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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	1936-02-21 Locy Type 3 (BC-TTB) "OUR FLEET / IS GROWING" USS Babbitt DD-128
			Launching cachet (but not Launching date)

Cacheted

 

			1936-04-18 Locy Type 5hk "SELFRIDGE / LAUNCHED" U.S. Receiving Ship at Philadelphia
			Launching

Cachet by Meyer Tuchinsky

 

N/A			1936-04-18 Locy Type 5hks(C) "U S S / SELFRIDGE" USS Texas BB-35
			Launching

Cachet sponsored by Lloyd A. Nace

			1936-11-25 Locy Type FDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-31
			First Day in Commission

Cachet by the RAdm Selfridge Chapter No. 28, USCS. Black rubberstamp Commissioning Day anchor in circle. Back is clean

 

			1936-11-25 Locy Type FDC F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. S-31
			Commissioning

Cachet by the RAdm Selfridge Chapter No. 28, USCS.

 

			1936-11-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "NAVY YARD / PHILA PA"
			Category

Cachet by Leonard Rogers and sponsored by the Crew No. 11, ANCS

 

			1936-11-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "NAVY YARD / PHILA PA"
			Category

Cachet by Leonard Rogers and sponsored by the Crew No. 11, ANCS

			1937-01-15 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "NAVY YARD / PHILA PA"
			Stamp First Day of Issue

Cachet by the Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS. Back is clean.

No Image			1937-02 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "VILLAFRANCHE / FRANCE"
			Shakedown Cruise

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N/A		N/A	1937-02-12 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "GENOA / ITALY"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by RADM Selfridge Chapter No. 28, USCS

No Image			1937-02-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "GENOA / ITALY"
			Shakedown Cruise

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No Image			1937-02-21 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "ALGIERS / ALGIERA"
			Shakedown Cruise

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No Image			1937-03-14 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "GUANTANAMO / CUBA"
			Shakedown Cruise

Back is clean

N/A		N/A	1937-03-14 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "GUANTANAMO / CUBA"
			Shakedown Cruise

Cachet by RADM Selfridge Chapter No. 28, USCS. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

		No Image	1937-09-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "POUGHKEEPSIE / NEW YORK"
			Presidential Cruise

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			1937-10-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "NAVY YARD / PHILA"
			Last Day at Port

Cachet by Meyer Tuchinsky. Back red rubberstamp, Meyer Tuchinsky return

 

			1937-10-27 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "WILMINGTON / DELAWARE"
			Navy Day

Cachet by C. Wright Richell and sponsored by Leslie E. Paulson

No Image		No Image	1938-06-13 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF" Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9x
			Collectors request

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			1939-03-06 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT)
			Official Business

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N/A		N/A	1939-04-24 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "AT / SEA"
			135th Anniversary of RADM Selfridge's Birthday

Cachet by Kay Ferris

			1940-01-29 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Cachet by Louis C. Weigand

No Image			1941-04-28 Locy Type 6ep
			Category

Front pencil notation "DD357". Back typed notation "146"

No Image			1941-04-28 Locy Type 6ep
			Category

Back is clean

No Image			1942-04-19 Locy Type 3z
			Sailors mail

Censored, WWII use. Front typed notation "U.S.S. Selfridge". Back pencil V.C. Shank return address to ship at San Francisco. Black pen notation "315"

			1943-08-15 Locy Type 2z*
			Sailors mail

Censored, WWII use. Back pencil notation "Robt. is in South Pacific"

 

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