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‘Poignant’ postcard from excited Titanic passenger up for auction

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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A postcard written by a first-class passenger on the Titanic will go up for auction later this month. Richard William Smith, a British businessman, scrawled a message in pencil to a Mrs Olive Dakin in Norwich, England. The card is postmarked 3.45 p.m., April 11, 1912 – three days before the transatlantic liner struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage. Smith was one of around 1,500 people who perished. The lu…

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