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Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013
Estimate
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2248
2249X
2253X
Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013
2256
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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.
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