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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

 

			1935-02-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) NAVY YARD / BREMERTON
			Lincoln's Birthday

Notes: Cachet Maker: Herbert Dobb

 

			1935-05-28 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) PEARL / HARBOR T.H.
			Port Visit - Hawaii

Notes: Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers

 

			1935-07-04 Locy Type P U.S.S / CALIFORNIA
			Independence Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Leonard Rogers
Provisional postmark is a 5hk for Battle Force United States Fleet with "U.S.S. / CALIFORNIA" in the killer bars.

 

			1935-07-06 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN / FRANCISCO"
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: Liddell - add on cachet

 

			1935-09-09 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) LONG BEACH / CALIFORNIA
			State Admission Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Clyde Welch

 

			1935-09-09 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) LONG BEACH / CALIFORNIA
			State Admission Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Clyde Welch

 

			1935-10-16 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SAN / FRANCISCO"
			100th Birthday William Shafter

Notes:

 

			1936-07-04 Locy Type 7
			Independence Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: H S Groat

 

			1936-08-10 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Ship's Birthday

Note: Cachet Makers: Donald A. Yontz and M.T. Woolsey USCS Chapter 40

 

			1936-08-13 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "LOS ANGELES / CAPTURED"
			Los Angeles captured by Commodore Robert Stockton

USCS Chapter 14 Cachet

 

			1936-10-12 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "LONG BEACH / CALIF"
			Columbus Day 1936

Note: Cachet Maker Samuel Stein

 

			1937-07-17 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "SEATTLE / WASHINGTON"
			Category

Crosby Cachet

 

			1937-09-04 Locy Type 7 USCS Catalog Illustration C-7a
			Category

Official Business

 

No Image			1937-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Navy Day 1937

Note: Back is clean

 

No Image			1937-11-11 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT)
			Armistice Day 1937

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			1938-03-17 Locy Type 2s (C)
			St Patrick's Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: William S Linto.
Cachet is thermographed. Linto Cachet No. 67-A. 32 covers issued. This is cover No. 24.

 

No Image			1938-03-31 Locy Type 9v (C) USCS Catalog Illustration C-7e 1938-04-02 USPO Honolulu, Hawaii registered 1938-04-07 USPO San Pedro, Calif. registered
			Clipper Service

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No Image			1938-08-01 Locy Type 2s(C)
			Category

Note: Back is clean

 

			1938-09-09 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) BREMERTON / WASH
			State Admission Day

Notes:

 

No Image		N/A	1939-02-03 Cuban postmark
			Port Visit

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No Image			1939-04-09 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

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			1939-07-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) AT SAN / FRANCISCO
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1940-04-28 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / OAHU T. H."
			Namesake

Hendricks Cachet

 

			1940-11-30 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Official Business

 

No Image			1940-12-25 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Christmas Day

Note:

 

No Image			1941-07-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)
			Category

Note: Back typed notation "253"

 

No Image			1941-10-18 Locy Type 7
			Category

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No Image			1942-02-16 Locy Type 3z
			Category

Note: Censored wartime (WWII) use...Front pencil notation "CALIF."...Green pen notation "U.S.S. CALIFORNIA"
Back blue YORK PA RECEIVED CDS 1942-02-27...Green pen notation "404"...Black rubberstamp notation "4151"

 

			1943-06-08 Locy Type 9vz 1943-06-13 WASHINGTON D. C. REG. SEC. 1943-06-14 Navy Dept. Mail Division Washington D.C.
			Official Business

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			1943-12-03 Locy Type 7rz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-11-15 Locy Type 3 (A-BTB) CAPE TOWN / S. AFRICA
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Glenn W Dye (Grey Cover Service).
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1946-03-04 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9efu Locy Type 9efw  (USCS Illustration C-7c)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: Donald R Graf

 

No Image			Date Unknown Locy Type PPR
			Category

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