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Auction: 21010 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - Conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 4057

South African Maritime Mail from 1677
The "Joachim" Collection
Wreck of the Union Steamship Company S.S. "Mexican"
1900 (29 Jan.) envelope (complete with contents) from London to Private C.H. Mc.Leish, 2nd. Batt. Highland Brigade, wounded in hospital at De Aar, bearing 1d. lilac cancelled at Chiswick and showing Principal Medical Officer, South African Forces cachet for 28 March and very faint De Aar Hospital, Wynberg cachet over-cancelled by "damaged by immersion/in sea water cachet, the reverse with No. 1 General Hospital, Wynberg, manuscript "Insufficient address to place" and various transit datestamps; the only example of the Damaged by Immersion in Sea Water cachet recorded on mail salvaged from this wreck, previously used on earlier 1897-99 North America wrecks. The envelope with some stains and other faults ads to be expected with an item of this nature

Note: The R.M.S. "Mexican" sank on 5 April 1900 off Dassen Island after colliding with the S.S. "Winkfield" in dense fog

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Starting price
£180