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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2654

x CANADA Wreck Covers 1899 (18 Feb.) 1c. green envelope (additional stamps floated off) from an office in Nova Scotia to Durban, South Africa showing a good strike of the framed "damaged by immersion/in sea water" boxed cachet applied to mail salvaged from the S.S. Labrador, the reverse with Halifax c.d.s., Glasgow Found Open and Officially Sealed label, with c.d.s. (14.3) and arrival c.d.s. (7.4). Photo Estimate £ 180-200 Note: The S.S. "Labrador", from St. John, N.B. bound for Liverpool was wrecked off the MacKenzie Rock in the Hebrides on 1 March. Passengers and some mail were saved by the S.S. "Viking". Seven bags of mail were washed ashore on Mull

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£160