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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

			1920-09-14 Locy Type 7 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-10
			Category

Postcard use
"On the Road to the Volcano, Hawaii"

N/A		N/A	1921-12-26 Locy Type 7 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-10
			Sailor's mail

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No Image			1922-06-26 Locy Type 7 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-10
			Category

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			1925-01-20 Locy Type 3a (B)
			Category

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			1925-05-15 Locy Type 7 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-10b
			Category

Postcard use
"Grass Hut in Hawaii"

N/A		N/A	1927-09-04 Locy Type 6
			Sailor's mail

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			1927-12-27 Locy Type 6
			Category

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			1930-06-05 Locy Type 6
			Category

Postcard use
Ship's photo

			1931-02-24 Locy Type 5hks
			Category

Add on cachet

No Image			1932-11-24 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1933-08-25 Locy Type 6
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: American Legion Capt Walter M Gearty Post 315.

			1933-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-TBT) "NAVY DAY / PHILA,PA"
			Navy Day

Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

			1933-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-TBT) "NAVY DAY / PHILA, PA"
			Navy Day

Cachet sponsor was the USCS Chapter 4 Stephen Decatur (formerly called Philadelphia Chapter 4) and cachet created by Robert A. Ritter.

 

			1933-10-27 Locy Type 3 (B-TBT) "NAVY DAY / PHILA, PA."
			Category

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No Image			1934-01-05 Locy Type 3 (B-TBT) "NAVY YARD / PHILA. PA"
			Commodore Stephen Decatur

Cachet Designer Dr. S.E. Hutnick
Cachet Sponsor Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS

 

			1934-01-05 Locy Type 3 (B-TBT) NAVY YARD / PHILA, PA
			Commodore Stephen Decatur

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 4 Stephen Decatur and Dr S E Hutnick.

No Image			1934-09-22 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "GUANTANAMO / BAY, CUBA"
			Category

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			1934-10-03 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Category

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No Image			1934-11-16 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA" USS Pennsylvania BB-38
			Fleet Flagship

U.S. Fleet Chapter No. 24, USCS

 

			1935-01-27 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Official Business

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No Image			1935-06-26 Locy Type 7qt
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

No Image			1935-08-15 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN FRANC / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

No Image			1935-08-15 Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9x
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

No Image			1935-08-15 Locy Type 9w Locy Type 9x
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

No Image			1935-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "NAVY / DAY"
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			1936-02-29 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "FLAG SHIP / U,S, FLEET"
			Leap Year

Cachet Makers: Karl E Parshall and Frank C Kenworthey.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1936-05-15 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Category

Army & Navy YMCA Balboa, Canal Zone

 

			1936-09-04 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Official Business

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No Image			1938-02-23 Locy Type 9efw
			Category

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			1938-03-16 Locy Type 6 ("At Sea")
			Category

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			1939-05-30 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) (appears enlarged) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			Memorial Day 1939

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			1939-07-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) (appears enlarged) "SEATTLE / WASH"
			Fleet Week 1939

Muridge Cachet

 

			1940-03-28 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "BREMERTON / WASH."
			Category

Crosby Photo Cachet

 

N/A		N/A	1941-04-09 Locy Type 7qt(2)
			Marines mail

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			1942-08-19 Locy Type 9v United States Fleet Registered 1942-08-21 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.
			Official Business

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			1942-08-21 Locy Type 7qtz(2)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1943-10-25 Locy Type 3z (BTT) "BUY WAR / BONDS"
			Official Business

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No Image			1945-11-26 Locy Type 2(n)
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