There are really no wonders in this world, do you believe it? In 1998, an American picked up a postcard at his aunt's house, and after 23 years, the price of this postcard actually rose to 126,000, which sounds strange, but in reality, it really happened. Let's take a look!
Dominique Pike, a native of Arizona, USA, was once a staff member of a local charity in Arizona, whose usual work was mainly to help some local homeless people and unemployed people, in 1996, Dominique was laid off by the company for some private reasons, and since then he has begun to live a life of displacement.
In 1998, Dominic went to his aunt's house to visit his aunt who was seriously ill in bed, Dominic's aunt was a lonely old man, she was childless, there was only one maid as old as her, this day the maid returned to her hometown, the family was only at home, Dominic chatted with his aunt for a while, just at this time, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a strange smell in the room.
Dominique followed this strange smell all the way to a small storage room at the bottom of the stairs, probably because the age was too long, and because the old servant of the family had not bothered to clean it all the time, which caused the storage room to hide dirt and dust, and vaguely emitted an indescribable strange smell.
Dominic saw that it was not convenient for his aunt to move, and an old man always lived in such a stinking space, which was not a problem, so he thought of helping to clean up the objects in the storage room.
As a result, while Dominic was cleaning up, he accidentally found a postcard in a dropped book, and to Dominic's surprise, he found that it was a postcard with the titanic pattern printed on the back, and judging by its texture, the postcard was very old.
Dominic's mind immediately had a question: "Isn't this the postcard sent out of the Titanic?" To confirm this idea, Dominic decided to take the postcard and ask his aunt.
Old photograph of the Titanic at the time
As a result, this does not ask, a question is startling, Aunt Dominic's father turned out to be one of the passengers who died in the original Titanic crash, and this postcard was sent by him before the Titanic set sail.
Dominic was very happy, he assured his aunt that if the postcard let him sell it, it would be able to sell for a good price, however, contrary to his wishes, Dominica had found several buyers, but the price given had not been able to meet Dominica's psychological expectations, at most once someone came out of $4,000, but Dominic still did not agree to it.
In 2021, the well-known American treasure show "Antique Roadshow" came to the town where Dominic lived, Dominique heard about it and rushed to the recording site with this postcard, and sure enough, as Dominic expected, antiques identification expert Adam Skuhn carefully looked at this postcard and excitedly told Dominic:
This is a postcard of extremely high value.
Experts asked Dominic if the passenger named Stephen Jenkin who sent the letter was later killed in the Titanic accident, and when he learned that Stephen had not been able to escape, Adam Skuhn expressed regret that the Titanic set sail at the last port of call, and Steven Jenkin wrote a postcard in this place called Queenstown, which said:
Dear Mom and Dad, I have sent you postcards from Southampton and Cherbourg, France, and I am not seasick yet... This ship is really good, and I'll write to you from New York—your dear son, Steven.
Unfortunately, however, the man named Stephen was ultimately unable to reach New York, and he boarded the doomed wrecked passenger ship with 5 other people, of whom 3 ladies survived, but the remaining 3 gentlemen, including him, drowned.
Antiques expert Adam Skuhn finally estimated the postcard at 15,000 pounds, equivalent to 126,000 yuan, this postcard was picked up by Dominica in his aunt's house in 1998, did not expect that after 23 years, the price actually rose to 126,000, do you think such a postcard can really be worth so much money? Just because of the titanic's popularity.
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