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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

			1913-01-28 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1913 "MANZANILLO / CUBA"
			Category

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			1914-08-19 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1913 "VERA CRUZ / MEXICO"
			Category

Photo Postcard use

			1914-09-09 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1913 "FORTRESS / MONROE"
			Category

Postcard use
"Calle Independencia Veracruz."

No Image			1915-09-05 Locy Type 9v 1915-09-10 USPO Registered Philadelphia, PA
			Category

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No Image			1917-06-13 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1916
			Category

Censored wartime (WWI) use

			1918 Locy Type 1z Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration W-45b (Type)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWI) use
Postcard use
"What's in a name, anyway?"

			1918-03-28 Locy Type 1z Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration W-45b (Type)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWI) use

No Image			1918-04-13 Locy Type 1z Locy Type F USCS Catalog Illustration W-45b (Type)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWI) use

No Image			1924-03-10 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1924-26
			Category

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No Image			1924-03-16 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1924-26
			Category

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			1924-07-24 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1924-26 "ROTTERDAM / HOLLAND"
			Category

Postcard use
Rotterdam

No Image			1924-08-16 Locy Type 3 (AC) 1924-26
			Category

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			1926-06-04 Locy Type 3 (A)
			Category

Official Businss

No Image			1928-07-11 Locy Type 8
			Category

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No Image			1929-04-08 Locy Type 8
			Category

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No Image			1930-00-00 Locy Type 9 (C)
			Category

Note: Date is unknown.

			1931-07-24 Locy Type 5hks "CADIZ / SPAIN"
			Category

Official Business

			1931-11-11 Locy Type 5hks GALVESTON / TEXAS
			Armistice Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby

No Image			1932-08-30 Locy Type 5hks "HALIFAX, / NOVA SCOTIA"
			Category

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			1933-01-17 Locy Type 5hks "GUANTANAMO / BAY,CUBA"
			Betty Boop

Hand painted cachet

			1933-05-30 Locy Type 5hks ANNAPOLIS / MARYLAND
			Memorial Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Maryland Commemorative Association

No Image			1933-06-19 Locy Type 5hks "FUNCHAL / MADEIRA"
			Category

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No Image			1933-12-25 Locy Type 5hks "CUBAN WATERS / "
			Christmas Day 1933

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			1934-05-15 Locy Type 5hks "HAMPTON / ROADS, VA"
			Category

Official Business

No Image			1934-07-06 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "VIL'FRANCH / FRANCE"
			Category

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			1934-07-06 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "VIL'FRANCH / FRANCE"
			Category

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No Image			1934-07-14 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAPLES / ITALY"
			Category

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No Image			1934-07-19 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAPLES / ITALY"
			Category

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No Image			1934-07-23 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "GIBRALTAR / B.P."
			Category

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			1934-07-23 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "GIBRALTAR / B.P."
			Betty Boop

Hand painted cachet

No Image			1934-10-12 Type 3 "NEW ORLEANS / LOUISIANA"
			Columbus Day

Cachet Makers: C. Wright Richell and Robert L. Manley
Note: Cancel is not clear enough to determine its full type.

			1934-10-27 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NAVY DAY / NEW ORLEANS"
			Port Visit - New Orleans Navy Day 1934

Thurman / Canaday Cachet

			1935-02-24 Type 6 28mm dial
			U.S. Navy Patriotic

Note: Cachet Maker: George V. Sadworth.
The last digit of the cancel date is smudged. It looks like a 1 but Sadworth used this same cachet on a cover in 1935.

No Image			1935-04-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "NORFOLK / NAVY YARD"
			Category

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			1935-04-20 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) NORFOLK / NAVY YARD
			Civil War

Note: Cachet Maker: Charles Leslie Carter.

No Image		No Image	1935-12-25 Type 7dr
			Christmas Day

Cachet Maker: Unknown
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No Image			1936-01-06 Locy Type 7dr
			Category

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			1936-04-04 Locy Type 7dr
			Launching USS YORKTOWN CV-5

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			1936-04-22 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBT) "WELCOME / USS DOWNES"
			Launching USS DOWNES DD-375

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			1937-05-30 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) ANNAPOLIS / MARYLAND
			Memorial Day

Note: Cachet Maker: Paul Parrish

No Image			1937-07-09 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) "FUNCHAL / MADEIRA"
			Category

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			1937-08-03 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) AT SEA OFF / AZORES IS
			Midshipmen Cruise

Notes: Contributed by Louis Kurzmiller.

			1937-08-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-BBT) ANNAPOLIS / MD
			Midshipmen Cruise

Notes: Contributed by Louis Kurzmiller.

			1938-08-14 Locy Type 3r (B-BTT) NEW YORK / NY
			Category

Note: Cachet Maker: Nelson White
Not sure what role, if any, A.H. Fillion had in creating the cachet.

			1939-08-23 Locy Type 3r (B-BTT) AT / SEA
			Rescue of USS Squalus SS-192

Notes: Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed. Cover mentions the following ships: USS Falcon ASR-2, USS Brooklyn CL-40, USS Sculpin SS-191, USS Wandank ATO-26, USS Semmes AG-24, USS Iwana YT-2 , USCGC Harriet Lane WSC-141, USCGC Thetis WPC-115

			1941-06-24 Locy Type 7drz Locy Type 9x
			Category

Add on cachet

			1942-03-27 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
Official Business

			1944-11-01 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Official Business

			1944-11-15 Locy Type 7drz
			Category

Official Business

No Image			1946-03-12 Locy Type P USCS Catalog Illustration W-45e
			Category

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No Image			1946-06-24 Locy Type 2(n)
			Category

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			1947-08-01 Locy Type LDPS 2(n)
			Last Day Postal Service

Nicholson Cachet

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