Meter cover from PORT SAID, EGYPT with 3m, 5m & 20m impressions in red with airmail label washed off and other signs of water damage with PORT SAID TRAFFIC cds dated 30 SEP 1937. Addressed to UK with boxed 'DAMAGED BY SEA-WATER' cachet in violet. This cover was involved in the crash of the Imperial Airways Short S23 'Courtier' plane that crashed in Phaleron Bay in Greece on 1st October 1937. (Nierinck #371001)