'"1886 Steamer ""Oregon"" Wreck Cover, messy looking cover originating at Glasgow and addressed to NY City, British stamp has floated away and a US1c Due affixed and cancelled by blue crayon, assortment of cancels and markings plus the ""wreck label"" on back side, Fine example from this noted wreck,Steamer ''''Oregon'''' was lost off Fire Island, New York after a collision with a schooner"' (Image)

CV. 100-150

1900 RECOVERED FROM WRECK OF MEXICAN red two-line handstamp on cover front with stamps washed away addressed to England , bold Croydon Apr 28 cds, redirected internally, edge wear, water soaking has turned the front an irregular but attractive pink, A Fine and rare example; "Mexican" sank Apr 5 en route from South Africa to England, (Image)

CV. 200-250

1900 RECOVERED FROM WRECK OF MEXICAN 1900 cover to Berlin (Apr 30 bkstp) with stamp washed away leaving partial cds, on reverse four-line h.s. "Aus dermit dem uniergegangenen Dampfer Mexican beforderter Post aus Capstadt Bahnpostamt No. 15," alongside Cape of Good Hope ½d and 1d which floated off other covers and reaffixed themselves here, plus another stamp face down or with color entirely gone, cover trimmed and affixed to cardboard, several tears, VG, the German h.s. is rare (Image)

CV. 400-500

DAMAGED ON BOARD bold violet handstamp on back side of cover to Johannesburg franked with GB 2½d tied by Tunbridge Wells Nov 9 cds, convincingly watersoaked and wrinkled, Fine. (Image)

CV. 150-200

DAMAGED ON BOARD violet handstamp on back side of c.1943 cover to Johannesburg with stamp washed away leaving partial ...AIG ...ESS-SHIRE cds, back side with faint offsdet of a Perth cancel, water wrinkling, VG-Fine; Hopkins describes a very similar cover dated 1943 (Image)

CV. 100-150

Great Britain 1954 (Dec) Prestwick Crash Mails, four flown covers and two OHBMS transmittal envelopes bearing "SALVAGED MAIL AIRCRAFT CRASH PRESTWICK 25-12-54" handstamps (Nierinck #541225a), all with convincing charring and/or staining, two covers with stamps washed away, noted one cover with crash handstamp tying stamp, also a contemporary clipping describing the wreck, Fine and interesting (Image)

CV. 250-350