i found this cover at the bottom of a mixed box of covers i purchased. Since as a child i could not afford any kind of older U.S. stamps i became a worldwide collector. The Washington Franklins mean little to me. I doubt if this imperf pair is anything very rare(with my luck) but if anyone could zero in on identifying them i would appreciate it.
It might be a philatelically inspired piece of mail, judging from the rubber-stamped address, but the postmark is from a ship, and that makes it more interesting. I couldn't help looking up the ship on Wikipedia, and it had a somewhat interesting career: USS Kittery was launched in 1905 as the German ocean liner Präsident, was taken over by the US Navy in 1917, refitted as a troop ship and commissioned under its new name in 1918, struck off in 1933 and scrapped in 1937.
