The Titanic Passenger speech with the “Prophet’s Line” sells about $ 400,000 at auction

A messages card formulated by one of the most famous survivors in Titanic from the ship, days before it was sank, was sold for $ 399,000 at the auction.

In the observation, I wrote to the great seller on April 10, 1912, first -class passengers, Archibald Grace, wrote about the fateful ship: “It is a wonderful ship, but I will wait for my end before he issued the judgment on it.”

The message was sold to a private mosque from the United States on Saturday, according to the auction house Henry Aldridge and Ibn Wiltshir, England. The hammer price exceeded the initial estimate price of 60,000 pounds.

The message is believed to be the only example of Gracie TitanicWhich sank Newfoundland after hitting an iceberg, killing about 1,500 people on its first trip.

Andrew Aldridge described it as a “exceptional piece”.

“Not only is written by one of the most important passengers of the first degree on Titanic, Colonel Archibald Grace, (but) the same letter contains the prophetic line:” It is a wonderful ship but I will wait for the end of my journey before he issued the ruling on it, ” Al -Dridge said in a statement.

Grace, who jumped from the ship and managed to scramble on a folding boat, was rescued by other passengers on a Najat boat and transported to RMS Carpathia. He continued to write “The truth about Titanic”, a novel for his experiences, when he returned to New York City.

Grace Titanic resigned in Southampton on April 10, 1912, and he was appointed to the C51 first -class cabin. Aldridge said that his book is seen as one of the most detailed novels of the night events in which the ship sank. Grace did not fully recover from the decrease in the body heat he suffered, and died due to the complications of diabetes in late 1912.

The message was the Coinzown, Ireland, one of the two Titanic stations before drowning.

Henry Al -Dardaj and son put Dozens of Titanic elements for public auction This month, including the pocket watch and a third -class ticket that belongs to the two passengers, who died in the disaster.

The pocket watches that were previously owned by Titanic passengers have sold huge sums to Henry Al -Dardaj & Sun’s auctions before, with a bidder in November. For $ 2 million. The price of this element had broken a record earlier in the year, when the auction house sold a different gold watch for about $ 1.46 million. In this case, the 14 -carat object belonging to the richest passengers on Titanic, John Jacob AstorIts pure wealth was about $ 87 million when the disaster occurred in 1912.