United States, 1920s/1970s, naval postal history collection of 101 covers and stationery, with a significant concentration in the 1930s and
United States, 1920s/1970s, naval postal history collection of 101 covers and stationery, with a significant concentration in the 1930s and 1940s, featuring a diverse range of cachets honouring Navy Day, Memorial Day, and various maritime events alongside non-philatelic usages, well represented by patriotic covers, naval censored mail, and personal correspondence posted aboard ship with a wide variety of USS postmarks, highlights including a selection of postmarks from ships stationed at Pearl Harbor during the December 7, 1941 attack, among them the USS Pennsylvania (damaged during the raid), USS Blue, USS Detroit, and USS Medusa, some covers with typical handling wear, the majority fine to very fine.
