Albert Einstein's tip for a bellboy

[TheParser]

Professor Einstein was visiting Japan in 1922.

One day he could not find any coins to give as a tip to a bellboy.

So Professor Einstein took some hotel stationery and wrote a few words of general advice about life.

He suggested to the bellboy that his unique tip someday might be valuable.

Just recently that hotel stationery sold at auction for $1.8 million.


(Source: AARP Bulletin [a newspaper for senior citizens], January - February, 2018.)

 

[Cellblock2429]

Professor Einstein was visiting Japan in 1922.

One day he could not find any coins to give as a tip to a bellboy.

So Professor Einstein took some hotel stationery and wrote a few words of general advice about life.

He suggested to the bellboy that his unique tip someday might be valuable.

Just recently that hotel stationery sold at auction for $1.8 million.


(Source: AARP Bulletin [a newspaper for senior citizens], January - February, 2018.)

/----/ Was the Bellhop still alive to cash in?

 

[TheParser]

Was the Bellhop still alive to cash in?

The article just says that a "relative of the bellhop brought the notes, written in German and bearing Einstein's signature, to an auction house in Jerusalem, which predicted winning prices under $10,000." The article does not give the date of the relative's visit to the auction house.


Have a nice day.

 

[abu afak]

Professor Einstein was visiting Japan in 1922.

One day he could not find any coins to give as a tip to a bellboy.

So Professor Einstein took some hotel stationery and wrote a few words of general advice about life.

He suggested to the bellboy that his unique tip someday might be valuable.

Just recently that hotel stationery sold at auction for $1.8 million.


(Source: AARP Bulletin [a newspaper for senior citizens], January - February, 2018.)

The owner of a Jerusalem auction house holds up a note on happiness written by Albert Einstein in 1922. The note, which Einstein gave to a courier in lieu of a tip, sold for $1.56 million on Tuesday to an anonymous buyer.
Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

 

[IsaacNewton]

Bellhops always love getting notes rather than tips. They then get to wait 100 years to get paid back. Sweet deal. Well for the 3rd generation after.