Military First Day Covers. Catalogue Info?

Anyone know the catalogue info on these? I don't currently have my book. Thanks!

What's "the book" that you don't have?

Glenn Estus

Um...a catalogue book, as I mentioned. A pricing guide.

I'm not aware of any pricing guide exclusive to these sort of "military covers".

Incidentally, none of the above are first day covers, they are merely military-related postmarks for events that occurred on the dates shown.

Oh. Hmm...So no classification for these?

Here is a similar one to your first cover, it sold for $1.50. I believe the classification for these would be Philatelic covers. Covers like these are posted by the thousands on ebay so if you search the "Sold" listings you should be able to get an idea of their value, most I saw sold for between $1 - $10 depending on certain variables.

There is a group of ship cover collectors called the Universal Ship Cancellation Society. Here is a link to their website: http://www.uscs.org

They have several good reference books/catalogs on naval covers including the 'Catalog of United States Naval Postmarks', and the two volume 'Naval Cachet Makers Catalog' These and other reference books they sponsor are listed on this page of their website: http://www.uscs.org/shop/online-store

Would they be considered event covers perhaps?

Here is a link to a webpage http://www.postalhistory.org/sites/...censored.htm that includes a list of reference books on military postal markings. Such markings are a huge field of interest and you would need many dozens of catalogs to try to list them all. What most people do is settle on one or two particular kinds of covers and buy whatever catalogs and other reference materials cover those areas, and also join whichever specialist societies that focus on those particular aspects of military mail.

or you can try these websites: http://www.uscs.org/ http://www.navalcovermuseum.org/res...Museum.html. I call most of those Naval Covers.

Don Lawson
USCS LOG Auction Manager