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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

			1933-12-25 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT) "CUBAN / WATERS"
			Christmas Day 1933

Razzette Cachet

			1934-11-29 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "MIAMI FLA / "
			Thanksgiving 1934

Manley Cachet

No Image		No Image	1935-10-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) COLUMBUS / DAY
			Columbus Day

Note: Red R/S cachet, blue postmark

No Image		No Image	1935-10-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) PROVIDENCE / R.I.
			Columbus Day

Note: Black & Purple R/S cachet, black postmark

No Image			1936-02-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "USS PHELPS / FIRST DAY"
			Commissioning USS PHELPS DD-360

Note: Cachet Maker: Unknown
Back pencil notation "No forwarding postage rec'd for 8 covers?"

			1936-02-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "USS PHELPS / FIRST DAY"
			Commissioning USS PHELPS DD-360

Note: Cachet Maker: Unknown

			1936-05-20 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT) "USS CLARK / FIRST DAY"
			Commissioning USS CLARK DD-361

USCS Chapter 1 Cachet

			1936-07-31 Locy Type 3 (B-BTT)
			Category

Postcard use
"Hospital Guantanamo"

No Image		No Image	1936-10-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) COLUMBUS / DAY
			Columbus Day

Note: Cachet Makers: HUX Cachets and Frederick Horton

 

		No Image	1937-08-27
			Category

Notes: The postmark date is a guess based on the writing around the stamp.

No Image		No Image	1938-12-05 Locy Type 3 (B-BBT)
			Category

Note:

N/A		N/A	1938-12-19 Locy Type 9 USS Tillman DD-135
			Keel Laid - USS Madison DD-425

Cachet by T. M. Holcombe ANCS #15 and Lloyd A. Nace ANCS #54. Contributed by Tom Kean.

			1939-03-23 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "LAST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Last Day in Commission USS DALLAS DD-199

Hutnick Cachet

			1939-03-23 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "LAST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Last Day in Commission USS DALLAS DD-199

Note:

			1939-03-23 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "LAST DAY IN / COMMISSION"
			Last Day in Commission USS DALLAS DD-199

Crosby Cachet
Note: The "USS DALLAS (199)" and the hull No. in the picture have been blacked out.
TILLMAN commerated DALLAS's decommissioning with this mark, a former owner of this cover may have thought this cachet to be in error, and blacked it out.

No Image			1939-03-23 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "NAVY YARD / PHILA. PA."
			Category

Hand painted cachet

No Image			1939-04-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "NAVY YARD / PHILA. PA." SLK(n) 1939-04-09 Locy Type 9 1939-05-30 Locy Type 9v USCS Catalog Illustration T-17b 1939-06-14 Locy Type 9x
			Category

Hand painted cachet

			1939-05-30 Locy Type 9v USCS Catalog Illustration T-17b
			Category

Add on cachet

No Image		No Image	1939-06-05 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB)
			Category

Note:

			1939-06-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BTB)
			Keel Laying USS ALBEMARLE AV-5

Appears to be an unlisted 3 (BC-BTB)
Hutnick Cachet

			1939-06-15 Locy Type LDPS 3(AC) "LAST DAY IN / COMISSION"
			Last Day Postal Service

Hutnick Cachet

			1940-08-23 Locy Type FDC SLP(n)
			First Day in Commission

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