60th AUCTION - day 3

Desaster Mail: 1924, 23 March, Netherland-France, Railway accident, printed matt

Desaster Mail

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1924, 23 March, Netherland-France, Railway accident, printed matter envelope from Amsterdam to Schiltigheim, France, officially re-sealed and with label "Endommage par suite / d'un accident de chemin / de fer a Benesstroff le 27/3 24". On 23 March, about 2 p.m., the express train Oostende-Basel crashed into a waiting freight train, due to a wrong assignment of tracks to be used (the local traffic superintendent had fallen asleep). Nine people were killed, 15 (severely) injured.

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Condition: Cover