Lot 87 POSTAL HISTORY

DELAYED BY FLOOD WATERS - 1938 Printed business reply envelope from Gardena CA to San Francisco with violet single line DELAYED*BY*FLOOD*WATERS handstamp along the obverse. From Feb 27th to March 4th Southern California was visited by a series of heavy rainstorms that produced flood discharge far in excess of any previously recorded. The floods claimed 87 lives and cost $78m.