I just listed two new ship covers I recently acquired. What make them different from some of the hundreds of other ship covers I have posted is that they were non philatelic. What I mean by that is that they were mailed by sailors home, rather than prepared by collectors. Most often the normal sailors mail is far less attractive than the philatelicly inspired items. In this case, the tw0 covers were mailed on a fancy multi-color envelope celebrating the Pacific Clipper Air Mail Service. Over the years I have seen a number of these envelopes, which I suspect may well have been sold on base at Pearl or perhaps only in town. If you were interested you could search ebay this weekend looking for covers from the USS Chicago and the USS Minneapolis. This is the earlier Chicago by the way, the one sunk by Japanese action off Renell Island in early 1943. Which raises one other interesting ship collecting aspect, the collecting of sunken ships. Perhaps a bit macabre, but challenging nonetheless. Earl ETN Covers.