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Lot 943

black March 27 St. Louis datestamp on folded letter, black "N. York Am. Pkt 21 Mar 31" credit datestamp, carried aboard the Inman Line's City of Washington which lost her propeller early in the voyage but proceeded by wind, the ship lost her rudder on April 12 and this cover was transferred to the Galway Line's Propontis in the mid-Atlantic, backstamped Cork April 27 where large "1s-" due handstamp was applied (twice the 6d rate), very fine and interesting delayed cover, ex-Feldman