Signed Postal Cover

This American sailor who served during World War Two lays claim to fame as being one of very few living persons ever pictured on a U.S. stamp -- his smiling visage appears among a group of swabbies pictured on the U.S. three-cent stamp issued in 1945 titled "U.S. Navy" Signed Postal Cover, 6½" X 3½", n.p., n.y. Fine. NOT a First Day Cover, but simply an envelope bearing a mint copy of this stamp, neither addressed nor mailed. Across the center, large and bold, Mullen signs in black medium-point marker. Original transmittal envelope, cancelled in Des Moines, Iowa on 13 February 1976, also present -- as is a small article from a philatelic newspaper (undated, but circa 1976) picturing this stamp and a "To the Editor" letter from three of Mullen's grandchildren pointing out that the Iwo Jima flagraisers were not the only living persons pictured on a U.S. stamp. Mullen appears at the upper right corner of the group of sailors captured on this stamp, his cap cocked jauntily. Highly unusual -- a fun little piece of philatelic history.…