£150
Italy - Pakistan / Burma. 1954 (Jan 7-8) Burma 6a air letter from Rangoon, another stamp washed off, and a cover from Karachi with water damage and the stamps washed off, to England, both recovered from the Comet crash near Elba, the air letter handstamped red "DAMAGED BY SEAWATER / COMET CRASH" with a London F.S backstamp (Jan 29), the Pakistan cover handstamped black "Corrispondenza recuperata in seguito / incidente aereo del" with separate "10 GEN 1954". A good pair, the Italian cachet unrecorded from this crash by Nierinck, although he records the same cachet used four days later on mail from another crash near Rome. N.540110. (2).
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