Naval Office Cover With Dates Have Any Sort Of Collectors Importance?

Just curious if this happens to hold any particular value or would have interest to collectors by chance with the dates being war era and from the naval office. Thanks for any help/info.

The first thing to note is that it is not a cover. It is a piece cut from a cover. The difference is like bananas and hand grenades. Beyond that I can't see anything of monetary value.

So are you meaning if the entire envelope was left in tact then it would have made a difference? I tried searching a bit about it online and wasn't getting much except that the fact of the "air mail" part being in tact still that it made a big difference. Wasn't explaining why or giving me any details not so vague. I didn't think the stamps held value just wasn't sure of the rest

A cut square may hold interest for some people, especially if they are collecting postmarks and cancels, or multiples. Generally speaking, people aren't going to be clamoring for cut squares.

A cover (i.e., the entire envelope) has a much better chance of carrying along some value. This piece could have had some additional markings, or an interesting recipient, all of which are now lost.

I often wonder why some things were saved, so I occasionally do a little checking to make sure I'm not missing something obvious, like a postmark dated before the first day of issue, or on some particularly noteworthy occasion.

I agree with rogdcam; I'm not seeing anything here.

It is an example of the military mail system in which it was important to NOT identify from where the airmail letter originated. As cut squares go, this is a clean,corner, top margin stamp pair with selvage and excellent cancel strike. It is far better than most.

See this thread: https://goscf.com/t/90901 down a few posts.

Well that's unfortunate. The people who they belonged to before me had already cut them all to this size, I'm assuming for storing reasons based off what I received them in. I think most were also just sent to/from family members also so might have been another reason why they didn't think there would be any value in the whole piece but that's just a guess. Weird how it wouldn't matter as much by not being the whole piece but I still find the ones I have interesting and neat to have. They are all still in this condition too so that's good.

If they are neat to you, they are neat to you. That's not wrong.

Collecting postmarks as cut squares or cut circles or cut 2" x 4" units was an accepted practice beginning as early as the later 19th century, and continued until the post World War II era. I think that by the 1960s the postal history community had transitioned to saving the entire envelopes and the cut sizes fell into disfavor.

While not generally approved of today, there are 19th century markings that are known only as one of these "cuts".

The same trend can be found in the collecting of early stationery indicia, postage meter stamps, and probably other areas I can't recall this early in the morning.

As is mentioned often on this forum, each person is allowed to collect what he likes and they way he likes to collect them.

As an example to my earlier statement about how "cut" pieces preserved otherwise unknown postal markings, the following crops are taken from a handbook prepared some years ago by my good friend, the late Fred Ekenstam, titiled: TEXAS POSTMASTER AND COUNTY CANCELLATIONS, 1850-1911.

Fred collected these cancellations for over 40 years, and included the following note and page at the end of his handbook:





MikeL

Edited to correct spelling