It displays a boxed handstamp reading "Saved from the wreck of the Colombo."
The ship sank off the Maldive Islands, but the letter was saved. The cover lost its stamp, evidently as result of being submerged in seawater.
Rahmenstempel: (Ger.) framed or boxed marking.
Railroad: handstamp on Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, Albany, N.Y., 1837.
Railroad cancel: postal cancellation applied in a railway post office aboard a train.
The exhibit provides an original study, categorizing the single boxed markings into Blunt, Soft Squared and Rounded Corner Boxed types, using a census.
There are, however, a few precancels that are boxed and not between lines only; these are so designed to fit within the margins of the stamp. Examples of these are many of the City Type Coils (qv), eg Lynn MA, L-3 and Champaign IL, L-1.
[1] A 26p stamp was specially issued by the Isle of Man and a special handstamp was also created for these covers,[2] which was deliberately created with a Dakota flying "free" and not boxed in.
The use of maps, cancels, and covers is stunning. Granted, most of the covers are not reproduced all that well, but to have done better presumably would have pushed the already high cost ($115, 2 vols, boxed) into the stratosphere.
Boxed - Handstamp or printed marking in margin of postage stamp sheet, surrounded by a rectangular lined 'box' frame.
 See also: Used, Local, Stamp, Cover, Piece
  
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