** WRECK/TRAIN FIRE COVERS - 1907 SS JEBBA GOLD COAST TO LON...

** WRECK/TRAIN FIRE COVERS - 1907 SS JEBBA GOLD COAST TO LONDON & 1918 TRAIN FIRE LONDON TO SHANGHAI - 1907 env. to London franked with Gold Coast ½d adhesives (2, another stamp floated off) and with mostly fine purple 'SALVED FROM/S S JEBBA' (partly improved in pencil) below, 'Bas.. Mission Factory' cachet and ACCRA & LONDON (2) cds on the back, plus a photo of the Jebba. Also Dec. 1918 scorched env. to Shanghai ex London with label folded around to the back printed in purple with 'Reoovered [sic] from train fire/at Monroe (Wash). U.S.A.' and tied by two SHANGHAI cds front and back. Interesting pair. (2 covers & a photo) Cross Reference: CRASH/WRECK MAIL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CHINA, GOLD COAST/GHANA

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