Auction # 2317 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

Commercial cover (with its original content, brochure of PARKER pens), sent from Janesville to Puerto Varas (Chile) on 9/JUL/1945. The ship run aground, it was abandoned, and part of the correspondence was left in the ship. In 1960 it was sold for scrapping, and some sacks with letters were found, which were finally delivered 15 YEARS LATE, with violet handstamp "Delayed correspondence recovered from s/s John Bidwell, 1945-1960 ....., Chile", with arrival datestamp of Puerto Varas for 2/DE/1960, VF quality, rare!