£130 - £180
RAILWAY DISASTER MAIL; 1906 & 1909 train collision disaster mail inc. 29 Dec. 1906 env. (consistent stains, creases and small tears) to Rotterdam franked Germany 40pf tied by Hamburg c.d.s. with purple "Beschadigt beim/Eisenbahnungluck/in Otterberg" h.s. (Gwynn & Hoggarth 2010 p72, type 4) on front following a collision and subsequent fire, with a livestock freight train plus 1909 env. and PPC recovered following the explosion of a boiler on a train which blocked the tracks and caused a collision with another train resulting in a further fire and derailment of both trains at Herlisheim, Germany (4 items)
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