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Auction: 6034 - Maritime Wreck Covers of the World - The John Woolfe Collection
Lot: 70

Wreck Covers 1916 (24 Mar.) S.S. "Sussex", torpedoed by the German submarine between Folkstone and Dieppe, 21 March envelope (stamp floated off) from London to Stowport, Tasmania and redirected locally, showing framed "damaged by immersion/in water" Type 2 cachet in violet over despatch machine d.s., and with several "found open (or torn) and officially secured" labels; Estimate £ 100-120

Sold for
£100