USS OKLAHOMA BB-37 Covers Page 1

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

No Image			1917-06-22 Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7a
			Category

Note: Censored wartime (WWI) use

No Image			1917-09-08 Locy Type 3 (AC)
			Category

Note: Censored wartime (WWI) use

N/A			1918-04-19 Locy Type 1z
			Sailor mail

Censored, WWI use

			1918-06-15 Locy Type 1z
			Category

Note: Censored wartime (WWI) use

			1922-05-20 Locy Type 3s (AC) "SAN PEDRO / CALIF"
			Category

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			1925-11-16 Locy Type 9 (with 4 bars)
			Category

Note: The postmark year is unreadable. 1925 is a guess.

No Image			1927-07-04 Locy Type 3s
			Category

Back return to ship at San Francisco

			1927-07-04 Locy Type 9v
			Official Business

Reduced piece

No Image			1927-07-05 Locy Type 3s
			Category

Note:

No Image			1927-09-19 Locy Type 9v
			Official Business

Reduced piece

No Image			1928-05-26 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Cover shows multiple cancels...PHILADELPHIA PA. MIDDLE CITY STATION machine 1928-05-27
Back pencil notation "645, U522 FD's 645 unofficial 21.25 Quality Investors"...U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL LEAGUE ISLAND, PA. CDS 1928-05-26
Cover is addressed to Lt. COmdr F.E. Locy (MC)U.S.N. the creator of the Naval Postmark classification system

No Image			1928-05-26 Locy Type 6
			Category

Note: Incoming First Day Cover (Sc. 645) to Dr. Francis Locy
Back U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL LEAGUE ISLAND, PA. CDS 1928-05-26

No Image			1928-12-12 Locy Type 5s (C)
			Category

Back December 13 1928 Philadelphia Naval Yard Sta CDS and Duplex cancels
December 16 1928 Oakland, Calif Machine
1928 Christmas Seal and Chester Knowlson owners mark

No Image			1929-05-13 Locy Type 5s (C)
			Category

Front violet rubberstamp "Via Air Mail"

			1929-09-05 Locy Type 5s (C)
			Category

Cachet Maker: Louis C Bakula.
Cachet is an add-on.

			1930-04-07 Locy Type 3s (A)
			Category

Note: Pencil notation at lower left "649 140 +"...Addressed to Walter Crosby...Back is clean

No Image			1931-07-03 Locy Type 3s (A) "HILO T.H. / "
			Category

Back black pen signatures...PEPEEKEO HAWAII duplex 1931-07-04

			1931-08-24 Locy Type 3s (A) "FLEET WEEK / SAN FRANCISCO"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Robert Beazell

No Image			1931-12-15 Locy Type 3s (A) " / CALIFORNIA"
			Category

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No Image			1932-02-13 Locy Type 3s (A) "LAHAINA / ROADS T.H."
			Category

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			1932-04-26 Locy Type 3s (A)
			President George Washington

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N/A		N/A	1934-04-06 Locy Type 3s (A) "BREMERTON / NAVY YARD"
			35th Anniversary of the Discovery of the North Pole by Admiral Peary

Rubber stamp cachet

			1934-07-07 Locy Type 3s (A) "AT HONOLULU / ROTC CRUISE"
			Category

Postcard use
"View from Manoa Valley, Near Honolulu"

			1934-08-09 Locy Type 3s (A) "ENROUTE / BALBOA C. Z."
			Category

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			1934-12-04 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7b
			Category

Notes:

		No Image	1935-01-08 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7b
			Christmas Day

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N/A		N/A	1935-03-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7b
			Category

Add-on cachet by Jack Follows

			1935-04-25 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) "SAN PEDRO / CALIFORNIA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7b
			Official Business

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			1935-05-28 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7c PEARL / HARBOR T.H.
			Hawaii

Cachet Makers: USCS Chapter 26 John Rodgers and United Chinese News Ltd

			1935-05-29 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7c "PEARL / HARBOR T.H."
			Category

Cachet Makers: Marshall R Hall and C Wright Richell

			1935-08-03 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7c "FLEET WEEK / SEATTLE, WN"
			Category

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

			1935-08-03 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) "FLEET WEEK / SEATTLE, WN" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7c
			Category

Cachet by the John Paul Jones Chapter No. 2, USCS

N/A		N/A	1935-10-07 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) "SANPEDRO / CALIFORNIA" USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7c
			Presidential Fleet Review

Cachet by C. Wright Richell, sponsored by Walter G. Crosby. From the Tom Kean collection.

			1936-02-01 Locy Type 3 (BC-BBB) USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. O-7c
			First Flight from Honolulu to Guam

Note:

			1936-06-20 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "PORTSMOUTH / ENGLAND"
			Midshipmen's Cruise 1936

Cachet Maker: Lloyd A Nace
Could not find a name for USCS 681 / ANCS 111 / Aiglon Mc-296 and it is unclear what role, if any, this person had in creating the cachet.

			1936-07-03 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "GOTEBORG / SWEDEN"
			Midshipmen's Cruise 1936

Note: Artist name is in the cachet (under the "19" of "1936"). It looks like "H E GUNNETT" but I can find no information on such a person. Also unknown what role, if any, Loring Stannard and Charles Beucher had in creating the cachet.

		No Image	1936-07-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "AIDS REFUGEES / BILBAO SPAIN"
			Category

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		No Image	1936-07-25 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "AIDS REFUGEES / BILBAO, SPAIN"
			Category

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		No Image	1936-07-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "BAYONNE / FRANCE"
			Category

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		No Image	1936-07-26 Locy Type 3 (AC-TTB) "BAYONNE / FRANCE"
			Midshipmen's Cruise 1936

Cachet Maker: Walter G Crosby
Cachet is thermographed.

			1936-08-20 Locy Type 3 (AC-BTT) "PALMA / SPAIN"
			Category

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