Cachet Maker Jacques Minkus

Cachets should be listed in chronological order based on earliest known usage. Use the postmark date or best guess. This applies to add-on cachets as well.

 

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

 

No Image		No Image	1940 to 1946
			WWII Patriotic Cachets

Close up of Minkus copywrite identification on the reverse of his covers. This particular example is from the Sept. 12, 1941 CALYPSO cover.

 

			1941-01-09 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)  Killer: YORKTOWN / V.A. Locy Type 9v Locy Type 9efw Locy Type 9x USS Curtiss AV-4
			Category

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			1941-05-07 Locy Type 3 USS Tennessee BB-43
			Patriotic

Multi-colored printed cachet...Back shows blue printed Jacques Minkus copyright lower right

 

			1941-05-14 Locy Type 3r (AC-TBT) USS Zane DD-337
			Patriotic

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			1941-05-23 Locy Type FDC 3 (A-BBT) "NEW LONDON / CONN" USS Grampus SS-207
			First Day of Commission

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			1941-05-23 Locy Type 3 USS Worden DD-352
			Patriotic

Multi-colored printed cachet...Back shows blue printed Jacques Minkus copyright lower right

 

N/A		N/A	1941-07-10 "MAR. DET. ARGENTIA" "NEWFOUNDLAND"
			Marine Detachment

Censored. From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

			1941-09-02 Locy Type 6ep(3) USS Enterprise CV-6
			Patriotic

Multi-colored printed cachet...Back shows blue printed Jacques Minkus copyright lower right "COPR. 1940 BY JACQUES MINKUS, NEW YORK, N.Y. U.S.A."

 

			1941-09-12 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) USS Calypso AG-35
			Patriotic

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			1941-10-31 Locy Type 3 (A-TBT) USS Undaunted AT-58
			Patriotic

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N/A		N/A	1941-11-10 "MAR. DET. ARGENTIA" "NEWFOUNDLAND"
			Marine Detachment

From the Greg Ciesielski collection.

 

			1941-11-14 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT) USS Kaula AG-33
			Patriotic

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			1941-11-22 Locy Type 3 USS Solace AH-5
			Patriotic

Multi-colored printed cachet...Back shows blue printed Jacques Minkus copyright lower right

 

N/A		N/A	1942-01-07 "MAR. DET. ARGENTIA" "NEWFOUNDLAND"
			Marine Detachment

Censored. From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1942-01-11 Locy Type 3 (A-BBT)(no date) Locy Type Fz (dated) USCS Catalog Illus. L-43 USS Laramie AO-16
			Patriotic

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			1942-03-22 Marine Base Midway Islands
			Category

Notes: Back of the cover has the following fine print: "COPR. 1940 BY JACQUES MINKUS, NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A."

 

N/A		N/A	1943-12-07 Locy Type 2z Locy Type 9# Locy Type SL2 Floating Drydock Training Center Tiburon CA
			Patriotic

From the Tom Kean collection.

 

			1944-02-06 Locy Type 3z (BTT) Locy Type 9efsu USS Independence CVL-22
			Category

Notes: Back of the cover has the following fine print: "COPYRIGHT 1943 BY JACQUES MINKUS, NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A."

 

			1946-00-00 Locy Type 2(n) Locy Type 9efu(n) USS Aucilla AO-56
			Category

Notes: Date unknown. 1946 is a guess.
Back of the cover has the following fine print: "COPYRIGHT 1942 BY JACQUES MINKUS, NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A."

 

			1946-06-06 Locy Type 2# USS Estes LCC-12
			Category

Notes: Back of the cover has the following fine print: "COPYRIGHT 1942 BY JACQUES MINKUS, NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A."

 

			1946-08-20 Locy Type 2z + SLKb(n) (32x3)
			Category

AO-52. From the Randy Kohler collection.

 

N/A		N/A	1946-09-27 Locy Type LDPS 2z* USS Chincoteague AVP-24
			"Let There Be Light"

From the Randy Kohler collection.

 

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