Most expensive telegram sold at auction

According to Official Guinness Records,

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.

For a complete list of 1993 records, please visit 1993 Guinness Records in United States.

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