ETN Covers has recently been selling hundreds of "US Navy Ship Covers" on eBay. The covers include special cachets for ship commissionings, decommissionings, keel layings, launchings, and other events during the ship's service. Many are philatelic, while others are actual mail sent by crew members to their families back home or in some cases official mail. Many, but not all, US Navy ships had their own canceling devices and post offices on board to handle the crew's mail. Collectors are interested in the various canceling devices used, as well as obtaining as many different ships within their collecting interest as possible. Some collectors focus on ship types, such as submarines or battle ships, while others collect around historical events such as World War II, or those ships at Pearl Harbor, or those sunk by enemy action, etc. Many sailors just like to have a simple remembrance of the ship or ships they served on, or served with. Many scrap bookers have tacken to obtaining a cover from their fathers and grandfathers to record and represent their service in family scrapbooks.
ETN Covers is a pioneer eBay merchant, dating back to eBay's first year of operation. In addition to ship covers, ETN Covers carries a wide range of other philatelic and non philatelic covers in a wide variety of other categories.
Most of these covers are buy it now priced in their eBay Store http://stores.ebay.com/ETN-Covers
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