Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans-Arctic Submarine Expedition cover w/ purple cachet, signed by Herbert Wilkins and sub commander Sloan Danenhower; canceled at New York and at London, registered back to US; VF (Image)

Est. $150-200 SE

Collection (152) diff mainly 1932-41 subs, battleships, cruisers & more, nice cachets w/ some Linto, hand drawn, crafted, tinted etc, many Navy Days & other days, Fleet Week, shakedowns etc, gen F-VF+ (Image)

Est. $200-300 B

Group of family correspondence & ephemera, incl (50) letters from WWII officer's submarine service aboard USS S20 and USS Guitarro; also (30) letters from Vietnam era sailor on USS Bering Strait; also photos, medals, letters & ephemera from late 19th Cent on

Est. $200-300 L

Collection (192) diff U.S. Coast Guard covers by Bill Everett, many hand colored, 1998-2008 in plastic UltraPro pages in binder, VF (Image)

Est. $250-350 A

Collection on (29) annotated exhibit pages, USS Stewart in China, 1922-46 incl covers w/ ship pmk in China, Japan, Philippines; official business, photographs, maps & ephemera, incl two Rarity 3 postmarks (fewer than 10 known); noted a handpainted cachet, ship's Christmas card, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $250-350 A

(7) Leather bound books from library of naval historian and author Samuel Eliot Morison, several bound by him in 1930s, on US colonial & naval history, also The Conquest of Peru; additional 1936 book The Puritan Pronaos is signed by him w/ wife's name inside; some wear to binding; F-VF

Est. $300-350 L

(2) Large binders w/ annotated collection of Cruisers, incl cacheted covers, ship history, postcards, photographs & other ephemera, organized by ship, 1910s-40s plus a few modern anniv covers; gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $300-400 L

Collection/accum abt (790) US submarines 1930s-2000 commissioning, launch, keel laying, shakedown, cruises w/ USS Flounder, Blue Gill, Marlin & much more, most nice cachets in (3) albums & box, gen F-VF+ (Image)

Est. $350-450 L

(3) Large binders w/ annotated collection naval covers, organized by ship, incl history, vintage PPC, covers & cachets, postmarks, photographs & other ephemera; incl gunboats, aircraft carriers, WWII action & more; gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $400-500 L

Accum (1080) sleeved US Navy and Coast Guard covers, 1930s-80s, all cacheted, nice selection ship cancels, events & anniversaries; likely no dup, gen VF (Image)

Est. $450-550 L

Approx (2000) naval covers of all types, 1930s-2000s incl ship cancels, commissionings, anniversaries, deployments, official mail, ports-of-call & more; also some ephemera, signatures, letters, photographs, etc; great selection, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $750-850 L (2)

Collection (85+) postcards plus some ephemera relating to the world cruise of the USS Tennessee ACR-10 from 1908-10; many canceled on board or in ports-of-call around the world, incl Canal Zone, Chile, San Francisco, Uruguay, Japan and elsewhere; also (5) covers from the Alaska-Yukon Expo which cat $150 ea in Bomar; gen F-VF [see addl web photos] (Image)

Est. $850-1,000 A

Approx (4,000) Nuclear Submarine covers packed in (8) shoe boxes, most sorted by ship number, many sleeved, all cacheted, many better, some dup; VF (Image)

Est. $1,000-1,500 L (2)

(5) Large binders holding specialized collection of the Asiatic Fleet, organized by ship, incl covers, cachets & postmarks, postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings; incl many river gunboats such as USS Panay PR5 which was sunk by Japan in 1937; well organized, attractive cachets, some flap marks, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $2,000-2,500 HWC-L