S.V "Barbados". 1815 (June 20) Entire letter from Charleston to Scotland, extensively waterstained, the address panel also with a small hole and large tear (stuck together internally with a white label, which could easily be removed and the repair greatly improved), handstamped "LIVERPOOL / SHIP LETTER" with a red Edinburgh c.d.s (Aug 1). Carried on the S.V "Barbados" which sheltered off the Isle of Wight for repairs after being damaged and...
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Lot #260 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
Lot #261 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.V "Lewis". 1827 (Jan 25) Entire letter from Le Havre to Boston "p. Lewis" with red New York c.d.s (Mar 8) and "SHIP", charged 20 cents. The SV "Lewis" sailed from Le Havre bound for New York but was wrecked on 6th March near Sandy Hook, New Jersey. All passengers and crew were saved and the cargo unloaded in good order. The only item recorded from this wreck and the earliest recorded wreck cover from North America. A unique and...
Lot #262 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
P.S "Columbia". 1843 (June 5) Entire letter from Havana to London endorsed "Columbia", the reverse with the forwarding agent’s endorsement "N. York Jun 26/29, yr. ot. sts, Crocker, Sale & Warren", carried on the Cunard Line paddle steamer from Boston, bound for Liverpool via Halifax on 1st July. The ship ran aground the following day on the Black Ledge reef off Seal Island, Nova Scotia, the weather fortunately calm with all passengers,...
Lot #263 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Kestrel". 1849 (July 5) Cover prepaid 2/- in cash, from G.B. to St. Johns, Newfoundland with "SHEEPSHEAD" undated circle and blue Loughborough c.d.s, red London Paid and Liverpool lozenge datestamps, backstamped at St. Johns (July 26). Carried on Cunard Line S.S "Kestrel" which left Liverpool on July 6th, arriving at Halifax on the 19th and Sydney, Nova Scotia on the 21st, but was wrecked on the following day on the western head of the...
Lot #264 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Hungarian". 1860 (Feb 8) Cover from London to "Major Carter, 63 Regt, Fredericton, New Brunswick", water damaged resulting in the loss of the lower flap, the upper flap endorsed "Saved from "S.S Hungarian"". The Allan Line steamer "Hungarian" left Liverpool on February 8th bound for Portland, Maine via Queenstown with a valuable cargo and over 200 passengers and crew. It went ashore on Cape Lodge on the southernmost tip of Nova Scotia...
Lot #265 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Hungarian". 1860 (July 6) Ambulance envelope with the printed heading "SAVED FROM THE WRECK OF THE HUNGARIAN / RE-DIRECTED", addressed to Hamilton, N.Y with a USA 3c tied by blue Chicago c.d.s. The only example of this special printed ambulance cover recorded, a few faults to the reverse, the front fine. This was the first time an ambulance envelope was printed for mail from a specific wreck, such a practice only occurring on three...
Lot #266 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "North Briton" - Civil War Blockade Runner. 1861 (Nov 1) Cover (letter enclosed) from Quebec to New Orleans directed "via Liverpool, England" in order to avoid the Northern blockade of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Handstamped with Quebec and "PAID / LIVERPOOL / COL PACKET / 23 NO 61" datestamps, "PAID", "5/CENTS" and "6d Stg Paid 71⁄2d Cy" all in red, the upper flap endorsed "From wreck of Nth Briton, WE". The...
Lot #267 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Germania". 1869 (July 30) Stampless cover to Saxony with St. Louis MO. duplex and "NEW YORK / DIRECT" c.d.s (Aug 3), rated "6" in blue crayon, the reverse with the explanatory label "Aus dem untergegangenen Post-Dampf- / Schiffe Germania geborgen", tied by an arrival c.d.s (Aug 25), a further "2 Ausgabe" c.d.s alongside. Sent on the Hamburg-American Line steamer "Germania" which left New York on August 3rd bound for Hamburg via...
Lot #268 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Germania". 1869 (Aug) 3c Postal stationery envelope from New York to Westphalia, further stamps washed off with red boxed "HAMBURG / AUG 24 / FRANCO" (date inverted) applied where they had been, a New York Paid All c.d.s below. The reverse with the German explanatory label and an "AUSG / No. 1" (Aug. 25) arrival c.d.s. A fine and scarce cover. Photo on Page 51.
Suggested price: £ 1,000-1,200
Lot #269 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Oregon". 1886 (Mar.) Cunard S.S Co. envelope sent from Liverpool to New York, handstamped violet "Per OREGON / via Queenstown", the stamp washed off, endorsed "This envelope contained a letter taken from one of the pouches found floating at sea Ex S.S. Oregon wrecked & sunk off Fire Island, Sunday March 14, 1886", backstamped with violet circular "RECEIVED / IN BAD CONDITION / BRANCH / A", N.Y and New York Paid All datestamps (Mar....
Lot #270 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Oregon". 1886 (Mar.) Covers and cards recovered from the "Oregon", comprising a postcard from Switzerland, registered cover from the Netherlands and covers from G.B (4), Germany (2), Italy or France, all with explanatory labels applied by the New York P.O, the first a white label reading "P.O, NEW YORK, N.Y., Mar. 15th 1886. / This piece is a portion of the mail forwarded from / Queenstown, Ireland, per steamer OREGON. It was / damaged...
