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Auction: 6034 - Maritime Wreck Covers of the World - The John Woolfe Collection
Lot: 79

Maritime Wreck Covers of the World Europe 1917 (18-20 Mar.) S.S. "Karmala", attacked by submarine north of Messina and escaped undamaged, subsequently holed after striking rocks near Vada, south of Leghorn, 23 January envelope from New South Wales to England, franked at 1d and with a fine strike of the framed "damaged by immersion/in sea water. — i.s." cachet in magenta, arrival c.d.s. (4.4) on reverse. Photo Estimate £ 250-300

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