Lot 6
Queensland: 1911 long envelope from Queensland...

Stamps and Postal History of the World | 5938
Auction: 22 November 2022 at 00:00 GMT
£600
Description
Queensland: 1911 long envelope from Queensland to Townsville, with stamps floated off, with Mackay d/s for March 22, carried by the ''S.S. Yongala'' which was engulfed by a cyclone and disappeared with her forty-eight passengers and seventy-two crew, bearing three-line ''Found on seashore of Halifax Bay near Ingham 8-4-11'' h/s in violet, very rare, one of only a few recorded examples from this wreck

