Ref: G5974
- £475.00
1929 FORT VICTORIA -SCARCE ‘SHORT HYPHEN’ LABEL. At 4.30 p.m. on 18 December 1929 the Bermuda and West Indies Steam Ship Company steamer Fort Victoria was rammed by the American steamer Algonquin off Sandy Hook, New York, in thick fog. She sank about 7.30 p.m. without loss of passengers or crew. Recovered mail received a label, applied to the back of the envelopes. There are three different types, the one with the number 1000 at the lower left, the others with the number 3000. There are two versions of this, one with a long hyphen and one with a short hyphen between ’29 and 3000’. This cover from New York (DEC 14) has the ‘short hyphen’ between ’29 & 3000’. A scarce and seldom seen item.
