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Auction: 7016 - British North America featuring the "JURA" Collection
Lot: 2656

x Canada Wreck Covers 1914 (21 May) envelope from Thoburn to England with a faint strike of the "Recovered from divers from wreck of S.S. Empress of Ireland" cachet in dull green and (26 May) envelope front and part back from Quebec to Scotland showing two good to fine strikes of the same cachet in blue; both with stamps floated off Estimate £ 100-120 Note: The "Empress of Ireland" collided with the Norwegian collier "Storstadt" off Father Point in the St. Lawrence River, en route from Quebec to Liverpool

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