USS TEXAS BB35 Covers Page 1
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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.
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1918-05-28 |
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Censored wartime (WWII) use
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1918-11-22 |
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1919-05-12 |
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Inside this cover was a letter and a small pamphlet listing the church calendar as well as other information. See the bottom of the USS Texas BB-35 Main Page for images of these items.
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1930-00-00 |
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Postmark date is unknown. 1930 is a guess.
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1930-00-00 |
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Postmark date is unknown. 1930 is a guess.
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1931-05-27 |
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Black rubberstamp NMC
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1931-09-15 |
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1931-09-15 |
Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby.
Postmark from Naval Station San Pedro California on back of cover.
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1931-11-11 |
Cachet Maker: Walter G. Crosby
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1932-04-22 |
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1932-04-30 |
| Washington Bi-Centennial |
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1932-08-22 |
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Fleet Week 1932 |
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1933-02-19 |
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Post Card...Typed notation upper left
Back typed notation "PLACE CACHET HERE"...Pencil notations "None"..."Recd 2-18-33"
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1933-06-14 |
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Flag Day 1933 |
Back BREMERTON WASH NAVY YARD STA machine 1933-06-14
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1933-07-04 |
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Independence Day 1933 |
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1933-10-12 |
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1933-11-11 |
Cachet Makers: E O Tauer and
E J Birdsall.
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1933-12-29 |
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Texas Admission Day 1933 |
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1934-02-12 |
Cachet Makers: E J Birdsall,
E O Tauer and
John C Kane.
Cachet is signed by John C. Kane, the ship's mail clerk.
No. 10 cover also commemorates FDR's birthday on January 30 1934 and is postmarked from San Pedro CA on that day.
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1934-02-12 |
Same cover as above only showing second cachet.
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1934-04-30 |
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1934-05-31 |
Cachet Maker: E J Birdsall.
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1934-07-04 |
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1934-11-09 |
| 1934 Cruise |
Cachet Maker: E O Tauer.
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1934-11-10 |
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Welcome Home |
Cachet Maker: Admiral Joseph M. Reeves Chapter No. 14, USCS
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1934-11-11 |
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Armistice Day 1935 |
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1935-07-04 |
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Independence Day 1935 |
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c1936 |
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Add-on cachet
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1936-06-06 |
Official Opening of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of Texas, Cachet by Desmond D. Jagyi
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1936-07-02 |
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1936-10-02 |
Cachet Makers: Desmond D. Jagyi and William F. Schlechter
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1936-10-03 |
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Launching of the USS Enterprise CV 6 |
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1936-10-09 |
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USS TEXAS |
Hand drawn cachet
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1936-10-22 |
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Cachet Maker: Desmond D Jagyi.
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1936-12-25 |
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Christmas Day 1936 |
Note: Back black rubberstamp ANCS Edwin Lyons return
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1937-02-12 |
Cachet Makers: Ted DeNyse and
Byrd L Powell.
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1937-05-30 |
Cachet Maker: Louis R Diesing.
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1937-07-29 |
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Cachet Makers: Stephen Decatur Chapter No. 4, USCS and
Meyer Tuchinsky
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1937-09-06 |
Cachet Maker: Daniel Puglis.
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1937-10-27 |
Cachet Maker: Jack McLennan.
Cachet is partially thermographed (main lettering).
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1938-03-15 |
Cachet Maker: Associated Naval Cover Collectors.
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1938-07-05 |
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1939-04-01 |
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1940-06-18 |
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Official Business |
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1941-05-03 |
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Official Business |
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1941-10-01 |
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Muridge Cachet
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1942-10-03 |
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Censored wartime (WWII) use
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1942-10-19 |
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Sailor's mail |
Censored wartime (WWII) use
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1943-08-20 |
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Official Business |
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1946-02-07 |
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Official Business |
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