A lettercard written on the Titanic by one of the shipwreck’s best known survivors has sold for a whopping $399,000.
The letter was written days before the ill-fated steamship tragically went down in the north Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg, killing around 1,500.
A private collector from the US won Saturday’s bidding war, according to auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Wiltshire, England.
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An image of the letter that sold at auction. AP
The “museum grade” letter was penned by first-class passenger Col. Archibald Gracie, and mailed on April 10, 1912, from Southampton.
The letter was postmarked Queenstown, Ireland, however, one of the ship’s two scheduled stops before sinking.
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