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Covers should be listed in chronological order. Use the postmark date or best guess.

Each entry provides a link to the image of the front of the cover. There is also the option to have a link to the image of the back of the cover if there is anything of significance there. Finally, there is the primary date for the cover and the classification types for all postmarks based on the Locy System.

Thumbnail Link To Cachet Close-Up Image	Thumbnail Link To Full Cover Front Image	Thumbnail Link To Postmark or Back Image	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

N/A		N/A	1944-04-29 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Navy Yard Sta." Brooklyn NY
			Launching

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N/A		N/A	1944-04-29 Locy Type 3z
			Launching

Cachet by Glenn Dye. From the John Young collection.

N/A		N/A	1944-04-29 USPO Duplex Cancel "Navy Yard Sta." Portsmouth VA
			Launching

Cachet by Tazewell G. Nicholson. From the John Young collection.

N/A		N/A	1944-04-29 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Navy Yard Sta." Brooklyn NY
			Launching

Cachet by Ralph Werve. From the John Young collection.

N/A		N/A	1944-04-29 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Navy Yard Sta." Brooklyn NY
			Launching

Cacheted. From the John Young collection.

N/A		N/A	1944-04-29 USPO Duplex Cancel "Navy Yard Sta." Brooklyn NY
			Launching

Text cachet. Serviced by Alfred C. Hinzpeter. From the John Young collection.

N/A		N/A	1944-11-26 Locy Type 3z FAKE
			Commissioning

Cachet by Glenn Dye. There is no recorded postmark for the Commissioning of this ship.

N/A		N/A	1944-11-26 USPO Slogan Machine Cancel "Navy Yard Sta." Brooklyn NY
			Commissioning

Typed cachet. From the John Young collection.

			1945-01-27 Locy Type 2z
			Official Business

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N/A		N/A	1945-10-27 Locy Type 2(n)
			Navy Day

Add-on cachet by Michael Brock

No Image			1945-11-02 Locy Type 2(n)
			Business Reply

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No Image			1946-01-31 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

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			1946-04-06 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge

			1951-04-04 Locy Type 2
			Official Business

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			1951-11-30 Locy Type 2
			Category

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			1953-01-17 Locy Type 7
			Category

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			1955-09-06 Locy Type FDPS 2 (BON HOME RICHARD) Locy Type FDPS 9efu (BON HOME RICHARD
			First Day Postal Service

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No Image			1955-09-26 Locy Type 2 (BON HOME RICHARD)
			Collectors request

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N/A		N/A	1956-03-26 Locy Type 2(n+)
			Collectors request

Add-on cachet by Tom Morrissey. From the Tom Kean collection.

			1956-12-08 Locy Type 2(n+)
			President Rutherford Hayes

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			1960-06-14 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-87c
			Category

Cachet by Howard Tiffner

N/A		N/A	1961-06-24 Locy Type 9efu (BON HOME RICHARD) 1961-06-25 Locy Type 7n+ Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-87c
			Category

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			1962-09-01 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-87b
			Category

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			1966-10-27 Locy Type 2(n+) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-87
			Navy Day 1966

Cachet by William Eaton and Charles T. French (E-F Cachets)

No Image			1967-03-21 Locy Type 2(n+) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-87
			Category

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			1967-10-27 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Navy Day 1967

Cachet by the Admiral Farragut Chapter No. 3, USCS

			1970-04-04 Locy Type 2(n+) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-87a
			Ship's Crest

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			1970-05-30 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Memorial Day 1970

Cachet by the Admiral Farragut Chapter No. 3, USCS

			1970-05-30 Locy Type 2t(n+u) (USS)
			Memorial Day 1970

Cachet by the Admiral Farragut Chapter No. 3, USCS

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