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Auction: 4012 - Stamps & Covers of the World featuring the E.W. Ingram Collection of E. Africa
Lot: 983

Wreck Covers — 1907 (23 Feb.) envelope addressed to Marseilles bearing Sierra Leone 21/2d. tied by Freetown c.d.s. and showing a fine strike of the large letters "salved from/s s jebba" in violet with subsequent annotation "Steam ship" in ink; the reverse (flap opened) with officially sealed label cancelled by Plymouth c.d.s., Marseilles arrival and the impression of three adhesives from the adjacent letter; fine Estimate £ 100-140

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