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Sale of Rogers' Postcard

Tuesday 21 July 1992

In Sotheby's July 21/22 1992 Sale Lot 278: RMS Titanic postcard sent from the Titanic, written to James Day of Swansea by his friend ''W.J.R.'' in pencil . .. Just a line to show that I am alive & kicking going grand its a treat . . . '' coloured postcard depicting the Titanic, postmarked from Queenstown 11 April 1912. Posted at Queenstown three days before the disaster. It is understood that the writer William John Rogers did not survive.

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