Most expensive telegram sold at auction
- Who
- Khrushchev's telegram to Gagarin
- What
- 68500 US dollar(s)
- Where
- United States (New York City,)
- When
- 11 December 1993
The highest price ever paid for a telegram is $68,500 (£45,850) at Sotheby's, New York, USA, on 11 December 1993 by Alberto Bolaffi of Turin, Italy, for the congratulatory telegram sent by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961 after he became the first man in space.