The “Prophecy Line” in Titanic Passenger’s Letter is sold at auction for nearly $400,000

One of the Titanic’s most famous survivors sank from the ship a few days before it sold a signal for $399,000 at auction.

In the notes, the Great Restraint to the Seller, wrote to the first-class passenger Archibald Gracie on April 10, 1912, about the bad luck steamer: “It’s a good ship, but I will wait for my journey to end before I judge her.”

According to Henry Aldridge & Son, an auction house in Wiltshire, England, the letter was sold to private collectors in the United States on Saturday. The hammer price is well above the initial estimated price of 60,000 pounds.

This letter is believed to be the only example of Gracie Titanicafter hitting the iceberg, sank in Newfoundland, killing about 1,500 people on its virgin voyage.

Auctionist Andrew Aldridge describes it as “a remarkable museum-grade work.”

“It was written not only by Colonel Archibald Gracie, the Titanic Colonel Archibald Gracie, for not only one of the most important first-class passengers [but] The letter itself contains the most advanced route: “It is a beautiful boat, but I will wait for my journey to end before I judge her,” Aldridge said in a statement.

Gracie jumped off the boat and managed to climb a overturned foldable boat, rescued by other passengers boarding a lifeboat and being taken to the RMS Carpathians. When he returned to New York City, he continued to write “the truth about the Titanic.”

Gracie boarded the Titanic on April 10, 1912 in Southampton and was assigned to the First Class C51. Aldridge said his book was seen as one of the most detailed accounts of the events of the night when the ship sank. Gracie did not fully recover from the hypothermia he suffered and died in late 1912 due to complications of diabetes.

The letter is a postmark in Queenstown, Ireland, one of two stops before the Titanic sinks.

Henry Aldridge Dozens of Titanic items for auction This month, including a pocket watch and a third-class ticket belonging to two passengers, both of whom died in disaster.

Pocket watches previously owned by Titanic passengers sold in large quantities at Henry Aldridge and son auctions There are $2 million. The item’s price broke the record set earlier this year, when the same auction house sold another gold watch for about $1.46 million. In this case, the 14-carat object belongs to the richest passenger of the Titanic, John Jacob AstorWhen the disaster occurred in 1912, its net worth was approximately $87 million.