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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

			1941-04-08 Locy Type FDPS 3 "FIRST DAY / CANCEL"
			First Day Postal Service

Hutnick Cachet

			1941-04-08 Locy Type FDPS 3 "FIRST DAY / CANCELLATION"
			First Day Postal Service

Note:

N/A		N/A	1941-04-08 Locy Type FDPS 3 "FIRST DAY / CANCELLATION"
			First Day Postal Service

Note:

			1941-04-14 Locy Type 9x
			Ship Keel Laying - USS Mobile CL-63

Notes: Cachet Maker: Dr S E Hutnick.

			1941-04-28 Locy Type 9x
			Keel Laying USS ESSEX CV-9

Hutnick Cachet

			1941-05-17 Locy Type 9v
			First Day in Commission USS CALYPSO AG-35

Note:

			1941-06-07 Locy Type 9fw 1941 Locy Type Fz (USCS Illustration W-31)
			Category

Notes: Cachet Maker: Tazewell G Nicholson
Although the cover has no indication of the Cachet Maker, the cachet is typical of ones created by Nicholson in 1940-41.

			1941-10-13 Locy Type Fz USCS Catalog Illustration W-31
			Category

Muridge Cachet

			1942-02-27 Locy Type 3z (BBT) "BUY GOV'T / BONDS."
			Category

Add on cachet

			1943-12-05 Locy Type 3z (BBT)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use
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