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Auction: 17038 - Newfoundland, the Professor Albert Hamilton Collection
Lot: 216

Newfoundland
1940 (June) S.S. "Eros" envelope registered from St. John's to Tasmania, torpedoed by the German submarine U-48 off the north-west coast of Ireland, bearing 1932-38 15c. with a superb strike of the "salved from the sea" Type 2 cachet, the reverse with piece of Official "g (crown) r" "Found open or damaged and officially secured" label and Launceston c.d.s. (4.9)

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