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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	Postmark Date Postmark Type Killer Bar Text Ship --------- Category

 

N/A		N/A	1973-11-17 USPS 4-bar "Terminal Annex Br." Seattle WA
			Launching

R/S cachet

 

			1976-01-17 Locy Type FDC F  (USCS Illustration P-72)
			Ship Commissioning

Notes: Contributed by Jennifer Hoffman.

 

			1983-08-04 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted) Locy Type 9fy USCGC/NEW YORK NY USPO
			U.S. Coast Guard 193 years of service

Hand painted cachet

 

			1984-07-31 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			1984 Summer Olympics

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			1984-08-01 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			1984 Summer Olympics

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			1984-08-01 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			1984 Summer Olympics

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No Image			1984-08-04 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			1984 Summer Olympics

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No Image			1985-01-05 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			Operation Deepfreeze 1985

Cachet by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image		N/A	1985-08-04 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			USCG Birthday

Cachet by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image			1986-01-17 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			Operation Deepfreeze 1986

Cachet by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image		N/A	1986-03-19 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			Crossing the Equator Crossing the International Dateline

Cachet by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

No Image			1986-10-12 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			Cancelled North of the Arctic Circle

Cachet by Dick Weber, sponsored by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1988-02-23 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			Deep Freeze '88

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No Image			1990-08-04 Locy Type 9fy (USCGC / NEW YORK NY USPO)
			USCG Birthday

Cachet by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

N/A			1990-08-04 Locy Type 9fy (USCGC / NEW YORK NY USPO)
			200th Anniversary of the USCG

Cachet by Dick Weber. sponsored by the USS Puget Sound Chapter No. 74, USCS

 

N/A		N/A	1991-11-05 Locy Type 2-1n+ U.S. COAST GUARD (Cutter omitted)
			Ship's cachet

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N/A		N/A	1995-02-17 French postmark
			USCGC Polar Star Around Antarctica 1995 marking

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N/A		N/A	1998-02-03 USAF Antarctica Type 2 FPO AP 96559
			USCGC Polar Star Deepfreeze '98 marking

USAF postmark spells Antarctica incorrectly. Cover also bears a strikes of the Polar Star's marking and corner card.
Cover originally postmarked on May 1, 1956 with a USN Antarctica machine cancel.

 

N/A		N/A	2017-02-10 New Zealand hand cancel
			Ship's cachet

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N/A		N/A	2018-03-27 USPS Ink Jet Sprayed Marking Seattle WA
			Ship's cachet

Collectors request by Elgin E. Sink

 

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