantic while traveling from Southampton to New York. More than 1,500 people died.
The letter is being auctioned by the Holverson family at Henry Aldrige & Son auctioneers in the southern English town of Devizes.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:43 pm to TechDawg2007
all most certainly did NOT go well
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:44 pm to TechDawg2007
Would have been worth more if it was from Rose to Jack.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:44 pm to TechDawg2007
Did he get a pic of kate winsletts tits?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:45 pm to TechDawg2007
So this isn't the guy who fricked Kate Winslet?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:46 pm to TechDawg2007
Rose's sketch is worth more..
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:46 pm to TechDawg2007
You would think something like that would sell for more than 100k
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:47 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
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You would think something like that would sell for more than 100k
eh, i wouldn't give em a nickle for it.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:47 pm to TechDawg2007
Fun Trivia -- the Titanic's swimming pool is still full of water
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:48 pm to TechDawg2007
Didn't the old lady throw this letter in the ocean?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:48 pm to TechDawg2007
I'd like to know where they found the body. Had to still be somewhere in the wreckage not too long after the ship sank. That's in remarkable shape for something that was in freezing saltwater over 100 years ago.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:49 pm to TechDawg2007
Man it's crazy how a slightly above average movie can make the population care about a sunk ship that nobody had ever heard of before the nineties.
This post was edited on 10/20/17 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:50 pm to TechDawg2007
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The letter is one of the last known to have survived the sinking - it still carries stains from its time in the Atlantic.
Um, well, yeah I would think so.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:53 pm to LucasP
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make the population care about a sunk ship that nobody had ever heard of before the nineties.
bruh, the Titanic sinking is one of the most famous things to ever happen in the history of famous things that have happened
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:56 pm to supatigah
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bruh, the Titanic sinking is one of the most famous things to ever happen in the history of famous things that have happened
Yeah it seems that way to you because you're probably too young to remember before 1997. But way back then, we didn't give a frick about the Titanic.
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:57 pm to TechDawg2007
Will there be a string quartet playing that song in the background?
Posted on 10/20/17 at 12:59 pm to TechDawg2007
quote:was PEEJ on the titanic?
If all goes well we will arrive in New York Wednesday A.M
This post was edited on 10/20/17 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 10/20/17 at 1:01 pm to LucasP
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Man it's crazy how a slightly above average movie can make the population care about a sunk ship that nobody had ever heard of before the nineties.
quote:How old are you?
LucasP
Posted on 10/20/17 at 1:03 pm to TechDawg2007
Not going to lie. If I had a stupid amount of money, this would be something that I'd want to have.
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