Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

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 / "Oregon" wrecked near New York, / N.Y., March 14th, 1886, and sent to the / Dead Letter Office for identification and / delivery", with a triangular Dead Letter Office datestamp (Mar. 24). The explanatory label folded over the left edge of the cover, tear at base, otherwise fine, this DLO label very scarce. Photo on Page 51.
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