Existing comment:
Found on Oscar Scott Woody's body nine days after Titanic's sinking, this facing slip bears one of the clearest surviving strikes of the ship's onboard postmark ("Transatlantic Post Office 7"). Clerks placed facing slips on bundles of mail to indicate their destination.
Very few postal items survived the Hindenburg and Titanic disasters, so devastating are fire and ice. Although crews salvaged a small percentage of Hindenburg's mail, no Titanic mail survived the sinking. A few pieces of Titanic mail, posted before the ship's departure from Queenstown, do exist. These Hindenburg and Titanic rarities are among philately's great postal history treasures. |