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A rare postcard written by a Titanic passenger who after the ship’s fatal iceberg hit has sold for £20,000 at auction.
First-class passenger Richard William Smith wrote to a friend in Norwich when the liner was at Queenstown - near Cork - in Munster, Ireland, on 11 April 1912.
The postcard has a Cork postmark - most Titanic postcards are either franked ‘Queenstown’ or bear the ship’s postmark, BBC News reports.
Auctioneers based in Devizes, Wiltshire, who sold the postcard on Saturday, had expected it to fetch between £6,000 and £10,000.
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