U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
January 9-10, 2013
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #761 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH NEW ZEALAND 1894 cover (with letter) from London to Auckland, with "Saved from wreck of the "Wairarapa" two-line handstamp, also "New Zealand Found Open Officially Sealed" label on back. On Monday, October 29, 1894, the S.S. Wairarapa, with more than 230 passengers aboard, besides the crew, crashed on to rocks at Miner's Head on Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. Captain McIntosh, the master, and initially 134 passengers and crew were quoted as having perished (later figures were higher). The covers rescued from the wreck are rated as rare  | Unsold |
