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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

 

			1918-06-15 Locy Type 3rz (Killers blacked out)
			Official Business

Censored wartime (WWI) use

 

No Image			1918-09-05 Locy Type 3rz "CARE OF PM. / FT MONROE VA"
			Official Business

Censored wartime (WWI) use

 

No Image			1924-12-05 Locy Type 2 USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-34a
			YMCA

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No Image			1927-01-10 Locy Type 3ef USCS Postmark Catalog Illustration M-34b
			Category

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No Image			1930-09-13 Locy Type 3 (AC)
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1932-12-25 Locy Type 6
			Christmas Day 1932

Note: Typed notation upper left...Signed by mail clerk
Back is clean

 

No Image			1933-02-28 Locy Type 6
			Category

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			1935-02-08 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Official Business

 

			1935-07-04 Locy Type 6
			Category

Notes: Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 19 CDR John Barry, John E Gill and Edward W McGrath.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1935-08-20 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB)  DRY DOCK / N. YD. P. S. Locy Type 9v
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: C. Wright Richell

 

No Image			1935-09-23 Locy Type 9efw
			Category

Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

 

			1935-09-23 Locy Type 9efw 1935 Locy Type 9px
			Category

Add on cachet

 

			1936-01-01 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB) "HAPPY NEW / YEAR"
			New Year's Day

Notes: Cachet Maker: Irene Griffith
The secret code translates to: "A Happy New Year".

 

			1936-06-06 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB, AT SEA) NATHAN HALE / DAY
			Person Commemorative - Nathan Hale

Notes: Cachet Maker: Hollywood Cover Club.

 

			1936-07-12 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB, AT SEA) LAT. 28 31 00 / LONG. 145 21
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Raymond St John.

 

			1936-07-26 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB) "PEARL HBR / HAWAII"
			Category

Chun / Richell Cachet

No Image			1936-10-12 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA"
			Columbus Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Byrd L. Powell and Raymond St. John

 

			1936-10-27 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB, AT SEA) BOOST THE / NAVY
			Navy Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Sarah Litton.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

			1937-10-12 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB) "COLUMBUS / DAY"
			Columbus Day 1937

Parrish Cachet

 

			1937-12-18 Locy Type 3 (A-TBB) "OUR / BIRTHDAY"
			Ship's Birthday

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			1938-01-23 Locy Type 7 (1936-41)
			Roosevelt's Birthday

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			1938-07-24 Locy Type SLKts (45x3) Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: USCS Chapter 6 Moffett

 

No Image			1939-11-14 Locy Type 3 (A-BTT) "HONORING / OLD MISSY"
			Surrender of Tampico, Mexico

Note: Cachet Maker: Charles W. Inglee

 

			1939-12-29 Locy Type 9v  (USCS Illustration M-34e) Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x
			Category

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			1941-10-12 Locy Type 3z (BBT) "COLUMBUS / DAY"
			Columbus Day 1941

Shaw Cachet

 

			1941-10-20 Locy Type 7rz
			Category

Muridge Cachet

 

			1944-11-15 USS LEUTZE DD-481 Locy Type 9efu Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. M-34d 1944-11-21 U.S. Navy 3205 Registered 1945-11-29 Washington D.C. Reg. Sec.
			Official Business

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			1945-09-02 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "TOKYO / BAY"
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

			1945-09-02 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "TOKYO / BAY"
			Category

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			1945-09-02 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) "TOKYO / BAY"
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

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