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Bidboard #
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1930
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Lot #
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166
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Catalogue Value or Estimate:
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$400.00
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Current Bid:
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$160
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Canada Covers
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British Columbia postal history. "Fifty ways to lose your cover; A Study of Interrupted Mail at Vancouver BC." Wreck of the Empress of Ireland 1914. The holy-grail of interrupted mail covers, sent from Vancouver BC on May 22nd 1914 to London, England. This ill-fated cover was aboard the SS Empress of Ireland when it collided with the coal freighter "Storstad" on the St Lawrence River in May 1914. This was Canada’s deadliest maritime disaster, in which more that 1000 lives perished when the Empress sank. The cover (which still includes the contents) received the handstamp "Recovered by divers from the wreck of the SS Empress of Ireland". Beautifully written up and mounted on exhibit page from BC Postal Historian Andrew Scott’s award-winning exhibit of mishandled mail which passed through the Vancouver BC Post Office. A stunning item. Estimate =
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