A letter found by a man who died in the sinking of the "Titanic" was sold for a record sum of money for Titanic letters ....
This is a letter written by a first-class Titanic passenger Alexander Oscar Holwerson to his mother and is one of the last letters known to have survived this maritime accident.
The letter was sold at auction for a sum of $ 166,000, which is a record of "surviving" letters from the "unsinkable" Titanic
The letter has a header with the inscribed name of the famous Titanic, and in it Hollywood writes about the impressions of the ship and praises food and music.
"If everything goes well, we will arrive in New York on Wednesday," Holwerson wrote one day before the fatal Titanic encounter with an iceberg.Holverson was a Minnesota trader and traveled with his wife, Mary Alis, who survived the catastrophe. In the letter, he also conveys impressions of the trip, "one shoulder to shoulder" with one of the most famous Titanic passengers.
"John Jacob Astor is on board. He looks like every other human being, even though he has millions." They sit on the deck with us, "wrote Holverson, speaking of an American businessman who at the time was one of the richest people in the world at that time.Alexander Oscar and Mary HollywoodThe letter is one of the last items that are known to have been preserved after the sinking of the ship, and there are visible traces of the time it took at the bottom of the Atlantic.
The letter was sold at auction by Hollywood's family in the trading city of Divajzis in the south of England. The keys made of iron from "Titanika" were sold for 76,000 pounds.
Auctioneer Andrew Oldridge pointed out that these prices show that interest in the Titanic, as well as the passengers and crew of that unfortunate ship, does not decrease.
This is a letter written by a first-class Titanic passenger Alexander Oscar Holwerson to his mother and is one of the last letters known to have survived this maritime accident.
The letter was sold at auction for a sum of $ 166,000, which is a record of "surviving" letters from the "unsinkable" Titanic
The letter has a header with the inscribed name of the famous Titanic, and in it Hollywood writes about the impressions of the ship and praises food and music.
"If everything goes well, we will arrive in New York on Wednesday," Holwerson wrote one day before the fatal Titanic encounter with an iceberg.Holverson was a Minnesota trader and traveled with his wife, Mary Alis, who survived the catastrophe. In the letter, he also conveys impressions of the trip, "one shoulder to shoulder" with one of the most famous Titanic passengers.
"John Jacob Astor is on board. He looks like every other human being, even though he has millions." They sit on the deck with us, "wrote Holverson, speaking of an American businessman who at the time was one of the richest people in the world at that time.Alexander Oscar and Mary HollywoodThe letter is one of the last items that are known to have been preserved after the sinking of the ship, and there are visible traces of the time it took at the bottom of the Atlantic.
The letter was sold at auction by Hollywood's family in the trading city of Divajzis in the south of England. The keys made of iron from "Titanika" were sold for 76,000 pounds.
Auctioneer Andrew Oldridge pointed out that these prices show that interest in the Titanic, as well as the passengers and crew of that unfortunate ship, does not decrease.
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