S.S "Canada". 1860 (Aug 10) Stampless cover to Boston with a "10" charge mark and Halifax, Nova Scotia c.d.s., the enclosed letter written from Halifax harbour by a passenger on the S.S "Canada", who writes "We are lying upon a sandbank on which it pleased heaven and Capt. Lang to deposit us this morning ..... in order to give a clear berth to a buoy on one side of the channel, the said Lang ran his ship fast in the mud on the other. Now...
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Lot #284 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies canada and newfoundland
S.S "Bruce". 1911 (Mar 19) Cover to Vermont with enclosed letter from Fraud Falls, Newfoundland, a partial N. & W. Railway T.P.O c.d.s, the stamp washed off the cover (a Newfoundland 2c from another cover applied) and severely water damaged resulting in the loss of much of the reverse. A printed green slip is enclosed, "OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER. / BOSTON, MASS. / The mutilation of this piece of mail matter was caused / by the burning of...
Lot #285 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies canada and newfoundland
P.S "Prince Rupert". 1920 (Sep 27) Cover (letter enclosed) with Vancouver machine cancel and violet cachet "DAMAGED MAIL FROM / S.S. PRINCE RUPERT", water soaked causing the loss of the stamp whilst the letter and envelope address are both indecipherable, torn across the address panel and part of the reverse. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway steamer "Prince Rupert" was en route from Seattle to Prince Rupert when it struck rocks near Swanson...
Lot #286 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies canada and newfoundland
Loon Bay Robbery/possible Murder. 1924 (Apr 15) Cover to St. Johns, Newfoundland, with Boyd’s Cove, Newf’d c.d.s, the stamp washed off, endorsed "Recovered recently from sea at Loon Bay when mail couriers were lost in May 1924, WB". On April 29th the dead body of mail courier Clair was found in a water logged boat in drift ice two miles from Loon Bay; the mails were missing as was the other courier. The only recorded cover from this...
Lot #287 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies canada and newfoundland
S.S "Nascopie". 1947 (Aug 1) Cover to England with partial oval "EASTERN ARCTIC PATROL / R.M.S / CANADA" datestamp, the stamp washed off, handstamped violet "SALVED FROM THE SEA", the reverse with an Officially Sealed label bearing the violet c.d.s of ‘District Post Office Inspector, D.L.O, Winnipeg, Man.’ (Aug 8). Also another cover with Canada 4c tied by Lake Harbour N.W.T c.d.s (July 16) with the "SALVED FROM THE SEA" cachet", bearing a...
Lot #288 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies canada and newfoundland
1967 (June 14) Window envelope from Montreal paid with a 5c meter mark, the reverse with an offset of an adjacent letter to Hong Kong (this item presumably therefore also addressed there), handstamped "DAMAGED BY FIRE / AT SEA", the vessel involved not yet identified.
Suggested price: £ 70-80
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