Lot 14
DISASTER MAIL: 1914 envelope from Barbados...

Stamps and Postal History of the World | 5938
Auction: 22 November 2022 at 00:00 GMT
Estimate: £400 - £500
Description
DISASTER MAIL: 1914 envelope from Barbados to Nova Scotia, Canada with stamp floated off, carried by the ''S.S. Cobequid'' which struck rocks during a gale and blizzard off the coast of Nova Scotia causing it to be stranded, bearing fine strike of ''FROM WRECK OF S. S. 'CUBEQUID' '' h/s in blue-black, rare, one of only twenty or so items of mails recorded from this wreck.

