|
|
 |
US-BRITAIN-LIFESTYLE-AUCTION-HISTORY
This handout image obtained January 23, 2015, courtesy of RR Auction shows the first page of a letter written by Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon. An indignant letter from a British aristocrat who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 has sold for $11,875, an auction house in New England said January 23, 2015. Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, a target of public outrage after she fled the doomed ocean liner on a near-empty lifeboat, penned the two-page letter in London a month after the disaster. "How kind of you to send me a cable of sympathy from New York on our safety," the fashion designer wrote to a stateside friend. "According to the way we've been treated by England on our return we didn't seem to have done the right thing in being saved at all!!!! Isn't it disgraceful." RR Auction, which regularly handles Titanic memorabilia, had expected the letter to fetch as much as $6,000 at Thursday's live auction in Boston, which followed a week of online bidding. AFP PHOTO/RR AUCTION/HANDOUT = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE / MANDATORY CREDIT: "AFP PHOTO HANDOUT-RR AUCTION"/ NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS/ – NO A LA CARTE SALES / DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / =
|
|
|
|
Detalii fotografie |
| Loc: |
|
Boston, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES |
|
| Sursa: |
|
AFP / Mediafax Foto |
|
| Fotograf: |
|
HANDOUT |
|
| Data: |
|
23 Ianuarie 2015 |
|
| Dimensiuni: |
|
2000 x 2674 (1.21 MB) |
|
|
|
|
|
|