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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

 

			1925-03-19 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-1
			Category

Registered use on Penalty envelope
Back pencil notation Scott numbers of stamps...Black pen return to ship at San Francisco
Type 9v marks x2 and unclear M.O.B. strike dated 1925-03-25

 

No Image			1928-11-07 Locy Type 3r (B)
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Black rubberstamp "AIR MAIL"
Back BOSTON MASS JAMAICA PLAIN STA duplex 1928-11-22...Black rubberstamp "AIR MAIL Plane"...pencil notations "12"..."A-41"

 

No Image			1928-12-05 Locy Type 5s "NAPLES / ITALY"
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Back return to ship at New York

 

No Image			1930-03-05 Locy Type 9w
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			1930-04-18 Locy Type 3s (A)   "GUANTANAMO / BAY, CUBA"
			Official Business

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No Image			1930-05-18 Locy Type 6i
			Category

Back violet rubberstamp "Received without contents..."

 

			1931-04-16 Locy Type 3s (A) " / GTMOBAY CUBA"
			Official Business

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No Image			1931-05-06 Locy Type 3s (A)
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			1931-10-27 Locy Type 3s (A) cuts in bars "FORTRESS / MONROE VA"
			Navy Day 1931

Black rubberstamp "W.C. Gentry"
Unknown Navy Day Cachet
Back black rubberstamp "1 1450"

 

			1932-05-20 Locy Type 6i
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Add on cachet

 

			1932-11-14 Locy Type 6i
			Category

Note: add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell
"Mare Island Station", Vallejo, CA machine postmark dated 11/15/1932 on reverse

 

No Image			1934-05-31 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. R-1f
			Fleet Review 1934

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No Image			1935-05-27 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
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			1935-05-28 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PEARL HARBOR / T H"
			Port Visit - Hawaii

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers and Blue Print Company

 

			1935-07-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "PORTLAND / OREGON"
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: Louis R. Diesing and Battleship Oregon Chapter No. 22, USCS

 

			1935-07-04 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) PORTLAND / OREGON
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: William F Schlechter

 

			1935-07-18 Locy Type 6egipru-1
			Category

Note: Front of the cover has a 5hk postmark from Destroyer Squadron One Scouting Force.

 

			1936-08-30 Locy Type 7dr  (USS Colorado BB-45) Locy Type 9  (USS Raleigh CL-7) Locy Type SLKsl (74x7)  (USS Raleigh CL-7)
			Ship Birthday - USS Colorado BB-45

Cachet Maker: Tazewell G Nicholson

 

No Image			1936-09-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "GIBRALTAR / BRIT. POSS."
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			1936-09-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "GIBRALTAR / BRIT. POSS."
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No Image			1936-11-02 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VALENCIA / ESPANIA"
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No Image			1936-11-04 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "MARSEILLES / FRANCE."
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No Image			1936-11-16 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VILLEFRANCHE / FRANCE"
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No Image			1936-11-20 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VILLEFRANCHE / FRANCE."
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No Image			1936-11-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VALENCIA / SPAIN"
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			1936-11-28 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "BARCELONA / SPAIN."
			Category

Cachet Maker: Tom Morrissey

 

			1936-12-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VILLEFRANCHE / FRANCE"
			Christmas Day New Year's Day

Cachet Maker: Robert S Thompson
Cachet also mentions USS Kane APD-18.

 

			1937-02-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "MARSEILLE / FRANCE."
			Ship Birthday

Cachet Maker: Ted Harrington

 

			1937-02-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "MARSEILLE / FRANCE."
			Category

Hutnick Cachet

 

			1937-02-22 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VILLEFRANCHE / FRANCE"
			Washington's Birthday

Cachet Maker: Lloyd A Nace
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-03-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VILLEFRANCHE / FRANCE"
			Category

Crosby Cachet

 

			1937-05-30 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VILLEFRANCHE / FRANCE"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-09-17 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "VILLEFRANCHE / FRANCE"
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			1937-09-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "H.M. DK'YD / GIBRALTAR"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

 

No Image			1937-12-04 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTT) "MARSEILLE / FRANCE."
			Ship Change Of Command

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