Tag: John Jacob Astor IV watch
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A Gilded Relic From the Titanic Surfaces in Chicago
More than a century after the Titanic went down, two gold items recovered from John Jacob Astor IV’s body resurfaced at a Chicago auction. But this is not just a story about a watch and a pencil case. It is a story about wealth, memory, myth, and the strange afterlife of tragedy.
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