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Auction: 6034 - Maritime Wreck Covers of the World - The John Woolfe Collection
Lot: 357

Maritime Wreck Covers of the World North America 1945 (Aug.) S.S. "John Bidwell", mail found in hold in 1960, printed circular to Chile, bearing 11/2c. used as a seal and showing, on reverse, a good strike of the framed "correspondencia retardada/y recuperada del s/s ´john bidwell´/1945 1960/correos de chile" cachet in violet Estimate £ 100-120Note: The mail was only discovered by ship breakers in Philadelphia when the ship was scrapped in 1960

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£70