Egypt / WRECK MAIL 1905 Postcard from London

Early TUCKS Picture Postcard (ships, boats), to Cairo, routed via Genoa on the Italian Steamer "Cairo" with the unframed cachet "Sauve du Naufrage du Cairo / Saved from the Wreck of the Cairo" in Violet with Alexandrian 6 111 05 datestamp arrival on forwarded to Paris. The Steamer Cairo left Genova bound for Italian Somaliland and went down in the entrance to Alexandria harbour. (pt)

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