Lot #271 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Oregon". 1886 (Feb 12) Cover from New York to Pemberton Wilson & Co., publishers of the Philatelic Record in London, but marked "Gone Away" and therefore returned to the USA on the "Oregon", backstamps of London or the Returned Letter Office London (Feb 22-24). The stamps washed off, an explanatory label applied in the New York Dead Letter Office "This article was contained in the mail / matter recovered from the Steamship / "...
Lot #272 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Oregon". 1886 (Feb 8) Cover sent from Wilkes Barre, PA. to Stanley Gibbons in London with "T / 15 / CENTIMES / N.Y" and a "3d" charge mark, marked "Refused" with London and Returned Letter Office backstamps (Feb 19-20) and returned to the USA on the Oregon. The stamp washed off, with the very scarce Dead Letter Office explanatory label on the reverse. A fine and interesting cover, on the "Oregon" because Stanley Gibbons refused to pay...
Lot #273 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Oregon". 1886 (Mar 5) 1⁄2d Brown newspaper wrapper from London to Boston, the reverse covered by the large explanatory label "POST OFFICE, / Boston, Mass. / This mail has just / been recovered from the / Wreck of the Steamer / "Oregon." / E.S. TOBEY, / Postmaster.". Just two examples of this Boston label have been recorded. A rare item and an exceptional use on a newspaper wrapper. Photo on Page 53.
Suggested price: £ 800-1,000...
Lot #274 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Oregon". 1886 (Mar 4) 1d Postal stationery envelope from Ireland to Kamloops, British Columbia, bearing a 1d lilac with a further stamp washed off, cancelled at Greystones and backstamped at Newtown Mt Kennedy. The reverse bears the explanatory label "This letter is a portion of / the mail forwarded per steamer / OREGON. It was damaged be- / fore being taken from that vessel / which was sunk off Fire Island on / the 14th March, 1886...
Lot #275 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Oregon". 1886 (Mar.) Cover from London to Middleville, Ontario, the stamp washed off, the reverse bearing the rare "Oregon" wreck explanatory label with Hamilton (Mar 31) c.d.s, the label tied by a Perth c.d.s (Apr. 1) with a Lanark c.d.s alongside. Fine and rare, just two examples of this Canadian "Oregon" wreck label recorded. Photo on Page 53.
Suggested price: £ 600-700
Lot #276 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Eider". 1892 (Jan 20) Cover from Philadelphia to England, water stained with the stamp washed off, with a red "LONDON / PAID / 16 FE 92" c.d.s, the reverse with a "Found Open and Officially Sealed" label tied by a Bradford arrival c.d.s, and a further Philadelphia duplex. The German steamer "Eider" sailed from New York to Southampton but stranded on January 31st on the Atherfield Ledge near St. Catherine’s Point on the Isle of Wight....
Lot #277 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "St Paul". 1897 (June 15) Cover from New York franked 5c, a front from New York with the stamp washed off and a 2c stationery envelope piece from Muncie, Ind. (June 14) with other stamps washed off, all with violet boxed "DAMAGED BY IMMERSION / IN SEA WATER" and a red London Paid c.d.s (June 24). All sent on the "St Paul" which left New York on June 16th arriving at Southampton on the 23rd, the mails having been water damaged, probably...
Lot #278 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Empress of Ireland". 1914 (May 26) Cover from Quebec to London, the stamp washed off, backstamped at the Ottawa Dead Letter Office (Sep. 14) and encdorsed "M.O for 67 cents, MOB 1 Oct. 1914", enclosed within an Ottawa DLO ambulance envelope with a 2c stamp from another wreck cover applied, the stamp tied by an Ottawa (Dec. 29) machine, the ambulance envelope and enclosed wreck cover both handstamped violet "Recovered by divers from...
Lot #279 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Empress of Ireland". 1914 (May 23) Cover from Indian Head, Sask. to Blackpool, the stamps washed off, the explanatory cachet applied in green ink, with matching oval ‘Branch Dead Letter Office, Ottawa’ datestamp (Oct. 23) on the reverse. Photo on Page 53.
Suggested price: £ 150-180
Lot #280 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "Liberte". 1950 (Sep 2) Boston or New York to Cologne First Flight covers, addressed back to the USA, both with a New York P.O explanatory label attached, reading "The accompanying article was damaged by water / during a storm encountered at sea by the S.S. "Liberte", / which arrived at New York, September 12, 1950. / Albert Goldman, Postmaster.", the labels in differing formats. The S.S "Liberte" sailed from Le Havre to New York on...
Lot #281 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
M.V "Stockholm". 1956 (July) Printed matter postcard with an undated New York 2c meter printed upon it, sent to Sweden, with the violet cachet "Forsandelsen skadad vid / m/s Stockholms kollision den 26/7 1956 / med m/s Andrea Doria", a recipients handstamp dated 29 August. Also a picture postcard of the ship. The MV "Stockholm" collided with the Italian liner "Andrea Doria" in dense fog off Nantucket Island when approaching New York just...
Lot #282 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
S.S "American Charger". Undated cover from Cutchogue, New York State, to England paid by a 6c meter mark, handstamped green boxed "DAMAGED BY / SEA-WATER / M.P / I.S" applied in the London Inland Section at Mount Pleasant. Believed to have been part of the mail aboard the "American Charger" which was damaged by fire at Havre on 8th September 1967 whilst en route from New York to London.
Suggested price: £ 70-100
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