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Bidboard #
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1930
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Lot #
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163
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Catalogue Value or Estimate:
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$250.00
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Current Bid:
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$525
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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." Plane CRASH mail, Aviation WRECK mail, a specialized study. An exceeding hard to find selection of five covers, mounted on 4 album pages from BC Postal Historian Andrew Scott’s award-winning exhibit of mishandled mail which passed through the Vancouver BC Post Office. The first item is a cover from Chemainus BC 1956 to Germany "Salved From Plane Wreck" from flight that left Vancouver for Calgary, crashing into Mt Slesse (near Chilliwack). The second cover, sent from Vancouver BC 1955 to Florida was aboard the Eastern Air Lines flight which crashed near Jacksonville, Florida. The third and forth items share a page, and feature flights which left Vancouver (1931) before crashing at Washougal, Washington (USA) and North Lonsdale (1942) which crashed in New York (LaGuardia Airport) while trying to land. The fifth and final cover is an Ambulance cover w/ letter from Canada’s most famous Air-Wreck, the TCA crash at Moose Jaw SASK in 1954. A great little group of covers. Estimate =
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