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Auction: 6034 - Maritime Wreck Covers of the World - The John Woolfe Collection
Lot: 344

Maritime Wreck Covers of the World North America 1922 (6 Mar.) S.S. "America", mail lost whilst being prepared for transfer in New York harbour, 20 February envelope (stamp floated off) from Bournemouth "via New York" to Niagara bearing, on reverse, fourteen-line explanatory label applied by the New York Post Office Foreign Section and tied by Niagara c.d.s. (7.4). The only example of mail recovered from this accident. Photo Estimate £ 800-1,000

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