Cachet Maker Glenn W Dye

Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.
   
Page 1   (1944 - 1950 - Some real, some fake)
Page 2   (1946 FAKE Christmas postmark)
Page 3   (1943-45)
Page 4   (Empty-Future Use)
Page 5   (Empty-Future Use)
Page 6   (Empty-Future Use)

Note - Not all of Dye's covers are FAKES, but each one needs to be carefully looked at for suspicious postmarks, backdating or other such activities.

 

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	October 2008 USCS LOG journal
			N/A

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			1944-02-24 Locy Type 2z*
			Ship Launching - USS Shangri-la CVS-38

Notes: This is cover series 33, cover number 16, with 82 covers issued.

 

N/A			1944-04-09 Locy Type 3z FAKE
			Launching of the USS Salamaua CVE-96

Note: Launching was actually on 22 April 1944.

 

		N/A	1944-04-23 Locy Type FAKE (USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. Y-6) "BUY WAR / BONDS" USS YMS-111
			Launching of USS Nashira AK-85

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			1944-06-13 Locy Type FAKE (USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. Y-6) "BUY WAR / BONDS" USS YMS-111
			Completion of USS YMS-464

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			1944-07-04 Locy Type FAKE (USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. Y-6) "BUY WAR / BONDS" USS YMS-111
			Launching of USS Cross DE-448

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		N/A	1944-10-09 Locy Type FAKE APO N232 Arzeu Algeria
			Commissioning of USS Randolph CV-15

FREE frank was not valid on international mail.

 

N/A		N/A	1944-11-26 Locy Type 3z FAKE
			Commissioning of the USS Bon Homme Richard CV-31

Note: There is no recorded postmark for the Commissioning of this ship.

 

N/A			1945-08-28 Locy Type FAKE USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. N-36 USS Niobrara AO-72
			Arrival in Tokyo Bay

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			1945-11-15 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) "CAPE TOWN / S. AFRICA" USS California BB-44
			Homeward Bound

Notes: Cachet is thermographed. This is cover series 127, cover number 23, with 53 covers issued from "Grey Cover Service".

 

			1946-01-30 Locy Type FAKE USS Mississippi BB-41
			USS Brooklyn is mothballed.

Note: "Fake cancels exist from this ship in 1946. The T-3 dated Apr 10, 1946 with "ANCS/1935-1946" is definitely a fake. The T-3 with other 1946 dates may be fakes. The 2(n) with a slightly flattened bottom and side of the dial may also be a forgery." {USCS Postmark Catalog}

 

N/A		N/A	1946-03-05 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9efu USS San Francisco CA-38
			Launching of the USS Manchester CL-83

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N/A		N/A	1946-05-30 Locy Type 2(n) USS California BB-44
			Memorial Day

Remembering USS Liscombe Bay CVE-56, USS St. Lo CVE-63, USS Gambier Bay CVE-73 and USS Ommaney Bay CVE-79.

 

			1946-05-30 Locy Type 2# Locy Type 9# USS Ulysses ARB-9
			Comic cachet

Note: Cover #17, Covers Issued 49, Covers Series No. 179 - Grey Cover Service

 

N/A			1946-06-30 FAKE Locy Type LDPS 3 "LAST DAY / POST. SERVICE" USS New York BB-34
			Last Day of Postal Service

Notice the hull designation of (CA-2) written in the postmark.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-07-04 FAKE Locy Type 2(n) USS Saint Louis CL-49
			Post Office Closed on 23 May 1946.

"Covers with the 2(n) cancel dated after May 23, 1946 are fakes." USCS Postmark Catalog, 5th Edition.

 

			1946-10-27 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. H-77b "NAVY / DAY" USS Honolulu CL-48
			Navy Day

Cachet is thermographed. From "Grey Cover Service".

 

			1946-12-25 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9ef(nu) USS Providence CL-82
			Christmas

Cachet Sponsor USS Cleveland Crew, ANCS. Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1950-07-09 Locy Type FAKE USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-44h USS Wright CC-2
			Category

Notes: Cachet created by Dye.

 

			1950-07-09 Locy Type FAKE USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. W-44h USS Wright CC-2
			Category

Note: Same cover as above only showing the fake postmark created by Dye.

 

N/A			1950-12-04 Locy Type FDPS 2 USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-7 USS Magoffin APA-199
			First Day of Postal Service

American Naval Cancellation Society (ANCS) cachet. From the Stephen Tusing collection.

 

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