USA Navy Cover What Stamp Is This?

Not a stamp I have seen before any info on this cover appreciated, postmark us navy 1945



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Here's a starting point for you:

https://archive.org/stream/CombatIn...mps_djvu.txt

1942
Hearst Publications
Combat Insignia Poster Stamps.

Yours lies bottom left hand corner

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Thanks all so its a Disney Combat Insignia Stamp for the USS Blue does it hold much value

Probably less than what you posted it for.

They're quite common. I used to buy these covers for a dollar or two ...

It is not a postage stamp, it is a Cinderella stamp. Cinderella stamps are privately produced labels that were sometimes used for advertising or publicity and were not postage. Today people call them stickers and children love to put them on all kinds of things. Your cover's postage is covered by the sender hand writing the word "Free" in the upper right corner. During the World War 2 and also during other wars US soldiers and sailors who were on active duty were given the right to send their mail with no postage if they wrote the word "free" in the upper right corner. Today there are some collectors who collect "Cinderella" stamps and labels. There are so many of them over the years that I know of no catalogs that cover them other then a few specialized types of Cinderella labels such as "Christmas Seals" or charity stamps or war time rationing stamps or the like.

They are also sometimes called poster stamps. Some distinguish the two terms while others seem to use them interchangeably. But on WWII patriotic covers I often see them called labels. And who designed the cachet to which the labels are affixed will often determine value.

That looks like a Weigand cachet, but one that I haven't seen before. I don't have access to my catalog of WWII covers so I cannot check to see if it is listed. If it is a Weigand cachet it would sell better listed on ebay with other patriotic covers calling attention to the cachet. What makes it unusual for a Weigand cachet is the U.S. Navy Cover legend. That it appears to have been postally used with free franking also makes it a bit distinctive. These kinds of factors may be more important to value than the Disney label itself. Still appeal will be narrowly limited and even with all this other information I would be surprised (but happy for you) if you get what you are asking for it.

Basil

Thanks all I started it a little higher on on ebay but I haven't mentioned the cachet yet here is the link, comments welcome

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1945-UNIT...02003735584?

I agree with Basil that your starting bid for this is optimistic. If it sells for that then I will be very happy for you but if it does not you might want to consider starting it at perhaps 1 pound or perhaps 50p.

1 pound or 50p sales on ebay are no longer worth it all goes to fees and charges I only run buy it nows, in this case I dropped down to £10 if it goes unsold after 30 days may go to £7.99 but no lower than that. The cost of selling on ebay is high these days there has to be some money in it. Sellers selling at 99p and only one bid are loosing money and probably are collectors and just getting rid of stuff. I do this for a living so can't give stuff away for nothing. Hopefully someone takes this at £10 lets wait and see. Thanks for everyones help and comments

I follow a seller who starts most items at $0.99. But it is a high volume outfit and I think they may be disposing collections on consignment with terms that mitigate their risk when items just sell for a dollar or two.

At a lower price I think it might sell to a collected of postage stamps on Weigand cachet because of its relatively unique characteristics, if such co!actors exist. Good luck!

Basil

starting everything at 99c in auctions these days is very risky as you say most might only sell for a dollar two, seller does not make money even if they do high volume. I used to do this but gave up because the fees took all the money. I now only do fixed price using free listings. An auction on ebay.com was costing me $1.86 per listing then papal took money as well. Just didn't work. Hopefully a collector comes in for it at my asking price

I have found that starting auctions at $1 is not very risky if you have more than one or two auctions over time. ebay is a fairly competitive mechanism and you usually get the actual commercial value if you let the auction system work by starting things at a very low price. Most of the time when you get a very low bid and no others that is because that is what something is actually worth. On the few occasions when something goes for less than its commercial value you gain more followers from people who are looking for bargains, but then you also wind up selling some things for higher than commercial value when you get bidding wars. If you sell 100 items over the course of a year or two it all balances out. You are correct that the cost of selling something on ebay and using PayPal and such make selling things at 99 cents not worth the effort, but in those cases the best thing to do is to group together very low value items into lots that will sell for $10 or more. Sometimes you need to group together 10 or more things to get up to that value.