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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

 

			1937-05-06 USS ARIZONA BB-39 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Launching of USS PATTERSON DD-392 and USS JARVIS DD-393

Launching cachet is from C. E. Pierson. Cachet has "PW 37" in middle right side. Presumably this is the cachet artist but it is not clear who P. W. is.

 

			1937-05-06 USS ARIZONA BB-39 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. A-46a "LAUNCHING / JARVIS / PATTERSON"
			Launching of USS PATTERSON DD-392 and USS JARVIS DD-393

Launching cachet is from Deane C. Bartley and M. B. Owens.

 

			1937-05-06 USS ARIZONA BB-39 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "BREMERTON / WASH"
			Launching of USS PATTERSON DD-392

Launching cachet is from M. T. Woolsey Chapter 40 (USCS) and C. E. Pierson.

 

No Image			1937-09-22 Locy Type FDPS / FDC 3 "NAVY YARD / PUGET SOUND"
			First Day Commission / Postal Service

Unknown Cachet
Back pencil notations "P9"..."121"...Black rubberstamps "272..."RECEIVED marking"...Red rubberstamp "7331"

 

			1937-09-22 Locy Type FDPS / FDC 3 "NAVY YARD / PUGET SOUND"
			First Day Commission / Postal Service

Hutnick Cachet
Back pencil notations "DD-392"..."ship info/cancel type"...Blue rubberstamp Frederick G. Karcher mark
Purple rubberstmp S.E. Hutnick return

 

No Image			1937-12-08 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "HONOLULU / HAWAII"
			Category

Back shows ghost image of postmark...Pencil notations "25" "11/34"

 

			1939-07-04 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Port Visit - San Francisco

Cachet Makers: Richard Buchwald and Ralph L (Shorty) Burkholder.
Cachet is thermographed.

 

No Image			1940-03-23 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "SAN DIEGO / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

Note:

 

			1941-01-01 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB) "PEARL HARBOR / T.H."
			New Year's Day

Cachet Maker: William S Linto.

 

No Image			1941-08-18 Locy Type 3 (AC-TBB)
			Category

Back black pen return address to ship at San Diego...black ink stains

 

			1943-09-27 Locy Type 3z (BBB)
			Category

Censored wartime (WWII) use

 

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