Some Help Required Please. What Have I.?

Hi. I would appreciate some help in understanding these covers. The first has writing on it in pencil that reads 'Type 1 scarce', but as far as I can tell the stamp is a rotary perf. 10 Scott 583 and not so scarce at all. So maybe he/she was referring to the 3 line U.S. Pittsburgh cancel? On the reverse also written in pencil is the word 'Pittsburgh 111a' which through a little bit of internet research may be the type of cancel.. type 3a? The only reference I could find was an old one sold on ebay as 'scarce'. Just how scarce I have no idea, as the auction is over and I have no idea if it sold and what for. so all info. is welcome. Pictures number 1 and 5 go together.








For the second cover I have it down as a possible 178 and U163 or U168? Interesting is the large chip missing from his nose maybe? Any help out there with this?

decrynne, I`m afraid I can`t help all that much except to say that the Pittsburgh was the ship that landed Marines in China earlier this year. It does read 1927, doesn`t it? It's an interesting cover.

P.S. The Pittsburgh may have been the flagship for the Asiatic Fleet at this time.

Hi and thanks. So it Locy type p. CA-4 maybe ??

Locy Type P

"U.S.S. /
PITTSBURGH"


http://www.uscs.org/
USCS Postmark
Catalog Illus. P-31e

The top cover is likely to be more valuable, Persia is an unusual destination for the time.

However, the top cover may be to Prussia!

:) Top cover is to prussia. Did I call the numbers correctly ? Thanks guys