martes, 15 de marzo de 2011
Naval cover enthusiasts
For the most part, naval covers are modestly priced and large collections can be formed with a relatively small monetary investment. Collectors who send envelopes to Navy ships for cancellation add to their collection for little more than the cost of a stamp for the cover and a stamp to mail it to the ship. Naval covers can be found for sale by some stamp dealers, dealers specializing in covers or postal history, and from online auction sites such as eBay. Some postmarks are more difficult to find, as are some ships or certain cachet designs, resulting in moderately to high priced covers.
Collectors often specialize in order to narrow their collecting range, while others will collect any and all naval covers. One popular way to build a collection is to collect covers with cachets, often specializing in cachets by a specific designer. Among the popular designers is Walter Crosby who serviced covers in the 1930s andl940s. His covers usually include a small photograph glued to the cover and a thermograph, raised design, cachet. Another popular designer, Morris Beck, produced over 1000 covers. Most often the covers commemorate launchings or commissionings but they also include space related events such as spacecraft recoveries. Today, cover cachets are often prepared using a home PC with an ink jet printer and are designed by numerous collectors. Modem covers without a cachet are collectible, but not as desirable, particularly from the period 1946 to present.
Naval cover enthusiasts often collect covers from a specific ship or a group of ships. Many become interested in collecting covers from the group of ships that were at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Pre-1941 covers from most of these ships are plentiful and relatively low priced; however, covers from any of the ships postmarked near December 7 can be very expensive and are quite rare.
miércoles, 18 de agosto de 2010
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