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36295_747
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Item Information
Record Type:
Auction Catalogues & Private Treaty
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Who Name:
Swarbrick (vendor)
Date:
29 Sep 1995
Number:
Sale: 501
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 Pages: 177 Size: 4 MB
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Title:
Lot 747 W.W. II COVER FROM IRAN WITH RARE BOXED "OBSERVED TO BE/IN BAD CONDITION/AT G.P.O., KINGSTON, JAMAICA." MARKS; Remarkable 22nd July 1942 env. (understandable faults but still with four Iranian adhesives) registered from Teheran to Kingston (partly by air via New York) with censor labels, but also with a Jamaican printed label round the top; "The enclosed article was received in a United States mail which had been damaged by fire. W.A. CAMPBELL. Postmaster General." On the reverse & fro
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Jamaica CRASH & WRECK MAIL
Description:
nt are faint & near fine strikes of the purple Jamaican "BAD CONDITION" mark. Recent research by Bob has shown that this damage was caused by the sinking of a British merchant ship (en route from the U.S.) near Jamaica early in Nov. 1942. See also next lot. PHOTO
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Est: £150 Real: £110
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