The letter of the surviving passenger of the Titanic sold for almost $ 400 thousand.

A letter from the surviving passenger of the ship "Titanic", Colonel Archibald Grace, was sold at auction for almost $ 400 thousand. This was reported by The Guardian newspaper on April 26.

"The card letter is dated April 10, 1912, the day he boarded the ship, and has a Queenstown postmark dated 15:45 on April 11 and London postmark dated April 12. It said: "This is a beautiful ship, but I will wait for the end of my journey before I make a judgment on it," the newspaper writes.

It is noted that this is the highest amount ever paid for a letter written on board the Titanic. At the same time, the final price of the letter at the auction was five times higher than the initial one, the "Газете.Ru ".

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