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
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Lot #275 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies usa and canada transatlantic mail
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
Lot #283 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies canada and newfoundland
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...
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
Lot #289 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies Bermuda
S.S "Curlew". 1856 (Feb 15) Entire letter from Robert Tucker & Co in London to Bermuda with London and Liverpool lozenge datestamps and a black "5d" charge mark, carried from Liverpool to Halifax on the Cunard steamer "America", arriving on February 29th. It was then conveyed by the Cunard steamer "Curlew" which left Halifax on March 14th bound for Bermuda and St. Thomas; approaching Bermuda four days later it struck a reef east of the...
Lot #290 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies Bermuda
S.S "Mary Bowers" - Civil War Blockade Runner. 1864 (Aug 24) Entire letter from St. Georges, Bermuda to Richmond, Virginia "p Mary Bowers" with Charleston, S.C c.d.s (Sep. 2) and oval framed "STEAM - SHIP", charged 22 cents. Carried on the Blockade Runner "Mary Bowers" which left St. Georges on August 25th with a cargo of coal, pretending to be bound for Halifax but actually made for Charleston. Approaching Charleston from the east she...
Lot #291 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies Bermuda
S.S "Fort Victoria". 1929 (Dec 14) Cover from Washington DC to Hamilton, Bermuda, the stamp washed off, the reverse bearing the explanatory label "Post Office, New York, N.Y. / This article (damaged by water) is part of / the contents of the mail sacks for Bermuda on / board the S.S. Fort Victoria, which vessel, in a / dense fog, was rammed by the S.S Algonquin / and sank in New York Harbor December 18, 1929. / J.J. KIELY, Postmaster. / N.Y....
Lot #292 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies west indies and the caribbean
SV "Ealing Grove". 1839 Entire letter to London (redirected to Lancaster) endorsed "Consignees letter per Ealing Grove" handstamped "HASTINGS / SHIP LETTER" (Rob. S3) in black and an unusually fine "(crown) / EXEMPT SHIP LR" (Rob. Ex 1) of London in red, with London backstamps (Aug 10 and 12), charged 1/4, increased to 3/4 upon redirection with boxed "POSTAGE NOT PAID / TO LONDON" applied. The "Ealing Grove" sailed from Dominica to London...
Lot #293 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies west indies and the caribbean
S.S "Bergenseren". 1890 (Feb 18) Cover from Kingston, Jamaica, to London endorsed "per s/s Bergenseren via America" bearing Jamaica 4d pair, a third stamp missing with red boxed "JAMAICA PAID / 22 PE 1870" applied below, the reverse with the explanatory label "This Postal-Packet was contained in the Mail / Bag from Kingston for New York via Port Maria, / Jamaica, for despatch per S.S "Bergenseren," / which Mail Bag was washed away in the "...
Lot #294 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies west indies and the caribbean
S.S "Ailsa". 1896 (Feb 26) USA 1c Postcard from Springfield, Ohio, to Kingston, Jamaica, with an arrival c.d.s (Apr 20), a stamp washed off, bearing the explanatory label "This article of mail matter has / been recovered from the wreck of / S.S. "Ailsa" which sunk in New / York Harbour on 29th February, / 1896. / GEO. H. PEARCE, / P.M. Jamaica. / G.P.O. Jamaica, / 17th April, 1896." The "Ailsa" left New York on February 29th bound for...
Lot #295 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies west indies and the caribbean
S.S "Cobequid". 1914 (Jan 1) Cover from Barbados to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stamp washed off, with a superb cachet "FROM WRECK OF S.S "COBEQUID". The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. S.S "Cobequid" was on her first return trip from the West Indies to her home port of Halifax when she struck the Trinity Ledge rocks, near the entrance of the Bay of Fundy on the Nova Scotia coast, during a gale and blizzard on January 13th. The passengers and...
Lot #296 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies west indies and the caribbean
S.S "Imperator"/"Maryland". 1919 (Nov 23) Cover from Gonaives to Le Havre, a little water stained and the stamp washed off, backstamped with a Port Au Prince c.d.s (Nov 26) and the violet cachet "ACCIDENT DE MER / Bureau du / HAVRE-PRINCIPAL". Either from the S.S "Imperator" which sailed from New York on December 11th for Southampton arriving on the 21st with storm damaged mails, or from the S.S "Maryland" which was bound from Canada to...
Lot #297 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies west indies and the caribbean
S.S "Imperator"/"Maryland". 1919 (Nov 18) Cover to London bearing St. Kitts 11⁄2d War Stamp tied by St. Kitts A12 duplex with black boxed "DAMAGED BY IMMERSION / IN SEA WATER", either from the "Imperator" or "Maryland". Very unusual and scarce from St. Kitts. Photo on Page 58.
Suggested price: £ 250-300
Lot #298 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies south and central america
S.V. "Medora". 1837 (June 19) Entire from George Galbraith in Sydney to William Galbraith in Scotland, endorsed "Per Medora" with red oval "PAID SHIP LETTER / SYDNEY" datestamp and manuscript "3", carried on the "Medora" as far as Brazil. The "Medora" was wrecked on 25th September on the Brazilian coast 30 miles north of Bahia, the main top mast breaking, the ship being driven among the breakers, the crew of 13 being rescued by a schooner...
Lot #299 - wreck mail of the americas and west indies south and central america
S.V "Belle". 1854 (Dec 19) Entire letter to London "P. Severn", the reverse with Bahia British P.O and London (JA 15 1855) datestamps, charged 1/-. The wax seal impressed "British Consulate, Bahia", the letter reading "The Brig Belle having been wrecked the inclosed letter is returned. British Consulate, Bahia 19 Decr. 1854". The SV "Belle" served as a survey ship in the U.S coast survey along the Gulf Coast when she sank in a gale late...
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