The 71-year-old businessman Ramon Artagaveytia Gomez wrote the letter to his brother Adolfo Image: AFP
A handwritten letter from a passenger on the sunken ‘Titanic’ will be auctioned in Uruguay next week. The starting price is 12,000 dollars (euro), said the auction house Zorilla in Montevideo. The 71-year-old businessman Ramon Artagaveytia Gomez wrote the letter to his brother Adolfo. It was dispatched from Queenstown, Ireland, where the ‘Titanic’ docked one last time before sinking in the North Atlantic four days later.
A handwritten letter from a passenger on the sunken Titanic will be auctioned in Uruguay next week. The starting price is 12,000 dollars (11,000 euros), said the auction house Zorilla in Montevideo. The 71-year-old businessman Ramon Artagaveytia Gomez wrote the letter to his brother Adolfo. It was sent from Queenstown, Ireland, where the Titanic docked one last time before sinking in the North Atlantic four days later.
In the three-page, two-page letter, which shows foxing, Artagaveytia Gomez gushes about the pageantry in first class, writing, “Everything is new and rich.”
“The last letter written by my dear brother Ramon,” reads a handwritten note that the recipient attached to the letter. According to the auction house, the letter is expected to fetch between $15,000 and $25,000 at the June 30 auction.
The Titanic sank in April 1912 on her maiden voyage from England to New York after hitting an iceberg. Almost 1,500 of the 2,224 people on board perished. The wreck of the ship was not found until 1985.
The “Titanic” still exerts a great fascination. A feverish search is currently being carried out in the vicinity of the wreck for a mini-submarine, which set off on a tourist diving trip there on Sunday with five people on board and with which there has been no contact since then.
Meanwhile, other historical objects are going under the hammer at the auction in Montevideo. Among other things, binoculars and the uniform jacket of a crew member from the German warship “Admiral Graf Spee”, which was sunk in the Atlantic, will be auctioned off.
The ship’s captain, Hans Langsdorff, had the ironclad sunk on December 17, 1939 in the Rio de la Plata off Montevideo. The warship had been used to attack merchant ships in the Atlantic before being damaged by two British ships and a New Zealand ship.
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