Thomas Dyer
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Titanic love note - sold for £14,500.
From Belfast Telegraph:
£14,500 for love note from Titanic
Five-word telegram is sold at auction
25 June 2005
A five-word message to loved ones in London from a survivor of the ill-fated Titanic was sold at Christie's in New York for £14,505, or nearly £3,000 per word - more than double what it was expected to fetch.
The dramatic Marconi gram, similar to a telegram, was sent form the Carpathia - the ship which rescued 29-year-old Elisabeth Allen - to Mr and Mrs C Martin, c/o Thomas Cook, Piccadilly, London.
Miss Allen simply wrote: "Don't worry all saved/Elisabeth."
More than 1,500 people died when the Belfast-built Titanic sank on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg on April 15, 1912, one of the worst-ever maritime tragedies.
Elisabeth Allen escaped in lifeboat number two and was the first survivor to board the Carpathia.
She lived for another 55 years,until December 15, 1967, when she died in her eighties, of heart failure.
Before the auction Miss Allen's message was expected to fetch around £6,593.
At the same sale, two five inches by three inches slips of paper from the Titanic post room, recovered from the body of mail clerk Oscar Woody, who died in the tragedy, were sold for a total of £18,461.
But a 19-inch long piece of oak, reputedly from the Titanic's first class aft grand staircase, failed to sell at the Christie's auction.
It had been expected to fetch up to £32,967.
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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=649478
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Re: Titanic love note - sold for £14,500.
Some pipples gots too much moola.
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Aug/30/2005, 2:42 pm
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