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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	1933-12-20 USPO Duplex "Navy Yard Sta." Portsmouth NH
			Keel Laying

Cacheted

 

N/A			1935-09-12 USPO Duplex "Navy Yard Sta." Portsmouth NH
			Launching

Add-on Cachet (2018) by Richard F. Hoffner. It appears the original servicing of this cover may have been done by the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce.
John D. (J.D.) Long was the cachet designer/liaison for the SF CofC.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-09-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "U.S.S. PIKE / LAUNCHED" USS Monaghan DD-354
			Launching

Cachet by Dr. S. E. Hutnick.

 

N/A		N/A	1935-09-12 Locy Type F "U.S.S. PIKE / WELCOME" USS Hamilton DD-141
			Launching

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Robert V. Walton (ANCS No. 75) and Alex R. Hesse (ANCS No. 81).

 

N/A		N/A	1936-01-17 Locy Type FDPS 3 (AC-TBT) "FIRST DAY / MAIL SERVICE"
			First Day Postal Service

Launching Cachet with a US Receiving Ship, Brooklyn NY postmark (Type 9) and a Commissioning cachet (2 Dec 1935).

 

N/A		N/A	1936-01-17 Locy Type FDPS 3 (AC-TBT) "FIRST DAY / MAIL SERVICE"
			First Day Postal Service

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N/A		N/A	1936-01-17 Locy Type FDPS 3 (AC-TBT) "FIRST DAY / MAIL SERVICE"
			First Day Postal Service

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N/A		N/A	1936-06-14 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "NEW YORK / N.Y."
			Flag Day

Cachet by the M. T. Woolsey Chapter No. 40, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1936-06-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "NASSAU - NEW / PROV. ISLAND"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by the Argonauts Crew No. 24, ANCS

 

N/A		N/A	1936-07-14 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "PORT ARTHUR / TEXAS"
			Shakedown Cruise

Add-Cachet by Michael F. Hebert (Mh Cachets)

 

N/A		N/A	1936-08-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "HAMILTON / BERMUDA"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by Fred C. Barnes & Fred Anderson

 

N/A		N/A	1936-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "PORTSMOUTH / N.H."
			Navy Day

Cachet by C. Wright Richell and sponsored by the Argonauts Crew No. 24, ANCS

 

N/A		N/A	1937-02-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "SUB-BASE / COCO-SOLO"
			In Panama

Cachet by Richard Dumonte

 

N/A		N/A	1937-12-02 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "MARE ISLAND / CALIF."
			Second Anniversary

Cacheted

 

			1938-04-19 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "MARE ISLAND / CALIF."
			1938 Fleet Maneuvers

Cachet by Edward Hacker

 

N/A		N/A	1940-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBT) "MANILA / P.I."
			Happy New Year

Cachet by William S. Linto

 

			1942-11-20 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-Z1
			Sailor mail

Censored wartime (WWII) use. Back shows large censor marking

 

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