Facing slip from Titanic exhibited in Prague

Visitors to a stamp exhibition in Prague at the weekend could admire a rare artifact from the Titanic, an address label from the ship's mail. The so-called “facing slip” from the Titanic is the only one of its kind in Europe and belongs to Czech collector David Kopřiva. The slip was in the possession of postmaster Oscar Scott Woody, an elite postal clerk from New York who died in the tragedy on his 41st birthday. The artifact belonged to an American collector for over 50 years. David Kopřiva bought it in an auction in Maryland earlier this year. The stamp exhibition in Prague attracted more than 230 collectors and auction house representatives from around the world.