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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

No Image			1920-05-30 Locy Type 3rs (AC)
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No Image			1921-01-24 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. I-1f
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No Image			1926-03-09 Locy Type 9
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			1931-03-02 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
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No Image			1931-04-09 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
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No Image			1931-12-11 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
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No Image			1933-03-06 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
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No Image			1933-10-12 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
			Columbus Day 1933

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No Image			1933-12-19 Locy Type 6fy (Br.)
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No Image			1934-07-20 Locy Type 7 Norfolk VA CDS
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			1934-11-11 Locy Type 6egpr-1 (C+)
			Armistice Day

Cachet Maker: Omar R Watts.

 

No Image			1935-04-17 Locy Type 3 (B-TBT) "CHANGES / COMMAND" USS Pennsylvania BB-38
			Cachet Category

Cachet on the back of the cover commemorates the return of USS Idaho to the fleet (return to San Pedro home port) after modernization.

No Image			1935-08-19 Locy Type 9v USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. I-1
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Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

No Image			1935-08-18 Locy Type 9x USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. I-1c
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Note: Add-on cachet by Bruce D. Liddell

No Image			1935-11-28 Locy Type 6egpr-1 (C+)
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R/S on back from Louis R. Diesing and the Battleship Oregon Chapter No. 22 USCS

No Image			1936-09-01 Locy Type 7r
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Cachet Maker: Leo A. Schupp

			1938-01-18 Locy Type 7r
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			1938-08-18 Locy Type 7r
			Official Business

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			1938-09-10 Locy Type 6egpr-1 (C+)
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Cachet by Walter G. Crosby

 

			1939-05-14 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "LONG BEACH CALIF."
			Mother's Day

Cachet by Kay Ferris.

 

N/A		N/A	1939-05-14 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "BREMERTON / WASH."
			Puget Sound Navy Yard

Cachet by -

 

N/A		N/A	1939-07-25 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "SEATTLE / WASH"
			Fleet Week

Cachet by M. Fay Muridge

			1940-10-03 Locy Type 6egpr-1 (C+)
			Official Business

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			1942-01-15 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Official Mail

Marine Detachment return address

			1944-05-18 Locy Type 7rz
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Censored wartime (WWII) use
Back pre-printed AIR MAIL

			1945-09-02 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "TOKYO / BAY"
			V-J Day

Censored wartime (WWII) use

N/A		N/A	1945-09-02 Locy Type 3r (AC-BBT) "TOKYO / BAY"
			V-J Day

Censored sailor mail. Contributed by Tom Kean.

			1945-10-27 Locy Type 2(n) Oct 27, 1945
			Navy Day 1945

Nicholson Cachet

			1946-02-11 Locy Type 2(n)
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Add on cachet

			1946-05-20 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

Crosby Cachet

 

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