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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	Primary Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text --------- Cachet Category

 

		No Image	1933-02-25 Newport News VA Machine
			Ship Launching

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No Image			1933-02-25 Newport News VA Machine
			Ship Launching

From the collection of Paul Banker. The insert describes the launch and other interesting information.

 

			1934-06-04 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4a "FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"
			Ship Commissioning Captain John Paul Jones

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			1934-06-04 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4a "FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"
			Ship Commissioning Captain John Paul Jones

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 2 John Paul Jones, Whipple Y Chester and Deane C Bartley

 

			1934-06-04 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4 "FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"
			Category

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No Image			1934-06-04 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4 "FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"
			Category

Cachet Makers: Whipple Y. Chester, Deane C. Bartley and John Paul Jones Chapter 2 USCS.

 

N/A		N/A	1934-06-04 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4a "FIRST DAY / IN / COMMISSION"
			Commissioning

Cacheted. From the Nancy DeLux collection.

 

No Image			1934-06-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "NAVAL BASE / NORFOLK VA" Locy Type 9v (C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4c
			Registered

From the Richard Morain collection.

 

			1934-07-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "OUR FIRST / FOURTH"
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 11 Rear Admiral Byrd

 

			1934-07-22 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "N.N. YARD / PORTS, VA."
			American History Commemorative

Cachet Makers: Robert L Manley and C Wright Richell

 

		No Image	1934-08-23 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "CROSSING THE / EQUATOR"
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell

 

			1934-08-23 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "CROSSING THE / EQUATOR"
			Ship Shakedown Cruise

Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell

 

No Image			1934-08-30 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "RIO / DE JANEIRO"
			Category

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No Image			1934-09-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "BUENOS AIRES / ARGENTINA"
			Category

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No Image			1934-09-24 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "MONTEVIDEO / URUGUAY"
			Category

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No Image		No Image	1935-02-22 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "N.?. YARD / PORTS.VA"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

 

		No Image	1935-04-05 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "CRUISING / CARIBBEAN"
			Category

Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell

 

No Image			1935-05-09 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "MIDWAY IS. / PACIFIC"
			Category

Back USPO Machine Evanston, Ill. 1935-06-03

 

			1935-07-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Clyde Welch

 

No Image		No Image	1935-09-20 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

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N/A		N/A	1937-05-18 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "HONOLULU / HAWAII"
			Pan American Airways

Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

			1937-07-14 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Russian Flight

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			1937-10-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB)
			Category

Postcard use

 

			1937-09-16 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "CALLAO / PERU"
			Inter-American Technical Aviation Conference

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			1938-05-20 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			National Air Mail Week

Cachet Maker: Lt J S Johnson USN
Cachet is on a separate piece of paper pasted to the envelope.

 

			1938-08-19 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA."
			Ship Commemorative - USS Constitution Person Commemorative - Commodore Isaac Hull

Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor

 

			1938-09-17 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA."
			Category

Includes rubber stamp from Mail Office of HMS York.

 

		No Image	1938-11-06
			Thanksgiving Day

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

 

		No Image	1938?
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed. Unable to determine primary date. Arbitrarily selected 1938.

 

			1939-02-07 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "GONAIVES / HAITI"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Harry Ioor
Type 6ep(2) postmark for United States Fleet on back of cover. Cachet also refers to USS Ralph Talbot DD-390.

 

			1939-06-02 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4c Locy Type 9x USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4h Locy Type 9efw USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4e
			Category

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			1940-05-16 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "AT / SEA"
			Category

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			1940-11-09 Locy Type 6ep(3)
			Category

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No Image		No Image	1941-02-25 Locy Type 6ep(3)
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Kelly Armstrong

 

			1941-06-11 Locy Type 3 (A-TTT) "NORFOLK / VIRGINIA"
			Category

Bund / Stoner Cachet

 

N/A			1941-06-17 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4k
			Sailors Mail to Phil Schreiber

From the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image			1941-08-25 Locy Type Fz USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4k
			Category

Postcard use

 

No Image			1941-08-26 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Postcard use

 

			1941-10-02 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration R-4k
			Category

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge

 

No Image			c1941 Locy Type PPO USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-4j
			Category

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			1942-09-05 Locy Type 7rz
			Official Business

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			1943-05-15 Locy Type 9vz 1943-05-23 Washington D.C. Registered 1943-05-24 Washington D.C. Navy Dept. Mail Division
			Official Business

Posted from another ship or station...Ship did not carry this device

 

			1943-09-12 Locy Type 7rz
			Official Business

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			1944-09-30 Locy Type 7rz
			Sailor Mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-10-27 Locy Type 7r
			Navy Day 1945

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge, sponsored by the John Paul Jones Chapter No. 2, USCS

 

			1946-10-17 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Mickey Mouse Last Day Postal Service

Hand painted cachet

 

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