Salvaged and wreck mail collections From the Wreck Mail

S.S. Eider -1892 – Ex. Bremen

S.S. Eider -1892 – Ex. Bremen

Description

En route from New York to Germany the Eider was wrecked off the Isle of Wight.

The stamp has evidently been washed off and the word FRANCO is marked in the space from which the stamp is missing, (Franco=paid).

Mail addressed to Austria received a cachet in German.