£220 - £260
1940-45 Covers comprising 1940 (Jan. 23) cover from London to Copenhagen, water damaged and the stamp soaked off (a G.B. stamp from another cover reaffixed) handstamped violet "Beskadiget of Sovand", from S.S "Vidar" which was torpedoed in the North Sea on January 31st, three mailbags being washed up in Denmark; 1943 (Mar 10) covers from G.B to South Africa with the stamps washed off, handstamped "DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER" in black or violet "DAMAGED BY SEAWATER / BESKADIG DEUR SEEWATER", both from S.S "City of Baroda" torpedoed off Luderitz on April 2nd; and 1945 (Jan 2) water damaged cover posted within Holland franked 7½c, delivered in December 1946, reverse with Dutch Post Office label explaining it was recovered from the S.S. "Groningen IV" which collided with the "Jan Nieveen" on the Ijsselmeer on 8th January 1945 (the label incorrectly stating 1944). (4).
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