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Auction: 6034 - Maritime Wreck Covers of the World - The John Woolfe Collection
Lot: 352

Maritime Wreck Covers of the World North America 1942 (7 Feb.) M.V. "Maurienne", fire broke out while loading at Halifax, Nova Scotia, brown company´s envelope (260x110mm., stamps floated off) to Hamilton, Bermuda with typed "VIA HALIFAX AND THE SS MAURIENNE" and showing a superb strike of the "this letter was/recovered from a/damaged ship" cachet in red. The sole example recorded. Photo Estimate £ 400-500

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