Author Description

This Universal Ship Cancellation Society publication contains an enormous amount of information for any USS CONSTITUTION cover collector. One can only marvel at the amount of work done by Leon Fields and the USS CONSTITUTION Study Group to amass this much information and then publish these two volumes. Our continued thanks go to Leon posthumously and all others who helped. The organization of the USS CONSTITUTION material: This material was originally published in two paper books each roughly covering half the material. Volume I details cruise from Boston, MA, to just off San Diego, CA, 1 July 1931 to 20 January 1933. Volume II begins with the cruise in San Diego, CA and ends with the ship back in Boston, MA, 21 January 1933 to 8 June 1934. Both Volumes have small appendixes with useful information. Each Volume consists of two major sections, the Catalog section and the Cachet Section. The Catalog section contains the listing explained below for the time frame of the Volume. The Cachet section contains the illustrations of the cachets/covers. The 1,600 page book is a loose leaf, 3 hole punched, print ready to insert in a binder.