2013 CHICAGOPEX Stamp Show November 2013 | Page 189

Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013 Estimate Estimate 2248 2249X 2253X Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013 2256 Estimate 1909-20s USS SHIP CANCELS CLASSICS SELECTION .................................................................................... $750-1000 Estimate 2257 Great selection of more than 400 nearly all different early 20th Century USS Naval cancels on covers & picture postcards. Sleeved & organized in alphabetical order and identified by name of ship, type of ship & years of service, plus additional information for many, includes many picture postcards and/or photos of the ships. Wide range of ships and cancel types from: a 1917 comic picture postcard from USS ALABAMA with straight line cancel & purple censor stamp to 1909 picture postcard with USS YORKTOWN cds. Small sampling of ship cancels include: 1913 USS ALERT, 1914 USS DIXIE registered cover franked with F1, 1909 USS CHEYENNE, 1910 FLUSSER, 1910 USS GALVESTON, 1909 USS INDEPENDENCE, 1914 USS JUPITER, 1909 USS MARIETTA (possible EKU), 1909 USS PANTHER, 1917 USS RALEIGH, 1914 USS SALEM, 1909 USS TACOMA, 1909 USS TENNESSEE, 1916 USS TEXAS, 1915 USS UTAH, 1909 USS VERMONT, 1915 USS WASHINGTON and many more. Interesting and valuable classic ship cancels selection with many better items. Expect some usual cover faults & useful duplication, overall fine to very fine. Ex-Bergmann. Chicagopex 2013 USA-COVERS-02.pmd 1910s-60s EXTENSIVE VALUABLE COLLECTION OF SHIP COVERS (24-VOLS) ............................... $3000-4000 Impressive, organized and VALUABLE collection of approximately 2,400 USS Ship & related cancels on covers with a wide range of cancels & cachets, in 24 Showgard cover albums (about 100 covers per album). Lots of Events including first & last day of commission, first day postal service, Navy Day, Fleet Week, shakedown cruise and others. Cachets by a variety of makers including: Rauterberg, Thompson, Neumann, Harrington, Spader, Osborn, Walton, Sadworth, Streeter, ANCS Argonauts, RCD 70 and others. General highlights include: 8 albums with various Destroyers (DD) for Hull numbers 43// 890; 2 albums with Submarines SS163//SS585 including some US Navy, Groton & Portsmouth cds, plus another album labeled ‘Better Submarines’; 1 album of Battleships (BB); 1 album with Light & Heavy Cruisers; 1 album with Aircraft Carriers & some ‘Air Groups,’ plus another album with multiple cover examples for USS Lexington, USS Saratoga, USS Enterprise, USS Ranger & USS Wasp; 2 albums (about 150 covers) with ‘Bird’ name Minesweepers from USS ADVOCET to USS WOODCOCK including 36 Crosby covers, plus another album with 100 more ‘Birds’; 1 album with multiple examples for USS Squalos, USS Falcon, USS Sculpin & USS Sailfish and others; 2 albums with Asiatic & West Pacific Fleet cancels; 1 album with Alaskan & Central Pacific Port Locations including 1934 & 1935 Aleutian Islands survey. ALSO: assorted literature & collector’s notes & inventory. Collections like this do not appear often. Great opportunity for collector or dealer. Expect a few faulty items and a fine to very fine collection filled with interesting material. Ex-Bergmann. Stamps & Postal History 187 Page 187 10/2/2013, 7:41 PM