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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			1927-09-06 Locy Type 3s "NORFOLK / VIRGINIA"
			Category

Note:

			1930-03-07 Locy Type 3s
			Official Business

Note:

No Image			1931-01-14 Locy Type 5ks (C)
			Category

Back blue rubberstamp "JAN 19 Rec'd"

			1933-06-22 Locy Type 3 "BASE FORCE / TRAIN"
			Category

Bruce D. Liddell add on Cachet

			1933-10-27 Locy Type 3 "BASE FORCE / TRAIN"
			Navy Day 1933

Bruce D. Liddell add on Cachet

			1933-10-27 Locy Type 3
			Navy Day 1933

Hutnick Cachet

 

			1933-12-03 Locy Type 3 "BASE FORCE / TRAIN"
			Category

Note:

			1934-06-14 Locy Type 3 "FLAG DAY / SAN PEDRO"
			Flag Day 1934

L. Dean Cachet
Back purple rubberstamp D.C. Bartley return
Byrd Powell USCS member stamp

 

			1934-07-04 Locy Type 3 "NATIONAL / BIRTHDAY"
			Independence Day

Cachet Maker: Byrd L Powell

 

			1934-08-02 Locy Type 3 "MARE / ISLAND"
			Category

Cachet Makers: Byrd L Powell, Deane C Bartley and B J Dean

			1934-08-06 Locy Type 3 "MARE / ISLAND"
			Category

Byrd Powell Cachet
Back green rubberstamp Powell sponsor

 

			1934-09-03 Locy Type 3 "LABOR / DAY"
			Labor Day

Cachet Maker: Sarah Litton

			1935-07-04 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-39
			Independence Day 1935

Byrd Powell Cachet. Back pencil notations (ship/cancel type)..."Lot #34"

			1935-07-04 Locy Type P USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-39
			Independence Day 1935

Byrd Powell Cachet

N/A			1935-07-04 Locy Type 5ks (C) "FOURTH / OF JULY"
			Independence Day 1935

Cachet by Byrd Powell.

N/A			1935-07-04 Locy Type 5ks (C) "FOURTH / OF JULY"
			Independence Day 1935

Cachet by Byrd Powell. From the Tom Kean collection.

			1935-09-19 Locy Type 9(C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-39a
			Category

Bruce D. Liddell add on Cachet

			1935-10-27 Locy Type 3 "NAVY / DAY"
			Navy Day 1935

Schlechter Cachet

 

			1935-10-27 Locy Type 3 "NAVY / DAY"
			Navy Day

Cachet Maker: William F Schlechter

			1935-12-25 Locy Type 9(C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-39a
			Christmas Day 1935

Crosby Cachet
Back black pen notation "AM-20"...pencil notation "AM-20"

			1936-11-26 Locy Type 9(C) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. B-39a
			Category

Crosby Cachet

			1938-04-17 Locy Type 3 "HAPPY / EASTER"
			Easter 1938 Fleet Maneuvers 1938

Edward Hacker Cachet
Back pencil notation "ATO 131"

		No Image	1939-10-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "SAN DIEGO / CALIF"
			Navy Day 1939

Schlechter Cachet

			1940-11-27 Locy Type 3r (A-BBT) "PEARL / HARBOR"
			Category

Unknown Cachet

N/A			1942-05-20 Locy Type 3z (A-TTT)
			Category

Note: This was mailed just as BOBOLINK was beginning her conversion as an ocean-going tug. Ens. Grant R. Olsen (1918-1972) was on board during Pearl Harbor attack, and was one of several who signed log entries that day.

 

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