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Lot No. 1695

Auction No. 10
Category Disaster Mail
    Miscellaneous
Est. $250
Status Archived

 

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1906 Ottersberg Train Crash env with 10f red pmkd Lubeck & addressed to Cronenberg with a three line blue cachet, "Beschadigt beim Eisenbahnungluck in Ottersberg". On 30th December the Hamburg to Cologne express train crashed into a goods train near Ottersberg. As a result the mail coach was set on fire however this item was recovered. A unusual cover.

 

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